diff --git a/pywb/manager/aclmanager.py b/pywb/manager/aclmanager.py
index 248f91e6..4ce46c09 100644
--- a/pywb/manager/aclmanager.py
+++ b/pywb/manager/aclmanager.py
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ class ACLManager(CollectionsManager):
     DEFAULT_FILE = 'access-rules.aclj'
 
     def __init__(self, r):
+        """
+        :param r: Parsed result from ArgumentParser
+        """
         self.rules = []
 
         coll_name = r.coll_name
@@ -32,6 +35,13 @@ class ACLManager(CollectionsManager):
 
         super(ACLManager, self).__init__(coll_name, must_exist=False)
 
+    def process(self, r):
+        """
+        Process acl command
+        :param r: Parsed result from ArgumentParser
+        :return:
+        """
+
         # if target exists as a file, use that
         if os.path.isfile(self.target):
             self.acl_file = self.target
diff --git a/pywb/manager/manager.py b/pywb/manager/manager.py
index d86b12d7..dc36be64 100644
--- a/pywb/manager/manager.py
+++ b/pywb/manager/manager.py
@@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ Create manage file based web archive collections
     from pywb.manager.aclmanager import ACLManager
     def do_acl(r):
         acl = ACLManager(r)
+        acl.process(r)
 
     acl_help = 'Configure Access Control Lists (ACL) for a collection'
     acl = subparsers.add_parser('acl', help=acl_help)