How to Allow Assistant Access to SmugMug Account?

If you have portfolio and business account on SmugMug, you can allow assistant access to SmugMug account. Want to know how to do that? You have to create an assistant password which is different from your main account password. Let’s have a look at it.

How to Allow Assistant Access to SmugMug Account?

• To set an assistant password, log in to your SmugMug account.
• Go to ‘Account Settings’ and select the ‘Privacy’ tab.
• Navigate the section ‘Assistant Password’.
• Enter an assistant password of your choice.
• You can delete or change the password whenever you want.
• When you log in with the assistant password, it shows ‘Assistant Homepage’ and not ‘My Homepage’.
• Remember, an assistant can change things on your SmugMug site.

Things Assistant Cannot Do on Your SmugMug Account

• Access galleries, folders, or pages that are ‘Private (Only me).
• Delete or Replace photos and galleries.
• Customize your site.
• Use the credit card on the account to buy prints.
• Order prints ‘at-cost’.
• Request backup of your files.

Now, you can get one assistant password for an account, spread it to people you trust, and magnify your photo business. All your settings will be hidden from the assistants except the Stats tab of your account settings and they can even see your pro-pricing in the shopping cart.