Change a member's role

Change a workspace member's role with an organisation key. The owner role is transferred from the console only.

PUT /v3/organisation/workspaces/{id}/members/{user_id}

Body parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`role`	string	Required	`admin`, `developer`, `marketer`, `billing` or `viewer`.

Response (200)

json

{
  "member": {
    "id": "c1d2e3f4-5a6b-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f",
    "name": "Dana Developer",
    "email": "dev@acme-eu.example",
    "role": "admin",
    "initials": "DD",
    "color": "#5b8def",
    "status": "active",
    "external": false,
    "created_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:00Z",
    "invitation_expires_at": "2026-11-05T10:10:00Z"
  }
}

Responses

Status	Description
`200`	OK. `{ member }` after the change.
`400`	Validation error.
`401`	Missing or invalid organisation key — workspace keys (`afn_live_` / `afn_test_`) are refused here by design.
`403`	`insufficient_scope` — the key lacks `members:write` — or `ip_not_allowed`. Or an attempt to change the owner.
`404`	No such workspace or member.

Code examples

cURL

curl -X PUT https://api.wemail.io/v3/organisation/workspaces/9d2f6c1e-4b3a-4e7d-8a1f-0c5b7e9d2a64/members/c1d2e3f4-5a6b-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer afn_org_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "role": "admin"
  }'

Node.js

const res = await fetch("https://api.wemail.io/v3/organisation/workspaces/9d2f6c1e-4b3a-4e7d-8a1f-0c5b7e9d2a64/members/c1d2e3f4-5a6b-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f", {
  method: "PUT",
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer " + process.env.WEMAIL_ORG_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({"role": "admin"}),
});
console.log(await res.json());

Python

import os, requests

res = requests.put(
    "https://api.wemail.io/v3/organisation/workspaces/9d2f6c1e-4b3a-4e7d-8a1f-0c5b7e9d2a64/members/c1d2e3f4-5a6b-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["WEMAIL_ORG_KEY"]},
    json={"role": "admin"},
)
print(res.json())

ResponseExample response

{
  "member": {
    "id": "c1d2e3f4-5a6b-4c7d-8e9f-0a1b2c3d4e5f",
    "name": "Dana Developer",
    "email": "dev@acme-eu.example",
    "role": "admin",
    "initials": "DD",
    "color": "#5b8def",
    "status": "active",
    "external": false,
    "created_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:00Z",
    "invitation_expires_at": "2026-11-05T10:10:00Z"
  }
}