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title: E-commerce department managers
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k81/e-commerce-features/store-security/e-commerce-permissions.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k81/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/departments.md
---

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> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Here you can learn how to assign your department managers to [departments](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/departments.md) containing [products](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md) for which they are responsible. This prevents the department managers from accidentally modifying other products.

To allow a [user](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/managing-users.md), i.e., your department manager, to manage products in given departments, you need to:

1. Assign the [roles](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/managing-users/role-management.md) whose member the given user is appropriate E-commerce Solution permissions. Specifically, you need to assign the **Read** and **Modify** permissions for products OR data (the user is thus able to access and manage products). If you have not assigned these permissions yet and need further advice, see [E-commerce permissions](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/e-commerce-features/store-security/e-commerce-permissions.md).
2. Assign the user to departments whose products they should manage OR assign the roles whose member the given user is the **Access all departments** permission.

   > **Note:** If you need to allow certain department managers to access products from all departments regardless of the departments to which they are assigned, set the **Access all departments** permission for roles whose members these department managers are.