Superusers: One Login for Multiple Accounts
Written By Chad McGuire (Sparrow Intel)
If you work across more than one Sparrow Intel account, a superuser lets you move between those accounts with a single login β no signing out, no second password, no separate browser profile.
Who superusers are for
Property managers running more than one PMS instance. If your business is split across multiple PMS accounts β by region, by brand, or by entity β each one connects to its own Sparrow Intel account. A superuser lets one person work across all of them.
Revenue managers and co-hosts. If you manage revenue or guest experience on behalf of several clients, each client has their own Sparrow Intel account. Rather than juggling a login per client, you get one login that reaches every account you're responsible for.
Superuser vs. Owner vs. Team Member
These answer two different questions, and they work independently of each other.
Your role β Owner or Team Member β controls what you can do inside an account.
Superuser status controls how many accounts you can reach. It is not a role, and it does not change what you can do. It's a separate switch that can be turned on for an Owner or a Team Member.
A few consequences worth knowing:
- A Team Member who is a superuser can move between accounts, but still can't see Billing in any of them.
- A superuser keeps the same role in every account they reach. If they're a Team Member at home, they're a Team Member everywhere.
- Being a superuser means full access to every account it covers, at that person's role level. Only grant it to people you trust with the data in all of those accounts.
Getting set up
Your first superuser is set up by us. Contact the Sparrow Intel support team and tell us which accounts should be linked and who should have access. This is a one-time step.
Once that's done, you manage it yourself from inside the product β no need to come back to us to add more people.
Switching between accounts
Superusers see a banner across the top of every screen showing the account they're currently in.
- Find the banner at the top of the page. It reads Superuser Mode followed by the name of the account you're working in.
- Choose another account from the dropdown.
- Click Switch.
The page reloads into that account. Everything you do from that point β replying to guests, reading reviews, editing settings β applies to the account named in the banner. Accounts stay completely separate; switching changes which one you're working in, and never mixes their data.
Giving someone else superuser access
You need to be an Owner and a superuser yourself.
- Click your profile icon in the top-left corner, then click Account.
- Open the Team Members tab.
- Click Manage Superusers.
- Find the person in the list and click Promote (or Add Accounts, if they already have access to some).
- Choose which of your accounts they should reach. All of them are selected by default β clear any you don't want to include.
- Click Grant Access.
You'll get a summary showing what happened for each account.
What the person needs to do next
They must sign out of Sparrow Intel and sign back in. Their new access is picked up when they sign in, so the account switcher won't appear until they do. If you've just invited them and they haven't accepted yet, there's nothing extra to do β they'll have access from their very first sign-in.
Good to know
- You can only share what you have. The accounts you can grant are the accounts you can reach yourself. You can never give someone access to an account you don't have.
- You can add access, but not remove it here. To take away someone's access, or to remove an account from someone's list, contact the Sparrow Intel support team.
- Email addresses containing a `+` (for example
jane+rentals@example.com) can't be given superuser access, because Sparrow Intel uses that part of the address to tell your accounts apart. Use a plain address for anyone who needs to move between accounts.
Seeing who has access
The Team Members tab has an Account Access column showing whether each person is a Superuser or restricted to a Single account.
For the fuller picture, open Manage Superusers. That list covers everyone across all the accounts you can reach β not just the account you're currently in β and shows each person's home account and how many accounts they can reach. Hover the account count to see them by name.
Frequently asked
Does a superuser need a separate password for each account? No. That's the point β one login, one password, and a dropdown to move between accounts.
Can I give someone access to just some of my accounts? Yes. When you promote someone, clear the accounts you don't want to include.
Does being a superuser change what someone can do? No. Their role β Owner or Team Member β is what controls that, and it stays the same in every account.
Someone I promoted says the switcher isn't showing up. They need to sign out and sign back in once. If the banner says "Superuser Mode" but has no dropdown, that's exactly what it's telling them.