Yes. Think of your set of subscriptions as a pool. You can have many more User Roles than subscriptions, and selectively activate/de-activate the users to swap them in and out of the pool.
How to activate and de-activate user Roles for Author and Contribute:
For Author and Contribute, activating and de-activating user roles is a manual process. A Client Administrator must do one or more of the following:
- Manually select and de-select the Role check box for a user on the Users page
- Manage that user's membership in Groups that are assigned the Role via the User Groups page
- Use the Subscriptions page to make Authors active or inactive
How to activate and de-activate users for Reviews:
For Reviews, the activation process is more automated. Reviewers are assigned the Reviewer Role, but this role is only activated when a reviewer Role is assigned to a Review, and only de-activated when the Review ends (so long as that Reviewer is not assigned to another Review). A Review ends when:
- The Review is completed automatically by means of release state change.
- The Review is completed manually when an Editor clicks the Review Complete button.
- The Review is Deleted.
- The Review is Canceled.
A Reviewer-only user role is also freed for use when a Reviewer Role is removed from the review and is not already assigned to any other reviews.
Author-it Cloud will even automatically activate Reviewer-only users if they're account is inactive.