Roles and permissions
There are several possible roles in a Zulip organization.
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Organization Owner: Can manage users, public streams,
organization settings, and billing.
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Organization Administrator: Can manage users, public streams,
organization settings, and billing. Cannot create or demote
organization owners.
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Member: Has access to all public streams. This is the default role for
most users.
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Guest: Can only access streams they've been added to. Cannot create
new streams or invite other users.
For details of the access control model, see Stream
permissions. You can decide what role to
invite a user as when you send them an
invitation.
Organization owners can do anything an organization administrator can
do. For brevity, we may sometimes refer to "organization
administrators" being able to do something; unless stated explicitly,
this means "organization owners and administrators" can do that thing.
Billing and guests
Guests are only available on Zulip on-premise and on paid plans for Zulip
Cloud. There are two kinds of guest for billing purposes:
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Multi-stream guest: Has been added to multiple streams. These guests
are billed the same as regular members.
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Single-stream guest: Has been added to only a single stream. If you
have M paying users, you get 5M free single-stream guests. Similarly, if
you have G single-stream guests, you'll get charged for G/5 users.
Example: You have 8 members, 2 multi-stream guests, and 50 single-stream
guests. You'll get charged for 10 users. Let's say you have 8 members, 2
multi-stream guests, and 51 single-stream guests. You'll get charged for
11 users.
Single-stream guests are a new feature, and their permissions are likely
to change over time. For example, single-stream guests can currently see
the list of members in the organization, but we may remove that ability in
the future.
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