--- title: "User Roles and Permissions" description: "Fernox features three platform roles—User, Manager, and Organisation Manager—each with specific permissions for submitting water tests and tracking data." url: https://help.fernox.app/en/articles/143-user-roles-and-permissions collection: "Getting Started" updated: 2026-10-05 language: en alternates: [de, es, nl, fr, pl, cs, fr-be, nl-be, ro, sk, sv, tr] --- # User Roles and Permissions Fernox features three platform roles—User, Manager, and Organisation Manager—each with specific permissions for submitting water tests and tracking data. These are main differences between our current platform roles, to help you determine which type of access do you require.

Access	User	Manager	Organisational Manager
Default role upon registration	✅	❌	❌
Can invite Managers to view samples	✅	✅	✅
Available for generic email domain (e.g., Gmail, Outlook)	✅	✅	❌
Can submit water tests	✅	✅	✅
Can access own samples	✅	✅	✅
Can access samples when invited by users	❌	✅	✅
Default access to all organisation samples with a matching email domain	❌	❌	✅

[ Apply for Manager Access At this time, Managers can only access data from other users through the web portal, available at https://fernox.app. All users—whether new or existing, using the Fernox App, the web portal, or migrating from our older Water Test Apps—must self-register. If a Manager does not plan to submit water samples themselves, they can simply register via the web portal and do not need to download or use the Fernox App. ](https://help.fernox.app/en/articles/133-apply-for-manager-access.md)