- Short answer
- Yes — either store-level Finance payout permission shows them; on Plus, payment settings are managed through organization roles instead.
- Not on the table
- No Shopify POS access for collaborators, and store or organization ownership can't be transferred to one
- The wider tick is bundled
- View Shopify Payments payouts also requires Manage settings, Checkout and customer accounts, and Store settings
- Billing emails
- Collaborators holding the billing permission don't receive billing emails — that permission sits in Store settings, not Finance
- Access can lapse
- Collaborator access expires automatically after 90 days without a login; you can reactivate it from Users and permissions
- Not Shopify Collabs
- Shopify Collabs is the affiliate app for creator partnerships — unrelated to collaborator access to your admin
Which permissions let a collaborator see your payouts?
Store-level Finance ticks decide whether your agency sees the money, editable on Settings > Users before you accept. The narrower one is View payouts, in Shopify's words: "This permission allows users to view and download payout transaction summaries."
The wider one is View Shopify Payments payouts: "This permission allows users to view Shopify Payments settings, payouts, and transactions." It is bundled: Shopify also requires Manage settings, Checkout and customer accounts and Store settings. Either one opens Payouts; untick both — and View tax documents, which auto-selects View payouts. On Plus, payment settings are managed at the organization level through organization roles, and these store-level permissions don't apply. Full matrix: who gets into your admin.
What they open, and which emails never arrive
Inside Payouts they read payout figures: Shopify documents the payout reconciliation report as a reconciled breakdown of Shopify Payments balance activity, fees, and payouts. Timing behind those numbers: how Shopify pays you.
Your Shopify invoices — what you pay Shopify, not what your store earns — sit elsewhere: the permission covering them, View billing and receive billing emails, sits under Store settings, not Finance, with a collaborator exception.
[Users with this permission] can also view billing information, payment methods and receive billing related emails. However, Collaborators who have this permission don't receive billing emails.
So that collaborator reads your bills in the admin; the emails never arrive.
What holds whatever you tick — and the Collabs clash
Some limits hold whatever you tick: collaborators "don't have access to the Shopify POS app or the Point of Sales channel in the admin," and you "can't transfer store or organization ownership to a collaborator."
Access starts on the partner side — "To request collaborator access to a store, you need a Shopify Partner account." Nor does it last indefinitely: "If a collaborator user hasn't logged into your store within 90 days, then their access will automatically expire." You reinstate it from Users and permissions.
One naming collision: Shopify Collabs is Shopify's affiliate app for creator partnerships, not a way into your admin.
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