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Add staff and choose what they see

Two lists: a PIN for the till, or an email for this dashboard.

Adding someone is under Shop profile, then Who works here, which is on the rail behind More. Press Add staff for an email, the ticks, and an optional till PIN. Reset a PIN later from Counter PIN on their row. They can also choose one themselves when they open the counter.

The Staff tab in the rail is who took money at the counter, and who placed a New order while signed in. See See who rang at the counter.

You do not have to hand out your own login. Add someone by their email address and they get their own way in, with only the tabs you granted. That email is a dashboard login into this shop, not a second checkout. See Staff email, the customer screen, and several counters.

Shop profile, Who works here, listing team members and their permissionsShop profile, Who works here, listing team members and their permissions
Shop profile, Who works here: who is on the team, and exactly what each person can open.
  1. Open Shop profile, then Who works here. Press Add staff, then enter their email and name. A till PIN on that form is optional.
The Add staff sheet: email, name, an optional till PIN, and ticks for what they may useThe Add staff sheet: email, name, an optional till PIN, and ticks for what they may use
Add staff. The email is how they reach this dashboard. The optional PIN is how the till names them.
  1. Tick what they may use under Can use. There are thirteen ticks: Orders, Events & door, Products, Khata, Returns, Repairs, Customers, Sales, Costs & profit (job book), Analytics, Share, Design, Settings. Analytics is named for the job rather than the tab: it opens Visitors & sales.
  2. Pasal writes to them, and says whether the letter went. Adding somebody opens their account and emails them how to sign in. Whether that letter actually left is reported on its own line, apart from the add, because the two can differ: the pane reads We have emailed them how to sign in, or it says they are added and names the reason nothing went, from the mailer not being switched on to their having been written to already within the hour. If it did not go, tell them yourself. Message them, or say it across the counter, and give them the exact address you typed. They are on the staff list and their account is open either way.
  3. They sign in with that email. They go to pasal.studio/login and ask for a code with exactly that address. Until they do, their row reads Not signed in yet rather than Active. They see the tabs you ticked and nothing else, plus Home and Help, which everybody has.

On a shop with table QR on, the Orders tick reads Orders & tables. It opens the Tables tab, lets them add items to a seat from New order, and lets them settle at the Counter. There is no ninth tick. Anyone who already has Orders already has that. The walk is Run a table from the dashboard.

Their account is opened the moment you press Add them, so the code reaches them the first time they ask for one. Beyond that one invitation, nothing appears in their inbox until they ask for a code, so somebody who never opens the letter sits on your list reading Not signed in yet until you chase them. They must not press Create your shop, which starts a second shop instead of joining yours. See Signing in to your dashboard.

If the sign-in page still answers We couldn't send a code to that email, check the address on their row for a typo. If it is right, press Add them again with the same address. Adding somebody twice is safe: it keeps one row, keeps one account, and changes nothing else.

A row can also read Cannot join. That address already runs its own shop on Pasal, and an account can run one shop, so the row will never come alive however many times they sign in. Waiting does not fix it and neither does adding them again. Ask them for a second email address, add that one, and remove this row.

The list holds twenty people. When it is full, adding another is refused until you remove somebody.

Permissions are not set in stone: tick or untick any time and it applies the next time they load the dashboard. Removing someone takes their access away entirely.

What Home shows everybody

Home is the one tab you cannot take away, so it is worth knowing exactly what stands on it. Everyone you add sees the shop's takings there: paid today, the week's bars, paid this week. That is the money, and it is the same figure you see.

What they do not see on it is anybody's details. Your customers' names, phone numbers, email addresses and delivery addresses come with the Orders, Sales, Customers, Returns and Events & door ticks, and without one of those a staff member cannot read a single customer row. What you paid for your stock comes with Products, Orders or Costs & profit (job book), so today's profit is on Home only for somebody holding one of those three. Home says which tick is missing rather than showing a zero.

Home as a staff login: paid today and this week, a line saying today's profit is not here, Needs doing, the week chart and best sellersHome as a staff login: paid today and this week, a line saying today's profit is not here, Needs doing, the week chart and best sellers
Home for somebody with Orders, Products and Sales. They see the takings. Profit is missing on purpose, and the page says so.

Three ticks you may not be offered

You are only offered a permission your shop can honour, so the list is shorter for some shops. Two things shorten it:

Shop profile, What this shop does, with a switch for each featureShop profile, What this shop does, with a switch for each feature
What this shop does. A tick only appears for a feature that is on, and for Pro tabs only while the shop is on Pro.
  • The feature is off. A cafe is not asked whether its staff may work the event door, because that shop has no door to work. Turn the feature on under Shop profile, What this shop does and its tick appears.
  • The shop is not on Pro. Events & door, Khata and Costs & profit (job book) unlock Pro tabs, so a shop on the free plan is offered ten ticks rather than thirteen. See What happens when your free trial ends.

Staff accounts are themselves a Pro feature: on the free plan the shop runs on the one owner login. See What Pro costs and how to turn it on.

Staff management itself is never grantable, so a staff member can never add other staff or widen their own access. Shop profile's Who works here, and the Staff tab that names who rang, are yours alone.

How the till uses those names and PINs is under Ring a sale at the counter. Only you can change that list. A staff member with the dashboard cannot read a colleague's PIN and cannot set one, whatever else you have granted them.

  1. See who rang at the counterToday and this week, named from the till and from signed-in New orders, with a total for each person.
  2. Staff email, the customer screen, and several countersA staff email is a dashboard login, not a new till. The customer screen follows the shop. Extra TVs are mirrors. A supermart with several queues is not this yet.
  3. Ring a sale at the counterOpen the counter, build a bill, take cash or QR, and hand over a receipt.
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