Understand Roles and Permissions in Relume Publish

By the end of this doc, you'll be able to:

1. Identify the 5 roles available in Relume Publish
2. Understand what each role can and can't do
3. Choose the right role when inviting someone to a site
4. Compare permissions side by side using the permission matrix
5. Know who to contact for billing versus site-access questions

Relume Publish uses roles to control what each person on your team can see and do on a site. Every role can view the site and leave comments, but editing, publishing, and account-level controls are split up by role.

The Roles

Owner

The Owner has full control of the site. They can build, edit, publish, and manage people, settings, domains, and billing.

The Owner is the only role that can delete the site or transfer ownership to someone else. Each site has one Owner.

Admin

The Admin can do everything the Owner can, except delete the site or transfer ownership. They manage collaborators, domains, billing, and site settings.

An Admin can remove the site from their own account. This only affects their account and doesn't delete the site for anyone else.

💡 Think of Admin as a co-owner role. Assigning it to a trusted teammate means your site keeps running smoothly even when you're away.

Editor

The Editor builds and ships the site. They can edit structure, layout, and styling, edit content, add pages and sections, and publish. They can also manage most site settings, including redirects, forms, custom code, discoverability, and page settings.

Editors can't manage people, billing, or domains, and can't delete the site or transfer ownership. Like Admins, they can remove the site from their own account without affecting anyone else's access.

Viewer

The Viewer reviews and gives feedback. They can view the site and every tab — Sitemap, Wireframe, and Design — preview it, and leave comments.

Viewers can't edit, publish, or use AI. This makes the role a good fit for stakeholders who only need to see the work and weigh in on it, not change it.

Billing Contact

The Billing Contact isn't a site role; it's a hosting-only contact who pays for hosting and manages the payment method, billing details, and Launch traffic tier.

A Billing Contact has no control over the site itself. They can't edit, publish, manage people, or transfer ownership.

📝 Billing Contact is a hosting-related contact, not a collaborator role like the other four.

Permission Matrix

Use this table to compare exactly what each role can do, action by action.

📝  "Remove site from account" only removes the site from that person's own account — it doesn't delete the site for the Owner or anyone else. Only the Owner can permanently delete a site.

How to Assign a Role

1. Go to Settings for your site, then open the Ownership & Access tab.
2. Find the person you want to update, or click Invite to add someone new.
3. Select the role you want to assign from the role dropdown. 
4. Select Give access to all my sites if you’d like to give them access to all existing and future sites in the workspace.
5. Click Send Invite.

⚠️  Only Owners and Admins can assign or change roles.

Need More Help?

If you have any questions or run into anything, reach out to our support team at support@relume.io — we're happy to help.