GoHighLevel currently handles user permissions individually within each sub-account — with Admin and User types, and manual permission toggles. As marketing agencies, multi-client setups, and education businesses with internal marketing teams grow, this gets tedious, prone to human error, and limits scalability.
We need a smarter, team-oriented permission system.
šŸŽÆ Feature Request: Marketing Teams + Roles System
šŸ“Œ Roles
Predefined permission profiles like:
Marketing Admin
Marketing Manager
Campaign Specialist
Content Creator
Ads Manager
Each Role would define:
What areas they can access (CRM, Conversations, Opportunities, Campaigns, Ads, Reporting, etc.)
What actions they can take (View, Create, Edit, Delete)
What records they can access (All, Owned, or Team-based)
šŸ“Œ Marketing Teams
Groups of users organized by team responsibilities and roles.
Example:
ā€œFacebook Ads Teamā€ → 3 users with the Ads Manager role
ā€œLead Nurturing Teamā€ → 2 users with the Campaign Specialist role
ā€œMarketing Managersā€ → oversight across all teams
Teams can be assigned to:
Pipelines
Ad Accounts
Campaign Projects
Automations
Opportunities
Dashboards
Leads and opportunities should be assignable to Marketing Teams as well as individual users.
āœ… Why This Matters
šŸš€ Faster onboarding: Assign a role, drop them into a team
šŸ“Š Easier scaling: Manage permissions by role or team, not one by one
šŸ¢ Multi-client and agency ready: Control who works on what without risking account-wide access
šŸ“ˆ Cleaner reporting: Track both individual and team marketing performance
šŸ”’ Better security: Consistent, reliable permission structures, reducing errors and overexposure
šŸ“Š Comparison to Current System:
Current GHL
  1. User-level manual permissions
  2. No teams, only individual users
  3. Lead/campaign assignment to individuals only
  4. User-based reporting only
VS
Proposed System
  1. Role-based permissions with inheritance
  2. Group users into Marketing Teams (e.g. Ads Team, Nurturing Team)
  3. Assign leads, opportunities, and campaigns to Teams
  4. Individual + Team-based performance reporting