Roles & Permissions

Last Updated: 15/09/2026

ARShades Studio uses two different notions of "role", and they answer two different questions. Keeping them apart explains most of what is otherwise confusing about permissions.

	Question it answers	Where you see it
Account role	What you are allowed to do in Studio.	Your profile, and the greeting on the Dashboard.
Team position	Where you sit inside a particular team.	The Teams section of your profile.

The two are not the same thing

Company Admin and Team Admin are team positions. They are not account roles, and — with one exception noted below — they do not change what Studio lets you do. What governs permissions is the account role.

Account Roles

These are the roles Studio reads to decide what you can do. Two of them belong to client organisations:

Role	Who it is
Admin	The main account of a client organisation.
Member	Any other account of a client organisation.

The others belong to ARShades itself, and exist to produce and check the 3D models: a Super Admin role for Spaarkly staff, and the operational roles Modeller, Modeller Supervisor, Validator and Guest. You will not be assigned one of these, but you may see them named in a team.

What Client Roles Can Do

Both Admin and Member can do essentially everything a client account does in Studio:

• Browse the ARShades Library, and search it in bulk.
• Create, fill, design and publish catalogues.
• Order new 3D assets and respond to the quotes.
• Approve or decline variants in Frame Validation.
• See subscriptions and their consumption, and request new ones.
• Read the analytics.

Studio does not narrow the Library, the catalogues, the orders or Frame Validation by team. Where the difference between Admin and Member matters, the page describing that feature says so. Today there is one such case:

• Deleting an order. The main account of the organisation can delete the orders of anyone in it; a regular account can only delete its own. See Order Products.

What genuinely limits what you see is not your role but your subscriptions and their limits — how many SKUs your plans allow, and which catalogues belong to them.

Team Positions

Inside a team, a person is one of:

Position	What it means
Company Admin	The main account of the organisation. It appears in every team, and cannot be changed from the Teams screen.
Team Admin	A member marked as an administrator of that specific team.
Member	A standard member of the team.

Only Team Admin and Member can be assigned: you change a person between those two, and the change applies to that team alone. The same person can be a Team Admin in one team and a Member in another.

Managing a team's members — changing positions, resending invitations, removing people — is available to the organisation's main account and to the Team Admins of that team. See Team Management.

Passwords

There is no way to reset somebody else's password from Studio. Each person changes their own from their profile, or recovers it from the login page with the forgotten-password link. See Login and Profile.