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Dashboard overview — your shop at a glance

In the navigation this screen is labeled Home. (This guide is filed under "Dashboard overview," but the link you click says Home.)

Who it's for

Home is the manager's home screen — the first thing you see when you sign in. It's built for the owner or manager who wants a 10-second read on how the shop is doing: what's in progress, what's coming in, who's busy, and what needs attention today. Staff in other roles don't have Home in their nav; installers land on My Jobs and other roles open straight into the Jobs board as their home base.

Where it fits

Think of Home as the pulse monitor for the whole shop. It doesn't create or change anything — it pulls live numbers from across Wraptor (jobs, quotes, invoices, your team, your ink) into one screen so you can spot what matters and click straight into it. It's the lighter, everyday companion to Reports: Home answers "how are we doing right now?", while Reports answers "what do the trends and the money look like over months?"

Overview

The screen has a few parts:

  1. A service-area prompt (only if you haven't set your city yet) — a card asking you to set your service area, which helps your directory listing and local reach. It disappears once your city is on file.
  2. A setup checklist (only while your shop is still new) — a short, dismissible card nudging you to finish the few things that make Wraptor sing: set your brand color, add materials, complete your shop details, invite your team, and create your first quote. It disappears on its own once everything's done, or you can dismiss it.
  3. The live dashboard — four headline numbers plus a set of panels:
    • Active Jobs, Completed This Month, Revenue (Paid), and Outstanding (with an "on hold" note).
    • Job Pipeline — a bar for each stage so you can see where work is piling up.
    • Quote Pipeline — how many quotes are pending and approved, and their dollar value.
    • Team Workload — who's carrying how many active jobs.
    • Low Ink — appears only when a printer is running low, with quick reorder links.
    • Recent Activity — the latest job movements; click any line to jump to that job.

Screens & navigation

You reach it from the Home link at the top of the navigation spine (and the bottom bar on mobile). It's also where the app tends to send a manager first. Everything on the screen is live — there's no refresh button to hunt for; each visit re-reads the latest numbers. The one thing it remembers is whether you dismissed the setup checklist (stored in your browser).

Capabilities

Read the shop in seconds

  • Four KPIs tell you the headline story: how much is in flight, how much you finished this month, what's been paid, and what's still owed.

Spot bottlenecks

  • The Job Pipeline bars show which stage is backing up; the Quote Pipeline shows how much potential work is waiting on approval.

Balance the team

  • Team Workload ranks who has the most active jobs so you can redistribute before someone's buried.

Catch problems early

  • Low Ink only shows up when a printer needs attention — with a one-click reorder link.

Jump straight to work

  • Every Recent Activity line links to the job that moved, so Home is also a launchpad.

Finish onboarding

  • The setup checklist links each remaining task to the exact screen to do it.

Step-by-step tasks

  1. Do your morning check-in

    1. Open Home.
    2. Scan the four KPIs, then the Job and Quote pipelines.
    3. Check Team Workload to see who's loaded up.
    4. Glance for a Low Ink card; reorder if it's there.

  2. Jump to a job from the activity feed

    1. In Recent Activity, find the job that moved.
    2. Click the row to open that job.

  3. Finish setting up your shop

    1. On the Finish setting up your shop card, click any unchecked item.
    2. You'll land on the right screen (Settings, Inventory, Team, or Quotes) to complete it.
    3. The item checks off automatically next time you return.

  4. Hide the setup checklist

    1. Click the × on the checklist card.
    2. It stays hidden on this browser. (It also vanishes on its own once all items are done.)

Settings & permissions

Who sees it Home is Manager-only. Managers reach it from the Home link and are sent here on sign-in. Designers, production, and installers don't have it in their nav: installers get My Jobs as their work-home, and other roles are taken to the Jobs board instead.

Granting it to a custom role If you build a custom role and want it to see Home, give that role the dashboard access plus Jobs and Inventory access. Home pulls in pipeline and low-ink data, so a role with the dashboard but not those two will hit an error. (Managers already have everything, so this only matters for custom roles.)

Nothing to configure There are no settings on Home itself — it simply reflects what's happening elsewhere. To change what it shows, change the underlying data: rename workflow stages, record payments in Invoicing, assign jobs in Jobs, and so on.

Tips & common pitfalls

  • "Revenue (Paid)" means money actually collected. It sums paid invoices — not approved quotes or sent invoices. Quoted-but-unbilled value shows separately in the Quote Pipeline, and money owed shows in Outstanding.
  • "Completed This Month" follows your finish stage. A job counts as completed when it reaches your shop's final workflow stage. If you rename or reorder stages, the count shifts to match.
  • The setup checklist is only a nudge. It never blocks anything, and dismissing it is per-browser — clear your browser data and it may reappear until all five items are genuinely done.
  • Low Ink only appears when there's a problem. No card means every channel is above its threshold. Set thresholds and printers in Inventory.
  • For trends and profit, go to Reports. Home is a right-now snapshot. Month-over-month revenue, conversion funnels, time-per-stage, and the Profit Leak Detector live in Reports.
  • It's read-only. You can't edit numbers here — click through to the job, invoice, or setting to make changes.
  • Reports — the deep business-intelligence dashboard; Home is the daily snapshot.
  • Jobs — the pipeline, recent activity, and team workload all come from here; it's also the home screen for non-managers.
  • Quotes — the quote pipeline summary.
  • Invoicing & billing — the revenue and outstanding figures.
  • Inventory — low-ink alerts and the "add materials" checklist step.
  • Team — workload names and the "invite your team" step.
  • Settings — brand color, shop details, and workflow stages that Home reflects.
  • Onboarding — the setup checklist picks up whatever onboarding left undone.
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