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title: Your role as a broker | Pairc Goodman
description: What brokers and coordinators do, what they can and cannot change, and how to find your way around the Broker Panel.
canonical: https://pairc-goodman.com/help/brokers/broker_role
generated: 2026-10-24T02:09:49.848Z
---1. What is a broker or coordinator?Brokers and coordinators run the timebank day to day, using a separate part of the site called the Broker Panel.
2. What can a broker do, and what is only for admins?A plain list of the tasks brokers can do, and the ones that need a community admin.
3. How does someone become a broker?A community admin gives the broker role from the admin panel. You then see the Broker Panel link.
4. Finding your way around the Broker PanelThe menu, the top bar, the search box and the red counters explained.
5. Using the Broker DashboardThe dashboard shows what is waiting for you, key counts and some recent broker actions.
6. Changing the Broker Panel settingsWhich messages are copied to brokers and how exchange approval works are set in Configuration.

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