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---Getting started as an admin

# 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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Your community has two kinds of staff roles. Admins set the community up. Brokers look after members day to day. Some communities call brokers "coordinators".

## What admins do

- Change community settings, branding and languages.
- Switch features on and off.
- Publish legal documents such as your terms.
- Give people roles, and ban or delete accounts.
- Everything a broker can do.

## What brokers do

Brokers work in the **Broker Panel** . There they approve new members, review exchanges and messages, check reported content, handle safeguarding and record vetting. They can also correct a member's balance, but not their own.

Brokers cannot open the admin panel. They cannot change roles, community settings or legal documents, and they cannot ban or delete accounts.

## Using the Broker Panel yourself

As an admin you can use the Broker Panel too. Press **Broker Panel** under **Overview** in the admin menu.

## Other admin levels

Some organisations run several communities together. A senior admin for that group may see **Super Admin Panel** in the menu, which covers the communities beneath theirs.

The platform team looks after the whole installation. A few settings are theirs alone. You will see a **Super admin only** label next to those.

[Go to this page](/broker)

## More guides in this topic

[How do I open the admin panel?](/help/admins/admin_getting_started/admin_open_panel) [What does the admin dashboard show?](/help/admins/admin_getting_started/admin_dashboard) [Finding your way around the admin menu](/help/admins/admin_getting_started/admin_find_your_way)

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