# Managed accounts for brands (/docs/brands/managed-accounts)
Run social accounts that Bloss builds and manages for your brand, set them up, and assign each one to a creator who schedules its posts.
Managed accounts are social accounts that Bloss builds, warms up and manages for your brand. Each one is assigned to a creator on your roster, who schedules its posts. The account stays with your brand.
## Which brands can use them [#which-brands-can-use-them]
If you see Managed Accounts in your brand's sidebar, your brand can use them, and full admins buy and set up accounts there. Support may set a limit on how many accounts a brand runs. When you reach it, you'll see "You've reached the account limit on your account. Contact support to raise it."
If the page shows **Managed accounts come with Scale**, your brand needs the **Scale** plan. **See plans** opens the agency's Billing page, where only the agency owner can change a brand's plan. See [Plans and features](/docs/agencies/plans-and-features) and [Change a brand's plan](/docs/agencies/billing#change-a-brands-plan).
If your brand moves to a lower plan, accounts already running keep running and keep their plans. Contact support before you set up another.
## Who can do what [#who-can-do-what]
| Task | Any brand admin | |
| ----------------------------------------------- | --------------- | -------------------------------- |
| See the accounts, analytics and Posts & balance | Yes | Yes |
| Assign, change or unassign a creator | Yes | Yes |
| Buy accounts on the **Pricing** tab | No | Yes |
| Set up accounts | No | Yes |
| Buy, top up or move posts and balance | No | Yes |
| Change an account's plan, pause or resume it | No | Yes |
A limited admin sees a short note, such as "Only a full admin can set up accounts.", where an action is reserved.
Each account runs on its own monthly plan. A paused account closes for good 28 days after its paid period ends, unless a full admin resumes it first. Brand accounts don't send emails about this: the account's banner and its **Billing** tab show the dates. See [Plan & account states](/docs/creators/managed-accounts/plan-and-account-states).
## The four tabs [#the-four-tabs]
Open Managed Accounts in the sidebar.
| Tab | What's there |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Accounts** | Your roster of seats and accounts. |
| **Posts & balance** | One row per account, with its posts and balance. Full admins buy, top up or move posts and balance here. |
| **Analytics** | Performance across every managed account. |
| **Pricing** | What accounts and extras cost, and where full admins buy them. |
## Accounts [#accounts]
The top of the roster shows **Live seats**, **Posts scheduled this month** and **Views, 30 days**, plus how many seats are live or unused. When your brand has no seats to count, the header shows **Included with Scale**, or how many more accounts you can run if support has set a limit.
Each row shows the **Account**, its **Status**, who it's **Assigned to**, the **Next post**, **Views, 30 days** and when it **Renews**. Use **All seats** or **Unassigned** to filter. From a row's menu you can **Open** the account, or **Assign**, **Change** or **Unassign** its creator.
Accounts you've bought but not set up appear as **New account** with "Bought, not set up yet".
## Set up accounts [#set-up-accounts]
### Buy accounts [#buy-accounts]
On the **Pricing** tab, buy the accounts you need. Checkout lists the [content rules](/docs/creators/managed-accounts/content-rules) and asks you to tick that you've read them: an account that breaks them can be banned and won't be rebuilt for free. Each one you buy waits on the roster until you set it up.
### Start setup [#start-setup]
On **Accounts**, click **Set up**. The **Set up accounts** page walks through each waiting account in turn (**Account 1 of 3**, and so on).
### Configure each account [#configure-each-account]
Choose the account's details, such as its handle, name, market, warming topics and first post. To save time, turn on **Use the same settings as the last account**. Handles and names must be different on each account.
### Assign a creator [#assign-a-creator]
Pick the creator who will schedule posts, or choose **Assign later**. Only creators who have a Bloss login are listed.
### Check and submit [#check-and-submit]
Review the summary under **Check and set up** and confirm. If your roster counts seats, each account you submit uses one. Click **Done for now** to stop early; the rest stay on the roster.
Each account takes time to build, so there's no fixed ready date, and accounts set up together won't all be ready on the same day. Each one shows on the roster while it's being built. There's a limit to how many accounts you can set up at a time, and there may be one on how many your brand can run. The page tells you when you reach it.
## Check a new account [#check-a-new-account]
When an account is built and warmed, every brand admin gets a notification: "_@handle_ is ready for a check". Open the account, look it over, and approve it to make it go live, or ask for corrections. The assigned creator can do this check too. See [Reviewing delivery](/docs/creators/managed-accounts/reviewing-delivery).
## Assign creators [#assign-creators]
Click **Assign** (or **Change**) on a row and pick a creator.
- They **can** schedule posts and see this account's analytics.
- They **cannot** buy extras, pause the account, change who it belongs to, or see your other accounts.
If a creator leaves your brand or is unassigned, the account stays with your brand and you get a notification: "_@handle_ has no one assigned". It opens the roster filtered to **Unassigned**.
## Managed accounts and payouts [#managed-accounts-and-payouts]
Posts on managed accounts aren't part of your creator payouts or posting quotas. Their numbers live on the **Analytics** tab, not in your brand's [Analytics](/docs/brands/insights/analytics).
## Analytics [#analytics]
The **Analytics** tab (**Managed Accounts analytics**) shows **Views**, **Likes**, **Comments**, **Followers gained** and **Posts published** across your accounts, with **Views over time**. The default range is **Last 30 days**. Click **Export CSV** to download it.
## Notifications [#notifications]
| Notification | Meaning |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| _@handle_ **is ready for a check** | The account is built and warmed. Approve it and it goes live. |
| _@handle_ **has no one assigned** | Its creator left the brand or was taken off it. |
| **We're looking into a problem with** _@handle_ | The Bloss team is working on an issue. The account page shows the latest. |
These appear under the **Creators** tab of the [notifications panel](/docs/brands/insights/notifications).
## Related [#related]
- [Full vs limited admins](/docs/brands/full-vs-limited-admins)
- [Plan, posts and balance](/docs/creators/managed-accounts/posts-and-balance)
- [Billing and account states](/docs/creators/managed-accounts/plan-and-account-states)