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 four roles: owner, admin, 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.

Analyst

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

Project analysts cannot manage team member roles.

Consumer

Project consumers can view and save their own reports and Boards. Consumers cannot share their saved reports and Boards with their team members as they will be marked as private.

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

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

Consumers cannot create public Boards.

Project consumers 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 Consumer role individually and the Analyst role via a team. The user would be able to do both anything a Consumer can do and anything an Analyst can do. 
   

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.

Overview (Project Level)

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

 

 

Personal Settings

Personal Settings enables you to view account details and make project changes, such as resetting project API keys and secrets, managing 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
Change account names	✅	✅	❌	❌
Change account emails	✅	✅	❌	❌
Change account passwords	✅	✅	❌	❌
Delete organizations	✅	✅	❌	❌

Projects (Account Level)

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

User

The User Reports help you explore your users' 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
View Explore reports	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create and modify Cohorts reports	✅	✅	✅	✅
Export Cohorts	✅	✅	✅	❌
Create/edit user profiles	✅	✅	✅	❌
Delete user profiles	✅	✅	❌	❌

Other Reports and Report Features

This section lists roles and permissions for:

• Revenue 
• Board 
• Bookmarks
• Custom Events
• Lexicon

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer
Create and view Board reports	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create email digests for Board 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	✅	✅	✅	✅
Upload a Lookup Table	✅	✅	✅	✅
Map a property to a lookup table in Lexicon	✅	✅	❌	❌