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How to Add and Manage Ongage Users 

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  • Here you'll find info on how you can add and manage your Ongage users who will be accessing and using the Ongage marketing platform.
  • Ongage offers a variety of roles and access permissions, see details below.

How to Add a new Ongage User

Note: Only users with ‘Admin’ privileges can create a new user.

  1. Click on the ‘Settings’ drop-down menu in the upper right hand side of the application and select ‘User Management'.
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  2. The User Management page will open. Click on the ‘Add User’ button.
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    Note:
     if the ‘Add User’ button is greyed out that means you have exceeded the amount of users allowed for this account.
    Please contact your account manager or Ongage sales to increase your number of allowed users, or delete old no longer in use users.


  3. The following 'Add New User' dialog popup will open after the clicking on 'Add User' button above.
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  • (info) We recommend making the username and email the same.
  • Choose the role type (see following section for more details).
  • If desired, set which Sending list(s) this  a the user can have access to.
  • You can also control wether whether the user will have access to Ongage via the API and/or UI (User Interface of the Ongage Web App).
  • Click ‘Save’.

How to Restrict User Access to a Specific List(s)

  • As noted above, when creating or editing a user, under the 'Allowed sending lists' drop-down menu-item, one can select which list or lists that user will have access to.
  • List access restriction can be applied to General Users and to all users with less permissions than General Users (i.e., Email Marketer, Content Writer and Report Viewer).
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  • (info) Users who are restricted to a specific sending list(s), will only see, and have access to those lists. All others Sending lists, which they do not have access to, will be invisible and inaccessible to them.

User Roles and Access Permissions

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Only users with ‘Admin’ privileges can create a new user.

When adding a new user, an Admin can choose any one of the following user roles (types) below, each with its own set of access permissions.

Admin users can see all other users in their account. General users can only see/edit their own user. All other roles can 't not access the User Management page.

Admin

  • Create/Edit and view all other user roles (including other Admins), but cannot change the role of any other admin.
  • Can access all lists and cannot be restricted to any list.
  • Has access to the 'Account Profile' page.
  • Can control list access for all other non-admin users.
  • Has complete access rights to every page, menu and sub-menu in platform.
  • Has export rights.

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  • Has full access to:
    • Campaigns: and all sub-menus.
    • List: and all sub-menus including import, export and add/update contact.
    • Content: and all sub-menus.
    • Analytics: and all sub-menus.
    • Vendor Settings: and all sub-menus.
    • Account: access to most sub-menus but limited access to Account Profile page. Does have access to all Suppression lists.

  • Does not have access to:
    • Can be limited to specific listslist(s). See: List  access restriction in previous section.
    • Account:
      • Limited access to Profile page. Cannot edit Company Info and cannot see the Account Limits table.
      • User Management: can only see their own user (can't see create or edit any other user). 
      • Lists Manager: cannot change the default setting of a list.
      • Finance: no access.

General User (No Export)

  • Is a special General User type without export permissions.

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  • Has access to:
    • Campaigns & Content: all menus and sub-menus.
    • List: access to Overview, Segments, List Settings, not including 'General' List Settings. No access to Automation Rules.
    • Analytics: access to all sub-menus except 'Contact Activity' and 'Custom Aggregate Report' (the latter exception is one of the main differences from Email Marketer (No List Settings) below).
    • Account:only has access to ESP/Domain Routing.

  • Does not have access to:
    • Can be limited to specific listslist(s). See: List  access restriction in previous section.
    • List: no access to Import, Export, Contacts Manager, Conversion Points and Automation Rules.
    • Analytics: no access to Contact Activity & Custom Aggregate Report (another difference from Email Marketer (No List Settings) below)
    • Vendor Settings: no access to all sub-menus.
    • Account: no access except to ESP/Domain Routing.

Note disabled List sub-menus         Note disabled Analytics sub-menus
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Email Marketer (No List Settings)

  • Has access to:
    • Campaigns & Content: all menus and sub-menus.
    • List: Overview Import, Export, Segments Contacts Manager, Form Builder (compare to difference with above Email Marketer (No Export) ).
    • Analytics: all sub-menus 

  • Does not have access to:
    • Can be limited to specific listslist(s). See: List  access restriction in previous section.
    • List: no access to Conversion Points and , List Settings and Automation Rules.
    • Vendor Settings: no access to all sub-menus.
    • Account: no access to any settings sub-menu.

Note disabled List sub-menus          Note that here all sub-menus are accessible unlike Email Marketer (No Import/Export) 
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Content Writer

  • Has access to:
    • Content: access to all sub-menus (Email, Templates, SMS, Images).
  • Does not have access to:
    • Can be limited to specific listslist(s). See: List  access restriction in previous section.
    • List: no access to all sub-menus.
    • Campaigns: no access to all sub-menus.
    • Analytics: no access to all sub-menus.
    • Account: no access to all sub-menus.

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  • This role was designed for agencies in mind that want to provide permissions to their clients to login to the agency's Ongage account, in order to see their campaign stats only (for users that need fuller Analytics access use the "Email Marketer" role).
  • Can be limited to a specific list(s). See: List  access restriction in previous section.
  • Has access to:
    • Aggregate Report only (and can view the campaign tab only in that report).

How to Reset a User's Password

  1. Click on the Account Settings drop-down and choose 'User Management'
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  2. In the User section scroll down to the desired user and click "Edit"
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  3. Click on the 'Change password' option:
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Appendix  

Detailed Product/Role Permissions Access Excel

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  1. Go to the account settings menu in upper right-hand corner of web-app and choose the 'User Management' menu option:
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  2. Select the relevant user and in the Action column choose 'Edit'
  3. In the Time Zone field select and set the desired time zone value:
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  4. Click 'Save'