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title: "Administration: Disabling a User"
description: As an administrator, you can disable a user to prevent them from accessing the site. By disabling a user, you retain any client, notes, and updates they made in the system. This is different than deleting a user, which removes…
url: "https://docs.youthcenter.net/docs/administration-disabling-a-user/"
updated: "2026-09-11"
category: Administration
tags:
  - "Admin: User Manager"
  - Administration
---

# Administration: Disabling a User

As an administrator, you can disable a user to prevent them from accessing the site. By disabling a user, you retain any client, notes, and updates they made in the system. This is different than deleting a user, which removes any association to a client, note, or update they make. Disabled users do not count toward your user count.

To disable a user, first expand the Administration tab, and then select User Manager

![Administration & User Manager](https://docs.youthcenter.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-2.png)

Next, find the user you wish to disable by entering their name or email into the Filter this list by anything search box and pressing enter or selecting the blue filter button.

![Users search](https://docs.youthcenter.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-9-1024x307.png)

Once you have found the user you wish to disable, select the down caret menu to the left of their image, and select Disable this user.

![Disable User](https://docs.youthcenter.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-8.png)

The system will confirm that you wish to disable the user.

Select Yes, Disable User if you are sure you wish to disable them.

![Confirmation of ](https://docs.youthcenter.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-6.png)

The user will then be disabled. Disabled users can not login, can not make updates to clients, and do not count towards your user count. They will also show up in a gray color and have a "disabled" tag as shown below.

![Disabled user](https://docs.youthcenter.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-11-1024x81.png)

To re-activate a user, select the down caret, left of their name and choose "edit this user."

![Editing User](https://docs.youthcenter.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-7-1024x192.png)

Under the status, click the dropdown and choose "active." Be sure to save.

![User Status](https://docs.youthcenter.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-10-1024x589.png)

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