Admin and user roles
Your JetBrains Account can have various roles. The roles determine what your JetBrains Account page looks like and what you can do on it.
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User roles
User roles grant access only to licenses you own privately or that have been assigned to you by your organization.
Personal license owner
When you purchase personal licenses from JetBrains, a personal JetBrains Account is created for you.
Your JetBrains Account shows all licenses purchased with the email address used to create the account. To access licenses purchased with a different email address, link it to your account.
User of assigned licenses
You get this role when an org or team admin assigns you a license and you accept it by logging in or creating a JetBrains Account.
Admin roles
Admin roles give you access to an organization profile. You can be assigned an org or team admin role. Note that some contact roles also provide organization profile access.
Organization admin
Org admins manage orders and licenses for their organization. Each organization can have multiple admins with the following permissions:
- Purchase and upgrade licenses for the entire organization
- Track orders
- Create new teams and merge existing ones
- Distribute licenses to end users
- Invite org and team admins
Obtaining org admin permissions
There are several ways to get org admin permissions:
Get invited by an existing admin
Any org admin can invite new admins to their organization.
Get admin permissions automatically
When you first purchase commercial JetBrains licenses, your organization profile is created automatically. You'll get admin permissions if:
- You are the only license purchaser.
- You used the same email address for all purchases for your organization.
To claim org admin permissions, create a JetBrains Account with the email address you used to purchase licenses.
When purchasing licenses for an organization that already has licenses purchased with a different email address, you'll receive team admin permissions.
Contact support
If your organization profile has no admin or you don't have access to the admin account, contact support.
Team admin
Team admins manage orders and licenses for their teams. Each team can have multiple admins with the following permissions:
- Purchase and upgrade licenses for the team
- Distribute licenses to end users
- Invite other administrators to the team
Obtaining team admin permissions
There are several ways to get team admin permissions:
Get invited by an admin
Org admins can invite team admins to any team in their organization. Team admins can add other admins to their teams. Learn more in Add or remove team administrators.
Get admin permissions automatically
Purchasing new licenses does not grant org admin permissions for an existing organization profile if another person previously purchased licenses for that organization.
Instead, you will receive team admin permissions for a new team that will be created within your existing organization profile. This team will contain your purchased licenses. You won't have access to other teams or licenses in the organization.
To claim team admin permissions, create a JetBrains Account with the email address you used to purchase licenses.
Permissions matrix
Here's what different roles allow you to do:
| Personal license owner | Team admin |
Org admin | User of assigned licenses | |
| Activate JetBrains software by logging in to your JetBrains Account | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Return licenses assigned to you | ✔ | |||
| Assign and revoke licenses | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Generate legacy license keys | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Generate activation codes for offline usage | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Create teams | ✔* | ✔ | ||
| Merge teams | ✔ | |||
| Transfer licenses between teams | ✔* | ✔ | ||
| Invite team administrators | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Invite organization administrators | ✔ |
*Team administrators have limitations when creating new teams and transferring licenses. Please refer to the corresponding pages to learn more.