We are excited to announce the general availability of Customizable User Roles with View/Edit permissions. This powerful new capability is now live in the Constructor dashboard for all customers. 

This feature allows enterprise e-commerce companies to provide every member of their team with tailored access, ensuring they have exactly the tools they need to excel—without compromising security or control.

The Challenge: Scaling Operations Securely

As an e-commerce business scales, more teams rely on a central platform for daily tasks. The Merchandising team fine-tunes results across the product discover journey, the Marketing team builds campaign-specific collections, and the Development team manages integrations and indexes. Each team has a unique focus, and providing one-size-fits-all access can create bottlenecks and introduce the risk of accidental changes to critical settings.

The Solution: Granular Control, Tailored for Your Business

Customizable User Roles solve this challenge by providing precise control over what each user can do. This functionality allows you to:

• Safeguard Critical Settings: Protect company-level information, such as API tokens and user management, by restricting access to only designated administrators. 
• Isolate Access by Index: Assign users to specific indexes, making it perfect for managing different regions, websites, or environments (e.g., Staging vs. Production) without overlap. 
• Assign Feature-Specific Permissions: Grant Edit permissions for individual features. Empower your merchandisers to manage Searchandising and Facets while restricting access to A/B Testing or Recommendations for designated roles. 
• Promote Data-Driven Decisions with View-Only Access: Create view-only roles for executives, analysts, and other stakeholders. This allows them to access valuable performance reports and analytics without the ability to make changes. 

Putting Roles into Practice 

With this level of control, you can create highly specific roles that map directly to your operational structure: 

• The Digital Merchandiser (B2B): Gets Edit access to Searchandising, Facets , Collections, A/B Testing, and Global Facet Configuration for the B2B website index, but has View access everywhere else. 
• The Marketing Specialist: Can only Edit the Collections feature to prepare for an upcoming email campaign. 
• The Regional Manager (EU): Has View access to global indexes but can only Edit merchandising rules for the eu_site index. 
• The Developer: Is given Edit access to the staging_index to test a new integration but has only View access to the production environment.

How to Get Started

This feature is now available in your dashboard. Administrators can begin creating and assigning roles today by clicking on their name in the bottom left corner, then Team Members, then switch to the User Roles tab. For a detailed walkthrough on creating roles and assigning permissions, please visit our documentation guide.

If you have any questions or feedback on the new feature or the Constructor dashboard in general, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.