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ray22901031  
#1 Posted : Friday, October 2, 2020 1:04:20 AM(UTC)
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Are there any plans to revisit the admin security section of Ablecommerce. My understanding is that this hasn't been enhanced in quite a long time. In fact it's rather weak compared to even the basic of what other shopping carts can offer.

The admin groups which are provided today are pretty much useless, and the edit button only provides the ability to change names. It would be nice if there was a detail checklist of what admin's can do and not do.

Examples:

Can edit products?
Can export products?
Can view products?
Can delete products?

I think you guys know that this particular portion of the shopping cart lacks options and is way behind the times.

Many thanks for your consideration, I do believe this will benefit a tremendous amount of people that are interested in website security.

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ray22901031  
#2 Posted : Thursday, October 29, 2020 12:17:28 AM(UTC)
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Would love to hear a response from tech support to see if an upgrade to the built-in admin security is in the works anytime soon, many thanks.
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#3 Posted : Thursday, October 29, 2020 12:59:36 PM(UTC)
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Hello Ray,

Here is a direct link to the Merchant Guide which has a breakdown of the admin groups and page accessibility.

http://help.ablecommerce.../Admins/Admin_Groups.htm

If you have something specific you would like to see improved, then by all means make your suggestions. We generally like to have a more direct feature request, if you don't mind. About 99% of our development work revolves around requests by customers and bug reports. It's rare that we would change something that we thought was working fine. But still, I'm interested to know what we can improve.

Thank you,

Katie
Thanks for your support!

Katie
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ray22901031  
#4 Posted : Thursday, October 29, 2020 1:04:24 PM(UTC)
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Hi Katie,

The admin groups are extremely weak, take for example I need to have an admin group that only has to deal with orders and customers, but not give my users the ability to export, delete or modify products.

Not only is the existing system weak it is also full of bugs which gives the user the ability to do something which has been restricted. This has to do because of the HTML breadcrumb trails which they can now use to get into other parts of the system with they are not supposed to be in.

I can assure you if you look at other carts, what ablecommerce offers is very weak, I know this hasn't been touched in a while, and if this is something that you're open to I can definitely provide extreme details, but only if you're open to it.

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#5 Posted : Thursday, October 29, 2020 1:48:28 PM(UTC)
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I opened up a new issue report so we can investigate the breadcrumbs and retest the admin groups with respect to the features that are accessible. Once we have identified any bugs, then we'll have them fixed in the next version.

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Katie
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ray22901031  
#6 Posted : Thursday, October 29, 2020 1:53:56 PM(UTC)
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I appreciate your response to this however it still does not solve the original issue. It looks like I'm going to have to hire a developer for this.

Just so you are aware how serious this is, why would you give anybody, except an owner, the ability to export orders, customers, or anything else, to be able to give it to a competitor if they are an upset employee.

What's even worse, they have the ability to modify and delete products, customers, and orders. This is not very good in the event your ever audited by either state or federal.

Again this is a very weak part of the system and I wish more serious attention was devoted to this particular area that hasn't been touched in years.

Many thanks for your input.
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