> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Creating administrators

> Add administrator accounts to your Nexudus dashboard — full unrestricted admins or restricted admins with roles.

## Overview

Administrators are the staff accounts that sign in to the Nexudus dashboard. You can create two kinds:

* **Full unrestricted administrator** — complete access to everything in the dashboard, no restrictions.
* **Restricted administrator** — access limited to the permissions in one or more [user roles](/platform/settings/users-and-roles#build-a-permission-group).

Both receive an email inviting them to set their own password.

<Tip>
  If the person is also a member of your team (a tour host, help desk responder, or discussion board participant), create them from **Customers → Add customer → Member of staff** instead. That creates the admin account *and* a linked customer profile in one step.
</Tip>

## Create an administrator

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Users">
    Go to **Settings → Users** and click **Add user**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Enter account details">
    On the general tab, add the person's **Full name** and **Email**, plus their preferred language and default location where appropriate.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set access">
    On the **Access** tab:

    * Select the **Locations** this administrator can work with. They get access to the location they're created in by default; add more here for multi-location access.
    * Tick **Full unrestricted administrator** for complete access, *or* leave it unticked and select one or more **Roles** to restrict them.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose notifications">
    On the **Notifications** tab, toggle on the notifications you want this administrator to receive.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save">
    Save the user. They'll receive an email within a few minutes prompting them to access the dashboard and define their own password.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  A restricted administrator needs at least one role — or the unrestricted toggle — otherwise they can't do anything in the dashboard.
</Note>

## Add more locations later

To give an existing administrator access to other locations, open their record, go to the **Access** tab, and add the locations to the **Locations** field. The administrator receives an email notification for each new location added and can reach them via the **Network** menu.

## Link a customer profile to an administrator

An administrator created directly from **Settings → Users** has no customer profile. That's fine for most admin work, but without one they can't answer help desk requests, be a tour host, or post on discussion boards as themselves.

To fix it, open the administrator, go to the **Customer profiles** tab, and add a customer profile using the **same email address** as the admin account — that email is what links the two records. Disable the welcome-message option, since the person already has dashboard access.

<Info>
  Creating a customer profile for an administrator doesn't increase your active user count unless they actually use that profile as a customer.
</Info>

## Related pages

* [Users and roles](/platform/settings/users-and-roles) — user fields, permission groups, 2FA, account owners
* [Roles and permissions](/platform/roles-and-permissions) — the full permission list
* [Multi-location management](/platform/multi-location)


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