Overview
The Admin Panel is a platform-administrator tool with a parish-first design: you pick a parish from a card grid, then see and manage everything about that parish. From here you manage parishes, organizations, users, reports, and per-parish settings. Filing types, docket entries, and fee schedules are read-only mirrors of Verdict CMS.
You must have the Platform Admin role to access the Admin Panel. If you don't see the Admin link in your sidebar, contact your system administrator.
Navigation
The Admin Panel has two navigation contexts.
Global sidebar ("Platform Admin")
When you first open the Admin Panel, a left sidebar titled "Platform Admin" lists:
Parishes
Card-grid landing page listing every court, with user count, pending queue items, and an e-filing status badge. Click a parish to manage it
Organizations
View law firms and organizations registered on the platform (read-only)
Reports
Cross-parish analytics: filing volume, rejection reasons, queue depth, and clerk productivity
Audit Log
Read-only, filterable record of platform activity (coming soon)
Parish sidebar
Clicking a parish opens that parish's own sidebar (titled with the parish name, with a "Back to Parishes" link). It is grouped into three sections:
Overview
Parish stats and recent filings
Users
Manage court staff roles, divisions, stamp titles, and active status; invite new staff
Civil Queue / Criminal Queue
Live review queue for each division (same table clerks use)
Filing Types
Read-only mirror of case types and sub-types from Verdict CMS
Docket Entries
Read-only mirror of document types from Verdict CMS
Fee Schedules
Read-only mirror of fee schedules from Verdict CMS
Statements
The court's portion of every charge, refund, and chargeback in a period
Announcements
Create and manage court announcements
Config
Court settings: name, code, state, jurisdiction label, external ID, e-filing toggle, Verdict civil/criminal codes (ValPay accounts shown read-only)
Read-only Verdict data: Filing Types, Docket Entries, and Fee Schedules are managed in Verdict CMS and auto-upsert at runtime. The Admin Panel only displays them — you cannot create, edit, or delete these records here.
Queues and routing rules are configured in the Clerk settings area, not the Admin Panel. See Queues and Routing.
Getting Started
Parishes (courts) are provisioned directly in the database following a go-live checklist — there is no "create a court" form in the Admin Panel. Once a parish exists, your day-to-day work in the panel is:
Review the parish Config — confirm the court name, codes, jurisdiction label, and Verdict civil/criminal codes are correct, and that e-filing is enabled
Invite court staff and assign their roles, divisions, and stamp titles on the Users page
Post announcements to inform filers of any important notices
Monitor the Civil and Criminal queues, Statements, and Reports as filings come in
Filing types, docket entries, and fee schedules require no setup here — they sync from Verdict CMS automatically.
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