---
title: The Account administrator role
type: explanation
section: system
summary: "An Account administrator manages one Account from Account settings: its name and sign-in methods, its members and roles, its spending limits and its billing."
applies_to:
  roles: [account_admin]
  clients: [web]
sources:
  - evolve-front-end/app/[lng]/account-settings/layout.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/app/[lng]/account-settings/general/page.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/app/[lng]/account-settings/users/page.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/app/i18n/locales/en/organization-settings.json
  - ops/plans/app-management-control-plane/46-organization-settings-tenant-admin-experience.md
verified:
  at: 2026-09-04
  env: code
  by: content-lane-system
ttl_days: 45
related: [system/roles, system/what-an-account-is, system/an-app-is-missing]
aliases: [system/tenant-administrator]
---

An Account administrator administers one Account. The role adds **Account settings** to the avatar menu and nothing else about your own profile or sign-in changes.

The label is **Account administrator**.

## Where the role is used

Select your avatar, then **Account settings**, or open `/en/account-settings/general`. The rail states **You administer this account** and has five sections:

| Section | What it covers |
| --- | --- |
| **General** | **What this account is, what it is spending, and how people sign in.** The **Account name**, the **Short name**, the **Status**, **Sign-in methods**, **Spending**, **Members** and **Roles in use**. |
| **Users** | The member list with **Email**, **Role**, **Limit** and **Actions**, plus **Invite member** and the pending invitations. |
| **Usage** | What the Account has consumed. |
| **Billing** | The Account's billing. |
| **Connected accounts** | The external providers connected for this Account. |

## What an administrator can change

From **Users**: **Invite member**, **Change role**, **Set limit**, **Add one-off increase**, **Use the account default**, **Suspend** and **Reactivate**, and **Send again** or **Cancel invitation** on a pending invitation.

**Set limit** and **Add one-off increase** apply to one member. The Account's own default, stated at the top of the same section as a default limit per member per period, is changed with the **Edit** beside it. When none is set the line reads **No default limit is set**.

The Account name is not one of them. The page states **Account names are changed by Evolve support.**

## What the role does not do

- It does not make apps appear. Availability and installation are decided per Account and per role, and a role check is only one of three gates. See [An app is missing](/help/system/an-app-is-missing).
- It does not reach into another Account. The rail shows **You do not administer this account.** under the heading **You are viewing** that Account when you switch to one you do not administer.
- It does not apply to the platform's own system Account, where the page reads **This is the Evolve system account.** and **Account settings do not apply here.**

## Related

- [Roles and what they grant](/help/system/roles)
- [What an Account is](/help/system/what-an-account-is)
- [Switch between Accounts](/help/system/switch-accounts)