Project Roles and Permissions

In Mixpanel, users have roles in an organization and in a project.

An organization links users, projects, and billing plans together in an account. A project contains event and user data.

The types of organization and project roles a user has should be based on the required permissions users need for specific levels.

This article defines project roles and permissions and specifies those roles and permissions in Mixpanel features.

For more information on specific organization role permissions, see Organization Roles and Permissions.

 

Projects Roles and Permissions

A project has five roles: owner, admin, messenger, analyst, and consumer.

Owner

When a user creates a project, they own and have complete control over it. They have all permissions at the project level.

They can provision project ownership to other project users.

Organization owners have administrative permissions to assume an owner role in a project.

Admin

Project admins have the same set of permissions as project owners. However, they cannot delete or reset the project or manage its security.

Organization admins have administrative permissions to assume an admin role in a project.

Messenger

Project messengers can create and use messaging features, unlike project analysts and consumers.

Project messengers can create and save Mixpanel reports and dashboards. They can also share their saved reports and dashboards, along with reports and dashboards in which they have editor permissions.

Project messengers cannot manage team member roles.

Analyst

Project analysts can create and save Mixpanel reports and dashboards. They can also share their saved reports and dashboards, along with reports and dashboards in which they have editor permissions.

Project analysts cannot create or use messaging features or manage team member roles.

Consumer

Project consumers can view and save their own reports and dashboards. Consumers cannot share their saved reports and dashboards.

Consumers can add saved reports to their own dashboards. Consumers can also duplicate another user's dashboard and view it as a private dashboard.

Consumers can edit reports and dashboards on which they have been added as an editor. However, consumers cannot share these reports and dashboards.

Consumers cannot create public dashboards.

Project consumers cannot create or use messaging features. They also cannot manage team member roles.

Having Multiple Roles at Once

It is possible to have multiple or conflicting roles on a project via teams or organization roles. Within Mixpanel all roles are additive and strictly give permissions to an action. They do not remove any abilities.

For example:

1. A project Owner who is an organization Admin will have both project Owner and project Admin permissions in the project. For all intents and purposes, this is the same as having just the project Owner role.
2. If a user is assigned both the Messenger role individually and the Analyst role via a team. The user would be able to do both anything a Messenger can do and anything an Analyst can do. Because a Messenger can send messages, the user would be able to send messages even though the Analyst role by itself cannot.
   

Project Settings

Project settings enable you to see an overview of project details, see usage statistics, obtain the project token and API secret, and more.  

For more information on how to access and use project settings, see Project Settings.

In this section, you see a list of roles and permissions for tasks in these categories:

• Overview
• Project Users
• Messages
• Autotrack

Overview (Project Level)

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Transfer projects	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Reset projects	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Delete projects	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Edit project timezones	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Edit project name	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
View access keys	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
View usage statistics	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Access time period settings	Edit	Edit	View Only	View only	❌

 

Users (Project Level)

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Invite project users	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Change project roles	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Approve access requests	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Create Service Accounts	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌

 

Messages

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Enable and disable sending messages for delay. (Green is enable; Gray is disable)	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅
Edit the Android FCM Server Key	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Edit the Apple Push Certificate	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Edit Twilio information: Account SID, Auth Token, Messaging Service SID	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌

 

Autotrack

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Enable and disable the automatic collection of common mobile events	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Disable collection of all actions on your website	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Disable automatic page view tracking	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌

Personal Settings

Personal settings enables you to view account details and make project changes, such as reset project API key and API secret, manage Mixpanel activity, and more.

For more information on how to access and use personal settings, see Personal Settings.

In this section, you see a list of roles and permissions for tasks in these categories:

• Overview
• Projects
• Data & Privacy
• Alerts

Overview (Account Level)

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Change account names	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Change account emails	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Change account passwords	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Delete organizations	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌

Projects (Account Level)

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
View all projects and your projects	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Reset projects	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌

 

Data & Privacy (Account Level)

All members have access to these features regardless of role.

• Enable and disable personalizing your Mixpanel experience
• Enable and disable permission for Mixpanel to log your data usage
• Request your account usage data
• Delete your account usage data
• Generate GDPR API OAuth token

Alerts

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Enable or disable subscriptions for custom alerts	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Enable or disable subscriptions for automatic insights	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌

Analysis Reports

Report analysis enables you to understand your event and user data.

For more information on how to access and use Mixpanel analysis reports, see Analysis.

In this section, you see a list of roles and permissions for tasks in these categories:

• Insights
• Flows
• Funnels
• Retention
• Signal
• Impact
• Experiments

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Create and view Insights reports	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Download reports	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Create and view Formula reports	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create and view Signal reports	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create and view Flow reports	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create and view Funnels reports	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
View Funnels reports	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create and view Retention reports	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Export Reports from Mixpanel	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅

User

The User Reports help you explore your user profiles and create cohorts.

For more information on how to access and use Mixpanel user reports, see Users.

In this section, you see a list of roles and permissions for tasks in these categories:

• Explore
• Cohorts

Explore

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
View Explore reports	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create and modify Cohorts reports	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Delete user profiles	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌

Messages & Experiments

Messages & Experiments enable you to connect with users through Mixpanel Messages, and A/B Testing.

For more information on how to access and use Messages & Experiments, see Messages & Experiments.

 

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Create and edit messages and journeys.	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅
Create and edit messages	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅
View messages	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Create and edit A/B tests	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
View A/B tests	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅

Other Reports and Report Features

This section lists roles and permissions for:

• Revenue 
• Dashboard 
• Bookmarks
• Custom Events
• Lexicon

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Create and view Revenue reports	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create and view dashboards reports	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create email digests for dashboard reports	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Create and modify bookmarks	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Create and modify custom events	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Hide data in Lexicon	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Merge data in Lexicon	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Drop data in Lexicon	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Edit descriptions in Lexicon	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Add tags in Lexicon	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Download CSV in Lexicon	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅