About the Employee Center Role
When you add the Employee Center role on an employee's record, you give them access to the Employee Center. From the Employee Center, employees can do the following:
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View their paycheck history, employee profile, and W-4
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Enter and view time entries. Supervisors can review and approve time entries for direct reports.
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Enter and view expense reports. Depending on how you set up approvals for expense reports, expense approvers (managers or supervisors) can review and approve expense reports.
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Enter and view purchase requests or requisitions. Depending on how you set up approvals for purchase requests or requisitions, purchase approvers (managers or supervisors) can review and approve purchase requests or requisitions.
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Enter and view activities such as tasks and phone calls
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Access their calendar
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Access documents and relationship records
With SuitePeople HR, your employees can complete additional tasks in the Employee Center:
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Request time off and view their time-off balances. Supervisors can view and approve time-off requests for their direct reports.
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Recognize the achievements of their peers with Kudos
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Browse the Org Chart and search the Employee Directory
For more information about SuitePeople, see SuitePeople Overview.
Employees can customize the Employee Center dashboard to show the information they need most. Click Personalize in the upper right of the dashboard, or click Personalize Dashboard in the Settings portlet. For more information about personalizing your dashboard, see Dashboard Personalization.
You can't customize the dashboard if the lock icon (
) appears beside the Home on the left side of the home page.
Understanding Restrictions for Employee Center Data
The standard Employee Center role filters purchase orders, expense reports, and time reports employees with this role can view. Employees with this role can see their own purchase orders, expense reports, and time reports. If they're supervisors or approvers, they can also see purchase orders, expense reports, and time reports owned by their employees.
In OneWorld accounts, subsidiary restrictions don't filter time and expense report records for users with this role. Subsidiary restrictions do filter the records for this role, except for times reports, purchase orders, and expense reports. The system checks subsidiary restrictions for the role first, then for individual users.
Customized Employee Center roles based on the standard role filter records the same way by default.
Purchase Approvals and Currencies
If you use the Multiple Currencies feature, how currency fields show up on purchase requests and orders that need approval depends on whether you customize the view.
Non-customized View
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Amount - shows amount in base currency
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Base Currency - shows currency in base amount
Customized View
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Amount (Foreign Currency) - shows amount in foreign currency
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Currency - shows foreign currency
Using the NetSuite AI Connector Service with the Employee Center Role
Apart from the default permissions detailed in Standard Roles Permissions Table, the Employee Center role includes the following permissions, each with a default access level of None:
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MCP Server Connection
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Log in using OAuth 2.0 Access Tokens
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REST Web Services
To enable a user to use the NetSuite AI Connector Service, create a custom role based on the Employee Center role and increase the access levels to Full for the required permissions.
The permissions do not provide access beyond the records and actions allowed by the role's existing permissions.
For setup requirements and information about the NetSuite AI Connector Service, see Get Started with the NetSuite AI Connector Service. For information about the related SuiteApp, see MCP Standard Tools SuiteApp.