Roles

A listing has one owner (the WordPress post_author) plus any number of managers and staff granted access to that specific listing. Managers and staff can edit the listing and answer its chats in the app; managers additionally can invite/manage staff and send push notifications when enabled.

Give the Manager and Staff roles friendly display names on the settings page → Roles tab, and set the WordPress role assigned to newly invited members with Role for new staff members.

Adding crew in WordPress admin

On any listing’s edit screen there is a Staff & Managers meta box:

1. Search for a user (the box uses an admin-only, nonce-gated user search).
2. Assign them as a manager or staff member.
3. Save the listing.

Grants are stored per listing and checked by mam_user_can_edit_post_wpbdp_listing, so a manager/staff member gains edit rights to exactly that listing.

Inviting crew from the app

Owners and managers use the in-app Edit Staff button (see Listing tab bar buttons) to invite by email. Invites run through mam-main’s app-user invite lifecycle:

• Invited users receive the business-directory-staff-invitation push/email with a code.
• On acceptance the member gets listing access and appears under “My Venues.”
• The per-plan Number of Staff Members limit applies (from the fee plan’s extra_data['mam']; default 5).

Chat group sync

When a staff invite is accepted, the member is added to the listing’s chat group; when revoked, they are removed. This is wired off mam-main’s real invite lifecycle actions (mam_app_user_invite_accepted / _revoked) and only runs when MAM Chat Manager is active. The chat group tracks app-user post ids, so the WordPress user is resolved to its app-user post first.

Related articles

• Listing tab bar buttons
• Recipe: Fee-plan MAM fields
• Business Directory integrations
• Business Directory notification types

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