# Permissions

To allow a seamless collaborative workflow, [Enterprise](https://commercelayer.io/pricing) users can define [custom roles](/provisioning/api-reference/roles.md#custom-roles) and assign permissions to each role created. This allows different [members](/provisioning/api-reference/memberships.md) to have different privileges or different [integration](/provisioning/api-reference/api_credentials.md#integration) API credentials to be granted different permissions on CRUD operations at the single resource level.

Each permission is role and subject-specific, meaning that to [create a new permission](/provisioning/api-reference/permissions/create.md) you need to associate it with a role and specify the single resource involved. For that resource you can define the allowed actions by setting the 4 CRUD boolean attributes (which can be changed at any time):

* `can_read`
* `can_create`
* `can_update`
* `can_delete`

If you want to create a set of permissions involving different resources, you need to create a permission for each resource, associated with the same role.

When fetching a permission, you can check if additional restrictions have been applied by inspecting the `restrictions` object.

{% hint style="info" %}
Existing permissions cannot be deleted using the Provisioning API.
{% endhint %}


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