The dashboard
The dashboard is the first screen you see after signing in. It is a status report on your whole account: what you hold, what it is worth, what you catalogued last, what is out on loan, and what everyone has been doing.
Everything on it reads across every collection at once. For the numbers behind a single collection, see Understand your collection statistics.
Portfolio summary
Six numbers run along the top.
- Collections. How many collections the account holds.
- Items. How many items you have catalogued, and how many of them arrived this month.
- Copies. How many physical pieces you actually own. Three copies of the same comic are three copies of one item.
- Estimated value. What everything is worth, added up from the most recent valuation of each copy. Underneath it says how many copies carry a valuation at all.
- Added this month. What the pieces acquired since the first of the month are worth.
- Average per item. The estimated value divided by the number of items.
A copy nobody has valued still counts as a copy, and adds nothing to the value. That is why the estimated value tells you how many copies are valued: if the two numbers are far apart, the total is telling you less than it looks.
Amounts on the dashboard read in the currency of your account, which you set in the account settings. A collection can name a currency of its own, but an account wide total has to settle on one.
Recent additions
The five newest items in the account, with their photo, the collection they belong to, the condition and location of their first copy, and how long ago they were added. Select one to open it.
Your collections
The four collections you touched most recently, each with what it holds, how many copies, and what it is worth. All collections takes you to the full list.
Loan snapshot
Where custody stands right now, without opening the loans section: how many pieces are lent out, how many you have borrowed in, how many are overdue, how many fall due in the next thirty days, how many are planned, and how many have come back. If any deposits are held or owed on open loans, the total sits underneath.
Overdue is also called out in the greeting at the top of the screen, so you see it before anything else. To act on any of it, go to the loans section.
Where things are
The five locations holding the most value, drawn as bars against the biggest one. Copies you have valued but not shelved anywhere are grouped as No location, which is a useful nudge: value you cannot point at on a shelf is value you cannot find.
Account activity
The latest actions across the account, from every member, with who did what and how long ago. This is the front window of the activity feed and audit trail.
Customize what you see
Not every collector cares about every block. Select Customize in the top right and turn off the ones you do not want.
The screen updates immediately and your choice is remembered for next time. It belongs to you alone, so turning off the loan snapshot changes nothing for anyone else in the account. Reset turns everything back on.
A block added to the dashboard later shows up for everyone, including people who have customized the screen before, so you never quietly miss a new feature.
Brand new accounts skip it
A fresh account with no collections is taken to the getting started checklist instead. Once the first collection exists, or once an owner hides the checklist, the dashboard takes over as the landing screen.
Where to next
- Dig into a single collection's numbers: Understand your collection statistics.
- Find anything in the account: Search across your account.
- Understand the activity feed: The activity feed and audit trail.
- Keep track of what is out: Lend and borrow copies.