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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Tina McLeod commented
Client needs to be able to give access to staff to Products and Services without also letting them access all the bank accounts and financials. This is impossible to do at the moment.
Xero - Any update on when this absolutely necessary feature will be available?
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Gina Chapman commented
We are moving to MYOB Advanced ERP. We have waited long enough and the inventory functionality and user permissions in Xero (as well as timesheet reporting/payroll) is so below even basic expectations of an accounting software.
Sad, because I had always been a Xero supporter. Forget beautiful, maybe try functional for a while...
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Chris Curlett commented
The whole User Roles system is so below par it is scary - definitely NOT fit for purpose.
Come on XERO how may users have to support a great idea for you to move and fix a problem!
The User Roles system is far to wide and opens up for to much information to all staff. It needs fixing.
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Meth Kudagama commented
Almost 2 years on... and still nothing from Xero. Disappointing. Xero Product Development team, please fix this!
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Chris Curlett commented
Come on Xero - this is basic and goes back to 2022 but nothing has happened. How many users are needed to say their is a problem before something happens.
Permissions are at the hart of a system and the current levels leave the system open to Fraud!
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Sadie Mitchell commented
Totally agree - there needs to be a lot more flexibility on adding users and their permissions. We have to implement procedures for security and audit purposes but Xero does not enable this. Xero has grown in usage and needs to back this up with flexibility.
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Clare Heaviside commented
Without this feature this product is no longer fit for purpose for my business
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Yegor Sak commented
+1 how is this not a feature? This suggestion is 9 years old now.
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Diane Mooney commented
I am shocked this isn't allowed, took me by surprise when went to do it. Assumed it would automatically allow it.
WHY XERO?!
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Con Strydom commented
This is critical for our business, can we please have an update on when this will be implemented?
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Chris Henderson commented
I have had a look around at the list of add ons available for inventory where we can integrate to Xero and either they are too big for our use, charge two or three times what we are paying for xero monthly, or are designed for specific industries that dont work for us. I could spend some money and have a programmer develop our own inventory module and integrate but that seems quite an expense and with it being specific would have maintenance costs I don't want. MYOB has inventory and maybe we should just go and use that. MYOB has shortcomings, but so does Xero. Different application but same story in a different shade. At least we could maintain our products on our shelves.
sincerely, frustrated with Xero
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Katie Emerson commented
Can we have an update on this please?
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Yvonne Tay commented
This is a very important function for our organisation.
I have 3 staff appending invoices, and they need to check the inventory and also check inventory report function.
This is to ease their responsibility in creating invoices and checking items.Please add this function asap.
Please let us know when will this be available?
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Tamzin Smith commented
Has anyone found a software that has this feature? Please advise what other options are out there as my client is so frustrated with Xero and I would love to know what else to suggest to him as he needs to move asap, this function is a deal breaker.
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Adrian Lucivero commented
This is a serious issue within our business. As our business grows this issue will become more & more prevalent.
If Xero doesn't address this issue, we will have to seek an alternative ERP package.
Sort it out XERO!
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Alexandra Hellawell commented
Please please Xero have this done! It is so important for people who deal with Sales and Bills to have the ability to change the product and services details.
PLEASE!!!!!
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Brendan Watt commented
xero arent going to listen until new subscriptions slow down.. post these issues on their ads that pop on facebook or instagram so new users see the massive downfalls...
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Tony Hathaway commented
Why is this not implemented yet ? With workflowmax being removed I wanted to transfer quotes to Xero. Our estimator needs to be able to amend products and services but as an employees doesn't need access to any of the accounting. If this isn't done soon we're off to Sage
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Ioanna Vakoula commented
This is a critical function and should be segrarated from other roles. Can you please provide this as an option to have accesss only to sales and purchases and also to products and services? It is urgent. We need the team member who orders products to be able to update purchase and sell price information, but she does not need access to the bank account or accounting functions.
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Simon Wareham commented
I wholeheartedly support this idea. I need to be able to enable the person in our team who raises all of our invoices to be able to maintain products also in order to make periodic updates to prices. We have an annual change to some of our prices, dictated by an external party, it can't be done until I have the time to go in and do it, this is very frustrating, when the person with sales access could just as easily do it if I could grant her the right access. Please can this change be implemented as soon as possible.