Thanks for visiting us here in the QuickBooks Community, Eddie.
When you assign a specific role to a user in QuickBooks Online (QBO), you can only either grant them full access to inventory including view, create, edit, and delete permissions, or no access at all. I can provide the steps to potentially add this functionality in future updates.
I can see the importance of selecting the right permissions to ensure that users have the appropriate level of access, and you're experience highlights where the software needs to improve. Thus, I encourage sending a product suggestion to our engineering team so they can add this feature in the upcoming updates. Here's how you can do it:
Select the Gear icon, then choose Feedback.
Enter your comments or product suggestions
Select Next to submit.
We value your input, and your feedback will help shape our future updates in QBO. To track your feature requests, you can visit the QuickBooks Online Feature Requests website.