There are four roles on Metalabel: Label admin and Label contributor, and Release admin and Release contributor. In this guide, we’ll walk through the access specific to each role and how you might encounter each role type across the Metalabel universe.
To align with our ethos of creativity in multiplayer mode, we employ the “generous locking” philosophy to the platform. This means areas that may not be actionable to a specific user role appear grayed-out or locked. This helps everyone become aware of the view-only information and communicate with other members of the label to adjust their role and access when necessary.
* once they create a release, they will also gain Release Admin status and have all the same permissions for that specific release
† only for their designated release
** labels, and all their subsequent releases, can only can only be deleted if they have no completed orders
You can view your access type in the top left corner of the screen when selecting a label or release from the side panel. You can also see all creators a part of a label or release from the Label dashboard.
Roles
Label admin
A label admin has all-access control over the label, as well as all releases within it. They can:
- Create, edit, and publish releases
- Delete the label, and all subsequent releases, only if the releases have not received any orders
- Set prices for releases and splits for the collective
- Issue payouts to members of the label
- View and manage orders and fulfillment
- Invite other Label admins and contributors
- See top level statistics for the label and the full catalog of releases
- See financial and collector information as an automatic Release admin for every label release
By default they are automatically added as a Release admin within the label. A label can have more than one admin, but not zero admins. If you created the label within Metalabel, you are automatically assigned an admin role.
Label admin is a good role for people who: are a co-creator of the label and are sharing administrative work; need to see the finances of the label; are working on or supporting various releases by the label.
Label contributor
A label contributor is a user who can view all label activities but cannot make edits or execute financial operations on the platform. They can:
- See top level statistics for the label and the full catalog of releases
- Create releases as part of the label, which will automatically give them release admin status for that specific release (see more details below)
Label contributor is a good role for people who: are a part of or support the label but do not manage any administrative work; are a part of the label and want to be able to manage specific releases.
Release admin
A Release admin has all-access control over a specific release. In order to create a release under an existing label, you need to:
- be a label admin
- be a label contributor
- be invited by a label admin or contributor to be a release admin
Release admins can do the following for the specified release:
- Edit and publish the release
- View price and split details
- View and manage orders and fulfillment
- Invite other Release admins and contributors, and toggle which appear under “created by” on the release page
- Receive payouts as part of the split
Financials for the release are managed by label admins, so Release admins cannot execute payouts and can only view, not edit, financial information.
Release admin is a good role for people who: are creating a release via a label and may not be a part of the label management more broadly; will support fulfilling orders and other logistics even if they did not contribute to the release; receive payouts as part of the split.
Release contributor
A release contributor has read-only access to a specific release. This is handy to use for someone who is a contributor to your creative work and will be a part of your earning split, but does not need to participate in administrative tasks like fulfillment. Release contributors can:
- Read-only details of a release before it is publicly released
- Receive payouts as part of the split
Release contributor is a good role for people who: are a part of the release and should receive payouts as part of the split.
Changing someone’s access
If you are a Label admin, you can toggle the access of others. If you are a Release admin, you can change access to a release itself (but remember label admin will always be able to see and edit release details even when they are not added as a contributor).
First, select Members from the side navigation from your label page. Then select the person whose access you want to edit, and click Edit Member from the 3-dot-menu on the right. To remove them completely, select Remove Member. If you remove a member who is a part of the payout split, you will need to manually adjust the splits accordingly.