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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Giles Simpson commented
Critical for team to be able to add and update product info, pricing etc - without needing to have access to bank account etc. Completely different level of team member and doesn;t need owner/director level to do this.
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Gerard Berg commented
This feature is not just nice-to-have.
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Luke Edwards commented
It would be great if "Invoice only" users could also access Products and Services as well, without the need of access to all financial info.
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Janine Hutchinson commented
We have an employee in the business who chases debts. But she cannot run a debtors list so I have to print one out every time she wants an update. It would be great if there was a tick box like in Dear inventory to add many different levels of access
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Joe Flahive commented
Access to products and sales is needed for some members of staff. Otherwise it stalls our process!
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Tracy Bevan commented
I agree, I have invoice only access but also have admin access to Xero Projects.
I do not have access to inventory so have to type in new tasks for each project I open which is very time consuming and unnecessary.
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Rodney Lingham commented
It would be great if "Invoice only" users could also access Products and Services as well, without the need of access to all financial info.
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Jennifer Anderson commented
Employees dont need access to bank account
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Megan Walker commented
Very critical as we don't want employees to have access to the bank but need them to be able to have access to the products and services
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Jade Bramley commented
Critical that this feature be added to user with limited access.
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Peter Drinan commented
Hi, It is really unusual for someone that can see bank transactions to be the only people that can add products.
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Yvonne Churchman commented
Thanks Jonathan, I agree 100% with your suggestions, Xero is great but it needs greater flexibility and options to refine user permissions so staff can access products and services and contacts without seeing all the dashboard and bank account activity which does not concern them.
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Sharon Walker commented
This is definitely something Xero needs to address...It is of importance to some companies that Sales Managers need access to be able to update and amend stock items without having to have access to Financials. I dont understand why this has never been addressed and offered.
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John Gonzalez commented
I can't fathom why users need to see all financials just to access (view, never mind edit) Products and Services. There's another idea from 2015 called "User Role - Access to Products & Services (Inventory) and Purchases/Sales only" with 41 votes.
Please note it is incredibly rude not to even acknowledge ideas with dozens of votes.
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Peter Barsdell commented
Our sales team need to know what is in our stock room but don't need access to the bank accounts.
As an example, we have a customer who wants a 22" monitor. Sales know we keep stock of monitors but don't know what is currently in stock (Make, Model, Size, ports, sale price and purchase price). There is no way for them to search tracked items in Xero to quote a product that is in stock.
Instead they have to ask someone to physically search the stock room or bother someone who has "Standard" or "Advisor" level access to Xero to search "Products & Services". This puts unnecessary work onto our bookkeeper to update the sales team with what is in stock.The same applies for our purchasing manager, He orders products form suppliers, books them into the stockroom using the "Tracked Inventory Item" feature. For some reason, we also need to give him full access to see all bank accounts.
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Nikki Ray commented
Fully agree that this needs to be a critical feature.
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Brent Doven commented
Xero, please fix this ASAP, surely it's an easy change.
It is really dumb that with the new quote form to add a new product it opens up products in a new window. then once you've added the product you have to go and save and refresh your quote. Bad backward step. As well as being disjointed and a waste of time a user in sales can now not even add a product to a quote. But they can still do it in a purchase order.
Get it sorted, please.
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Rebecca Morris commented
Credit control - Allow a user to have access to only sales invoicing and reports i.e. no access to the bank nor be able to edit settings. It seems odd that someone who can raise/send sales invoices cannot run an aged debtor report without having to be a standard user and have access to pretty much everything.
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Nadia Bhamjee commented
This is definitely a feature that will be useful to our clients
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Mike Briggs commented
Since this thread is over 7 years old and nobody from Xero has even bothered to reply, it seems to be a case of xero fux given!