---
title: "What you can do from the Admin tab"
description: "The gold ADMIN tab in the mobile app, everything it contains, and which jobs still need the web dashboard."
type: guide
updated: 2026-09-15
canonical_url: https://help.nestlicare.com/owners/mobile/admin-tab-overview
roles: ["center_admin", "super_admin"]
platforms: [ios, android]
---
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If you own or help run a center, the mobile app has a fifth tab that your teachers do not see: a gold **ADMIN** button in the middle of the tab bar. Tapping it opens the admin hub — a single list of everything you can run from your phone.

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  src="/screenshots/owners/mobile/admin-tab-hub.png"
  alt="The Admin hub in the NestliCare mobile app, showing Ask NestliAI, Families and Children, and the Staff and Time section"
  pointers={[
    { x: 36.6, y: 89, caption: "ADMIN — the gold tab. Only owners and center admins see it" },
    { x: 18.7, y: 20.3, caption: "The center you are currently working in" },
    { x: 1, y: 28.3, caption: "Ask NestliAI — questions about your center, answered from your live data" },
    { x: 1, y: 62.4, caption: "Cards are grouped into sections, the same groups as the web sidebar" },
  ]}
/>

## What is on it

The hub is grouped into sections. In full, it holds:

- **Ask NestliAI** — questions about your center, answered from your live data
- **Families & Children** — add children, their parents, enrollment, and tuition
- **Children** — find any child by name
- **Staff & Time** — **Staff** (profiles, pay, documents), **Schedule** (who is working, and where), **Timesheets** (hours, corrections, and payroll exports), and approvals
- **Paperwork** — **Documents & forms** (requests, child files, templates)
- **Invoices & Finances** — **Invoices** (create and track invoices), **Family Accounts** (who owes what), **Billing** (plans, discounts, subsidies, late fees), **Finances** (payouts and your Stripe account), and **Books** (money in, money out, monthly close)
- **Organization** — **Rooms**, **Calendar** (closures, holidays, and events), **Reports** (attendance, ratios, and exports), **Data Migration**, and **Settings** (features, check-in, and notification defaults)

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  src="/screenshots/owners/mobile/admin-tab-more.png"
  alt="The lower half of the Admin hub, showing Invoices and Finances, Organization, and the More on the web section"
  pointers={[
    { x: 1, y: 1, caption: "Invoices & Finances — invoices, family accounts, billing plans, your payout account, and Books" },
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    { x: 1, y: 64.6, caption: "Settings — where the check-in and clock-in options live" },
    { x: 1, y: 76.1, caption: "More on the web — jobs the app deliberately hands to the browser" },
  ]}
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## What still needs the web dashboard

The app tells you this itself. At the bottom of the hub there is a **More on the web** section listing the jobs that open in a browser rather than in the app — currently your enroll page, enrollment packets and automations, and the enrollment forecast.

Beyond those, a few things are web-only in practice:

- **Correcting somebody's hours.** You can look at timesheets on your phone, but editing a punch, adding a missed shift, or finalizing a week happens on the web dashboard. See [Approve a timesheet](/owners/staff/approve-a-timesheet).
- **Clocking another person in or out.** That is on the web dashboard, under **Staff → the person → Time**.
- **Refunds.** See [Issue a refund](/owners/billing/issue-a-refund).
- **Building fillable form templates.** You can send and review documents from the phone, but the template builder is web-only. See [Build a fillable form template](/owners/documents/build-a-fillable-form-template).

If you cannot find something on your phone, the web dashboard has it. The two share the same data, so a change made in either shows up in the other straight away.

<Callout kind="info" title="Teachers never see this tab">
The ADMIN tab appears only for owners and center admins. A teacher signing in on the same app sees four tabs — Home, Dashboard, Messages and Me — and no admin hub. If a member of your team says they cannot find it, check their role on the **Staff** page rather than their app version.
</Callout>

## The other tabs

The Admin tab does not replace the rest of the app. Alongside it you still have:

- **Home** — the activity feed for your center
- **Dashboard** — your own working day, including the clock-in banner and the quick actions for logging activities, meals, incidents and photos
- **Messages** — conversations with families and staff
- **Me** — your own profile and settings

Your own clock-in lives on the **Dashboard** tab, not here. See [Clock in and out from your phone](/teachers/timesheets/clock-in-and-out).

Related: [Find your way around](/getting-started/find-your-way-around), [Get the mobile apps](/getting-started/get-the-mobile-apps).