About Assistant Accounts
Not sure whether to create an assistant account for a new team member? Here’s everything you need to know to make the right decision.
Assistants do not:
- Own or manage clients. They merely manage the practitioners who own the clients.
- Have their own booking calendar.
- Own appointments.
- Own email templates.
- Own form templates or headers.
- Own forms completed by clients.
- Own notes or note templates.
- Have their own dashboard.
- Have their own notification permissions:
- When an assistant edits the notifications in More → Settings → Notifications, they edit the notifications for the practitioner they are currently managing, as well as the notifications for other assistants managing that practitioner.
- SMS Notifications do not pertain; SMS notifications are not available to assistants.
Where do Assistants appear in records?
- When an assistant adds staff comments to a client profile, the comment is attributed to that assistant.
- When a task is assigned to an assistant, the task record reflects their name.
- When an assistant sends a form and adds an optional message, the assistant's name shows as the message sender.
- When sending a client a message in the client portal, the assistant's name appears to the client.
- When signing an Office Use Only field or a Witness field on a consent form, the assistant's name appears.
What can Assistants control?
- If an assistant manages the admin/owner and they have the admin role, they will have admin-level access, but only when managing the admin. This access will be limited in the following ways:
- The assistant will not have admin-level access when managing a non-admin practitioner.
- The assistant will still not be able to manage the admin's More → Account page, and therefore will not see certain tabs. For more information about how the More → Account view varies by account, click here.
- Assistants can view and edit the following in More → Account:
- Their name, email and password
- Their Two-Factor Authentication method
- Their Adopted Signature