Manage users

As the merchant administrator, you can create accounts for your users in different user groups and allow them to access one or more profiles.

To allow access to different functions in the platform, for each user, you can select from four user roles shown in the following table. For full details, see User roles.

Permission / Role	admin_user	accountant_user	normal_user	restricted_user
Dashboard view	✅	✅	❌	❌
Manage customers	✅	✅	✅	✅ own
Import customers from CSV	✅	❌	❌	❌
View products	✅	✅	✅	✅
Manage products	✅	❌	❌	❌
Manage orders	✅	✅	✅	✅ own
Authorise refunds	✅	✅	✅	❌
Payments section	✅	✅	✅	❌
Configure email notifications	✅	✅	❌	❌
Configure currency conversions	✅	✅	❌	❌
Reports	✅	✅	❌	❌
Manage users	✅	❌	❌	❌
List profiles	✅	✅	✅	✅
View profiles	✅	❌	❌	❌
View merchant details	✅	❌	❌	❌

Create a user

To create a user, do the following steps.

Log in as a user with the admin_user role.
In the navigation bar, go to the user account icon.
From the user account menu, select Users.

Select users from the user account menu
At the top right of the Users list, click (+).

Add a user in BillPro
On the New User screen, enter the user's details.
1. By default, a new user is Active, which means they can log in to BillPro.
2. Select Payment link to let the user create payment links. This option displays the buttons and options to send payment links by email or SMS and to display a QR code and URL. You could leave this option inactive if the user will only accept phone payments with the virtual terminal. See Payment channels.
3. If you are creating an integration, to create users for developers and integration users, select API access to generate API credentials. The API user should have the admin_user role. To display the API token at any time, display the User details, for example, by clicking the eye display icon beside the user in the Users list.
4. Select one or more profiles for the user.
5. Select a Role as described in the user roles table.
  
  Enter user details to create a new user
Click Submit. BillPro displays the User Details screen, which can include API credentials. You can edit the user from here or the main Users list.

Display user details

To display user details, do these steps.

In the navigation bar, check that you are in a profile the user has access.
Go to the user icon menu and select Users.
In the Users list, click the eye display button beside the user.

Users list

From the User Details view, you can obtain the API key and edit the user.

Edit a user

To edit a user account, do these steps.

In the navigation bar, go to the user icon menu and select Users.
In the Users list, click the pencil edit button beside the user.
Change the user account as required.
1. To change the user's access to functionality, select a new Role. See User roles.
2. To change the user's access to merchant profiles, add or remove profiles.
  
  Edit a user
Click Submit.
To implement the changes to the user account, tell the user to refresh their BillPro screen in the browser.

Deactivate a user

You cannot delete a user account, but you can deactivate it. Edit the user account and click the Is active toggle switch to deselect it, then click Submit.

Edit a user to make them inactive with the Is active toggle switch — Edit a user to make their account inactive with the Is active toggle switch

In the Users list, the user will display a grey flag for inactive instead of a green flag for active, and the user will not be able to log in to BillPro.