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# User Permissions Glossary
> A-to-Z glossary of every Alvys user permission with a plain-language definition of what each access right controls, ideal for setup and access audits.
This glossary provides a quick-reference entry for every user permission within Alvys. Use it to look up what any permission does, whether you are setting up a new user or auditing existing access.
## Overview
This glossary lists every permission available in Alvys in alphabetical order. Each entry shows the permission name and a plain-language description of what it controls. For step-by-step instructions on assigning permissions, see [How to Add a User in Alvys](/help/administration/how-to-add-and-manage-users-in-alvys). For a breakdown of which roles receive each permission by default, see [User Permissions Breakdown](/help/administration/user-roles-permissions-collection).
## A
**"Activate Carrier"**: Ensures that only authorized staff can change a carrier's status (for example, from inactive or pending to active) following onboarding and compliance review.
**"Activate Company"**: Controls whether a user can modify the activation status of non-customer company records, such as Shippers, Warehouses, and other non-customer entity types.
**"Activate Customer"**: Controls whether a user can modify a customer's status, such as activating, placing on hold, or deactivating Customer or Broker/3PL records.
**"Add Accessorials"**: Enables users to create, edit, and manage supplemental charges beyond the base freight rate, such as detention, lumper fees, fuel surcharges, layovers, or TONU.
**"Add User"**: Controls whether a user can create new user accounts in Alvys and assign their initial roles.
**"Apply Contracted Lanes On New Load"**: Enables users to auto-populate pre-negotiated rates during manual load creation by matching the customer and lane details to existing contract agreements.
**"Approve Payable Items"**: Controls the ability to perform write operations inside the Carrier Settlements workflow, including approving payable line items and trips, reversing approvals, and managing disputes.
## B
**"Bid on Marketplace Loads"**: Allows a user to submit a bid or counter-offer on a marketplace load, proposing an alternative rate to the shipper or broker.
**"Billing"**: Serves as the master financial access gate, determining access to financial and invoicing pages, customer payments, factoring records, and financial reports.
**"Book Marketplace Loads"**: Determines whether a user can book (accept) a load from marketplace sources at the listed rate in a single action.
## C
**"Calendar Past Dates"**: Controls whether a user can select past dates in the Add Stop dialog when building a load.
**"Cancel ECheck"**: Controls whether a user can cancel an existing electronic check issued against a load, provided the funds have not yet been cashed.
**"Create Carrier Statement"**: Controls generating carrier payment statements, marking statements as paid, and marking paid statements as unpaid.
**"Create Company"**: Controls whether a user can create new non-customer company records and import shippers into the system.
**"Create Customer"**: Controls whether a user can create new customer records and Broker/3PL records, as well as import customers.
## D
**"DAT User"**: Unlocks the ability to post loads, update rates, and delete postings on the DAT load board directly from the Alvys interface.
**"Delete Asset"**: Controls whether a user can permanently remove asset records (drivers, trucks, trailers) from the system.
**"Delete Carrier"**: Controls whether a user can permanently delete carrier records, including historical load, payment, and compliance data.
**"Delete Company"**: Allows a user to permanently remove a non-customer company record, such as Shippers or Warehouses, from the system.
**"Delete Contracted Lanes"**: Determines whether a user can remove lane rate contracts; deletion is blocked if any loads currently reference the contract.
**"Delete Customer"**: Allows a user to permanently remove a customer record from the system.
**"Delete Notes"**: Controls whether a user can delete notes that they personally created on load records.
**"Delete User"**: Controls whether a user can permanently delete other user accounts from the system.
**"Dispatch"**: Governs identification of an individual as a dispatcher for load assignment, visibility of the "My Trips" dashboard column, and the ability to edit stop leg mileage.
## E
**"EDI Share"**: Allows a user to share load visibility data, such as status updates and tracking information, externally with EDI trading partners.
**"Edit Asset"**: Controls whether a user can modify asset records, including drivers, trucks, and trailers, and manage related data.
**"Edit Carrier"**: Controls whether a user can modify carrier profile information, such as contact details, addresses, and insurance information.
**"Edit Carrier Rate"**: Authorizes users to adjust carrier compensation data within the Carrier Money Box or the Carrier Settlements module.
**"Edit Company"**: Allows a user to modify information on an existing company profile for types such as Shippers, Warehouses, and Terminals.
**"Edit Customer"**: Lets a user modify information on an existing broker or customer profile, including billing addresses and credit limits.
**"Edit Customer Rate"**: Governs the ability to modify financial data within the Customer Money Box, particularly concerning the Customer Linehaul and Fuel Surcharge.
**"Edit Driver Rates"**: Grants authority to modify pay rate configurations within driver profiles, including cents-per-mile, flat rates, and percentage-based structures.
**"Edit Invoice Customer As"**: Controls the dropdown on the Load Details page that designates a different company subsidiary as the billing entity for the customer-facing invoice.
**"Edit Miles"**: Allows a user to manually override automatically calculated mileage recorded on a load or within driver money boxes.
**"Edit Pay Plans"**: Governs the ability to create, modify, and delete driver pay plan templates.
**"Edit Paystubs"**: Governs the ability to modify the content of an existing driver paystub or delete and revert legacy driver pay statements.
**"Edit Tax ID/SSN"**: Controls whether a user can modify Tax Identification Numbers and Social Security Numbers stored on carrier and driver records.
**"Edit Trailer Number"**: Allows a driver to change the trailer number on their assigned load directly within the Alvys mobile app.
**"Edit Trip Value"**: Grants authority to modify the Trip Value fields for driver and owner-operator compensation, including adjustments to base pay and percentage calculations.
**"Edit Webhooks"**: Controls whether a user can create, update, delete, and manage webhook integrations within company subsidiary settings.
## F
**"Fuel Report"**: Governs access to the Fuel Report page, providing visibility into fuel expenditures by driver, vehicle, and location.
## G
**"Generate Invoice"**: Governs invoice-related actions, including generating, regenerating, and submitting invoices, and sending payment reminders.
## I
**"Issue ECheck"**: Governs whether a user can generate electronic checks against loads for carrier or driver road expenses.
## M
**"Manage Load Templates"**: Allows a user to create, edit, and delete load template libraries used for recurring lanes.
**"Modify E-Check Fee"**: Controls whether a user can adjust the e-check fee configuration for subsidiaries and individual driver profiles.
**"Move Comchek"**: Controls whether a user can transfer an existing electronic check from one load to another.
## O
**"Override Carrier Restriction"**: Allows a user to assign a carrier to a load trip even when that carrier's external compliance status is in a restricted state.
**"Override Invoice"**: Grants the ability to modify the Invoice Due Date and Date Invoiced fields on an already invoiced load.
**"Override Stop Status"**: Enables a user to modify a stop's status (for example, transitioning from Covered to Arrived) independently of the standard sequential workflow.
## P
**"Participate In Tender"**: Allows a user to access the Tender Board to view, accept, reject, and manage incoming EDI tenders from trading partners.
**"Pay Driver"**: Governs access to generating driver paystubs and provides visibility into deductions, escrow accounts, and fuel tabs within driver profiles.
**"Pay Owner Operator"**: Governs access to owner-operator payroll processing, specifically the ability to view, generate, and revert paystubs for owner-operators.
**"Post Loads to Marketplace"**: Controls whether a user can make company loads available on external marketplace load boards or remove them.
## R
**"Release Loads"**: Governs the authorization to advance a **Delivered** or **TONU** load into the **Released** status for billing, or reverse that transition.
**"Revert Carrier Statement"**: Controls the ability to undo a generated carrier payment statement and return items to the Drafts pool or Open status.
**"Rollback Transaction"**: Governs whether a user can revert factored loads that have been uploaded to an FTP for factoring or exported to accounting.
## S
**"Set Permission"**: Controls whether a user can modify the specific permissions assigned to other users from the user profile.
## T
**"Toll Report"**: Governs access to the Toll Report page, displaying toll transaction data by driver, vehicle, and route.
**"TruckStop User"**: Controls whether a user can interact with Truckstop-powered features, such as posting loads or updating rates on the Truckstop board.
## U
**"Unlock Loads"**: Allows a user to unlock any load that has been locked by another user to allow for operational continuity.
**"Update/Create Contracted Lanes"**: Enables a user to create new contracted lane rate agreements and modify existing ones on a customer or company profile.
## V
**"View Accidents"**: Enables a user to access the Accidents page within the Safety menu to observe detailed accident reports and related details.
**"View Alvys Rates History"**: Enables access to a market-level perspective of historical rates across all Alvys tenants for specific lanes.
**"View App Paystubs"**: Allows a driver to access and browse their historical pay stubs directly within the Alvys mobile app.
**"View Asset Safety Report"**: Governs access to the report tracking driver certifications, equipment inspections, and lease compliance dates.
**"View Carrier Rate"**: Governs the visibility of the Carrier Money Box on the Load Details page and carrier-related cost columns in the Load Board.
**"View Carrier Rate Confirmation"**: Allows a driver to open and read their own carrier rate confirmation document within the mobile app.
**"View Claims"**: Controls access to the Claims report page within the Safety menu to view insurance and cargo claim records.
**"View Contracted Lanes"**: Determines whether a user can access lane rate agreements on a customer or broker profile.
**"View Customer Rate"**: Governs whether a user can see customer revenue information on a load and associated columns in the Load Board.
**"View Customer Rate Confirmation"**: Allows a driver or carrier to view the customer rate confirmation document via the mobile app.
**"View Detailed Financial Report"**: Governs access to the Detailed Financial Report, providing granular line-item details for truck transactions.
**"View Driver Rates"**: Regulates access to sensitive compensation structures in driver profiles and load-level driver pay methodology.
**"View Driver YTD"**: Governs access to the report summarizing a driver's year-to-date earnings and settlement totals.
**"View Drivers"**: Controls whether a user can see the driver list and individual driver profiles in the Assets menu.
**"View Insights"**: Controls access to the AI-powered Insights chat interface, allowing users to query operational and financial TMS data using plain-English questions.
**"View Maintenance Amounts"**: Controls whether a user can see the dollar amounts and expense totals within the maintenance module.
**"View Maintenance Records & Totals"**: Determines whether users can access the maintenance module to view service records and asset maintenance totals.
**"View Marketplace Loads"**: Grants users the ability to search for and view available loads from the carrier-side marketplace.
**"View Pay Plans"**: Determines whether a user can access the read-only Pay Plans management page.
**"View Payable Amount"**: Allows a driver to see the specific net dollar amount they will be paid for a trip directly in the mobile app.
**"View Paystubs"**: Enables a user to view driver and owner-operator paystub records and settlement details on driver profiles.
**"View PII"**: Controls whether personally identifiable information fields are unmasked within Insights responses.
**"View Roadside Inspections"**: Allows a user to access roadside inspection records, including violations and results, within the Safety menu.
**"View Statement Items Report"**: Controls access to the granular line-item details (loads, charges, deductions) within driver statements.
**"View Statement List Report"**: Governs access to the audit trail of driver statements, showing period totals for mileage, revenue, and earnings.
**"View Summary Financial Report"**: Governs access to high-level financial reports showing revenue and expenses aggregated by asset.
**"View Tax ID/SSN"**: Controls whether a user can see Tax Identification Numbers or Social Security Numbers on carrier and driver records.
**"View Tenant Rates History"**: Gives a user access to the company's own historical rate data for specific lanes.
**"View Trailers"**: Allows a user to see the list of trailers and individual trailer records in the Assets section.
**"View Trip Value"**: Governs visibility of financial figures used for driver and owner-operator settlements on both web and mobile app interfaces.
**"View Trucks"**: Allows a user to see truck records, including equipment specs and maintenance status, in the Assets section.
**"Void Transaction"**: This permission is deprecated; enabling it will have no effect.
## Go Deeper
[How to Add a User in Alvys](/help/administration/how-to-add-and-manage-users-in-alvys): Step-by-step instructions for creating user accounts and assigning permissions.
[User Permissions Breakdown](/help/administration/user-roles-permissions-collection): Full default permission matrix organized by role.