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ERP User Roles and Permissions: Who Should See What
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Read MoreUser Roles, Permissions and ERP Administration
Give every person exactly the access their job needs — granular permissions, ready-made roles, GST tax setup, document numbering and email templates, all administered from one place.
The problem
What it looks like without a system
Everyone sees everything
Shared logins and all-access accounts expose pricing, costs and payroll data to anyone curious.
Untraceable changes
When a record changes mysteriously, there is no way to know who touched it or when.
Inconsistent documents and taxes
Manually numbered documents collide, and GST rates typed per-invoice invite compliance errors.
How FlexgrewERP solves it
FlexgrewERP is built on role-based access control: permissions follow a module-and-action pattern (view, create, edit, approve and more per module), bundled into roles you assign to users. Eight ready roles — Admin, Manager, Sales, Purchase, Production, Inventory, Accounts and Viewer — cover common teams, and every record automatically tracks who created, updated or deleted it. Company-wide settings centralise your profile, GST tax configurations, units of measure, document numbering series and outbound email templates.
Capabilities
What Users, Roles & Administration includes
Every capability below exists in the product today — no roadmap promises.
Role-based access control
Granular module.action permissions bundled into roles — users see and do only what their role allows.
Ready-made roles
Admin, Manager, Sales, Purchase, Production, Inventory, Accounts and Viewer roles ship ready to assign.
User administration
Create users, assign roles and activate or deactivate accounts as people join and leave.
Automatic audit trail
Every record stores who created, updated or deleted it — accountability is built in, not bolted on.
Company profile & branding
Maintain company details and logo used across documents, with outbound email tested from settings.
Document numbering series
Configurable series generate numbers like SO-202608-0142 automatically for every document type.
GST tax configuration
Define tax configurations once — CGST/SGST handling flows into quotations and invoices consistently.
Email templates & UoM setup
Manage notification email templates with preview and test-send, plus units of measure with conversions.
How it works
The users, roles & administration workflow
- 1
Configure Company
Profile, logo, email
- 2
Define Settings
Taxes, UoMs, numbering
- 3
Create Roles
Or use the eight built-ins
- 4
Add Users
Assign roles per person
- 5
Operate
Access enforced everywhere
- 6
Audit
Trail on every record
Business outcomes
What changes for your business
Least-privilege access
Sensitive margins and payroll stay visible only to the right roles.
Accountability by default
The audit trail answers who-did-what without an investigation.
Compliance consistency
Central GST configs eliminate per-document tax typing errors.
Professional documents
Automatic numbering and branded templates on everything you send.
FAQ
Users, Roles & Administration questions, answered
How granular are FlexgrewERP permissions?
Permissions follow a module-and-action pattern — for example view, create, edit or approve within sales, purchase or masters — and are grouped into roles assigned to users.
Are there predefined roles?
Yes. Eight roles ship ready to use: Admin, Manager, Sales, Purchase, Production, Inventory, Accounts and Viewer. You can also define your own.
Is there an audit trail?
Every record automatically stores who created it, who last updated it and who deleted it, giving built-in accountability across the system.
Can document numbering be customised?
Yes. Document series are configurable per document type, generating consistent numbers automatically so duplicates and gaps disappear.
Works together with
Related modules
Users, Roles & Administration is stronger when connected — these modules share its data automatically.
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