When you are invited as Associate Editor for a manuscript you will be notified by a Email and also text massage on your cell phone.
When you login to the website with your user name and password, click on "Associate Editor Area" that is marked by a red number. This red number indicates that you have a task in this area.

In "Associate Editor Area" click on new invitation. The number in front of each item shows the number of manuscript that you are invite to review as associate editor.

In "Pending Assignments" you can find the manuscripts that you are accepted to review but did not complete the review yet.

"View AEs Activity" you can find the reviews that you completed them.

You can click on "View All Reviewers and Activity" to find the reviewers that are good in review (like answer on time).

You can find the PDF and other information of the manuscript by clicking the title of manuscript. If you are agree to review click on "Accept Invitation"

Click on "Decline Invitation" if you are not going to accept the invitation.

If you accepted the invitation in the next page click on "Invite Reviewers".

that you already know but is not in the list. You should insert the name and Email of the specific person in this case.

Search through the existing reviewers

Invite the reviewers directly from the reviewers list.

In this page you will set the deadline for the reviewer

In this page you will see the Email that will be sent to the reviewer. Modify it if needed and then click on "proceed".

When all reviewers answered to the invitation and completed their tasks the "Submit AE Decision" will be activated for associate editor. Click on this bottom to submit your comment.

You can find some information about the manuscript like ID, number of revisions and the reviewers comments in here.

When all reviewers answered to the invitation and completed their tasks the "Submit AE Decision" will be activated for associate editor. Click on this bottom to submit your comment.