Control the access to orders, products, and stock management for each source and each user registered in your Magento admin with MSI Permissions for Magento 2.
Manage the access of Magento back-end users for each one of your sources.
Completely control the access to your backend product pages
Give the possibility to store managers to have access to the product page when it is linked to the source(s) they manage. Allow them to control the product quantities for these sources.
Improve the security of your order management
Let the store managers only handle specific orders: — orders assigned to the sources they manage, and/or orders not assigned yet.
Give them access to: — the shipments, the invoices, the credit memos for these orders.
Easily give admin users permissions to particular sources
Use the user-friendly grid to limit access to your sources and assign different permissions to each one of your store managers.
MSI Custom Attributes
Add any useful information in the sources assignation grid
Allow store managers to configure and manage additional fields at the level of the assignation of the products for the sources they are in charge of with MSI Custom Attributes.
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MSI Backorders
Manage backorders for each source
Give the possibility to store managers to control backorders quantities and dates for their sources with MSI Backorders.
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MSI Stock Management
Gain plenty of time managing your stocks
Assign permissions to users so that they can manage stocks directly from a grid for the sources they are in charge of, and have a quick view of the availability of the products from the stock tree view with MSI Stock Management.
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Content
Terminology
Sources Represent physical sites where the available products are stocked and shipped from. It can be warehouses, stores, wholesalers... See your sources from: Stores › Inventory › Sources
Source Item It is a source for a given product. Assign sources to your products from the Sources tab of any product page in: Catalog › Products
Stocks One stock can be linked to several websites and sources. See your stocks from: Stores › Inventory › STocks
Sales Channels Refers to a website. It can only be linked to one stock. See your websites from: Stores › Settings › ALL Stores
Salable Quantity It is the total virtual inventory that can be sold from a website. Check the salable quantity from: Catalog › Products
Reservations It is the number of products reserved and deducted from the salable quantity when customers add products to cart and pass their order. Check the quantities reserved from: Catalog › Products When an order is shipped, the quantity of reservations is reset and deducted from the quantities of the inventories of the appropriate sources.
Adopt the best way to manage your inventory with the MSI Suite
The MSI Suite includes several extensions. Each one responds to a problem and to a desire to improve Magento 2 default inventory management.
Thanks to these extensions that are completely plug and play, the MSI Suite easily adapts to your business model, whether you manage several warehouses, multi-stocks, dropshipping…
Perfect your inventory management and your selling process with the MSI Suite and enjoy:
optimal order management: optimize and automate the orders assignation to the appropriate sources. Save time and avoid human errors in your Magento 2 back office with MSI Order Management.
smoother and fine-tuned inventory management: gain considerable time while managing your inventory directly from the stocks grid and get a clear and accurate view of your products' availability thanks to the tree view with MSI Stock Managementand MSI Backorders.
team management under control: limit the access to your orders, products, and stock management for each source by assigning specific permissions to each user registered in your Magento 2 admin with MSI Permissions.
more transparent information on product availability: provide your customers with more information on your products' availability, carriers, or delivery times via completely customizable stock status messages with MSI Stock Status and MSI Custom Attributes.
How to use MSI Permissions for Magento 2
Since the release of Magento 2.3, many enhancements were added to the default Magento features and particularly to the inventory management.
MSI Permissions for Magento 2 allows you to manage permissions of the sources for each one of the users registered in your Magento admin.
The extension gives you the possibility to restrict access to the sources for store managers. Thanks to the MSI Permissions extension, you will be able to restrict the access to:
the product pages: admin users will be able to change the quantities for the products assigned to the sources they manage.
the orders: store managers will have access to the invoices, the shipments, and the credit memos of the orders assigned to the sources they are in charge of and/or orders not assigned to any source yet.
the sources: users will only be able to manage the sources they are linked with.
MSI Permissions is also compatible with other modules from the MSI Suite giving you endless possibilities for managing your sources.
Assign permissions
With MSI Permissions for Magento 2, you have the possibility to assign different rights to each admin user.
Note that the extension does not replace the general Magento permissions system but brings additional restrictions to it.
Combining both systems can help you to create any possible configuration.
You can easily assign permissions to users from: Stores › Inventory › Sources PermissionS
Permissions grid
Assign permissions to each store manager so that they can all manage the products, the stocks, the orders assigned to the source(s) they’re in charge of.
For that, tick the appropriate boxes for each admin user.
There are different columns:
All Store owners will be able to manage the products, stocks, and orders for all the sources.
View unassigned orders Store owners will be able to manage all the orders that haven’t been assigned to a source yet.
Sources Store owners will be able to manage the products, stocks, and orders for the selected source(s).
If Sarah Johnson logs into Magento 2 back-office, she'll only be able to have access and manage the products, the stocks, the orders assigned to the source(s) she manages: Great Lake Store
Permissions restrictions
The permissions assigned to the admin users will restrict access to:
the products
the orders: invoices, shipments, and credit memos
the sources
The grids will filter the products, the orders, and the sources according to the permissions of each user.
You can notify users about permission restrictions from: Stores › Settings › Configuration › Wyomind › MSi Permissions › Preference
If enabled, the below notification will be displayed in their Magento back-office.
Users will be notified about permission restrictions in:
the products grid and pages from: Catalog › Products
the orders grid and pages from: Sales › Operations › Orders
the sources pages from: Stores › Inventory › Sources
Products
Admin users will only be able to see and edit the products that are assigned to the source(s) they have permissions for, from: Catalog › Products
For these products, they'll be able to edit the below stock information for their sources only:
the source item status
the quantity
the low stock notification threshold
Orders
When orders are assigned to specific sources, the admin users managing these sources will have access to the order pages as well as to:
the invoices
the shipments
the credit memos
Invoices
Admin users will be able to create an invoice only if the order is assigned to the source they're managing.
Shipments
Admin users can send the shipments for an order if it is assigned to the source they're managing.
Credit memos
Admin users can also create credit memos for an order if it is assigned to the source they're managing.
Sources
The sources pages will also be restricted from: Stores › Inventory › Sources
When assigning permissions to specific sources to admin users, they will only be able to see and edit the sources they manage.
Use MSI Permissions with the extensions of the MSI Suite
The MSI Suite is a package including all necessary extensions to completely improve and enhance the Magento 2 inventory and multi-stock inventory.
With MSI Permissions, the Suite includes 5 other extensions:
MSI Stock Status Display customized and elaborate stock status messages to better inform your customers about the availability of your products.
MSI Custom attributes Brighten up the assignation of your products to the sources with any kind of custom fields.
MSI Backorders Easily switch from a global backorders management to management at the level of your sources and arrange backorders dates and quantities.
MSI Stock Management Manage all your stocks inventory directly from the stock grid and get a clear and accurate view of your products' availability thanks to the tree view.
MSI Orders Management (coming soon)
The MSI Permissions extension can be used in combination with the below extensions of the MSI Suite.
MSI Permissions with MSI Custom attributes
You could use MSI Permissions with MSI Custom attributes in order to configure and manage additional fields at the level of the assignation of the products to the sources for which store managers are responsible.
The MSI Custom Attributes extension will add as many new attributes as you want in the source assignations grid from the back-end product page. For example:
Text Field Example
Number Field Example
Date Field Example
Yes/No Example
Dropdown Example
MSI Permissions with MSI Backorders
Using MSI Permissions with MSI Backorders would allow you to manage backorders for the sources for which store managers are responsible.
The MSI Backorders extension adds 3 new columns in the source assignations grid from the back-end product page:
Backorders
Backorders Date
Backordered Qty
MSI Permissions with MSI Stock Management
Find a more efficient way to update your stocks using MSI Permissions with MSI Stock Management.
Help your admin users saving precious time while managing stocks for their sources directly from a user-friendly grid in: Catalog › Stock
You can also add the tree view in this grid for each admin user, giving them all the useful information to understand the management of their stocks.
Easily enable the stock tree view for each user from: Stores › Inventory › Sources PermissionS
If permissions are granted to the admin users, they'll be able to check the quantity per website for each source from the stocks grid in: Catalog › Stock
FAQ
Pre-sales informations
Magento versions supported by MSI Permissions
This extension works with Magento Community Edition and also Magento Enterprise Edition. To know if MSI Permissions is compatible with your Magento version, please check the Compatibility tab.
Advanced Inventory vs MSI Suite
Find in the below comparison table, the differences between the Advanced Inventory extension and the MSI Suite.
Advanced Inventory
MSI Suite
Magento versions
<v2.3, >= v2.3 (MSI disabled)
>= v2.3
Stock management by storeview
Manage product availability at the storeview level
(default is by website)
Backorders management
Backorders at warehouse/store/source level
Additional fields (back-ordered qty and backorder date)
Stocks display
Stock grid display on the product page
Stock status message on the product page
Stock status message in the cart
Stock status message in the checkout
Stock status message in the order confirmation email
Fully customizable messages
Widget integration
Additional custom fields in the product/source management
Text field
Date field
Number field
Dropdown field
Yes/No field
Stock management improvements
Grid view management
(qty only)
(all inventory fields, can be limited to a selection of fields)
Tree view summary in the product grid
Order management improvements
Automatic assignation
Shipping address-based assignation rule
Warehouse fallback assignation rule
Sources minimizer algorithm
Permissions management for admin users
Order level
Inventory level
Source level
Product level
Magento Open Source vs Magento Commerce vs Magento Commerce Cloud
Magento offers three variations of its product.
As their names have changed over the past few years, here is a recap:
Magento Open Source: previously Magento Community Edition (CE), is a free and non-hosted e-commerce platform.
Magento Commerce: previously Magento Enterprise (EE), is the paid version of Magento and offers support services.
Magento Commerce Cloud: is the paid version of Magento and offers support and hosting services.
What Magento Multi Source Inventory is
Since version 2.3, Magento includes new and expanded features for Inventory Management. These new features help to manage product quantities, source locations, configurations, and shipments.
Among Inventory Management features, you will find:
Different configurations for single and multiple sources management
Stocks for tracking available aggregated quantities through assigned sources
Shipment matching algorithms: Magento provides 2 algorithms based on the source priority and the distance priority that recommends how to fulfill partial and full shipments.
Magento Inventory Management introduces new terminology:
Sources Represent physical sites where the available products are stocked and shipped from. It can be warehouses, stores, wholesalers...
Source Item It is a source for a given product.
Stocks One stock can be linked to several websites and sources.
Sales Channels Refers to a website. It can only be linked to one stock.
Salable Quantity It is the total virtual inventory that can be sold from a website.
Reservations It is the number of products reserved and deducted from the salable quantity when customers add products to cart and pass their order. When an order is shipped, the quantity of reservations is reset and deducted from the quantities of the inventories of the appropriate sources.
License and domains
License validity
A license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one single installation
If you're using more than one installation, you will have to buy a separate license for each instance.
if you're running several domains on a same installation, you will need only one license for all of them.
Although your license doesn’t have a limited period of validity, your Support & Upgrade period does. By purchasing a module, you’ll be granted a 12-month support period for free. Passed this period, you will have to pay for a new one (see FAQ: Extend your Support period)
Domains pre-registration
You can pre-register your live domain to your license in advance.
Thanks to this option, you'll be able to get the module ready to use on your domain before it goes live.
To pre-register your production domain:
Go to: mY account › Licenses & DOwnloads
Click on the Settings icon next to the module you want your domain to pre-register on.
Click on the link at the bottom of the page saying: Do you want to pre-register your domain in order to be ready to go live?
Finally, enter your domain name and click on pre-register now .
Testing environments
One license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one installation only. However, it is possible to extend or transfer your license in 2 cases:
If you would like to add your testing environments to your license. In that case, it is possible to extend your license to an unlimited number of domains for free. For mywebsite-staging.com or mywebsite-dev.com
If you want to transfer your license to another live domain. In that case, the Support & Upgrade period for your license must still be active.
To be able to use MSI Permissions on both your production and testing environments, follow the instructions below:
Install MSI Permissions on your environment. (see FAQ: Modules installation in Magento or in WooCommerce)
Activate the license. (see FAQ: Licenses activation in Magento or in WooCommerce)
Also, if you are managing a large amount of domains, please contact us so that we can automatically whitelist these domains.
Modules versioning and download
Extensions download
In order to download MSI Permissions, log into your Wyomind account:
Go to: my account › Licenses & downloads
Click on the settings icon next to MSI Permissions.
A new window opens.
Click on the download icon.
Only the latest extension version released within your Support & Upgrade period is available. In order to get the very latest extension version make sure your Support & Upgrade plan is up to date.
Modules upgrade
When purchasing a module from wyomind.com, you benefit from 12 months of upgrade. Within this period you can at any time download the latest version of the module directly from your account.
To upgrade MSI Permissions, follow the steps below:
Go to: my account › Licenses & Downloads
Click on the settings icon next to MSI Permissions.
Click on the download icon.
Install the new version of MSI Permissions in your Magento admin or your WooCommerce back-office.
Modules Installation/Uninstallation
Extensions manual installation
You can install MSI Permissions manually.
Download MSI Permissions (zip file) on: mY ACCOUNT › Licenses & Downloads Refer to the FAQ: Extensions download
Once MSI Permissions is downloaded, open the folder and unzip it.
Copy the content of the unzipped folder and paste all files and directories in your Magento 2 root directory.
In your Command Line Interface, execute:
bin/magento setup:upgrade
If you are using a production mode, execute also:
bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
bin/magento setup:di:compile
Extensions installation via Composer
You can install MSI Permissions using Composer software in two cases:
if you purchased MSI Permissions on Magento Marketplace.
if you purchased MSI Permissions on Wyomind.com AND requested access to our repository: repo.wyomind.com
Add to your composer configuration our repository:
Extensions activation from the back-office of Magento
Once MSI Permissions is installed, you have to activate the license. For previous versions, you can activate the license from your back-office:
Go to your Magento admin panel. A message pops up at the top of the page.
If the message doesn't appear then you must check that:
1. The Adminhtml_Notifications and Wyomind_Core modules are well enabled. 2. The HTML output of the Adminhtml_Notifications and Wyomind_Core modules are not disabled in: storesconfigurationadvanced advanced 3. The encryption key well exists in app/etc/env.php:
Copy your activation key in: Stores › Configuration › Wyomind › Your extension
You can find your activation key in 2 different places: - In the confirmation email that you received after purchasing MSI Permissions. - In your Wyomind account: My account › Licenses & downloads Select MSI Permissions and click on .
A new page opens where you'll find your activation key (see below).
In your Magento admin go to: Stores › Configuration › Wyomind › Your extension
Paste the activation key in the Activation Key field and choose between the automatic (yes) or the manual (no) activation method: - By choosing Yes, the connection to Wyomind license server will be automatic. - By choosing No, you will have to log on to Wyomind license server yourself.
Click on Save config .
A message appears at the top of your admin panel. Click on that link: Activate it now!
Copy and paste the license code in theLicense code field from your admin or simply click on Activate now!
Finally, refresh your cache, log out and log in back straight after, to complete the installation.
Add another domain to your license
To activate the license on another domain (test, staging...):
Once the extension is installed on the new domain, copy your activation key in: Stores › Configuration › Wyomind › Your extension
After having saved the configuration, a notification appears. Click on Add this domain to my license.
A transfer request will then be sent to our team within an hour. Once the request is taken care of, you will receive a confirmation email. If your transfer request is accepted, you can use MSI Permissions on both environments at the same time.
Note that the order in which you activate your license on your domains does not matter. You can start with your staging/dev/local environment or with your live domain, the process will be the same.
Also, if you have loads of staging domains, or if you are an agency managing load of domains for your customers, please contact us so that we can automatically whitelist these domains.
Extensions activation from the CLI
Once MSI Permissions is installed, you have to activate the license.
For this, you can use the below command line (change the Activation key with the corresponding value):