Permissions

In the Time for action section that follows, we will assign the permissions that are appropriate for an employee with customer service and packing responsibilities. First we will take a look at the options in general, for permissions.

Permissions and their levels

There are four types of permissions: View, Add, Edit, and Delete. PrestaShop controls access by allowing you to assign these types of permissions to any of the tabs and subtabs.

You can restrict the members of a profile from viewing any tab(s) you like. For example, you might not want the customer service profile to change anything on the Payment tab. No problem; you can totally remove this tab for the users of that profile. In the Bikes4U freelance writer scenario, you may want to create users who only have access to the CMS tab. You could do this by removing, or as we will see in a bit, not adding any permissions apart from the ones for the CMS tab.

So to stop the users of a particular profile from adding and removing...