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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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!
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Brent Doven commented
I need sales & purchasing persons to be able to add and edit products.
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Karen Mete commented
I need my new production manager to be able to write invoices and add products to make an invoice.
Basic really. Adding products to make an invoice for new items I sell clients.
Access to my bank accounts should not have to be available to him just to write an invoice. When will this be changed. -
Deidre van der Voorden commented
I would like to give the person that is in control of invoicing the various items out also the control to update the pricing on a quarterly basis, but still need to be able to do the final approval instead of giving them full access to enable them to do their job.
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Leah Puglisi commented
It is really frustrating when you are the one that deals with the suppliers invoices/orders but are unable to view the inventory lists. I hate the thought of having to take time away from my co-workers to be able to see it from them. This needs to be fixed!!
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Karen Rehayem commented
It is imperative that our sales staff have access to the stock list. They do NOT need to see the companies financials or bank accounts. It is also slowing down my own job down because I am the only one that can access the stock list, because I have full access and everytime they need to price something or look at part numbers I have to stop and find it for them, this is not efficient. There needs to be more scope for choosing access for purchase/sales staff.
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Dave Humphrys commented
Totally agree - stock control to the purchasing manager - its is so pointless not having this function
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Christine Carsboult commented
We have people raising purchase orders who can't access products and services so have to contact someone else with access to change prices and run any reports. Absolute madness and a total waste of time
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Gina Chapman commented
I agree - I can't understand the logic behind the blanket user permissions. Bank accounts etc should be it's own separate tick box!
Inventory & inventory reports should be separated out - why should you need full access to deal with inventory?!
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Michel Faile commented
Our sales staff need to be able to see stock list, edit and do month end stock take with all editing capabilities without having access to our banking information. Would be most useful if there was a toggle switch under 'Invoice Only' users that allows them full access to stock processing capabilities. This should be done as a matter of urgency.
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Marrianne Hunt commented
Sales staff cannot view cost and sales price at a glance when quoting to enable the sales team price products (if not a set price) It doesn't make sense in practice but does to a software builder i suppose??
To enable employees to see products and services they also can view bank balances which can then be openly discussed with the entire workforce which is far form ideal
products and services could be added to invoice/ bills only view to prevent the bank accounting viewed sales team don't need to bank balances in all cases.
and/or add the option under business to remove bank access under standard user as some sales will need to view reports -
Rapid Perf Accounts commented
This feature is essential for our sales team
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Tom Orchard commented
We need this as soon as possible.
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Mark Thomas commented
We NEED this TOO...
our staff need the ability to enter stock, create purchase orders as well as generate invoices without the ability to see bank account information