Managing staff permissions and activities in Shopify Bill Pay
As a Shopify merchant, you might need to delegate financial tasks such as bill management to your staff. Shopify Bill Pay offers functionalities that allow you to grant your team access to organize payments, manage vendors, and view historical payment data. In this article, you can learn how to give and remove access to Shopify Bill Pay for your staff, how staff members can set it up on their end, and how to monitor their activities.
After you've added your bills, you can grant your staff members access to Shopify Bill Pay. Giving your users access to Shopify Bill Pay lets them schedule bill payments, view payment history, manage vendors, and manage payment methods.
User permission requirements for Shopify Bill Pay
The following users can access Shopify Bill Pay access:
- The store owner.
- The organization owner.
- Users with an administrator role.
- Users with the App permissions and Shopify Bill Pay store permissions.
Learn more about managing roles.
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Setting up Shopify Bill Pay for staff members
After access is granted, staff members need to set up their account for use. These steps must be completed by the staff member. They can't be done by the user that granted the staff member access.
Steps:
From your Shopify admin, go to Finance > Bill Pay.
A prompt for two-step authentication setup is displayed if you haven't activated it yet:
- Click Set up two-step authentication.
- Follow the prompts to activate two-step authentication.
Monitor staff activity in Shopify Bill Pay
After your staff are set up and handling financial tasks, you can review their activity to keep track of their actions.
Identify who scheduled a payment
From your Shopify admin, go to Finance > Bill Pay.
Click the payment that you want to review.
Go to the Payment activity section, and then locate the Payment ID.
Details including which staff member scheduled the payment and when it was scheduled are listed under the Payment ID.
Notifications
Whenever a staff member performs significant actions such as scheduling payments, adding bank accounts, or modifying payments, notifications are sent out. Both the staff member involved and the store owner will receive an email detailing the action that was taken.