Guide

Change a team member's role

Give a team member more or less access by changing their role, and learn the rules about who can change whose role.

3 min readRole: Administrator or higherTeam & rolesUpdated October 25, 2026
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A member's role decides what they can see and do in your salon. You change it on their profile. See Roles and permissions explained for what each role allows.

Before you start

  • You're an Administrator, Super Administrator or the Owner.
  • The member's current role is the same as yours or lower.
  1. 1

    Step 1 of 3

    Open the member

    Go to Members, open the member's β‹― menu and click Update.

  2. 2

    Step 2 of 3

    Pick the new role

    On the Profile tab, choose a new Role.

  3. 3

    Step 3 of 3

    Save

    Click Save.

    You will see:

    Member Updated appears. The new role shows in the Role column on Members. The member gets the new access the next time they load a page.

Who can change whose role

Softalon checks every role change on the server:

RuleExample
You can change the role of members whose role is the same as yours or lower.An Administrator can change another Administrator or a User, but not a Super Administrator.
You can only give a role that is the same as yours or lower.An Administrator can promote a User to Administrator, but not to Super Administrator.
You can't change your own role.A Super Administrator who wants less access needs someone else to change it.
The Owner's role can't be changed, and nobody can be made Owner here.To hand over the salon, use Transfer Ownership. See Transfer salon ownership.

On the Owner's profile, the Role field is locked and shows Owner role cannot be changed. Use ownership transfer to change the salon owner.

Display role

The Display Role field on the same card is the title clients see, such as Senior Stylist. You can change it without changing permissions.

If something is off

I get an error when saving the new role

Either the member's current role is higher than yours, or the new role is higher than yours. Ask a member with a higher role, or the Owner, to make the change.

The Owner option is grayed out

Ownership can't be given through a role change. The Owner can transfer it from Settings β€Ί Danger Zone.

Common questions

No. Their access updates the next time they load a page.