# Admin

## **Permissions**

**As an admin, you can control the following:**

* Circle Creation
* Circle Settings
* Epoch Settings
* Manage Members
* Vouching Requirements
* Export Allocation Data

## Best Practices

The best practices for running Coordinape will vary from team to team. But, in general, we find that teams that **communicate** their goals for Coordinape to their contributors will have a better experience than teams that start Circles without communicating with their users.

So, when communicating to your teams, here are some things to make sure to mention:

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{% tab title="GIVE Eligibility  " %}

* Who should be eligible to send and receive GIVE?
* Should members compensated via grants or salaries be rewarded?
  {% endtab %}

{% tab title="Work Dates " %}

* Which dates should your contributors be thinking about when allocating?
* Should users consider all of the prior months when allocating?
* Should they only consider work that members completed?
  {% endtab %}

{% tab title="Contribution Impact" %}

* What type of activity would you like your contributors to be rewarding?
* Should a particular type of work be more valuable? (Devs or Business Development?)
  {% endtab %}

{% tab title="Compensation Method" %}

* How are allocations paid out?
* Will they be paid in stable coins or project tokens, or is your DAO just tracking contributions until they have a token to distribute?
  {% endtab %}
  {% endtabs %}

### **Team Size**

Team sizes can range from 2-200+, but it's easier to allocate to smaller teams (<20), so the users can interact with most team members.

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**Compensation Amounts**

The amount of compensation for each epoch can vary. It can be zero; it can be infinity.

Prior to our on-chain launch, there is no escrow feature, so the admin will distribute the compensation after the Epoch ends.

Once on-chain, funds for epochs will be escrowed in the Ape Vaults and automatically made available to claim or distribute at the end of the Epoch after the admin approves the distributions.

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**Use Cases We've Seen**

* Giving to Contributors
* Giving to Projects
* Giving to other circles


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