Members and roles
What each of the three workspace roles — owner, admin, member — can do, and how to bring people in.
Everyone in a workspace has a role, and the role decides what they can do. Multica has three: owner (the workspace's owner), admin, and member. Most day-to-day work — creating issues, writing comments, using agents — is available to all three roles. The differences cluster around team management.
Permissions at a glance
The table below lists the most important differences across team-management actions:
| Action | owner | admin | member |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invite a new admin or member | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Invite a new owner | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Demote / remove an admin or member | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Demote / remove another owner | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Delete the workspace | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Members can't invite anyone — inviting is an admin-tier permission. Only owners can promote someone to owner — admins can promote and demote members or other admins, but they can't create a new owner. Likewise, admins can remove members or other admins but can't touch existing owners. The point is to make sure the highest tier can only be granted by someone who already holds it — permissions don't leak upward.
Agent visibility comes in two flavors: "workspace" and "private." Private agents can only be assigned to issues by owners and admins — this protects configurations meant for a specific set of people. See Agents.
Inviting a new member
Multica invites new members by email:
- On the workspace settings page, click Invite member, enter the email, and pick a role.
- Multica sends an invitation email containing a unique link.
- The recipient clicks the link, logs in (or signs up), and accepts the invitation to join the workspace.
The invited email does not need to be registered with Multica in advance — if no account exists, one is created when the invitation is accepted.
If the invitation email fails to deliver (wrong address, mail service hiccup), the invitation record is still retained; you can resend the email from workspace settings, or share the invitation link through another channel.
Invitations are valid for 7 days. After that, clicking the link shows an "expired" message, and the inviter needs to send a new one.
Always at least one owner
Every workspace must have at least one owner at all times. This constraint automatically blocks two operations:
- The last owner can't demote themselves.
- Other owners or admins can't remove the last owner.
If you're the last owner and about to leave the team, transfer the owner role to another member first, then try to leave or hand off the workspace. Otherwise the operation will be rejected.
Removing a member
Owners and admins can remove other members from a workspace. A removed member loses access immediately; issues, comments, and other content they created are retained in the workspace.
Next
- Issues and projects — what members work on
- Comments and mentions — collaborating under an issue