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For more information, see the chapter on "Companies" (page 77).
Public Companies
Apublic company is a special type of company in which users can create accounts themselves (normally an administrator or
manager has to create each user account). Public companies are used by print shops that want to have a storefront where
anyone can order specific document types. For example, a print shop wants to offer its clients the ability to create their own
business cards or postcards from pre-existing templates can do this with PrintShop Mail Web.
Public Companies require a B2Clicense to be installed on the server. See "B2C (Business to Customer)" (page 52).
About Users
A user is an entity within PrintShop Mail Web that has a specific roleand is generally part of a company (see "About Com-
panies" (page 13)). However, a user can be assigned to multiple companies if it is necessary. This is useful if one of the com-
panies is the print shop itself and one of its operators is assigned to a certain number of companies and is responsible for
generating output for them. What a user can do on PrintShop Mail Web depends on their role.
To create users, please see the chapter on "Users" (page 83).
Public Users
Public users are users that are part of a public company. These users are so-called "basic" users and cannot do anything other
than create new orders, view the status of their order and edit their user preferences. Public users can create themselves as
long as their do so within a public company.
User Roles
A user role is a set of permission that is applied to one or more users in PrintShop Mail Web. Users in specific roles will be able
to execute certain specific actions such as uploading documents, approving and modifying orders, providing quotes or gen-
erating outputs. Alist of pre-built user roles, as well as the ability to create new custom user roles, is described in the "Roles"
(page 113) section of the PrintShop Mail Web "Settings" (page 111) tab.
Roles are site-wide, meaning they are applied to all users across all companies, whether this company is private or
public. Only administrator can edit roles, but managers can assign roles to users.
About Publication Types
A publication type is a folder in which template documentsof your customers are grouped (see "About Documents" (page 15)).
These publication type folders can contain multiple documents. For example: a publication type folder to store different lan-
guage variants of a brochure (e.g. Dutch and English-versions), a publication type folder for house style related document
(e.g. Business cards, letterheads, envelopes). Each company has his own publication types.Publication types are set within the
"Publication Types" (page 85) tab in PrintShop Mail Web.
Understanding PrintShop Mail Web
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