Whether you need to share files just within your office, or give clients, colleagues or partners access to a key set of documents, Box collaboration is for you. Sub users streamline the collaboration process, while keeping you 100% in control of who can access what.

To give someone else (or several other people) access to a set of files in your account, you need to set up a sub user. Sub users have access to either your entire account or a single folder within your account, and can be granted different levels of access permissions (read only, write only, read/write, or full—the last of which also allows them to delete files).

To create a sub user account, go to the Collaboration tab, then the 'Sub User' sub tab and click on the 'Add a User' button. Create a unique username and password for this sub user. Choose the level of access (read only, write only, read/write, or full) and what files you would like the sub user to be able to access ('user location'). Again, a workgroup user can have access to either your entire account or a single folder within your account. When you have entered this information, click “Ok!” and the user account will be created.

Give the username and password to the individual(s) you would like to have access to your account. They will log in with this information on Box’s main page, http://www.box.net, just as you do. Any recently uploaded or updated files will be immediately accessible to all users.