What are WooCommerce user roles?
WooCommerce adds a Customer and Shop Manager role to your WordPress site. In addition, the following capabilities are included:
manage_woocommerce
for WooCommerce settingsview_woocommerce_reports
Customers
When a user registers for a new account via checkout or signing-up, they will be assigned the role of Customer and are able to do the following:
- Like a blog subscriber, they will be granted read access for most functions.
- View and edit their personal account information.
- View their order history.
Shop Manager
When granted Shop Manager access, a user will be able to login into the WordPress dashboard but they will not have all the capabilities that an Admin does. Mainly, they will have the following user permissions:
manage_woocommerce
- allows the Shop Manager to create and edit products and manage WooCommerce settings.view_woocommerce_reports
- grants the Shop Manager access to view WooCommerce reports.
More info
- Check out the WooCommerce Getting Started Guide.