Roles and permissions

Who can see what in your salon, from the front desk to the books.

Permissions answer one question over and over: should this person see this? Sable answers it with roles, so a stylist sees their column and their clients, and the money stays where it belongs.

The roles

Role	What they see and do
Owner	Everything: money, settings, team, the works.
Admin	Runs the salon day to day: calendar, clients, team management, without owning the business’s financial controls.
Stylist	Their own calendar, their clients, their earnings. Not the salon’s finances or settings.
Stylist (booth renter)	A stylist who runs their own book inside your space, with rent tracked separately.
Front desk	Books, checks in, and checks out on behalf of everyone, without access to business financials.

Roles live on the Staff tab of Team, where each person’s role, booth-renter status, time mode, and commission arrangement are visible in one roster.

Invite your team

Bringing someone in takes under a minute, right from the Staff tab:

1. In Invite a teammate, enter their email address.
2. Pick their role. The list shows exactly the roles you’re able to grant, and handing out admin-level access stays with the owner.
3. Select Send invite.

They get an email with a secure link, choose their own password, and appear in your roster the moment they accept, with the role you chose already in place.

Every invite you send sits in Pending invites until it’s accepted, so you always know who has joined and who could use a nudge. Invites stay open for 7 days. Cancel one any time from its row; the old link stops working immediately. If an invite expires, cancel it and send a fresh one to the same address.

Custom roles

When the built-ins don’t match how your salon divides responsibility (a senior stylist who also manages inventory, a bookkeeper who needs reports and nothing else), custom roles let you shape access to fit. Each custom role appears in the roster like any other.

Rules of thumb

• Give the least that works. It’s easier to grant more later than to claw back access someone’s gotten used to.
• Booth renters are marked as booth renters. The flag isn’t cosmetic: rent tracking, their own book, and their earnings boundaries all hang off it.
• The role is the boundary, not trust. Everyone’s trustworthy until the day the phone gets stolen; roles keep a bad day small.

What this connects to

• Commission arrangements and time modes per person: Commissions, time, rent, and payroll
• What clients see never depends on roles: your booking page shows services and times, not your org chart.

Related

• Set up Sable for a salon team
• Commissions, time, rent, and payroll

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