Project Roles and Permissions

In Mixpanel Organizations 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 people data.

The types of organization and project roles a user has should be based on the required permissions users need for specific levels. Mixpanel roles are also contingent on whether or not a company has an enterprise plan.

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.

Non-Enterprise and Enterprise Plan Roles and Permissions

When you sign up for an account, Mixpanel automatically assigns you the role of organization owner, regardless if the account is a non-Enterprise or Enterprise plan.

Non-Enterprise plans include free and paid users. Enterprise plans target the needs of midsize and large businesses.

You can assign roles for an organization admin, organization billing admin, or organization member. In addition, if your organization has an Enterprise plan, you can assign or modify project roles.

An Enterprise plan, however, expands project roles. In addition to a project owner and admin, Mixpanel offers a project analyst, a project messenger, and a project consumer role. Analyst, and consumer roles generally have more limited permission levels and access. The tables below indicate the specific permissions.

Projects Roles and Permissions

In an Enterprise plan, a project has five roles: owner, admin, messenger, analyst, and consumer. In a free plan, a project has two roles: owner or admin. For more information, see Non-Enterprise and Enterprise Plan Roles and Permissions.

Your project role will be displayed below the project name in the top left of Mixpanel.

Owner

When users create a project, they own and have complete control over it.

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

Admin

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

Analyst

Project analysts can view and create all Mixpanel reports.

Project analysts can also add and delete bookmarks. However, they can’t create or use messaging features or manage team member roles.

Consumer

Project consumers can view reports. However, they can’t edit or delete existing reports or dashboards, or save their own.

Project consumers can’t create or use messaging features, or manage team member roles.

Messenger

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

Project messengers can view and create any Mixpanel report, and they can add and delete bookmarks. They can’t, however, manage team member roles.

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	Yes	No	No	No	No
Reset projects	Yes	No	No	No	No
Delete projects	Yes	No	No	No	No
Edit project timezones	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Edit project name	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
View access keys	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
View usage statistics	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Access time period settings	Edit	Edit	View Only	View only	No

 

Users (Project Level)

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Invite project users	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Change project roles	Yes	Yes	No	No	No

 

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)	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Edit the Android FCM Server Key	Yes	No	No	No	No
Edit the Apple Push Certificate	Yes	No	No	No	No
Edit Twilio information: Account SID, Auth Token, Messaging Service SID	Yes	No	No	No	No

 

Autotrack

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Enable and disable the automatic collection of common mobile events	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Enable and disable collection of all actions on your website	No	No	No	No	No
Enable and disable automatic page view tracking	No	No	No	No	No

Account Settings

Account 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 account settings, see Account 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	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Change account emails	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Change account passwords	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Delete organizations	Yes	Yes	No	No	No

Projects (Account Level)

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
View all projects and your projects	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Reset projects	Yes	Yes	No	No	No

 

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	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Enable or disable subscriptions for automatic insights	Yes	Yes	No	No	No

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
• Live View
• Formulas
• Signal
• Flows
• Funnels
• Retention

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Create and view Insights reports	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
View Live view	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create and view Formula reports	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create and view Signal reports	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create and view Flow reports	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create and view Funnels reports	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
View Funnels reports	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create and view Retention reports	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Export Reports from Mixpanel	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

User Reports

User reports help you to understand your user data.

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
• Predict

Explore

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
View Explore reports	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create and modify Cohorts reports	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create and edit Predict conversion events	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Messages & Experiments

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

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

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

• Campaigns
• Messages
• A/B testing

Campaigns

Permission	Roles
	Proj Owner	Proj Admin	Proj Analyst	Proj Consumer	Proj Messenger
Create and edit campaigns	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
View campaigns	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Create and edit messages	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
View messages	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Create and edit A/B tests	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
View A/B tests	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

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	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create and view dashboards reports	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Create and modify bookmarks	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Create and modify custom events	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Drop, merge, and hide and unhide events and properties in Lexicon	Yes	No	No	No	No
Edit descriptions in Lexicon	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Add tags in Lexicon	Yes	Yes	No	No	No