> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.eosb.org/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# EOSB user manual

> Step-by-step guides for everyone who uses the Employee End-of-Service Benefits platform.

The EOSB platform is the national register of employee end-of-service benefits held in trust, run by the Ministry of Employment, Labour and Social Security. Each organisation that takes part — employers, trustees, fund managers, the regulator and the platform administrators — signs in to its own workspace.

The manual has two parts:

* **How EOSB works** explains the platform itself: who takes part, who is responsible for what, and how each workflow runs from start to finish. Read it first if you are new.
* **A guide for each kind of user**, screen by screen. Pick yours below.

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="How the platform works" icon="sitemap" href="/concepts/how-it-works">
    The big picture in five minutes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Roles and responsibilities" icon="users" href="/concepts/roles">
    Who does, approves and sees each action.
  </Card>

  <Card title="How money flows" icon="money-bill-transfer" href="/concepts/money-flow">
    Every movement of money, drawn out.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Guides by user

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Employer" icon="building" href="/employer/overview">
    Register employees, fund your EOSB trust, approve fund manager budgets and follow your liability.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Regulator (MELSS)" icon="landmark" href="/regulator/overview">
    Verify employers, trustees and fund managers, and oversee monthly accruals and employer ledgers.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Trustee" icon="shield-halved" href="/trustee/overview">
    Confirm funding, approve benefit payments, and control every movement of money to and from the fund manager.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Fund Manager" icon="chart-pie" href="/fund-manager/overview">
    Recognise cash, invest it through portfolio frameworks, pay mandate expenses and return money to the trust.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Platform Admin" icon="gear" href="/admin/overview">
    Register and activate employers and providers, pay out benefits, run the monthly accrual and manage users.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## How to read the screenshots

Every screenshot comes from the live platform. Where you need to act, the screenshot is marked:

* A **red outline with a number** marks a button, field or area. The number matches the numbered step or list item next to the picture.
* Pictures without markers show what the screen looks like in a given state — for example, empty, waiting for approval, or showing an error.

<Note>
  The organisations, people, amounts and reference numbers in the screenshots are demonstration data. Your screens show your own organisation's details.
</Note>


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