# Dashboard

The Dashboard is your church's home screen — a snapshot of what's happening, updated live
from your real data. Every card loads independently and simply hides itself if you don't
have permission to see it or if there's no data yet, so a Volunteer login might see a much
shorter Dashboard than an Administrator's, and that's expected.

## Quick actions (Volunteers and Members)

People who don't manage the church's records — Volunteers and Members — see **Quick actions**
instead: one tile per screen they can use, such as Welcome a visitor, Check-in, Attendance,
My serving, My availability, My giving and My profile. The **My serving** tile also shows
their next date to serve and whether they've confirmed it. Tap a tile to go straight there.

## What you'll see

**Quick actions** at the top (add a Member, log a Visitor, create an Event, jump to the
Calendar) — each only appears if your role allows that action.

**Getting started checklist** — new churches see a dismissible card above the numbers with
whatever setup is still open: setting your timezone, adding your first members, inviting your
team, and confirming your church's data responsibilities (see
[Data & Privacy](#/data-privacy)). Click an item to jump straight to it. The card disappears
on its own once everything's done, or you can dismiss it yourself — either way it won't come
back.

**Key numbers strip:**

- Active members, with how many joined this month.
- Serve on rotas, as a percentage of active members.
- People currently in a small group.
- Visitors this month, and their conversion rate.
- What's coming up in the next 7 days.
- Rotas that still need volunteers (shown in amber when there are any).
- Net giving/income this month.

Click a number to open the screen behind it (for example **Active members** opens Members),
as long as your role can use that screen.

**Main panels:**

- **Next 7 days** — a merged agenda of events, ministry activities and small-group
  meetings, soonest first.
- **Rotas needing volunteers** — any upcoming service role that's short-staffed.
- **Last 6 Months** — a bar chart of new members and new visitors by month.
- **Conversion funnel** — how visitors move through your follow-up stages.
- **Birthdays** — everyone with a birthday in the next 30 days, today's highlighted.
- **Member Status** — a breakdown of your members by status (and by sex, if you track it).
- **Growth Ladder** — a count of active members at each growth stage. See
  [Growth Ladder](#/growth-ladder).

If your church tracks a minor age cutoff, you may also see an **Approaching adulthood**
card — members who will cross that age within 90 days. See
[Members](#/members) for how that cutoff works.

## Why a panel might be missing or empty

- **Missing entirely**: you don't have permission to read that data (for example, a
  Volunteer typically can't see Finance numbers).
- **Present but empty**: the data exists as a feature, there's just nothing to show yet —
  for example, no visitors logged this month.

## Notes on the numbers

- Times shown in the Next 7 Days panel use your browser's local time as a quick glance —
  the [Calendar](#/calendar) is the authoritative source for exact times and timezones,
  especially if your church has locations in different timezones.
- Money figures convert every row into your church's default currency before totaling, so a
  mixed-currency month still shows one meaningful number. See
  [Giving & Finance](#/finance) for how currency conversion works.