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How to grant permissions and rights

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

Written by Merilin Peetris
Updated today

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:

  • Timesheets — view and manage time entries

  • Timesheets: Overtime — overtime-specific timesheet actions

  • Timesheets: Comments — comments on timesheet entries

  • 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

  • Job Types — job type classifications

  • Jobs — individual jobs

  • Job Units — units of work within jobs

  • Materials — materials tracking

  • Devices — physical time registration devices

  • Identifiers — fingerprints, RFID cards, faceprints

  • Integrations — third-party integrations

  • Organizations — company structure (locations and departments)

  • Customer Holidays — company-specific holidays

  • Compliance — compliance rules and settings

  • Day Comments — daily notes and comments

  • Advanced Reports — report generation and configuration

  • Request Files — files attached to employee requests

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, they can see all employees by default.

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