Restricting Sales to see their own customers only

Restricted Sales User - Seeing Their Clients Only

(IQ Super User)

Many companies want to isolate a specific sales person to see only their own customers for multiple reasons.  IQ allows you to do this within the User Settings. 

Restricting the Sales Users's Position

First, you might want to consider restricting the user's position.
Open the users's account and scroll down to the ROLES/PERMISSIONS
Base Sales Limited is defined in the "positions" as follows:


Edit Positions see the article on Position Configuration 

Restricting the Sales Users's View of Customers

In order to restrict the user's view of customers it is necessary to assign them to a specific customer:

Restricting to the First Customer:

Scroll down to the OTHER DETAILS
Choose a specific CUSTOMER and the correct FACTORY LOCATION

Adding Additional Customers

You will then need to add the additional customers assigned to them
Click on the ALTERNATE VIEWABLE CUSTOMER, select and add them

Allowing the user to see multiple customers

Make sure you clear the DEFAULT customer so that they can see all customers in the list. 


The Result

With the settings above applied the user will only be able to see their own customer's quotes:
 
Also, they will only be able to see their own customer's jobs:


Idea
If you want to see which menus the sales rep can see - see this article on menus. 


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