Challonge Community Roles / Permission Options

Withing a Challonge Community, there are 3 sets of permission levels. First, lets jump into what permissions each role has. Further down the article, we'll show you how to bestow each level of permission within a community.

Affiliate Role

Lets start at the bottom. Affiliates are the lowest tiered community role that can be given. Their permissions include:

• Creating tournaments within the community
• Adding a community ranking(s) to the tournaments they create (double check)
• Utilizing community templates to host said tournaments
• Access the settings and features of tournaments that they created within a community

Affiliates CANNOT:

• Delete any tournaments within the community (even ones that they've created)
• Post community announcements
• Create rankings, templates or events
• Access any community settings (changing logos, banners, adding games, managing other affiliates etc.)

Collaborators

Unlike affiliates, collaborators in a Challonge community have more options available to them.

Collaborators have all the available permissions that affiliates do but also have access to:

• Posting community announcements
• Creating & editing any and all community templates
• Creating events
• Ability to access and change the settings of any and all tournaments within the community

Collaborators CANNOT:

• Delete any tournaments within the community (even ones they created)
• Create or edit any community rankings.
• Access any community settings (changing logos, banners, adding games, managing other permission levels etc.)

Community Admins

||| The admin role is quite powerful - they have access settings that could negatively impact a community if so desired. This role should only be given out to trusted community members. If at any time there is a falling out or an admin leaves your community, be sure to remove this permission level from their account.

Community Admins have access to nearly all the settings that the community owner does. That goes to say, they also have all included permissions available to collaborators & affiliates.

Permissions include:

• Access to payout preferences / community Stripe integrations
• Delete any and all tournaments within a community
• Access to the community settings tab
• Managing other permission levels: inviting or removing admins, collaborators or affiliates to the community
• Creating, editing or removing community rankings
• Uploading / deleting community logo, banner, description, games
• Ability to change the subdomain (for PRO Communities)

Community admins CANNOT:

• Remove the owner of the community
• Remove admin privileges from the owner
• Delete the community

How to Assign the Affiliate Role

1. Go to your Challonge community page & click Settings
2. On the left side menu, click Affiliates
3. To invite a new affiliate, type in their Challonge username OR their email address
4. If using the account method, you should see their username in the drop down menu
5. Click Invite

How to Assign Collaborators & Admins

1. Go to your Challonge community page & click Settings
2. On the left side menu, click Collaborators
3. To invite a new collaborator, type in their Challonge username OR their email address
4. If using the account method, you should see their username in the drop down menu
5. If you wish to provide them WITH Admins permissions, click the toggle button. If you just want them to be a collaborator, keep that button unselected.
6. Click Invite

Updated on: 19/03/2025