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How to grant permissions and rights

Learn how to configure granular permissions for managers and employees in Begin.

Written by Geidi Steinberg

Begin allows admins to customize what each manager or employee can access. By default, managers have a standard set of permissions, but you can grant or revoke specific rights as needed. This feature is available to Admins.

How to access permission settings

  1. Go to Employees in the left sidebar.

  2. Click on the user whose permissions you want to change.

  3. Navigate to the Permissions tab on their profile.

What permissions can be configured?

Permissions are organized by resource. For each resource, you can grant or revoke these actions:

  • Create — add new records

  • Read — view existing records

  • Update — edit existing records

  • Delete — remove records

  • Manage — full control over the resource

  • Access Disabled — explicitly block access to the resource

  • Confirm — confirm timesheets and overtime (timesheets only)

  • Finalize — lock timesheet periods (timesheets only)

Available permission resources

You can configure access to the following resources:

  • Time tracking - can register time

  • Billing - can set limit

  • General - can manage employees, request files

  • Schedule - view and manage schedule, manage comments

  • Reports - generate reports

  • Timesheets — view and manage time entries, confirm overtime-specific timesheet actions, manage comments on timesheet entries

  • Devices — physical time registration devices

  • Identifiers — fingerprints, RFID cards, faceprints

  • Job Units — units of work within jobs

  • Jobs — individual jobs

  • Job Types — job type classifications

  • Materials — materials tracking

  • Organizations — company structure (locations and departments)

  • Objects — work sites and locations

  • Object Wages — wage settings per object

  • Object Gallery — photos and media for objects

  • Object Phones — phone numbers associated with objects

  • Customer Holidays — company-specific holidays

  • Compliance — compliance rules and settings

  • Integrations — third-party integrations

  • Advanced Reports — report generation and configuration

Important notes

  • Admins always have full access — permissions only apply to Managers and Employees.

  • Managers automatically see data for employees in their department. Permissions control what they can do with that data.

  • If a manager has no departments assigned under user rights, they can see all employees by default.

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