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Your role in VERA
Everyone using VERA has one of three roles. Your role determines what you can see and what you can do.
Team member
The default role for anyone added to VERA.
You can:
- Log your own hours
- Check your own time entries and weekly totals
- See which projects you're working on and how many hours remain in your plan
- Request time off
- View your own approved and pending time-off requests
You can't see:
- Other people's time entries
- Financial figures (costs, revenue, margin)
- Project deadlines
- Your team's capacity or availability
Manager
Managers are typically project leads or account managers. A manager is usually assigned to one or more projects and sees data for those projects.
In addition to everything a team member can do, you can:
- See time logged by anyone on your assigned projects
- See project health and burn rates (as percentages — not dollar values)
- Approve or decline time-off requests
- Log hours on behalf of team members (e.g. sick days, leave)
- See project deadlines for your projects
- See who's allocated to your projects and their remaining hours
You can't see:
- Financial figures (costs, revenue, margin)
- Projects you're not assigned to manage
Owner
Owners have full visibility across everything.
In addition to everything a manager can do, you can:
- See all projects, not just assigned ones
- See all financial data: costs, revenue, margins, billing rates
- See and manage rate history for the team
- Create and cancel vendor liabilities
- Add and remove team members
- Set project budgets, deadlines, and billing rates
- See the full reporting dashboard including P&L
How roles are assigned
Roles are set by an owner. If you believe your role is wrong — for example, you're managing projects but can't see the right data — ask whoever administers VERA to update your access.
A note on financial data
Dollar figures are visible to owners only, by design. Managers see percentages — "this project is at 73% of its budget" — but not the underlying cost or contract value. This is intentional: financial context without the full picture can create more confusion than clarity.