Managing Your Users’ Access To sendcube
By Eve 14 November 2008 under sendcube Features & UpdatesAs you already know, sendcube is not only a tool for your email marketing needs, but can also be used to create your email marketing service that you can resell to your own clients. We already have features in place to do this, and hot on the plate is a new feature that allows you to restrict your clients’ access to campaign reports only, instead of a free-for-all access to all functions of sendcube, like subscriber and campaign management, which is what’s happening now.
So, say, you already provide an added-value service where you help your clients manage their subscriber databases and campaign sending, you can continue to do so and be able to just give them access to the reports within the sendcube system. Let me show you how this works.
When you create a new user account, you will see a new section named “Limit Access For This User”. This is where you specify if the new user should be allowed access to only the reports or to all the functions usually available to the user. This new option is also available for your existing users. To set this for a particular user, just go to the “Edit” screen for the user in question, and change the setting accordingly. Easy peasy.
If you have already set up user accounts before, you may also have used the “Switch to User” function that allows you to get into the user account and perform tasks on behalf of the user. Now, with the new report-only access, if you switched into the user account, you’d only be able to see what your user sees, which is really just reports. Not very helpful, is it? That’s why we have also made a slight enhancement in the “Switch to User” function. If your user does not have the full access, you will get prompted to choose the view you wish to switch to, either the full access view, or the restricted report-only view. The former will allow you full access to perform tasks on behalf of your user, while the latter will give you a good idea of what your user will actually see.
Simple, right? Here’s a quick video preview to show you this new feature.
