Understanding default roles

About Chat default roles

Every Tiledesk project includes three roles: Agent, Administrator, and Owner. Each of these roles has standard permissions and capabilities by default and cannot be modified or deleted.

Agents can:

  • Chat with customers

  • View and manage active or archived chats assigned to them or to the group they belong to (if they belong to a department configured with a group).

  • Add another teammates to a conversation assigned to them or to the group they belong; forward a conversation to another teammate or to a chatbot (only chatbots marked as available to the agent)

  • Configure personal settings

  • View the contacts

  • Archive conversations

  • Add tags to contacts and conversations

  • Cancel the personal account

Administrators have all of the default agent privileges. In addition, an administrator can:

  • View all the active and archived chats

  • Configure Operating hours, Email ticketing and Smart assignment

  • Manage Advanced settings

  • Manage Flows, Knowledge Bases, Departments and Groups

  • Create canned responses

  • Add tags to teammates

  • Setup integrations

  • See Analytics, Activities and Automations Log

  • Trash and restore contacts

  • Invite teammates

  • Change the teammates role

  • Disable and restore teammates

  • Remove a teammate from the project

The Owner has all the default administrator and agent privileges. In addition, the account Owner can:

  • Upgrade or downgrade the account’s plan

  • Delete permanently chats

  • Delete permanently contacts

  • Customize email templates

  • Manage Security (i.e. Enable IP restrictions)

  • Ban visitor

  • Request monthly quotas increase

  • Cancel the project account


Please note that you can also create your own pre-set roles; more on the article Manage permission with custom roles


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