The Simple Guide To…Permissions

Everything you need to know about permissions on CharlieHR

CharlieHR
3 min readJun 28, 2016

“What am I?” is a compelling prompt for some deep introspection, but not necessarily the sort of existential angst you want to face while trying to approve Jen’s holiday request on a Wednesday morning.

You can find your permission level on your profile. The only person who can change permissions is a Company Leader, so if you feel like you need access to something you don’t currently have, that’s who you need to talk to!

Here’s a handy cheat-sheet of what each permission type currently allows you to see and do:

Team Member

(Can update their profile, clock in sick and book time off)

✔️ View and update their own profile

✔️ View the Dashboard and Directory

✔️ Request time off from their Team Leader

✔️ View everyone’s approved time off

✔️ Record sick days

✔️ View the Dashboard and Directory

Team Leader

(Approve holiday and oversee their team’s profiles)

✔️ Access and edit their own profile

✔️ View the Dashboard and Directory

✔️ Access and update the profiles of members of their team

✔️ Invite/add new members to their team

✔️ Approve/deny time off from members of their team

✔️ Request time off from the Company Leader

✔️ Make private notes on a team member’s profile

✔️ Archive team members when they leave the company

✔️ Receive a weekly digest about their team

Company Leader

(You’re the boss…you can do and see everything!)

✔️ Access and edit their own profile

✔️ View the Dashboard and Directory

✔️ Access and update everyone’s profile

✔️ Invite/add new Team Members

✔️ Approve/deny time off from Team Leaders

✔️ Have their time off automatically approved

✔️ Customise Charlie via the company settings

✔️ Set annual leave allowance

✔️ Customise team members’ time off allowance

✔️ View and edit salary details

✔️ Set up teams

✔️ Turn on integrations like Slack

✔️ Set and change user permissions

✔️ Archive team members or team leaders when they leave the company

✔️ Export the whole company, or an individual’s data into a CSV file

✔️ Receive weekly digests about the whole company

Administrator

(Everything EXCEPT salary information)

✔️ Access and edit their own profile

✔️ View the Dashboard and Directory

✔️ Access and update everyone’s profile

✔️ Invite/add new Team Members

✔️ Request time off from their Team Leader/Company Leader

✔️ Customise Charlie via Company Settings

✔️ Set annual leave allowance

✔️ Customise Team Members’ time off allowance

✔️ Set up teams

✔️ Turn on integrations like Slack

✔️ Archive Team Members or Team Leaders when they leave the company

✔️ Export the whole company, or an individual’s data into a CSV file (not including salary data)

✔️ Receive weekly digests about the whole company

Accountant

(Can see all the money stuff, but can’t make changes)

✔️ Access and edit their own profile

✔️ View the Dashboard and Directory

✔️ View every Team Member profile, export data and get notified of changes for payroll

✔️ See salary and payroll details for the whole company

✔️ Export the whole company, or an individual’s data into a CSV file (including salary data)

✔️ Receive weekly digests about payroll changes

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