Simplified user management functionality

A method for providing simplified user management within a software application, the method comprising:

• displaying, on an interactive display, a user management interface display for managing at least one user within the software application, wherein the user management interface display comprises at least one adding portion for adding a new user to the software application and at least one editing portion for editing an existing user within the software application;
• displaying, in the user management interface display and in response to an editing user selecting an interactive icon within the editing portion, an interactive menu providing actions allowing for editing an existing user, wherein the displaying comprises validating the editing user is authorized to edit the existing user by determining the editing user is an existing user having permissions within the software application and determining the user has a relationship to the editing user, wherein the validating comprises identifying a permission level of the editing user, identifying a permission level being assigned to the user, and determining the permission level of the editing user is at least equal to the permission level being assigned to the user, wherein a highest permission level allowed to be assigned to the user decreases as a permission level of the editing user decreases;
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• displaying, in the user management interface display and in response to the editing user providing input for adding a new user within the at least one adding portion, information corresponding to the new user, wherein the displaying comprises validating the editing user is authorized to add the new user by determining the editing user is an existing user within the software application and determining the editing user the user.