About Roles

What is a Role?

Roles define what a user can do in the IRIS Cascade, i.e. which menu options will be available to them in the left-hand menu along with the information for the Payroll Companies and Frequencies they have access to. For example, you may want the Payroll Manager to have access to all Payroll companies, but you may not want the payroll administrator to have access to all companies.

When creating roles, it is important to note that you can assign more than one role to a user.  For example, a user could be a member of various roles: Payroll Administrator, Payroll Clerk. You therefore don’t need to put every menu option a user might want into every role: for example, if you want a user to have different access to different companies, you could create a role called the company name which would only allow access to that payroll company. By adding that role to a user, those options would be made available to them in addition to all the existing menu options defined in their other roles.