User Role - Restrict access to specific Settings
Ability to customise user roles to restrict some access in Xero.
Purpose: Some staff should only have limited access in Xero.
Hey everyone, we've been following the conversation closely and we want to acknowledge how important this is for many of you.
Atm, we’re on a long journey to provide more controls within Xero features that our customers need. Being such a broad idea that touches many areas of our platform, we’d like to encourage adding your votes to specific user permissions that matter most to you, such as:
- Bank Accounts: For more control over who can see bank account balances and access specific accounts, please see the idea here: User Role - Restrict access to individual bank accounts
- Sales and Invoicing: If you’d like to see changes to permissions around sales reporting and editing invoice templates, you can follow that conversation here: User roles: Restrict access to Invoice Settings
- Reports: To have your say on restricting access to specific reports, the relevant idea is here: User permissions - Assign user access to specific reports
This change will allow us to focus on the more specific requests to explore. If you don’t see the user permission you’re after, raise a new idea here.
We're thankful for the time and effort you've put into sharing your thoughts on this. Your feedback is valuable, and helps us better understand the priorities and needs of the community as we continue to evolve Xero.
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A K
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Ability to restrict delete options ( users cannot delete invoices or contacts)
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Tracey G
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This is a problem with junior staff seeing information they should have no access to and breaches workplace contracts.
I suppose at least we can see who made the change - but not the why why why -
Joe Van Elburg
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Users - allow for full customizability of users in Xero.
I have a client that needs to have users to just invoice for sales. This is needed as the upgraded access to standard gives them access to the bank account and payables, potentially more confidential information. They can create invoices, edit and pay them. Unfortunately one the payment is posted, they can no longer edit the invoice and needs to contact the bookkeeper every time they need something changed. It would be nice to have full customizable user access in Xero where you can tailor to the specific needs of the client.
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Virgilia Benczik
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User role is fundamental to any system, and I am more than surprised to see that as of now Xero is still so behind with access rights.
There should be possible for an user to have different level of access for different areas, or even a read only access to a single module (e.g. read only for sales invoices, and no other Xero access) -
Adam Lim
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It's ridiculous, I need to give my staffs access to approve invoice which we do not give this authority to sales reps in order to print packing slip? So I ended up having to print many packing slips a day because simply they cannot do it!
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Xero Ideas at GT
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Role based security is fundamental to any user based system and is required to properly manage user access efficiently and effectively, particularly when there are hundreds of users.
Because there is no granular user security, we have many users who can access areas they don't need to. This is a risk issue and also creates additional work.
This function is required across all Xero modules including HQ. -
Lalit Gopwani
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This needs to be dealt with ASAP. Your next product updates better include this fix
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Brendan Watt
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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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Joanne Boardman
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This has been raised under several different ideas in different areas with the same basic premise that user access can be personalised or be more differntiated than it currently is so the votes on this are well under recorded.
The only alternative seems to be different software as this has been requested for quite some time with nothing done by Xero about it. -
Martin Hawkes
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Our standard office admin users can access the bank accounts, which we don't want as this information is confidential.
This needs to be resolved quickly, please.
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Kerryn-Leigh Anning
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It is critical for user to be able to access Bill and Invoice reports without being able to access absolutely every else.
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Rosemary Swanepoel
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Very important - access to change item pricing, for example, should be limited to certain users. The person responsible for preparing an invoice should not necessarily be able to change the price per item (human error, fraud etc.).
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Sunbear Admin
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So sad no this function
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Eileen Cotton
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This is a critical requirement and should be given priority by Xero.
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Suzy Komuczki
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This is actually a critical requirement for many of my clients. When can Xero take some action on refining the user roles?
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Eileen Cotton
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Yes, please make this change! It would be perfect!
Xero should allow a user the ability to work in accounts payable and account receivable, including access to actually pay bills by cheque or batch payment (which you cannot current do) and access reports only for these two areas.
Currently, if you want a user to issue cheques, you must grant them full access to all the company's financial data. -
Adam Lim
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Why after such a long time and Xero never take any action to improve this?
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Alex Simpson
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The access and permissions in Quickbooks looks amazing. I am surprised to see Xero so far behind their competitors.
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Alex Simpson
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I agree that access options are terrible..... I want a member of staff to alter invoice reminder templates...... I then have to give them access to all our banking transactions, P&L, Balance Sheet..... that is ridiculous!
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Stacey Quinn
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The access options in Xero are terrible. You can add supplier access, but can't tick the reports box. Having come from a MYOB environment where things were very customisable to business needs, its eternally frustrating - I can't even give auditors read only access and review reports without giving them full access. Many people in organisations need differing levels. The options are there, just need to be able to tick them!