The roles

Each account has one role. The platform checks the role on every action: a missing button is not the only protection.

Role	Who	What it can do
Visitor	Anyone, without an account	Read the home page and the catalogue, send an order request, open a lot's public page, send the interest or partnership form.
Customer	Farmer, nursery, institution	Everything a visitor does, and follow their own order requests in "My orders".
Quality manager	The person in charge of quality and metrology	Create lots, enter and validate measurements, keep the instrument register and its calibration certificates, publish a lot's page. Sees neither costs nor customer data.
Researcher	Student, supervisor, partner scientist	Enter germination, growth and field observations. No access to customers or finance.
Administrator	The project owner	Everything: accounts, catalogue, prices, formulations, orders, costs, exports, sample data and the audit log.

Creating a customer account

1. On the sign-up page, give your name and your email address. No password is asked at this step.
2. Open the link you receive by email: it confirms the address and lets you choose your password.
3. Sign in. Until the address is confirmed, sign-in asks you to confirm it first.

Team accounts (quality manager, researcher) are created by the Administrator; each person receives a link to choose their password.