The sales dashboard

Reading the booking and sales widgets, what each number counts, and how to lay the page out.

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The sales dashboard

The sales dashboard answers two different questions on one page: what needs doing today, and how are we performing. The worklists at the top are the first; everything below is the second.


Table of Contents

  1. Opening it
  2. The worklists
  3. The headline numbers
  4. What counts as a meeting
  5. The charts
  6. The timeframe pills
  7. Changing the layout
  8. Why a number looks wrong

Opening it

Go to Dashboard. If your workspace has more than one dashboard available, add ?view=sales to the address to open this one directly.


The worklists

These two sit directly under the headline numbers because they are the reason to open the page each morning.

WidgetWhat it lists
Unconfirmed – next 48 hoursAppointments happening in the next two days that nobody has confirmed. This is the call list.
Awaiting outcomeAppointments whose date has passed with no result recorded. Anything sitting here more than a week is flagged red.

There are three more lists available: upcoming appointments for the next seven days, recently won deals, and reminder delivery.


The headline numbers

MetricWhat it counts
Meetings bookedAppointments dated in the selected period
Meetings heldThose recorded as a sale or no sale – the meeting happened
Attendance rateHeld as a share of held plus no-shows
No-showsThe client did not arrive
Meetings movedAppointments rescheduled at least once
Sales wonAppointments that resulted in a sale
Conversion rateWon as a share of meetings held
Revenue from meetingsValue of the deals won
Average deal sizeRevenue divided by deals won
Weighted pipelineOpen deals multiplied by each stage's probability

Each tile compares against the previous period of the same length. For no-shows and meetings moved, fewer is better, so a fall shows as a green arrow.


What counts as a meeting

A meeting metric counts appointments by the date they are scheduled for, not the date the card was created. "Twelve weeks" means the appointments dated in the last twelve weeks, whenever they were booked.

This keeps the funnel honest: booked, confirmed, held and won are all measured over the same set of appointments, so each step is a subset of the one before it.

The pipeline widgets are the exception. Open deals are a right-now number, so they ignore the timeframe entirely – the card says so.


The charts

  • Meetings over time – held and no-shows as bars, with total booked as a line over them
  • Outcome split – how appointments ended: sale, no sale, no-show, moved, or no result yet
  • Booking funnel – booked to confirmed to held to won, with the drop-off at each step
  • Revenue from meetings – value won per period with a running total
  • Pipeline by stage – open deals and their value per stage, with the probability-weighted forecast
  • Sales person performance – booked, held, no-shows, won, conversion and revenue per person

The timeframe pills

The pills at the top left set the window: 14 days, 12 weeks, 12 months or 24 months. Every widget that depends on a period states its window on the card, so you can always see which cards moved and which are fixed.


Changing the layout

  1. Click Edit layout
  2. Drag cards to move them, or drag an edge to resize
  3. Click + Add widget to add more, including extra KPI tiles set to different metrics
  4. Click Save

The layout is yours alone. Reset returns to the standard layout, and administrators can publish a layout as a company view for everyone.


Why a number looks wrong


Meetings held is lower than expected

An appointment only counts as held once someone records its outcome. Check the Awaiting outcome list.


Meetings moved shows zero for older appointments

Reschedules are only counted from the point this tracking was introduced. Appointments moved before then cannot be counted retrospectively.


Revenue looks low

Revenue counts the value on deals marked as a sale. If the value is captured when the appointment is booked rather than when it closes, it reflects the estimate rather than the final figure.


See also

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