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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Vander .T commented
hi,
any update on this ?
i am tired of every time need to pull AR / AP ageing , inventories report as and when colleagues needed. And tire of answering others queries related to inventory as they don't have access to the "products and services" , they unable to zoom into individual stock items to see why there is error on the qty / value.
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Christine Carsboult commented
come on xero how much longer are we going to have to wait for this to be sorted out. There are many other platforms that can do this and we like many,many others are looking to change because you are making no effort to sort this problem out.
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John Butler commented
Also if you look to the left of this panel you will see the totals of suggestions. over 6000! What does that say?
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John Butler commented
Yes its the apparent (to Xero) little things but big things (customer), that can gradually erode their market share. Competitors will be alert and fill the gap over time. Trouble is when you get too big for your boots, you lose sight of the little things.
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Chris Henderson commented
More than ten years!
Wow, if my companies customer service was like this we would have folded big time by now. You're getting a reputation amongst your clients Xero. Maybe MYOB brings out a new solution and whacko - you lose 25% of your clients overnight.
We need our staff to work with products and services and NOT see our financials. Clear as day.
Yours sincerely, and waiting for the competitive alternative to emerge,
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Lisa von Sturmer commented
Ok, it's been over 10 yrs for me as a Xero user and this is just a roadblock now. We need staff to be able to access transactions without being able to see all company financial information. How can xero completely ignore this many requests for this long? Not even a basic update? To be frank, our team is already looking to off-board to a different platform if there's no update this year.
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Jatana Interiors commented
Come on Xero!!!!!! I have stuck with you for years and supported you! Its time to support your clients who pay for your service. Out of respect to all of those thousands who have been asking you for years it is time Xero!
Why would you not want to satisfy your customers? Just a question????? -
John Butler commented
I suggest everyone on this post start's bombing here and on social media. Every week. Put it in your calendar ;-)
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Lynda Lin commented
Has there been any update to this feature? It has been discussed over years and still we are not seeing any new updates on this? Please advise.
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Richard van der Byl commented
Honestly, how is this not a feature. Extremely disappointing.
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John Butler commented
This is is my single biggest bugbear with Xero. Allowing staff to be able to manage inventory without giving them full rights to the application. Sometimes I wonder how come Xero is so successful! If they want to monetize this them simply design an inventory feature/add on. But no we have to purchase an expensive addition app to do what Xero already does.
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Chris Curlett commented
This is such a basic issue I can not believe ZERO is still resisting putting it in place.
If they spent time resolving critical basic issues such as this rather than providing shallow and transparent excuses, it would change the world!
Come on, Xero - pull finger!
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Kirsten Miller commented
Agree with all of the below commentary, it is ridiculous that we cannot hide bank account details from staff. We need staff to access inventory on hand but do not wish for them to see our bank accounts. When will this issue be resolved, its a massive issue for many , surely this is a priority?
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Annette Allen commented
I wonder if UK MD Alexander Von Schirmeister and global GCSO Angad Soin would want all the staff at Xero to see the bank accounts, if they decided to go into merchandise and do a stock holding??
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Sue Cripps commented
I have staff members who need to see if we have something in stock but I don't want them to access the bank accounts or other financial information. We have just moved from SAGE where this was not an issue. It now means that as a Director of the business I am having to see if we have items in stock to update junior staff members. I don't want them to see all the financials of the business.
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Susan Scells commented
as per other comment at https://central.xero.com/s/question/0D53m00006MiOnvCAF/user-permission-to-products-and-services
This is part of invoicing.
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James Horwood commented
Our SMB (and we can't be alone in this) needs to be able to regularly use the products and services area of Xero,
However all users having access to that ALSO having access to the complete company financial data means that our senior staff are having to perform basic administration tasks such as creating new products for quotations because we cannot/do not want the whole administration team to be allowed to see the full company finances for obvious reasons
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Danny Bell commented
Users should be able to see bills relating to PO's they have raised or they are assigned to by admin only.
General users should not be able to see all other bills in the company, this showcases also the other employees in the company who are paid via invoice rather than payroll, essentially telling staff how much other employees earn. It takes 2 clicks for staff who raise PO's to see other staffs invoices.This needs resolving urgently and should seriously be high on Xero's list of priorities for resolution. It's not a "nice to have" it really is critical.
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Natalie Taylor commented
If this isn't resolved in the next few months we will have to move from Xero to Sage. It is imperative that we are able to draw a line between users who can raise purchase orders and users who can see ALL the bills in the business.
It is insane, it's telling our employees exactly what our overheads are.
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Penny Kirmes commented
Unfortunately, this is the same "canned" answer that has been given for years. I am unsure that the responders understand fully why this is such an enormous issue. Would you want just anyone at your place of employment to have access to your bank account?
Also, if you search "user rolls", there are a total of 254 separate/individual headings with similar concerns besides this particular listing.