Managing your account

To access your account settings click on the "Logged in as ..." in the top right corner. There are 3 tabs that let you customize your account: Profile, Plan and Users.

Profile

On the "Profile" page you can specify such details of your account as first and last name, password and user name. You can also choose your userpic. The userpic will be displayed next to the versions of the files that you submitted.

Plan

Here you can see the details of your current account plan, and extend or upgrade your account. The top of the page displays the information about your current plan: plan type, expiration date, balance and the storage space chart. Here you will also find the buttons to the renewal (payment) and upgrade pages. The difference between upgrading and renewing is very simple: when you upgrade your plan you just switch to a plan with more storage space. You don't have to pay any additional money in order to upgrade your plan - we will recalculate your expiration date considering your new price plan and the amount of money that you have on your account. Please note - if you are on the Free plan, or if you don't have enough money on your account, you will be asked to make a payment before upgrading. To renew your account means to make a payment in order to push your expiration date back. We use PayPal to process payments. Paypal is universally recognised as a safe and secure payments system, and you can pay using your PayPal account or using any other major payment method such as credit cards.

Upgrading your account

Select the price plan suitable for you and press the Upgrade button next to it. You will see a brief page with the details of your current and new price plans, and the buttons "Upgrade" and "Upgrade ad Extend". If you are upgrading from the free plan, or if you have little money on your account, the "Upgrade" button will be disabled, and you will need to make a payment. T do so, please press the "Upgrade and Extend". On the next page you will be able to choose the period you wish to pay for. After pressing the "Ok, I'm ready to pay" button you will be redirected to Paypal. Once you complete the payment return to PixelNovel by pressing the appropriate button. At the bottom of the page you will see the list of payments made into your account.

Extending your account

Select the term that you wish to extend your account for. After pressing the "Ok, I'm ready to pay" button you will be redirected to Paypal. Once you complete the payment return to PixelNovel by pressing the appropriate button.

User management

You can add your friends or colleagues as viewers or contributors to your account, and you can grant them either the full access, read-only access or no access to some or all of your projects.

Adding new users

To add a new user, press the "Add user" button on the Users tab. You will need to enter the email of the new user, and you will also need to specify the privilege for the person you are adding. This can be either User or Administrator privilege.
If you invite somebody with the Administrator privelege, they will have full access to all projects, and will be able to invite new users. The User privilege means that the invited person will not be able to invite new users, and you can also limit the access to your account for them. If you want your new user to have full access to all your projects, select the " full access to all projects " If you want your user to view all your projects and files, but not edit them, select the "read only access to all projects" If you want your new user to view/edit some of your projects, but not all of them, please select the "assign different rights for different projects", and then specify access rights for individual projects.

When you have specified the desired access level for the new user, click the "Send invitation" button. An email will be sent to the address that you specified, and you will see the new user in your user list with the "pending" status. The status will change to "active" when the invited person accepts the invitation.

Editing existing users

To edit an existing user click the "Edit" button button next to the user in the user list. You will see the page where you can specify the user's status (active or suspended) and the user's access level. User's status: There are 2 options here: Active and Suspended. Select “Suspended” if you with to temporarily disable access to your account for this user. If you wish to restore access for this user later, just select “Active”. Editing user's access rights is similar to adding a new one.

You can change the privilege for the user If you grant the user the Administrator privilege, they will have full access to all projects, and will be able to invite new users. The User privilege means that the user will not be able to invite new users, and you can also limit the access to your account for them. If you want the user to have full access to all your projects, select the " full access to all projects " If you want the to view all your projects and files, but not edit them, select the "read only access to all projects" If you want the user to view/edit some of your projects, but not all of them, please select the "assign different rights for different projects", and then specify access rights for individual projects.