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title: Getting started as an admin | Pairc Goodman
description: What the admin panel is, how to open it and how the admin role differs from brokers.
canonical: https://pairc-goodman.com/help/admins/admin_getting_started
generated: 2026-10-24T02:13:05.542Z
---1. How do I open the admin panel?Open the admin panel from the bar at the top of the site, and find your way back to the member pages.
2. What does the admin dashboard show?The first page of the admin panel gives a quick picture of your community and anything waiting for you.
3. Finding your way around the admin menuHow the admin menu is organised, how to search it and what the Needs Attention list means.
4. Admins, brokers and coordinators: what is the difference?Admins set up the community. Brokers run it day to day in their own Broker Panel.

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