General

How to create and manage your users

Add users to your Invoice Office account under Settings → Company account → User. Software users need a licence; timesheet and guest users are free.

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Everyone who works in your administration should have their own login. Sharing one account makes it impossible to see who did what, and means a single password change locks out the whole team.

Where to add a user

  1. Go to Settings → Company account.
  2. Click User in the left-side menu.
  3. Your admin user is listed on the user page. Use the Add user button in the top right corner.

The three types of user

TypeWhat they can doLicence needed
Software userAdministrator or Employee, permissions set per moduleYes
Team memberProjects and timesheets only (added as timesheet user)No — free
Guest userRead-only access to your account dataNo — free

Only software users consume a licence. Timesheet users and guest users are excluded from the count, and while you are on a trial the limit is not applied at all.

Software user

Software users are the administrator’s users, and you need a licence for each one — a licence is required because a software user can be given administrator permissions. In the Type column they show as Administrator or Employee.

Click Add software user, fill in the details, set the user’s permissions, and save. Edit user rights on the row opens a grid of privileges per module — Active, Read, Create, Modify, Delete, Send, Payment and Function — so you grant exactly what someone needs. The company owner is the exception: they always keep maximum rights and cannot be changed.

Team member

This type goes by two names in the app: you add it with Add timesheet user, and the Type column then shows the role as Team member.

Click Add timesheet user and fill in the details. A team member’s permissions are not adjustable, because the account is used only in the timesheet — team members are active within projects and timesheets and nowhere else. You can review what they have via user permissions.

Guest user

Guest users have read-only access to your account data — the obvious case is your financial accountant, who needs to see the books but not change them. Click Add guest member, fill in the details, and save.

Choosing the right type

Give people the access their job needs and no more — not out of suspicion, but because it makes accidental damage far less likely, and because only software users cost you a licence. Someone who only logs hours is a team member; someone who only reads is a guest.

When someone leaves

Remove their access rather than changing the password and passing it on. Their name stays against the work they did, which is what you want for your audit trail.

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