Roles in a thrift group
The roles in a standalone thrift group (Administrator, Officer, Collector, Member), what each can do, and how to give someone a role on web and phone.
Everyone in a thrift group holds a role, and a role decides what they can see and do. A standalone group has four:
| Role | What they can do |
|---|---|
| Administrator | Runs the group: circles, people, payments, payouts and settings. Approves payouts, and is the only one who can set a circle's payout order by hand. |
| Officer | Runs circles day to day: adds and approves people, confirms payments, records payments for members, manages rules, reports. Does not approve payouts. |
| Collector | Collects contributions from the people assigned to them and records cash. A collector does not confirm payments: the officer's handover count does. |
| Member | Pays into a circle and sees their own records. Everyone is a member as well as anything else. |
A person can hold more than one role. The roles that exist only for an association (Treasurer, Financial Secretary, Election Committee) are not offered in a thrift group.
Give someone a role
Go to SettingsUser Management, find the person, and give them the role. See also Assigning roles.
The person must already have a login and be approved. To invite someone who does not have one yet, invite them from the people list first.
Good to know
- You cannot change your own roles. Ask another Administrator. A group always keeps at least one Administrator.
- You can only give a role whose permissions you hold yourself. The roles a thrift group offers are built so that its Administrator holds all of them, so you will always see Officer and Collector in the list.
- Taking a role away is recorded, with who did it and when, in the audit log.
- Keep the jobs apart. The person who collects cash should not be the only person who confirms it. That is why a collector cannot confirm a transfer and an officer cannot approve a payout. See Officer accountability.
Related
Assigning and removing roles
Give a person a role, or take one away, from the Users page.
Standalone thrift groups
How a group that signed up only for Thrift differs from an association with the add-on: its own home, menus, people and settings on web and phone.
Officer accountability
See who prepared, approved and recorded every payout, how long payments wait to be confirmed, cash by collector and day, and every exception with its reason.
Last updated 31 October 2026
Officer accountability
See who prepared, approved and recorded every payout, how long payments wait to be confirmed, cash by collector and day, and every exception with its reason.
Plans, billing and limits
The Ajo tiers, what each includes, how the contributor limit works, the platform levy, and what happens when your Ajo add-on ends.