Account

Team

Invite staff, pick what each person can do, and assign them to locations. You can give a shift manager exactly what they need without opening up billing or team management.

#The team list

The main view lists everyone with access to your business, with columns for name, email, and role. Each row has actions to edit a user, remove them, or reset their password.

#Inviting a user

The Invite user button opens a popup where you enter the person's email and pick a role. They get an invite email. Once they accept, they appear on the list.

#Roles and permissions

Aloo has three roles: Owner, Manager, and Staff. Each has a default set of permissions.

Who can edit whose permissions follows two simple rules:

  • You can only change permissions for roles below your own. Owners can edit Managers and Staff. Managers can edit Staff. Staff can't edit anyone.
  • You can only grant permissions you already have. A Manager without billing access can't hand billing access to someone else.

For the full permission matrix and every default, see Roles & permissions.

#Per-location assignments

For businesses with multiple locations, each staff member can have different roles at different branches. A host at one location might be a shift manager at another. Aloo stores these assignments per location so the dashboard each person sees matches the access they have.

#WhatsApp integration

Next to each team member is a WhatsApp eligible checkbox. When ticked, that person receives two kinds of WhatsApp messages from Aloo:

  • Staff Assist questions. When the AI gets stuck on a call, it sends the caller's question to eligible staff on WhatsApp. Reply with the answer and Aloo uses it to continue the call.
  • New order notifications. A WhatsApp message every time a new order comes in.

How shift start and stop works

Eligible staff only receive notifications while they’re on shift. Aloo sends each person a WhatsApp message during the day. Reply with one of two commands:

Reply START when your shift begins
Reply STOP when your shift ends

While you’re started, Staff Assist questions and new order notifications come through. After you send STOP, nothing more is sent until you send START again the next day.

Only checked team members get WhatsApp messages at all. Unchecking the box removes someone from the rotation.