What Is the ‘Master Admin’ User in Quickbooks?
If you use Quickbooks Online, you may come across a user type known as the master admin. All Quickbooks Online accounts have a master admin. The master admin is at the top of the account type totem pole. To learn more about the Master Admin, including how to change it, keep reading.
Overview of the Master Admin
The master admin is the user with the highest level of permissions and privileges in Quickbooks Online. Intuit’s cloud-based accounting software supports several types of users, including accounting firms and standard users. The master admin is above all of these users. He or she can access every feature in Quickbooks Online, including all of the respective business’s accounting data.
Quickbooks Online restricts businesses to having a single master admin. You can’t create two or more master admins. Rather, you can only create a single master admin. When you subscribe to Quickbooks Online, you’ll create a master admin. While you change the master admin — meaning you transfer the account to someone else — you can’t add new master admins to Quickbooks Online.
How to Change the Master Admin
Most businesses won’t need to change their master admin. Business owners who subscribe to Quickbooks Online will typically retain their master admin accounts. Nonetheless, there are instances in which a business may want to change its master admin. If your business appoints a new executive leader, for instance, you may want to give him or her access to the master admin. You can change the master admin in just a few easy steps.
Start by signing in to Quickbooks Online as the master admin. From the “Settings” menu, click “Manage users,” followed by “Add user.” You can then select “Company admin” and “Next.” In the next field, enter some basic information about the user, including his or her email address, after which you can click “Save.” Quickbooks will then send the user an email with a link. Upon receiving this email and clicking the link, the user will become the new master admin.
If the user whom you want to make the master admin is already added to your Quickbooks account, go back to “Manage users” and find the user in the “User Type” column. After finding the user, click the drop-down arrow for “Action” and change his or her user type to “master admin.”
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