Description of staff permissions
To allow your staff members access to help you to run your store, you need to give them permissions to access specific parts of your Shopify admin and to specific features. You can give staff members a high level of access or limit their access to very specific functions, depending on their position in your store.
In some cases, you need to give staff members multiple permissions to complete tasks in a particular area of you Shopify admin.
Staff members with reduced permissions have a scaled back view of the Shopify admin as soon as you save the permissions.
General staff permissions
Permission | Description |
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Home | Allows staff to view the Home page, which includes sales information and other store data. |
Orders |
Allows staff to view, create, update, delete, cancel, and export orders; and receive order notifications.
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Draft orders |
Allows staff to create, change, and delete draft orders.
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View products |
Allows staff to view products. This permission doesn't allow staff to view product costs. |
View product cost |
Allows staff to view product cost. This permission requires the View products permission. |
Create and edit products |
Allows staff to create, edit, import, publish, share, and archive products and collections. This permission doesn't allow staff to edit product cost or product price. This permission requires the View products permission. |
Edit product cost |
Allows staff to edit product cost. This permission requires the View products, View product cost, and Create and edit products permissions. |
Edit product price |
Allows staff to edit product price. This permission requires the View products, View product cost, and Create and edit products permissions. |
Manage inventory |
Allows staff to create, transfer, track, import and export inventory. Allows staff to edit inventory quantities, SKUs and barcodes. Allows staff to view the history of inventory adjustments for products and variants whose inventory is being tracked by Shopify, and analyze changes to inventory levels in the Inventory Reports section. This permission requires the View products permission. |
Export products and inventory |
Allows staff to export products and inventory. This permission requires the View products permission. |
Delete products and collections |
Allows staff to delete products, variants, and collections. This permission requires the View products permission. |
View catalogs (price lists) |
Allows staff to view catalogs. |
Create and edit catalogs |
Allows staff to view, create, edit, archive, and import catalogs. This permission requires the View catalogs (price lists) permission. |
Delete catalogs |
Allows staff to delete catalogs. This permission requires the View catalogs (price lists) permission. |
Gift cards |
Allows staff to view, create, issue gift cards, and to export gift cards to a CSV file. If your staff needs to create or edit customers from the Gift cards page, then you also need to give them the Customers permission. |
Metaobject definitions |
Allows staff to view metaobject definitions, including the details and all associated entries. Create and edit definitions: Allows staff to create and edit metaobject definitions. Delete definitions: Allows staff to delete metaobject definitions. |
Metaobject entries |
Allows staff to view metaobject entries. Create and edit entries: Allows staff to create and edit metaobject entries. Delete entries: Allows staff to delete metaobject entries. |
Customers |
Allows staff to view, add, edit, and delete customer profiles.
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Reports | Allows staff to view and create reports, which includes sales information and other store data. You can't specify which reports staff can access. |
Dashboards | Allows staff to view the Overview and Live view pages, which include sales information, and other store and sales channels data. |
Marketing | Allows staff to view, create, and automate marketing campaigns. If you perform marketing using an app or a sales channel, such as with Shopify Email, then you also need the appropriate Apps and channels permission. |
Discounts | Allows staff to view, create discount codes and automatic discounts, and export discounts to a CSV file. |
Online store permissions
Permission | Description |
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Themes | Allows staff to view, change, and publish themes. |
Blog posts and pages | Allows staff to view, create, change, publish, and delete blog posts and pages. |
Search and navigation | Allows staff to view, create, change, and delete navigation. |
Domains |
Allows staff to view and edit domain settings.
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Administration permissions
Permission | Description |
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Manage settings |
Allows staff to access most of the administration options on the Settings page and Preferences page of your Shopify admin, and to create webhooks. Learn about the minimum required permissions for access to administration tasks on the Settings page. |
Locations | Allows staff to create, change, and delete the locations where you stock or manage inventory. |
Edit permissions |
Allows staff to view and change permissions for staff and collaborators. The store owner can always edit any staff permissions. Staff with the Edit permissions permission can edit permissions for other staff, but only permissions that they already have. For instance, a staff member who has the Edit permissions and Manage settings permissions must also have the Themes permission to give or remove the Themes permission to another staff member If a staff member has the Edit permissions permission, then that staff member can give another staff member the Edit permissions permission. For security reasons, to give another staff member the Edit permissions permission, the staff member who gives the permission must have the same permissions as the staff member who is given the permission.
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External login services | Allows the staff member to view or update external login services on the Users and permissions page. |
Revoke access tokens for other staff | Allows the staff member to revoke staff device permissions for Shopify apps such as Point of Sale, Shopify Inbox, or Shopify mobile. Any staff member can revoke their own access, but only staff members with this permission can revoke access for other staff. |
View apps developed by staff and collaborators |
Allows the staff member to view apps that are developed by your staff or by collaborators.
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Finance permissions
Permission | Description |
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View billing and receive billing emails |
Allows the staff member to do the following:
Collaborators who have this permission don't receive billing emails.
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View Shopify Payments payouts | Allows the staff member to view Shopify Payments settings, payouts, and transactions. |
Manage payment settings | Allows the staff member to manage payment methods other than Shopify Payments, including PayPal, third-party providers, manual payments, and additional payment types. |
View Balance account activity | Allows the staff member to view Shopify Balance transactions and the amount available to spend. |
Apps and channels permissions
The staff member can view and access the apps and sales channels that you specify.
Permission | Description |
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Manage and install apps and channels |
Allows the staff member to manage apps and channels if their permissions match the permissions that the app or channel requires. The staff member can add, access, or delete apps and channels. If any new apps or channels are installed in the future, then the staff member can access or delete those apps or channels without you updating this permission.
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Specific apps and sales channels | If you check specific apps and sales channels, then the staff member can only access those apps and sales channels. They can't install or delete apps. If any new apps are installed in the future, then you need to update this permission to give the staff member access to them. |