User Role - Access to Products & Services (Inventory) and Purchases/Sales only
Ability to allow individual access to inventory(products & services) and sales in Xero.
Purpose: Enable ability to view different sets of information within an org.

Thanks for all your input and sharing how we can improve Xero's user roles to cater for the needs of your business and staff you'd like to provide this access for.
As you may have seen in other ideas we've been conducting some research into user roles across all of Xero. As a step on from this, one of our teams are beginning a deeper dive into solving this idea here and enabling more roles access to Products & services (Inventory) in Xero.
While this may take sometime to accomplish we wanted to provide an update to you all interested in this, and we'll keep you informed of further progress as the team begin looking into it.
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Penny Kirmes commented
^^^Above, where it indicates "Xero Team shared this idea", please note that this transpired back in March, 2015. Not sure that this request has met the criteria for progress/change
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Barbara Jirout commented
This is absolutely key. Without this functionality we may need to switch software - which we'd hate to do as Xero is great in every other way.
We absolutely cannot give access to banking to our staff who need to issue POs. I can't believe I've really understood this correctly! -
Hannah Cox commented
Another voice adding to the discussion. I fully agree with and support this idea, I have office assistants who really don't (and shouldn't ) need to see our banking activities but do need to perform basic admin functions including updating inventory. As a small business, the lack of flexibility is causing me huge logistical problems.
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Victoria Skeat commented
This is absolutely key. Without this functionality we may need to switch software - which we'd hate to do as Xero is great in every other way.
We absolutely cannot give access to banking to our staff who need to issue POs. I can't believe I've really understood this correctly! -
Claire Brooks commented
Please make this possible. I have an invoice only user who needs access to the inventory to create quotes, but I don't want to give him access to the banking, which is the only other option
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Chantel Van der Walt commented
I agree - we have the same requirement
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Ed Holdsworth commented
Totally agree. Please allow option to let an Invoice Only user have access for creating/editing products without giving them full access to bank accounts etc...
It's a real issue for us and it shouldn't be that difficult to implement in the software. -
Ed Holdsworth commented
Please allow option to let an Invoice Only user have access for creating/editing products without giving them full access to bank accounts etc...
It's a real issue for us and it shouldn't be that difficult to implement in the software. -
Kim Jones commented
Totally agree with the above, we are in the exact same situation. We need our office manager to do our inventory, but we also need the bank details to remain confidential. It seems very odd to us that we can't just switch off the banking access? We currently have our office manager on the higher setting, as our Director does not have time to do the inventory, as you can well imagine. Definitely not ideal.
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Sandra Cotton commented
I totally agree, I am in the same position and feel this needs to be rectified asap.
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Rick Maffescioni commented
Att:- XERO
Agreed - please make this available for Invoice Only users
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Annette Allen commented
Why would I want admin staff, who creates new product and checks inventory on Xero be able to see all the business banking including salaries.
Is this being developed and resolved? -
Magali Mueller commented
Invoicing goes hand in hand with products and services. Can Xero please provide this as a fix asap.....
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Cal-Asia Pte Ltd commented
add separate for normal user to be able to add products
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Emma Rosenblatt (Accounts) commented
This feature would be very helpful!
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Anja Wakeford commented
This request has been lodged in May 2022 already and this is a critical function for business owners who has office staff responsible for inventory.
Can we please get this updated to make everyone on Xero accounting's life easier???
I am sure there are lots of business owners looking for this update, but not taking the time to vote on this page.
Thank you Xero Team, we hope to see this upgrade before the end on 2022.
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Dan McCourt commented
The spectrum for access is far too broad. and needs to be refined so user access can be granted/retrcited to invoicing, being able to see relevant bank entries, however have no access to financial accounts and or other bank account pertaining to an entity that has numerous bank accounts for each business entity operating thorugh one had entity.
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Timothy Simpson commented
Please sort out this feature XERO - This would be most helpful.
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Ryan Snyman commented
This is a "Common Sense" feature for users with Invoice Only access. I was surprised to find access was not there when a new user was added. Come on Xero - sort this feature out.
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Penny Kirmes commented
How do we escalate this issue to get some attention?