> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.sable.salon/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Roles and permissions

> Who can see what in your salon, from the front desk to the books.

Permissions answer one question over and over: should this person see
this? Sable answers it with roles, so a stylist sees their column and
their clients, and the money stays where it belongs.

## The roles

| Role                       | What they see and do                                                                                             |
| -------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Owner**                  | Everything: money, settings, team, the works.                                                                    |
| **Admin**                  | Runs the salon day to day: calendar, clients, team management, without owning the business's financial controls. |
| **Stylist**                | Their own calendar, their clients, their earnings. Not the salon's finances or settings.                         |
| **Stylist (booth renter)** | A stylist who runs their own book inside your space, with rent tracked separately.                               |
| **Front desk**             | Books, checks in, and checks out on behalf of everyone, without access to business financials.                   |

Roles live on the **Staff** tab of **Team**, where each person's role,
booth-renter status, time mode, and commission arrangement are visible in
one roster.

## Custom roles

When the built-ins don't match how your salon divides responsibility (a
senior stylist who also manages inventory, a bookkeeper who needs reports
and nothing else), custom roles let you shape access to fit. Each custom
role appears in the roster like any other.

## Rules of thumb

* **Give the least that works.** It's easier to grant more later than to
  claw back access someone's gotten used to.
* **Booth renters are marked as booth renters.** The flag isn't cosmetic:
  rent tracking, their own book, and their earnings boundaries all hang
  off it.
* **The role is the boundary, not trust.** Everyone's trustworthy until
  the day the phone gets stolen; roles keep a bad day small.

## What this connects to

* Commission arrangements and time modes per person:
  [Commissions, time, rent, and payroll](/guides/team/commissions-time-rent-and-payroll)
* What clients see never depends on roles: your
  [booking page](/getting-started/publish-online-booking) shows services
  and times, not your org chart.

## Related

* [Set up Sable for a salon team](/getting-started/salon-team-setup)
* [Commissions, time, rent, and payroll](/guides/team/commissions-time-rent-and-payroll)

**Still stuck?** Visit the [Help Center](/help) to submit a support ticket.