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You can restrict access to clients There may be clients in your database whose details and jobs you want wish to keep confidential . Only administrators and the selected staff members will be able to view or edit their details.

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Example: Say you want to restrict a few clients to just one or two staff members for privacy purposes. You can select which staff members are allowed to access those clients. Nobody else will see the restricted clients in their Contact list, and won't have access to their portals or documents.

System requirements

and give access to only certain staff in your practice.

As an MYOB Practice Administrator, you can restrict other staff from seeing certain clients in MYOB Practice.

Add or remove client restrictions

The way you restrict user access to clients depends on which software you use.

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you use MYOB AE

You can set up client restrictions if:

Prerequisites:

How to set up restrictions:

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MYOB Practice Administrators can access all clients.

If you use MYOB Practice and are	Set up restrictions:
not an MYOB AE user	Set up in MYOB Practice (see below for instructions).
an MYOB AE user	Make sure Cont acts Migration is activated. Set up Team Security in

your

MYOB AE

software

. Those security settings will apply to your clients and staff in MYOB Practice.

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If your practice

have more than one MYOB

has multiple AE/AO

database? If you restrict a client, they will be restricted in whichever database they have

databases, the client restrictions apply in the database that the client's been added to in your practice.

you use

an MYOB AO (NZ)

You've activated Contacts Migration

user	Make sure Cont acts Migration is activated. Set up Team Security in

your

MYOB AO

software

. Those security settings will apply to your clients and staff in MYOB Practice.

you're an MYOB Partner

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You can set up client restrictions in MYOB Practice (see below for instructions).

What can be restricted?

While staff who are Administrators will always have access to all clients, they can restrict what staff members with the General role can see and do.

Here's a list of what a General staff member will be unable to access for restricted clients.

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Choose which client you want to make a restricted client, and then choose which users you want to be able to access the restricted clients.

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title	To add or remove client restrictions

Log in to MYOB Practice as an Administrator.
Click All clients on the client sidebar, and click Contacts in the top menu.
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In the list, find the client you want to restrict access to, and click anywhere in their row except for on their name link. The detailed view panel appears on the right of the page.
Click the ellipsis in the detailed view panel and click Manage access.
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You can also access these options from the client workspace. Click Image Added in the Details pane.
Choose who should have access to the client’s details:
- All staff: No restrictions will be applied. All staff in the practice who are MYOB Practice users will be able to view the client’s details.
- Specific staff: All administrators plus any users you add in the Manage access window will have exclusive access to the client’s details.
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To give a non-administrator access to the client, click Add Staff.
You can search for a staff member, or select them from the list. Administrators aren’t listed because they can always access all clients, whether restricted or not.
To remove someone’s access, click the x next to their name.
Click Save.

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If a client is currently unrestricted, follow the To add or remove client restrictions procedure above instead.

Log in to MYOB Practice as an Administrator, click Settings (Image Added) on the left of the page and click Staff.
From the list of staff members that appears, select a staff member and click Manage access.
In the Manage access window, add-down list.
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The list only includes clients who’ve already been restricted to administrators and specific staff.
To remove this staff member's existing access to a restricted client, click the x next to the client’s name.
Click Save.

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When you add a user, you can also select the restricted clients they should have access to.

What happens when a client is restricted?

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MYOB Practice Administrators can access all clients.

An MYOB Practice user (who's not an Administrator) can be restricted from viewing certain clients and other features that are related to that client.

Here's a summary of how different activities in MYOB Practice are restricted for users who don't have access to a restricted client.

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staff member

user is restricted from accessing a client, they...
Advisory	can't create advisory reports for the client's linked AccountRight or MYOB Essentials file
Documents	can't publish or view documents that have been sent to the client’s portal, or have been uploaded from the client's portal.

Personal information

Personal
information

can't view the client's contact details, such as phone numbers and addresses, their date of birth and tax information.

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Restricted clients will show with a padlock icon in the Client list for all administrators, and for staff who do have access to them.

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Portal	can't create a portal for the client, or add them to an existing portal. can't view or edit a portal that the client is part of, even if the portal is shared with clients that the staff member does have access to. can't be selected as the default "Send as" or "Notify" user for the client's portal.
Tasks	can't create or view tasks for the restricted client, or for any other client they share their portal with.

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For example, if you want to create a coding report for a client you do have access to, but they share a portal with a client you don't have access to, you can't create coding report tasks for either of these clients.
can't be selected as the "Send as" or "Notify" user for a task that relates to the client, or any client in the same portal.

Tax (Australia)

Compliance

can't view, prepare or lodge tax forms or activity statements

and tax forms

(AU) for the client.

Transaction processing

Transaction
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can't view the client's MYOB Essentials or AccountRight file on the Transaction processing page if it has been linked to the client record.

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Why doesn’t the Transaction processing page show the files I created?
If you’ve recently created a file, perhaps someone has restricted your access to the client. The Transaction processing page only shows files linked to clients you have access to. If your access has been removed, you can get access again by contacting an administrator in your practice. Another reason you might not see the client’s file on the Transaction processing page is if your user account or advisor account has been removed from within the client’s file. Learn about getting and removing access to a file.

How to add or remove client restrictions

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You can add or remove client restrictions using the Team Security features in your MYOB AE/AO desktop software.

Those security settings will be applied automatically in MYOB Practice.

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If you're an MYOB Practice administrator, follow these steps to set up restrictions for a client, or to change a specific staff member's access to clients who are currently restricted.

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Click All clients in the sidebar, and then click Contacts in the top menu.

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From the contact list that appears, select the client you want to restrict access to.

Click Manage access.

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Choose who should have access to the client’s details:

All staff: No restrictions will be applied. All staff in the practice will be able to view the client’s details.

Specific staff: All administrators plus anyone you add in the Manage access window will have exclusive access to the client’s details.

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To give a non-administrator access to the client, click Add Staff.
You can search for a staff member, or select them from the list. Administrators aren’t listed because they can always access all clients, whether restricted or not.

To remove someone’s access, click the x next to their name.

Click Save.

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If a client is currently unrestricted, follow the “To add or remove client restrictions” procedure above instead.

Click Settings in the sidebar.

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Click Staff in the settings menu.

From the list of staff members that appears, select a staff member that has the General role.

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Click Manage access.

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In the Manage access window, add the restricted clients you want to give the staff member access to by selecting them from the drop-down list.

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The list only includes clients who’ve already been restricted to administrators and specific staff.

To remove this staff member's existing access to a restricted client, click the x next to the client’s name.

Click Save.

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When you add a staff member you can also select the restricted clients they should have access to.

More role restriction options

Australia – Roles and permissions
New Zealand – Roles and permissions
New Zealand – Tax access Management
Australia and New Zealand – Requesting access to a client file

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