Basic roles (Owner, Editor, and Viewer) are fundamental roles for IAMand include different levels of access permissions for all the Firebase productsand services.

The following table summarizes the permissions included in each role. Learn moreaboutbasic roles in theGoogle Cloud documentation.

Note that basic roles were formerly called "primitive" roles.

Assign these roles to project members using theFirebase console or theGoogle Cloud console.

To ensure proper management of a Firebase project, it must have anOwner.

Project members with the Owner role areoften theonly project members who can do administrative tasks or receive important notifications:

• Project members with the Owner role are often the only members who can perform important administrative actions (like assigning roles and managingGoogle Analytics properties), and Firebase Support can only fulfill administrative requests from demonstrated project Owners.
• Project members with the Owner role are often the only members who (by default) receive notifications about changes to the project or products (like billing and legal changes, deprecations of features, etc.). You can optionallycustomize your project's "essential contacts" if you want specific or additional project members to receive notifications.

After you set up the Owner(s) for a Firebase project, it's important to keep those assignments up-to-date.

Note that if a Firebase project is part of aGoogle Cloud organization, the person who manages yourGoogle Cloud organization can perform many tasks that an Owner can do. However, for several Owner-specific tasks (like assigning roles or managingGoogle Analytics properties), the administrator may need to assign themselves theactual Owner role to perform those tasks.