Welcome to AlignBooks. We are happy to have you on board. In this help studio tutorial, we will explore the “Manage User” set up options.
Before we begin, let us understand about the need of Manage User Utility and the usage of this particular activity.
Manage User
If more than one person is working on maintaining the records of the company and creating various documents or you want to add user to help you to see the reports and other data, the multiple users can be added and all such users can log in the AlignBooks at a time by using their User ID and password.
AlignBooks will keep the log of individual user’s activities so that it could be tracked “who has done what”. This log book can help you to assess user performance and to make the user accountable.
Here, you may have a concern that if all users will have access to all data of the company, the trade secrecy, data accuracy or operational efficiency may be compromised. To overcome this situation, AlignBooks provide the feature to define the rights of accessibility of a user. You can create a user with limited rights and limited access to various modules of AlignBooks i.e. you can define as what a particular “User” can do and what he/she can’t do.
When you register yourself with AlignBooks, by default you are registered as one User of the company with rights of an Administrator. Now you can create more users as per your requirement.
It is an inbuilt facility with your subscription license that you can create and register total Maximum Users (Including Administrator) (Product) under one company. If you want to add more than 5 users, you have to buy additional subscription for addition user.
This “Manage User” utility will assist you in
· Creating a new user and defining right of accessibility and functionality
· Edit / Modify the user rights for users created earlier.
If you are on home page, you need to click on
Icon titled as “Configuration”. You will get many options available under Configuration Menu. Click on
to select this option. The Screen appears will look like;
Let us explore how you create a new user;
You can see the
option at top right corner of the screen. Click on this option and you will be directed to the relevant user creation screen.
First you will need to enter the Basic Information of a new user and create a Login ID and password for the new user. Let us input the data of new user;
 Name
Select a gender title of the user.
Enter first name of the user.
Enter last Name of the User.
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 Login ID
Enter a login Id to be used by this user to Login in AlignBooks. Kindly note that the User ID should be a unique one. For the ease of remember, you can use his/her email ID or Mobile No. as User ID.
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 Password
Give minimum 8 Digit password (with 1 upper, 1 numeric, and 1 special character) to be used by this user for first Login. The user will be at liberty to change the password after first login.
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 Confirm Password
Re-enter the password to Confirm.
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 Email ID
Enter a valid Email ID of the user. To validate the user, AlignBooks will send a registration link on the given Email ID.
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 Mobile
Enter mobile number of the user.
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 Inactive
If you want to make a User Inactive for the time being i.e. you want to restrict his/her access to AlignBooks, keep this option “ON”.
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 OTP required to Login
If you want to secure your login with OTP (One Time Password) on your Mobile number in Alignbooks, keep this option “ON”  . If enabled each time you login into Alignbooks, you will receive an OTP when validated then you are allowed to login to Alignbooks.
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 Allowed Company
If you are maintaining multiple company on AlignBooks all the companies so maintained would be reflected and you can Select the Companies in which the user is given access right. Click on to Select/Unselect a Company.
The user will be given same rights in all the selected companies.
If you want to give different access rights in different Companies, you can go to Edit user and select a different company with different Rights.
If you want to remove all access rights in any Company, you can go to Edit user and select that company and uncheck his all rights.
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 Default Company
All the companies selected in allowed companies would be reflected and you can Select the Company in which the user will login by default.
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 Access Type
Select Alignbooks from the drop down list.
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Click on
to Define the user rights. the screen will look like this;
Here you will find three types of user rights i.e. Administrator, Reports only and Custom.
· Administrator -> Administrator will have full rights related to all modules. Few activities can be performed by Admin only like New Company creation, Buy and Apply Subscription, Company Configuration, Lock Period, Holiday Setup, Warehouse and Location Creation etc.
· Reports only -> This type of user will be able to access reports only and will not be in position to perform any other task like any transaction or master creation, Configuration Etc.
· Custom -> If you select this option, the options will be followed in next screen and you can provide specific rights to this type of users.
Click on
to select the right to be given to the user.
Click on
to go back to previous page.
Click on
to go to next page.
If you have selected user type as “Administrator” or "Reports Only" the system will move to completion screen.
If you have selected user type as “Custom” the system will prompt to define user rights.
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On this page you can select module wise user rights for AlignBooks Modules in terms of viewing dashboards, performing transactions i.e. data entry / editing and Viewing reports etc.
Against each module three types of rights are available
1. Dash Board
2. Transactions
3. Reports
Click in the Check Boxes against respective Item Columns to select/unselect the right. (Tick the check box
to Allow, Keep the checkbox Blank to Disallow).
Click on
to go back to previous page.
Click on
to go to next page.
In this screen you can further allow or restrict the Transaction action rights of a user.
Click in the Check Boxes against respective Item Column to select/unselect the right. (Tick the checkbox
to Allow, Keep the checkbox Blank to Disallow).
Click on
to go back to previous page.
Click on
to go to next page.
In this screen you can further allow or restrict the Report action rights of a user.
Click in the Check Boxes against respective Item Column to select/unselect the right. (Tick the checkbox
to Allow, Keep the checkbox Blank to Disallow).
Click on
to go back to previous page.
Click on
to go to next page.
In this screen you can allow/restrict some special task rights of the user like creating a new company, Back Date data entry etc.
Please go through the details given with the specific right and select/unselect to permit/not permit the User with that category of rights. (Tick the checkbox
to Allow, Keep the checkbox Blank to Disallow).
Click on
to go back to previous page.
Click on
to go to next page.
You have completed new user configuration.
Click on
to Save the New User. Once you click on Save, AlignBooks will send a Registration link at Email provided by you for this user. Once he/she click on Registration link send on Email, he will be allowed to have access and can login to AlignBooks.
Now, you are back on Manage User main screen.
Invite User : Click on
to invite a Guest user. The Screen appears will look like;
Email : Specify the Email ID of the guest user who is already registered with Alignbooks.
Click here
to send the invite.
AlignBooks provide you with the facility to invite your Auditors as a Guest User to view and audit your data sitting at remote location. However, your Auditor must be in the registered user list of the AlignBooks. Any Chartered Accountant/Certified Financial Professional can register with AlignBooks absolutely free of cost.
Registration of a CA/ICWA/CS/CPA is free and to add him as Guest User you need not to pay any subscription and Guest Users will also not be counted in permissible number of 5 Users.
For Chartered Accountant and other Financial Professionals, AlignBooks is providing a special platform to view his/her client’s data from his/her own login ID provided the client has added him/her as Guest User. When a CA will login from his/her own Login ID, a list of all companies who has invited him/her as Guest User will appear on his Dash Board and from there itself he/she can select a Company and will be able to access data as per rights given by that Company.
Invite Party to Join CVSS : Click on
to invite a Guest user to Alignbooks Customer / Vendor Self Service Portal.
Alignbooks Customers can provide login ID to their Customers / Vendors to login as a "Guest User" to their own data in Alignbooks. Guest User can Create New Order, view own Ledger Account details / Pending Order list and Outstanding Details..
When you click on
the screen appear look like this;
CV Type:
Select the relevant option from the drop down list and click on
button.
If you select Customer then list of all customer will fill in the table and if select Vendor then list of all vendor will fill in the table.
If you want to send invite to selected Customer / Vendor, Click on
button against each individual Customer / Vendor.
If you want to send Invite to all the Customer / Vendor, Click on
button on Header row to enable all checkbox in one go.
Invite : Click on
to send the invitation EMail with login credentials : User Name and Password and your Company Code to selected Customer / Vendor to login in to Alignbooks CVSS Portal.
Search : Type a text to search a particular record.
We are now back to the main screen for the Manage User Master.
Edit/Modify Rights of existing user :
In the main screen of Manage User, you can see a list of users created so far along with option to “Edit” against each Location.
Click on
to edit the basic information or access Rights of a user for any company and follow the similar process as defined in “New User”.
Export : Click on
to Export the data as visible in the list to an Excel Sheet.
Search : Type a text to search a particular record.
Group : If you want to Group your display on any particular field, hold that field and drag a little up outside the Grid, your display will be grouped on that field. To remove the groupings drag the field back into the Grid column.
Sort : If you want to sort data on a particular field, click on the label of that field, your data will be sorted on that field. You can reverse the order of sorting by just Double click on the label of that particular field.
Click on
to Exit from the Manage User utility.
We hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Please give us a call for further help. Happy Aligning!