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Add users and set their permissions

How to invite users to AutoEntry and configure their access.

Brian Carolan avatar
Written by Brian Carolan
Updated this week

You can invite and add as many users to your AutoEntry account as you want.

Below are some examples of users you may want to invite to your AutoEntry company:

  • Colleagues in your office that will use AutoEntry

  • Clients of your practice

  • External bookkeepers/accountants (invited by an individual company)

NOTE: If you use AutoEntry via Sage for Accountants, you must manage access within Client Management if a user needs both Sage for Accountants and AutoEntry. If they don't need access to Sage for Accountants, follow the steps below.

The process to invite someone to your AutoEntry company is straightforward:

  1. Add the user to the companies you want them to access.

  2. Configure their permissions.

  3. The user sets up their own authentication from a welcome invite email.


Add a new user

You can add a new user in two ways:

  • Click People on the left-hand navigation bar

  • Click the People tab in a particular company or folder

Each option you can then click Add People. Here you can enter the person's email address, and confirm the account/company you want to add that user to.

Invite to Account

If you have access to multiple billing accounts on AutoEntry, first select the account you wish to add the person to.

Relationship to Account

You can select from:

  • Employee (default)

  • Internal/External Accountant

  • Client of yours

Single Company or All Companies

Single Company

When you select Single Company, this only adds the user to the company mentioned in the drop-down menu underneath.

All Companies

Selecting All Companies will add the user to all the companies in your account, and any new companies you add in the future. You see a warning pop up to confirm this when you select this option.

📎NOTE: If you want a user to have access to multiple companies, but not all of them, select Single Company, then grant that user access to more companies. You must do this manually for every company you want them to have access to.

Confirm Email sends the invitee a link via email to verify their address and leads them to the AutoEntry login page. Once they set their name and password, they're in.


Permissions tab

Once you invite the user, the permissions page will open automatically.

You can grant access to all or a selection of folders.

Within the Sales and Purchases folder, you can restrict the permissions to View/Edit only, or View/Edit and Upload.

📎NOTE: You can't allow users to upload invoices without giving access to the invoices edit mode and publication features. However, you can give a user the access to upload Expenses. This won't give access to the Sales and Purchases folder and the publication feature. The Expenses can then be approved and moved to the Purchases folder.


Settings Tab

Under the Settings tab at the top, you can also set:

  • The Approvers this user can submit expense reports to

  • Mileage rates they can use

  • Default tracking categories per user

Useful for users from different offices submitting via the mobile app, where they’ll always be uploading to a particular location/class tracking category.


Permission templates

You can also apply default templates or customise your own.


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