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# Different types of users in the system

## Learn more about the various types of users who will need access to your event, from admin through to reviewers and other personnel.

The guidance below is for event administrators/ organisers. If you are an end user (eg. submitter, reviewer, delegate etc), please click [here](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/support?hsLang=en).

 

NB: See also [Manage Users.](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/manage-users?hsLang=en)

### Different types of users in the system

 

[**Account Administrator**](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/account-administration-dashboard?hsLang=en)

Account Administrators have access to all of the events within their account.

Once an account is set up by Oxford Abstracts, account admins can add more account admins.

[**Event Administrator **](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/event-administrator-dashboard?hsLang=en)

This permission is set up by the [Account Administrator](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/account-administration-dashboard?hsLang=en)

Event Administrators have access to specific events as determined by the Account Administrator.

 

[**Submitter**](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/making-a-submission?hsLang=en)

Anyone with an Oxford Abstracts account can [submit](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/making-a-submission?hsLang=en)an abstract to a conference or an application to a competition or award.

To make a submission, they will need to know the url of the submission form, which can be copied from the [event dashboard](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/event-dashboard?hsLang=en) and published in your event website.

You can also [restrict submitters](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/restricting-who-can-submit-by-email?hsLang=en) by adding only permitted submitters with their email address.

**[Reviewer](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/guidance-for-reviewers?hsLang=en) **

The terms Referee or Grader or Judge are sometimes used to describe the role of a reviewer.

Reviewers for a particular event are set up by the [Account Administrator](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/account-administration-dashboard?hsLang=en) or [Event Administrator](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/event-administrator-dashboard?hsLang=en).

Reviewers can see the submissions assigned to them and they can grade the submissions.

[**Committee Member** ](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/making-decisions-on-submissions-as-a-committee-member?hsLang=en)

The terms Chair or Panel Member are sometimes used to describe the role of a Committee Member.

Committee Members for a particular event are set up by the [Account Administrator](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/account-administration-dashboard?hsLang=en) or [Event Administrator.](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/event-administrator-dashboard?hsLang=en)

Committee Members can see all the submissions and all the grades for all the submissions. They can, if permissions are enabled, also [make decisions.](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/making-decisions-on-submissions-as-a-committee-member?hsLang=en)

 

[**Delegates**](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/support?hsLang=en#guidance-for-delegates-wishing-to-register)

Anyone with an Oxford Abstracts account can register as a delegate (the [Delegate Registration](https://oxfordabstracts.com/product/delegate-registration/) add-on is available for all our packages).

To[register as a delegate](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/registering-for-an-event-as-a-delegate?hsLang=en), they will need to know the url of the [delegate registration form](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-registration-form?hsLang=en), which can be copied from the [event dashboard](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/event-dashboard?hsLang=en) and published in your event website.

 

**[API users](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/application-programming-interface-api?hsLang=en)**

API users can generate an API code and access the API documentation. They can be set up to manage specific events by the [event administrator](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/event-administrator-dashboard?hsLang=en), or to manage the API for all events in an account by the [account administrator](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/account-administration-dashboard?hsLang=en).

 

**[Program users](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/advanced-/-virtual-conference-program-controlling-access?hsLang=en)**

When setting up access ([Professional Conference Package](https://oxfordabstracts.com/pricing/) only) to your [conference platform](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-conference-platform?hsLang=en) , you can invite users who can view your program who are not registered as delegates.

 

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- [Getting Started With Your Event](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/getting-started-with-your-event?hsLang=en)
- [The Submission Stage](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-submission-stage?hsLang=en#main-content)
  
  
  
  
  
    - [Preparing for the submission stage](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-submission-stage?hsLang=en#preparing-for-the-submission-stage)
    - [Designing your submission form](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-submission-stage?hsLang=en#designing-your-submission-form)
    - [Collecting submissions](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-submission-stage?hsLang=en#collecting-submissions)
    - [Managing submissions](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-submission-stage?hsLang=en#managing-submissions)
- [The Reviewing Stage](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-reviewing-stage?hsLang=en#main-content)
  
  
  
  
  
    - [Preparing for reviewing](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-reviewing-stage?hsLang=en#preparing-for-reviewing)
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- [The Decision Stage](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-decision-stage?hsLang=en#main-content)
  
  
  
  
  
    - [Preparing for the decision stage](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-decision-stage?hsLang=en#preparing-for-the-decision-stage)
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- [Creating Exports, Reports and Abstract Books](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/creating-exports-reports-and-abstract-books?hsLang=en)
- [The Conference Platform](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-conference-platform?hsLang=en#main-content)
  
  
  
  
  
    - [Setting up your conference platform](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-conference-platform?hsLang=en#setting-up-your-conference-platform)
    - [The Professional Conference features](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-conference-platform?hsLang=en#the-professional-conference-features)
    - [Publishing and managing your conference](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-conference-platform?hsLang=en#publishing-and-managing-your-conference)
    - [Downloading event timetable](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/the-conference-platform?hsLang=en#downloading-event-timetable)
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- [Delegate Registration](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/delegate-registration?hsLang=en#main-content)
  
  
  
  
  
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- [Multi-Stage](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/multi-stage?hsLang=en)
- [Symposia](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/symposia?hsLang=en#main-content)
  
  
  
  
  
    - [Preparing for symposia submission](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/symposia?hsLang=en#preparing-for-symposia-submission)
    - [Collecting and reviewing symposia](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/symposia?hsLang=en#collecting-and-reviewing-symposia)
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- [Guidance For Reviewers](https://help.oxfordabstracts.com/knowledge/guidance-for-reviewers?hsLang=en#main-content)
  
  
  
  
  
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