# Create users with API roles

## Overview <a href="#overview" id="overview"></a>

Assign API roles to your users, for allowing them to perform a task that requires access to the 2Checkout API.

## Creating API roles <a href="#creating-api-roles" id="creating-api-roles"></a>

1. Login to the 2Checkout Control Panel using your master account.
2. Go to **Account settings**.
3. Click **Manage user access**.
4. Go to the **View roles** tab.
5. Click **Add new role**.
6. Fill in a role name and description.
7. Select the **API access** privileges.
8. Click **Save role**.

Assign the role to the users you want to provide with access to 2Checkout API.

{% hint style="info" %}
If a merchant on the PSP business model (2Sell & 2Subscribe) has multiple 2Checkout accounts, which means they have multiple unique domains processing with 2Checkout, then they must have set up a unique API user per account.
{% endhint %}


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