# Addon Management Area

https://docs.wisecp.com/fr/addon-management-area

Open the working screen an add-on brings into the panel, and use its own features without leaving your administration area.

## Opening the Screen

Open the **Tools** menu. Under **Addons** every add-on that carries a management area is listed by its own name. Select the one you want.

The add-on name in the breadcrumb of the settings screen leads to the same place.

`{admin}/tools/addons/{addon}`

## What Is on the Screen

This screen belongs to the add-on, so what you see depends on which add-on you opened. A live chat add-on brings its conversations here, an assistant add-on its own controls, a verification add-on its applications.

The panel supplies only the frame. At the top are the page title the add-on chose, any buttons it placed beside that title and the breadcrumb trail. Some paid add-ons may show a licence mark next to the title. Everything below belongs to the add-on.

Two cases end the screen early. An administrator whose privilege group is not allowed is sent back to the add-on list. An add-on that supplies no content leaves a warning in its place. What happens with a disabled add-on is the add-on's own decision: most still open their working screen normally, some state that they are switched off instead of showing content.

## Tasks

### Open the management area

1. Open the **Tools** menu.
2. Click the add-on name listed under **Addons**.
3. The working screen of the add-on opens.

### When the add-on is missing from the menu

1. Go to **Tools** and **Addons**, find the card and check that it carries the **Enabled** mark.
2. Open **Settings** from its actions menu and tick your own privilege group under **Access Control**.
3. Save the form. The add-on returns to the menu and its management area opens.

## Things to Watch

> **Not the same as the settings screen**
> 
> This is where you work with the add-on. Connection details, licence keys and behaviour options live on its settings screen instead.

> **A disabled add-on decides its own behaviour**
> 
> Some add-ons still show their working screen while switched off, others state that they are switched off instead of showing content; that is the add-on's own choice. Disappearing from the menu is a separate rule: a disabled add-on drops out of **Tools** and **Addons**, yet its area still opens from the breadcrumb of the settings screen or straight from the address.

> **Access follows the privilege group**
> 
> Only groups ticked under **Access Control** may open the area. Full Administrator always can, everyone else returns to the add-on list.

## Required Privileges

Reaching this screen needs `TOOLS_ADDONS`. On top of that, your privilege group has to be selected under **Access Control** in the settings of the add-on.

## Related Articles

- [Addons](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/addons)
- [Addon Settings](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/addon-settings)