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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Nikki McPherson commented
Xero please explain why such a simple request that staff do not see the business' financials, but can still access products & services not yet be implemented????
We are your customers & paying your wages & yet even after so many of your loyal customers have written in asking for this to be changed you are yet to do anything!
Why??
PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS!We are all so very busy & yet we have taken the time to submit our frustration in having something so very simple actioned!
This small request in providing our employees access to products & services within the Xero system to update inventory cannot be action within the employees seeing their employer's financials! This creates additional workload on employers who are paying the staff to complete such a basic task!WAKE UP XERO MANAGEMENT OR YOUR CUSTOMERS WILL GO ELSEWHERE!!!
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Kristy Mackie commented
This should be a standard user access in Xero. We have a storeman that maintains products and services and can see bank info through the accounting tab even though I have hidden everything from the dashboard.
This needs to be fixed asap!! -
Lerissa Palm commented
It feels like a basic requirement to have more micro control over what users can access in the system.
I mean, we have "Invoice Only" user access, so why not this?
Hopefully this is an upcoming feature. -
Simon Leaity commented
Come on xero, this is basic simple stuff
Please listen to your customers for a change and implement -
Melanie Jeavons commented
Why is this being ignored? Please at least acknowledge that you are looking into it!
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Jenny Woodward commented
From the comments below, you need to get this sorted ASAP.
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Jenny Woodward commented
The above is a great suggestion but has not be actioned. I am in a similar position where the Warehouse Manager cannot access the purchases/products services without having access to the financial information of the company.
Please can this be organised
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Jacki Hocking commented
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. Hence we only want her to have Invoice Only (Purchases) access with access to the Products and Services module.
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David Hedt commented
I see inventory product control seperate to finances, I really think that's a change that needs to be made. We like Xero but in doing it the way it is currently set means that my entire company can see the finances regardless of role. Ordering, warehouse, inventory management, invoicing etc...
The roles Xero offer don't really fit what the program can do. -
Karen Duncan commented
I absolutely need this feature. I need the staff I have employed to be able to do the job I employed them for else I may as well have not employed them!
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Alex Coles commented
It's crazy that viewing products and services and their associated transactions on a read-only basis is excluded from read-only users.
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Laura Dolce commented
I need these feature and the user should not be seeing bank account balances in order to do so. You can Add as an Invoice only user but you can't edit. Doesn't make sense.
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Karen Wilshire commented
Please this seems like an urgent matter that needs to be addressed.
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Stuart Brown commented
I need this feature. As my business grows I need to add staff and delegate functions. Creation of tracked inventory items is almost a daily task for a growing business and I need this function to be available to a staff member without them seeing my P&L and bank balance.
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Giles Simpson commented
Xero clearly don't give a **** about their customers - not even the courtesy to reply or explain why this can't (won't) be done. It's appalling. If there was a reason then people would understand but to create a topic for discussion then do absolutely nothing about it and not engage at all is just insulting towards their paying customers. The topic box here is just to allow people to vent internally and not take the problem out to wider social media and google etc.
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Jatana Interiors commented
Xero.
Are you hearing what your clients are asking for?
We are supporting you so you should be supporting us........
PLEASE after so many years of asking it is incredible you still have not created a separate user for inventory and invoice only...... -
James Steel commented
This should be a simple addition to allow differing businesses who have one individual who completes stock takes to be able to adjust stock without access to the bank account.
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Adrian Hitch commented
The ability for Invoice Only Users to add new items in Inventory is critical. At the moment the only way at present for the sales ledger clerk to have the ability to add new Inventory products is to give then Standard User access which gives them the ability to see bank accounts and accounting reports which is sensitive company data and not for that level of staff.
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Peter Ressell commented
I agree with all comments, this is critical for our growing organisation. We need our operational staff to be able to invoice, credit note and view Products and services, while being able to restrict them from seeing our bank accounts as there is clearly confidential / sensitive payroll data etc that can be viewed in our bank accounts.
Xero, it seems like if this simple feature is not included in your roadmap soon - you may well be losing many customers...
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Barbara Mundell commented
This is so crucial, im having to give staff access to bank balances only to add products...