Owner Actions
Account Owners can do everything Admins can, plus handle all the billing and invoices, access any project, add/remove other owners, export data from the account, and require two-factor authentication. Here's a list of all the owner actions available in Adminland:
- Handle billing and invoices
- Add/remove account owners
- Rename this account
- View everything in the trash
- Reassign someone's to-dos
- Access any project
- Export data from this account
- Manage public items
- Require Two-factor Authentication
- Cancel this account
Other actions owners can take outside of Adminland are:
If you need to take care of an Adminland owner action, get started by clicking Adminland on Adminland in the top right:
Once in Adminland, scroll down until you see the Owner Actions:
Handle Billing & Invoices
When you need to take care of anything related to billing or invoices, you'll want to go to this section:
Add/remove account owners
Basecamp 4 accounts can have more than one owner, so the original owner can designate additional people as owners. Like this:
Rename this account
Oops, got a typo in your account name? Or maybe you're rebranding? Either way, you can change your account name anytime.
Click into Adminland, and scroll down until you see Owner actions and the option to rename the account.
View Everything in the Trash
As an account owner, you can view everything that's been put in the trash — across all Projects in the account. This is helpful for owners to see an overview of what's been deleted and gives you an opportunity to recover anything that you want to keep.
Within Adminland, scroll down and click view everything in the trash
Once you click that, you'll see an account wide overview of everything that's been trashed. This is ordered by date - oldest to newly trashed:
If you'd like to restore the trashed item, click on it and you will be given the option to view it, restore it or go to the trash to permanently delete it.
Reassign someone's to-dos
Account owners can reassign all to-dos from one user to another, or add another user to be assigned to someone else's to-dos.
In Adminland, scroll down and click reassign someone's to-dos. A
Step 1: Choose the user whose to-dos you want to reassign. If you want to reassign to-dos in only one project, you can select that project. Leave that field blank if you want to reassign all todos across all projects.
Step 2: Add the user to be assigned to those to-dos. If you want to remove the original assigned user, add their name to the second field.
Click Reassign to-dos to finish reassigning. You will receive an email confirming when the reassigning is done.
Access Any Project
Need to see what Projects have been created without you? As an account owner, you can add yourself to Project any time.
First, scroll down the Adminland page and click Access any project
Then find the Project or Team you need to access and click the Add me button
Export Data from this account
As the account owner, you can create an HTML export of Basecamp data any time. Check the step-by-step instructions on how you can do it:
Manage public items
You can view everything in the account that has been publicly linked, unpublish individual items, and even unpublish everything at once from Adminland.
Require Two-factor Authentication
You can enforce 2FA for your account members. Check the step-by-step instructions:
Cancel this account
If you're sure you'd like to cancel your account, we'll be so sorry to see you go! Canceling takes effect immediately — you won't be charged again, and your account will be inaccessible.
For security's sake, the data from your canceled account will be permanently deleted after 30 days. If you need to get back into your account before then for any reason, shoot us an email. We can help!
Now that you know everything you need to, start by clicking on Adminland on the top right of the Home page beneath your avatar. (If you're not there already!)
Once in Adminland, scroll down until you see the Owner Actions. Cancellation takes effect immediately, so you may want to export your data first!
Deleting Campfire chat lines
Each person can edit or delete what they've written in a Campfire chat. In addition to their own chat lines, account owners and admins have the option to delete what others have posted in a Campfire chat.
In this example, Victor Cooper will see ••• on chat lines he didn't create.