User Permissions and User Groups
User Groups allow you to manage which users have access to specific portions of the Miva admin.
Caution
Miva recommends that you follow the principle of least privilege when you set up Miva users in groups. This concept means you give each user the minimum permissions required to successfully do their job. For example, if you have an employee whose job it is to process orders, you would likely only want to give them access to the Order Processing screens. Giving them access beyond their job duties can create security concerns within the admin.
Default User Groups
The Miva admin comes with several default User Groups. They are:
Accounting and Reporting: View existing orders, manage affiliate transactions and run reports.
Customer Service and Sales: Create and modify orders, manage customer accounts (including stored payment cards).
Marketing: Create and modify discounts, coupons and gift certificates.
Order Processing and Fulfillment: View and modify existing orders.
Product Management: Manage products and categories.
User Interface: Manage the look of your website that shoppers see, including ReadyThemes.
When adding a new user, that user can be assigned to any of these groups, or custom groups you create, by clicking the slider to assign them to a group.
Adding a Custom User Group
You can create additional user groups, in addition to the default groups. To do so, click Settings>User Management and then the Groups tab. Once there, click the Add Group button.
In the open fields in the batch list, add a name for the group, and a description, then click Save Changes.
Future new users can be added to the group by clicking the appropriate slider.
User Group Privileges
Privileges are how you allow or limit user access to various functions of the Miva admin.
To establish privileges for a User Group, select the group you want to edit the privileges for and then click the Privileges button.
In the box that opens, sliders are used to enable or disable various capabilities in the admin. Those capabilities are:
View
Add
Modify
Delete
Toggle the capabilities as desired and close the box.