The following rules are incremental, so if the conditions in one step are not met, the program will attempt to achieve the conditions in the next step until one is possible.

1. If the show_member_cp field is set to value Y on the login form, the program will always redirect the user to the user control panel upon login.
2. If the url field is set to any value, the program will always redirect the user to that URL.
3. If the user’s account has a custom start_page (this is controlled from the admin control panel by editing a user's account), the user will be redirected to that start page.
4. If the option entitled Use User CP? within the program “Setup” is set to “Yes”, the program will redirect the user to the user control panel.
5. The program will select a secure area’s “start page”[1]
6. If all else fails, the program will use the URL provided within the option named “Backup Login Page” (From within the program “Setup”)