Staff account permissions
This page was printed on Jul 17, 2019. For the current version, visit https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/staff-accounts/staff-permissions.
You can set staff account permissions from your Shopify admin.
Each type of staff account permission gives your staff access to a different part of your Shopify admin:
| Permission | Description |
|---|---|
| General | |
| Home | Access to information on the Home page, including sales information. |
| Orders | Create, view, update, and delete orders and order notifications. |
| Exports | Permission to export orders, draft orders, customers, and products separately from the main permission. For example, you can allow a staff member access to the Customers section, while not allowing them to export customer data. This permission is available for Shopify Plus plans only. |
| Draft Orders | Access to create, modify, and delete custom created orders. |
| Products | Access to view, create, and modify products. Access to inventory and inventory management. Access to view, create, and modify collections |
| Gift cards | Access to view and create gift cards. |
| Customers | Access to view the customer database, and the ability to create, modify, and delete customers. |
| Reports | Access to all available reports. At this time, you can't select specific reports that staff members can and can't access. |
| Dashboards | Access to the Overview dashboard, which provides an overview of sales and statistics for all sales channels. |
| Marketing | Access to view and create marketing campaigns. |
| Discounts | Access to view and create discounts. |
| Apps | Access to view and click on applications. Only the account owner can approve application charges. Staff accounts require Full permissions to download free apps. |
| Settings | Access to view the settings sections for General, Payment providers, Checkout, Shipping, Taxes, Locations, Gift cards, Notifications, Files, Sales channels, Account (the Account overview section and the Staff accounts section), and Legal. Access to create webhooks to send data about the topics that the staff member has the permissions to view. Only the account owner can view billing information or make changes to the store's subscription or banking information. |
| Online store | |
| Themes | Access to change and modify the theme that the store is using. |
| Blog Posts and Pages | Access to create, modify, and delete blog posts and pages. |
| Navigation | Access to create, modify, and delete navigation buttons. |
| Domains | Access to view and modify domain information. |
| Point of sale | |
| Locations | Access to create, modify, and delete POS locations. |
| App and channel access | |
| App and channel access | Grant access to specific apps and channels instead of granting or denying full access to all apps and channels. For example, you can allow a staff member to access the Facebook and Wholesale channels, but not Online store. This permission is available for Shopify Plus plans only. |