Setting up a Employee account for a web designer

[jrobindesigns]

I want to hire a web designer to take over designing my shop. How do I limit their access so that they cannot shut me out of my site? What do I assign them as under Employee account?

[gabdara]

You can create a new Employee profile from BO > Administration > Profiles called Designer. Then go to BO > Administration > Permissions and set on what the Designer can have access to.

 

A simple list would be:

• Modules and Services, Positions
• Preferences > Themes
• Advanced Parameters > Performance
• CMS pages
• CMS categories

You can also cherry pick on what modules to have access.

If for some reason it will need access to more than these sections (eg. needs to adjust html in product description), he will certainly ask for it.

 

Having access to modules he could still do some harm if it has bad intentions, but restricting access too much could also limit him into doing its job.