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Users, Roles, and Locale Permissions

Invite teammates, understand admin versus translator access, and scope translators to the right locales.

1 min readUpdated Mar 21, 2026

Use Settings > Users to manage who can work inside a project.

Typical role split

  • admins configure the project, Contentful connection, and operational settings
  • translators focus on the translation and review work assigned to them

Locale-scoped translators

Translator access can be restricted to specific target locales.

That is useful when:

  • a reviewer owns only one language
  • vendor access should stay narrow
  • regional teams should not affect each other

Invitations

Invite people into the project instead of sharing credentials. That keeps activity attributable to the right user and makes it easier to remove access later.

Permission design advice

Keep the number of admin users small. Translation quality improves when more people can review language, but operational safety improves when fewer people can change CMS settings or automation behavior.