Lokalise Enterprise RBAC

Overview

Manage fine-grained access to Lokalise translation projects using its built-in role hierarchy, language-level scoping, contributor groups, and organization-level SSO enforcement. Lokalise has four core roles — owner, admin, manager-level (via admin_rights), and contributor (translator/reviewer) — each configurable per project and per language.

Prerequisites

• Lokalise Team or Enterprise plan (contributor groups and SSO require Team+)
• Owner or Admin role in the Lokalise organization
• LOKALISE_API_TOKEN environment variable set (admin-level token)
• @lokalise/node-api SDK or curl + jq for REST API access

Instructions

Step 1: Understand the Role Hierarchy

Lokalise uses a flat role model per project, controlled by three boolean flags on each contributor: