Users

Learn how to add users to your Mobile Data Anywhere account, control what they can do, and how they use your licenses.

Adding a user

Account owners, account managers and billing managers can add users from Control Panel -> Users. Each user signs in to the Web Portal with their own username and password, which is emailed to them when they are added.

Roles

A user's role controls what they can do in the Web Portal:

  • Read: view projects, sessions and devices, but not change them.
  • Read and Write: view and change projects, sessions and devices.
  • Account Manager: Read and Write, plus managing users and account settings.
  • Billing Manager: view everything in the account (groups do not limit it), manage users, their roles and groups, and manage the subscription: change plan, add or remove licenses, billing cycle and payment details. Cannot change projects, sessions or devices.
  • Custom roles: choose the access level for each area, such as projects, sessions, devices and session import.

Users and licenses

Read-only users are free. A user who can edit data (including importing sessions) uses a license, either one of their own or one shared with a device. When you add or edit a user, choose one of:

  • Read-only (free). Read and Billing Manager users are read-only.
  • Edit access without a device: the user uses one license of their own.
  • Link to an existing device: the user shares that device's license.
  • Create a new device for this user: the device and the user share one new license.

Linking an existing device keeps its Unit ID. A new device created this way gets the user's username as its Unit ID, so the user enters their username as the Unit ID in the app. Account owners use a license. The primary account owner can instead be given Billing Manager access (Users list -> Make Billing Manager); they stay the account's billing contact and do not use a license.

The Users list and each user's page show their license and linked device. The license allocation table on the Account page shows every license and how many are free; users without a device show a "Link a device" link there.