I am getting a booth at a consignment location to sell me products. The owner has requested employee access to my website so that she can do sales through that and I would receive payment instantly vs waiting for payout.
I have created a second location and added inventory to that location.
I’m not sure how to give her access to make sales only at the 1 location. I do not want her to have access to anything other than the product that is at that location. How do I do this?
Shopify permissions are NOT this granular to the product level.
Possibly use draft-orders permissions..but then they may also need order perms as well.
You would either need to use shopify POS with them as staff.
Or make a tool/dashboard such as through retool, or some automation with google sheets/forms.
Or find a suitable multiseller/multivendor app.
Or setup a second shopify store , then find a data sync app if needing live data sync to the main store of product inventory/order etc .
Try to negotiate a multistore rate with support before opening multiple things on a service.
No matter what you do you need to test this as if you were the third party BEFORE the day of the event, twice.
Is this so they can adjust inventory or other.
If your website is public what benefit is there for them to have access to the backend.
If they use the backend to place an order the payment is still processed through shopify if they use a shopify order-invoice to checkout.
I know this post is from a few years ago, but wanted to reply as I am running into the similar limitations on Shopify. Currently there is no solution in October 2025 either. I am looking into WooCommerce or Odoo. It’s too bad because I think Shopify’s POS and online store integration is the most seamless and best out there. I may have to switch my online and retail platform just because of some permission settings not being customizable. This limitation is holding me back from opening my 3rd store because I need a location-specific-role-permission setting to place a Branch-Manager who deals with most aspects of the store but does not have access to other store locations or critical admin settings. HEAR US OUT SHOPIFY. THIS IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP YOUR SUCCESSFUL STORES AS CLIENTS.
Hi @BA7!
I came across your post while researching this exact kind of Shopify location-access problem.
I’m trying to understand whether merchants still run into this today and what they actually end up doing in practice. Did you ever find a workable way to let the person at the consignment location sell/manage only the inventory assigned to that location without giving them broader access to the rest of the store?
If this is still relevant, I’d also be really interested in asking you a few questions about how you ended up handling the workflow.