---
title: Staff Members & Notifications Overview
description: Staff Members are accounts that have access to the dashboard.
sidebar:
  order: 1
---

import {CardGrid} from "@astrojs/starlight/components";
import {LinkCard} from "@astrojs/starlight/components";

**Staff Members** are accounts that have access to the dashboard. They have assigned [roles](#roles), which imply permissions for users.

<CardGrid>
  <LinkCard
    title="Add Staff Member"
    href="./add-staff-member"
    description="Add a new staff member to your instance"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="Edit Staff Member"
    href="./edit-staff-member"
    description="Changing a staff members details"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="Grant Access to Staff Member"
    href="./grant-access-to-staff-member"
    description="Enable a staff member to decrypt appointments"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="Delete Staff Member"
    href="./delete-staff-member"
    description="Removing a staff member"
  />
</CardGrid>

These Staff Members can be subscribed to channels, which will enable **notifications**.

<CardGrid>
  <LinkCard title="Notifications" href="./notifications" />
</CardGrid>

## Roles

OpenReception only knows a few roles so far. Global Admins are for technical administration, Tenant Admins for self-administration within a tenant and Appointment Managers for everyday work with appointments and availabilities. This is an overview of what they can do:

| Role/ Permission             | Global Admin | Tenant Admin | Appointment Manager |
| ---------------------------- | ------------ | ------------ | ------------------- |
| Manage Tenants               | ✔︎            |              |                     |
| Manage Tenant Settings       | ✔︎            | ✔︎            |                     |
| Manage Agents                | ✔︎            | ✔︎            |                     |
| Manage Absences              | ✔︎            | ✔︎            | ✔︎                   |
| Manage Channels              | ✔︎            | ✔︎            |                     |
| Manage Staff Members         | ✔︎            | ✔︎            |                     |
| Grant Access to Appointments |              | ✔︎            | ✔︎                   |
| Decrypt Appointments         |              | ✔︎            | ✔︎                   |
