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title: Client Area vs. Control Panel; where do I go?
description: "## Client Area **THE CLIENT AREA - The Client Area is for the most part INFORMATIONAL** The [*Client area*](https://clients.domaincentral.com.au/) is where you manage your client account with us, and allows you to manage & view your invoices, your hosting account information, make…"
url: "https://www.domaincentral.com.au/help/client-area-vs-control-panel-where-do-i-go/"
updated: "2026-08-14"
category: Getting Started
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# Client Area vs. Control Panel; where do I go?

## Client Area

**THE CLIENT AREA - The Client Area is for the most part INFORMATIONAL**

 The [*Client area*](https://clients.domaincentral.com.au/) is where you manage your client account with us, and allows you to manage & view your invoices, your hosting account information, make payments, and open support tickets. In order to login to your client area, you'll need the following information:

1. Email address you used to create your account
2. Password

  This is where you update your contact information, credit card information, and any additional contact information.

1. [Click here](https://clients.domaincentral.com.au/) to login to your client area
2. Enter your email address and password

Your dashboard is useful to view the following information:

- View your Account Information
- Open Support Tickets
- View Due Invoices
- View Latest Announcements
- Your Available Credit Balance

If you have domains registered with us, You can manage those in the client area as well.

 

## Control Panel (ie Plesk, WP2, cPanel, AdminBolt)

**THE CONTROL PANEL - The Hosting Control Panel is FUNCTIONAL. This area deals with everything that controls with your web site.**

You can do the following from within your Control Panel:

- Edit, backup, change and upload your website files
- Edit pages and control FTP, and create additional FTP accounts.
- View your Web site Stats, visitor logs, error logs, and create custom error pages.

If your hosting plan includes email , your Control panel is also where you set up email accounts, read your webmail, turn on spam-assassin, and create a forwarders auto responders, and MX records.