A team member is a user who accesses the partner portal to manage PBXs, resellers, and organizational settings, with permissions determined by their assigned role.
Overview
Each team member belongs to one partner (distributor or reseller) and has exactly one role. Distributors can manage team members across their whole hierarchy. You can create members directly or invite them by email, in which case they get a link to set up their account and password.
What it does
The available roles depend on the partner type: distributor roles span the hierarchy, reseller roles are scoped to a single reseller.
Roles by partner type
The roles you can assign to a team member depend on your own partner type. A team member always has exactly one role.
If you are a distributor
You can assign the two distributor roles, which span your whole hierarchy (all resellers, PBXs, and customers beneath you):
- Distributor admin - manage the distributor's resellers and team members. View all PBXs and customers across the hierarchy. Manage partner settings and reassign PBXs between resellers. Also full Odoo CRM access, including creating and canceling invoices and sending signature requests in your Odoo (see the warning below).
- Distributor manager - read-only access across the entire distributor hierarchy: view resellers, PBXs, customers, and team members, and read the Odoo CRM data: invoices, signature documents, products and subscriptions. Cannot create, modify, or delete anything.
If you are a reseller
You can assign the two reseller roles, which are scoped to your single reseller organization:
- Reseller admin - full access for the reseller: create, update, and delete PBXs, customers, and team members. Can sign into PBXs and manage partner settings. Also full Odoo CRM access, including creating and canceling invoices and sending signature requests in your Odoo (see the warning below).
- Reseller manager - read-only access for the reseller: view PBXs, customers, and team members, and read the Odoo CRM data: invoices, signature documents, products and subscriptions. Can sign into PBXs for support. Cannot create, modify, delete, or change settings.
Odoo CRM and the admin roles
If your organization has an Odoo integration configured, the role you assign also decides what a team member can do inside your own Odoo, not just inside the portal. This is worth pausing on before assigning an admin role.
Both manager roles carry view Odoo CRM instead. They can read the whole ledger, invoices, signature documents, products and subscriptions, but cannot change anything. Note that "read-only" here still means visibility of your full commercial data, including outstanding balances per customer.
If your organization has no Odoo integration configured, none of this applies and the Odoo CRM screens are unavailable regardless of role.
See also
- Resellers - team members can also be added from a reseller record.
- PBXs - the sign-into-PBX action is gated by role.
- Partner settings - per-user Microsoft sign-in interacts with the organization-level setting.