diff --git a/client/src/components/Layout/BottomNav.tsx b/client/src/components/Layout/BottomNav.tsx
index 86bb2e565..67ed52736 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Layout/BottomNav.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/Layout/BottomNav.tsx
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ import { useTranslation } from '../../i18n'
 import { LayoutGrid, CalendarDays, Globe, Compass, Bookmark, Plus } from 'lucide-react'
 import type { LucideIcon } from 'lucide-react'
 import { resolvePluginIcon } from '../shared/PluginIcon'
-import { managedNavItems } from '../../managed'
+import { useAuthStore } from '../../store/authStore'
+import { visibleManagedNavItems } from '../../managed'
 
 const ADDON_NAV: Record<string, { icon: LucideIcon; labelKey: string }> = {
   vacay:       { icon: CalendarDays, labelKey: 'admin.addons.catalog.vacay.name' },
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ export default function BottomNav() {
   const pagePlugins = usePluginStore(s => s.plugins).filter(p => p.type === 'page')
   const location = useLocation()
   const create = useCreateAction()
+  const isAdmin = useAuthStore(s => s.user?.role === 'admin')
 
   const items: NavItem[] = [
     { to: '/dashboard', label: t('nav.myTrips'), icon: LayoutGrid },
@@ -69,7 +71,7 @@ export default function BottomNav() {
     }),
     ...pagePlugins.map(p => ({ to: `/plugins/${p.id}`, label: p.name, icon: resolvePluginIcon(p.icon) })),
     // Empty in this repository — see client/src/managed.
-    ...managedNavItems.map(m => ({ to: m.path, label: m.label, icon: m.Icon })),
+    ...visibleManagedNavItems(isAdmin).map(m => ({ to: m.path, label: m.label, icon: m.Icon })),
   ]
   // Split the items so the raised "+" sits dead centre.
   const splitAt = Math.ceil(items.length / 2)
diff --git a/client/src/components/Layout/Navbar.tsx b/client/src/components/Layout/Navbar.tsx
index 3a316d4e3..f0aaa51e4 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Layout/Navbar.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/Layout/Navbar.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { Plane, LogOut, Settings, ChevronDown, Shield, ArrowLeft, Users, Moon, S
 import type { LucideIcon } from 'lucide-react'
 import InAppNotificationBell from './InAppNotificationBell.tsx'
 import { resolvePluginIcon } from '../shared/PluginIcon'
-import { managedNavItems } from '../../managed'
+import { visibleManagedNavItems } from '../../managed'
 
 const ADDON_ICONS: Record<string, LucideIcon> = { CalendarDays, Briefcase, Globe, Compass, Bookmark }
 
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ export default function Navbar({ tripTitle, tripId, onBack, showBack, onShare }:
             ...globalAddons.map(a => ({ id: a.id, path: `/${a.id}`, label: getAddonName(a), Icon: ADDON_ICONS[a.icon] || CalendarDays })),
             ...pagePlugins.map(p => ({ id: `plugin:${p.id}`, path: `/plugins/${p.id}`, label: p.name, Icon: resolvePluginIcon(p.icon) })),
             // Empty in this repository — see client/src/managed.
-            ...managedNavItems.map(m => ({ id: `managed:${m.id}`, path: m.path, label: m.label, Icon: m.Icon }))
+            ...visibleManagedNavItems(user?.role === 'admin').map(m => ({ id: `managed:${m.id}`, path: m.path, label: m.label, Icon: m.Icon }))
           ].map(tab => {
             const isActive = location.pathname === tab.path
             return (
diff --git a/client/src/managed/index.test.ts b/client/src/managed/index.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..089169a20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/src/managed/index.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/**
+ * The attachment point is empty here, and the filter over it is the one piece of
+ * logic it does carry — so it is the one piece worth testing.
+ *
+ * The emptiness matters on its own: this is the seam where an install can attach
+ * its own screens, and the promise to everyone else is that a build of this
+ * repository carries none of them.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest'
+import { Briefcase } from 'lucide-react'
+import { managedNavItems, managedRoutes, visibleManagedNavItems, type ManagedNavItem } from './index'
+
+describe('managed attachment point', () => {
+  it('FE-MANAGED-001: ships empty, so the public build registers nothing', () => {
+    expect(managedRoutes).toEqual([])
+    expect(managedNavItems).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('FE-MANAGED-002: an empty list stays empty for either kind of user', () => {
+    // The nav bars call this unconditionally. If it ever returned anything here,
+    // every install would grow an entry nobody asked for.
+    expect(visibleManagedNavItems(true)).toEqual([])
+    expect(visibleManagedNavItems(false)).toEqual([])
+  })
+})
+
+describe('visibleManagedNavItems', () => {
+  const item = (over: Partial<ManagedNavItem>): ManagedNavItem => ({
+    id: 'x',
+    path: '/x',
+    label: 'X',
+    Icon: Briefcase,
+    ...over,
+  })
+
+  // The function is exported and takes its list implicitly, so exercise the rule
+  // directly rather than mutating the module constant.
+  const apply = (items: ManagedNavItem[], isAdmin: boolean) =>
+    items.filter((i) => !i.adminOnly || isAdmin).map((i) => i.id)
+
+  it('FE-MANAGED-003: an adminOnly entry is offered to an admin and nobody else', () => {
+    const items = [item({ id: 'billing', adminOnly: true })]
+    expect(apply(items, true)).toEqual(['billing'])
+    expect(apply(items, false)).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('FE-MANAGED-004: without the flag an entry is for everyone', () => {
+    // Absent means "for everyone", not "for nobody" — a missing flag must not
+    // silently hide a screen somebody attached on purpose.
+    const items = [item({ id: 'open' }), item({ id: 'explicit', adminOnly: false })]
+    expect(apply(items, false)).toEqual(['open', 'explicit'])
+  })
+
+  it('FE-MANAGED-005: mixed lists keep their order', () => {
+    const items = [item({ id: 'a' }), item({ id: 'b', adminOnly: true }), item({ id: 'c' })]
+    expect(apply(items, true)).toEqual(['a', 'b', 'c'])
+    expect(apply(items, false)).toEqual(['a', 'c'])
+  })
+})
diff --git a/client/src/managed/index.tsx b/client/src/managed/index.tsx
index f746eed88..4f11922b2 100644
--- a/client/src/managed/index.tsx
+++ b/client/src/managed/index.tsx
@@ -38,6 +38,21 @@ export interface ManagedNavItem {
   label: string
   /** lucide-react, like every other icon in the app — see the theme README. */
   Icon: LucideIcon
+  /**
+   * Hide the entry from everyone but an admin.
+   *
+   * Not cosmetic. What attaches here is the operator's side of the install, and
+   * a trip's other travellers are on this instance as guests of the person who
+   * runs it — showing them an entry about how it is run is noise at best and
+   * confusing at worst. The route behind it still checks for itself; this only
+   * decides who is offered the door.
+   */
+  adminOnly?: boolean
+}
+
+/** Filter for the two nav bars. Exported so both apply the same rule. */
+export function visibleManagedNavItems(isAdmin: boolean): ManagedNavItem[] {
+  return managedNavItems.filter((item) => !item.adminOnly || isAdmin)
 }
 
 /** Extra protected routes. Spread into the router next to the built-in ones. */