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Understanding your dashboard

The Dashboard is the page you land on every time you sign in — your greeting, your day's to-do list, your system health, ten KPI cards and a stack of charts. This is the deep reference: what every card, pill and chart means, and how to read the two very different things a red pill can be telling you.

10 min read Beginner Updated August 25, 2026

The Dashboard stacks top to bottom in clear bands: a hero row (your greeting on the left, Today's focus on the right), the System Health banner, a strip of KPI cards, and then the larger charts. If you just want the lay of the land — the sidebar plus a quick pass over each band — read the Platform quick tour first; this guide is the level deeper. Everything below the greeting is a presentation layer over what your Clones, Connections and conversations actually do, so on a brand-new account most cards read or 0 until things start moving.

The hero row: greeting and Today's focus

The top band is two cards side by side. On the left is the greeting card: your avatar, a time-of-day greeting, your email, and a short status line. The greeting itself changes with your local clock — Good morning, Good afternoon or Good evening — followed by your name (it quietly drops the name if you never set one, since a new account's name defaults to your email).

Under the greeting sits a one-line summary of what's waiting on you. When nothing is, it reads "You're all caught up across your clones." When something is, it counts it — for example "You have 2 pending approvals and 1 handover request across your clones." Below that, three meta chips show your plan (with a TRIAL tag if you're on a trial), your units in the form 104 of 2,500 units · 2,396 LEFT, and an Active until date.

If a subscription payment falls behind, the plan chip also grows a red Past due (or Unpaid) pill next to the plan name. Click it to open a quick pay panel — "Your last payment didn't go through. Update your billing to keep your plan active." — where you settle the outstanding invoice in one click and reactivate your plan. See A renewal payment didn't go through for the full flow.

What “Active until” means

The Active until chip shows your plan's period-end (renewal) date — the same date you'll see in Your plan under Account settings. It is not the units-reset date. The separate units-cycle reset — when your monthly allotment refills — lives on the Billing tab, in the Plan units remaining box as a Resets… line.

When units run low, a banner appears here

While you have plenty of units the greeting card stays quiet. Once you drop below 15% remaining it grows a low-units banner (with Buy units and Upgrade plan buttons), and below 5% — or at zero — it turns to a red critical banner warning that AI responses will pause when you run out. The same thresholds drive the UNITS gauge further down the page, so the two always agree.

The right card is Today's focus — think of it as a short daily to-do list the Dashboard builds for you. Its header carries a counter of open items, and below it sit a few prioritized rows. Each row has a coloured icon badge, a label, a meta line, and a button that either takes you to the right page or opens the right panel.

Focus rowWhen it appearsIts button
N conversations awaiting handoverA human takeover was requested in one or more conversationsReview (opens Messages)
N responses pending approvalReplies to post comments are held waiting for your authorization before they sendReview (opens Post replies)
N unread notificationsYou have unread notificationsOpen (opens the notifications flyout)
N reviews flagged as spam or abusiveThe Reviews module flagged reviews that wait on your decisionReview (opens Reviews)
N reviews need approvalReviews are held before going liveReview (opens Reviews)
N published reviews have no replyPublished reviews have been live for more than 3 days with no replyReply (opens Reviews)
N questions are unansweredQuestions asked on your product pages are waiting for an answerAnswer (opens Reviews)
All caught upNothing is outstanding — the list's calm stateRefresh (re-checks for new items)

Rows that don't apply simply aren't shown, so the list stays tight — and every row except All caught up carries an × Dismiss button that hides it without resolving it (a dismissed row comes back once its count grows past the number it was dismissed at). When there's nothing to do, you get a single All caught up row reading "Nothing needs your attention right now" — and the counter reads 0. When there is work, the counter is the number of open rows — it's a tally of what's waiting, not a checklist you tick off by hand.

The Dashboard hero row: greeting card on the left (avatar, greeting, plan / units / Active until chips) and the Today's focus card on the right with its open-items counter and one focus row
The hero row: who you are and what your plan looks like on the left, the day's priorities on the right.

Your KPI cards

Below System Health is a grid of small KPI cards. The first four are always visible; a Show N more toggle reveals the rest, and a gear button next to the toggle opens the customizer (covered at the end). Out of the box the four on top are Messages Responded, Pending Approval, Handover Requested and Active Conversations.

Every card has the same anatomy: a small label top-left, an outline icon top-right, a big value (sometimes with a unit tail like % or / 100), a muted sub line, and — bottom-right — a delta pill. The pill is the part worth understanding well, because the same red pill can mean two completely different things.

The pill has three states

Grey em-dash () — nothing to show: either nothing changed, or this card has no earlier value to compare against yet. Green pill, up-chevron (e.g. +3) — a positive movement. Red pill, down-chevron (e.g. +50 or -0.5%) — see the next paragraph, because red means one of two things.

Here's the key distinction. On trend cards, the pill is a comparison: green-up means the number rose versus the previous period, red-down means it actually fell. Conversion Rate is the clearest example — its pill is the signed difference versus last month, so a red -0.5% is a genuine dip. On attention cards, a red pill is not a bad trend at all — it's a count of things waiting for you right now. Unread Notifications showing a red +50 means you have 50 unread notifications, full stop; it's a backlog flag, not a falling metric. When an attention card's count is zero, its pill goes grey and its sub line reads All clear.

Quick test: is this a trend or an attention pill?

If the card's sub line says Needs attention / Unread (or All clear when empty), its red pill is a queue count — clear the queue and it goes grey. If the sub line is something like vs last month, the red pill is a real downward trend. The three attention cards are Pending Approval, Handover Requested and Unread Notifications.

This table maps every KPI to its value, its sub line and exactly how its pill behaves. The four marked are the default-visible top row; the rest live under Show N more.

KPI cardValueSub linePill behaviourType
Messages Respondedcountthis weekAlways grey dash (no comparison)
Pending ApprovalcountNeeds attention / All clearRed +N when > 0, else grey dashAttention
Handover RequestedcountNeeds attention / All clearRed +N when > 0, else grey dashAttention
Active ConversationscountLast 7 daysAlways grey dash
Total ContactscountN this weekGreen +N when new-this-week > 0, else greyTrend
Active LeadscountN qualifiedAlways grey dash
Conversion Ratevalue + %vs last monthGreen up / red down vs last month; grey if equalTrend
Avg Engagementvalue + / 100score out of 100Always grey dash
Active HandoverscountCurrently with agentsAlways grey dash
Pending ReviewscountNeeds attention / All clearRed +N when any wait, else grey dashAttention
Average Ratingvalue + / 5names the averaging windowGreen up / red down — here up is good; dash when a window is emptyTrend
Unread NotificationscountUnread / All clearRed +N when > 0, else grey dashAttention
Pending Approval counts post-comment replies only

Pending Approval — and the matching Today's focus row — counts held replies to post comments only. Direct messages held for review (a connection's Direct-message review option set to Hold until approved) don't appear here: review them on the Messages page, where each conversation shows a pending badge. Don't sit on those — on WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger a held reply expires and can no longer be sent if it isn't approved within the platform's 24-hour reply window. They do count in the Response Status chart's Pending bucket, so that chart can show Pending while this card reads All clear.

Active Leads counts leads currently in the Cold, Warm, Hot or Qualified stages — Converted and Lost don't count. It's a snapshot of right now, with no time window, and it doesn't merge the same person across channels: someone with contact rows on Instagram and WhatsApp can contribute more than one active lead. The sub line counts the Qualified ones.

Conversion Rate is calendar-month math, in UTC — not a rolling 30 days: leads created this month whose current stage is Converted, divided by all leads created this month. A conversion is attributed to the month the lead was created, not the month it converted — which is why last month's figure can still move days after the month closed — and, like Active Leads, it doesn't deduplicate a person who exists on several channels.

Two conversion figures, two formulas

The Dashboard shows two different conversion numbers. The Lead Pipeline footer's Conversion is Converted ÷ (Converted + Lost) over all time; the Conversion Rate KPI card is this month's created-and-converted ÷ created. They measure different things and needn't agree — a great historical closer having a quiet month can show 80% on one and 0% on the other.

Avg Engagement averages each contact's engagement score, which runs 0–100: 40% frequency (their messages and conversations), 40% recency of the last interaction, 20% sentiment. Opens, comments and conversions don't feed it. It's a live snapshot with no period — and a contact with no activity at all sits around 14 rather than 0, because recency has a floor and sentiment defaults to neutral.

The two review cards read IcloneU's own Reviews module — not Google or Meta. Pending Reviews counts reviews waiting for approval, account-wide with no time window. Average Rating averages published reviews out of 5 — the last 30 days when the month has any, otherwise all-time — and its sub line names the window it used; with no published reviews it shows a dash, never 0.0. Both cards arrive behind Show more unless you pin them with the gear — and remember that no KPI card is clickable; the Reviews section further down is where rows navigate.

The KPI strip: four cards on top with one showing a red +N attention pill and another a green up-chevron trend pill, the Show N more toggle and the gear button to its right
Same anatomy on every card — label, icon, value, sub line and a delta pill. Watch whether that red pill is a trend or a queue.

The System Health banner

Between the hero row and the KPI cards sits the SYSTEM HEALTH banner. It runs a set of checks over your connections, Clones and knowledge sources and reports the result in one line. It has three looks: a blue running state — "Running health checks…" — while it works; a green passed state — "All systems healthy. X of Y checks passed." — when everything's fine; and a red failed state — "N of M checks failed. Open details to resolve." — when something's off, with a "last run" time alongside.

Two buttons sit on the banner. Details slides open a panel that breaks the run into ISSUES and PASSING, with a TOTAL / PASSED / ISSUES summary at the top; a failing check that's tied to a specific connection offers a Fix button that jumps you to that connection so you can reconnect it. Re-run runs the checks again on demand — useful right after you fix something.

The System Health banner in its green passed state showing All systems healthy with a checks-passed count, a last-run time, and the Details and Re-run buttons
One line tells you whether your connections, Clones and knowledge are healthy; Details breaks it down, Re-run re-checks.

The charts

Below the KPI cards come the larger visual sections. Each has a title and lives in one of the section groups you can reorder or hide. We'll take them by theme — leads and contacts, then responses, then usage, then the per-Clone breakdown. (What you see depends on your permissions; some sections only appear if you can view contacts or responses.)

Every day-by-day chart counts days on your own clock

The charts that split activity by day — Messaging activity's sparklines, the daily unit spend bars and Clone performance's Messages handled — bucket each day by your browser's timezone. Not the server's, and not your account's reply-timing timezone: a message that lands at 7:30 PM your time counts on that day, and the newest bar carries today's local date. The IcloneU mobile app buckets by the device's calendar for the same reason, so the two agree.

Leads & contacts

These three live in the Lead & Contact Intelligence group.

  • Lead Pipeline — six vertical bars for the funnel stages Cold → Warm → Hot → Qualified → Converted → Lost, each bar's height scaled to its count with the number printed inside. The subtitle reads {total} total leads · {qualified} qualified, and a footer shows three figures: Conversion (converted ÷ closed), Avg Score, and Hot + Qualified. The first five stages ramp from light to dark purple; Lost is red.
  • Contacts by Platform — a donut splitting your contacts across channels, each segment in that platform's own brand colour (Instagram pink, WhatsApp green, and so on — the one chart that escapes the purple palette). The subtitle reads {N} contacts across {M} channels, and hovering a slice shows its count and share.
  • Recent Buying Signals — a list of AI-detected purchase-intent moments (its subtitle is "AI-detected purchase intent"). Each row names the signal type and the contact, with a score bar underneath (green at 80+, amber 50–79, brand purple below) and the score plus a date on the right. Until any are detected it reads "No buying signals detected yet."

Top engaged contacts

The Top Engaged Contacts section is a table (titled Top Contacts) of your five most engaged contacts, with a View All link to the full Contacts page. Each row shows the contact (name + platform), an engagement score out of 100 drawn as a coloured bar and percentage, a type badge (Lead / Customer / Returning / VIP), a sentiment face, and the contact's total conversation count. Empty until you have contact data, where it reads "No contact data available yet."

Response analytics

The Response Analytics group holds two cards. The section header has a Refresh button and a date-range picker (Last 7 / 30 / 90 days, This month, This year).

  • Response Types — a donut of your replies broken down by type, with a Filter button to scope it to all clones, posts, direct messages or chats. The subtitle counts what's in view, e.g. 186 replies · all clones. Read it as the mix of what kind of replies your Clones are sending.
  • Response Status — a horizontal stacked bar reading Sent → Outbox → Pending → Cancelled → Failed, because delivery is a sequence, not a pie. A green % delivered chip sits in the header, and a five-up summary under the bar gives the exact count in each bucket. Outbox folds in replies still in flight to the platform, including retries; Pending is replies awaiting your authorization; Cancelled is its own bucket for replies you declined; Failed counts only genuine delivery failures. Read it as how far your replies got.

The donut's categories are the reply classifications — the same vocabulary you see on a reply's ⓘ popover in Messages and in the authorization checkboxes:

LabelMeans
GreetingAn opening or welcome
AnswerA question answered
No knowledgeNo answer found in the clone's knowledge
ThankGratitude acknowledged
CongratulateA congratulation
NegativeA negative comment handled
SpamClassified as spam
ViolenceViolent or self-harm content
Outside scopeOutside what the clone handles
OtherAnything else
UnknownNot classified
AutomationProduced by an automation rather than the clone's AI

The Filter narrows the donut to post replies, direct messages or chats, and the section's range selector (default Last 7 days) governs both cards. One nuance: the range is read on your own device's clock — the browser's timezone — so a last-7-days window means your last seven calendar days, not the server's and not your account's reply-timing timezone.

Two nuances on Response Status: the % delivered chip deliberately leaves cancelled replies out of its denominator — rejecting proposed replies doesn't dent your delivery rate — and the five buckets always add up to the total shown, but that total only counts replies that travel the delivery pipeline, so live-delivered web-chat replies aren't in it.

Messaging activity

The Messaging Activity group is three small cards, each with a big number, a this week sub line, a delta chip versus the previous week (green up / red down / grey dash), and an area sparkline of the daily trend. They are Chat conversations, Message responses and Direct Message Conversations. The section header carries its own date-range picker that drives the window.

Usage & performance

The Usage & Performance group leads with three half-circle gauges. Each fills its arc by percent-used and tints itself as it climbs — brand purple when fine, amber for LOW / NEAR LIMIT, red for CRITICAL / AT LIMIT / OVER LIMIT — with a matching badge in the corner. A Manage plan link sits in the section header.

  • UNITS — your unit balance: used against total capacity (plan grant plus any prepaid you've bought). The meta reads {N}% used · {M} remaining, and a Top up link opens the buy-units flow right on the page. This gauge uses the same Low / Critical thresholds as the hero banner. Units power AI responses and storage overflow — see Understanding usage and limits for the full picture.
  • KNOWLEDGE STORAGE — how much of your plan's knowledge-storage cap you're using, measured as post-conversion (compressed and transcribed) text in the vector store. When your plan includes none, it reads "Knowledge storage not included"
  • DOCUMENT STORAGE — your plan's cap for raw uploaded files. Usage is measured live from your stored files; when it can't be read, the gauge shows instead of a number.

The same group also charts your daily unit spend — a stacked bar per local day, split by what consumed the units — so a spike traces back to the feature that caused it.

Clone performance

The Clone performance section has its own filters — a Clone picker (or All clones), a Last 7 / 15 / 30 days range, and a Refresh button — and stacks three cards:

  • Messages handled — daily message volume, stacked by platform, over the chosen range. Hovering a day shows that platform's count and the day's total.
  • Top intents — the most frequent signals the Clone detected in conversations, as a short ranked bar list.
  • Unanswered gaps — questions the Clone couldn't answer, each with how many times it came up (e.g. ). These are exactly what's worth adding to your Knowledge library — see Keeping your library up to date.
Tip

Each of these cards shows "No data in this range yet." when there's nothing to plot — widen the date range or pick a different Clone if a card looks empty.

Five details worth knowing: the section's window and its daily bars follow your device's local calendar, not UTC — a conversation at 8 PM your time counts on that day. Messages handled is total message volume — the customer's own messages included — not just Clone replies. The intents and unanswered-questions lists are each capped at their top 5. Unanswered questions are grouped semantically by a nightly process, so "how much is it?" and "what's the price?" count as one gap. And there's no built-in action on a gap yet — copy the question and add the answer to your Knowledge library by hand.

Reviews

The Reviews section summarizes the reviews collected by IcloneU's own Reviews module. A scope selector up top switches between All, Store and a specific product — and All and Store are not the same thing: a store review is one with no product attached, so Store is a subset, never the union of the products.

Seven header tiles follow: Total, Published, Pending (amber when any wait), Unanswered (amber when any), Average rating (a dash when nothing is published — never 0.0), % verified buyers, and Median approval time — the median minutes from a review's submission to a moderator's decision, over the last 90 days. Median on purpose: one review forgotten for three months would wreck an average. Accounts that auto-publish everything correctly show a permanent dash there.

Two bar panels break the reviews down — by classification (positive, neutral, negative, spam, abusive, plus unclassified, a legitimate bucket for CSV-imported reviews that never passed through the AI) and by stars from 5 down to 1, computed over published reviews. A review-request funnel (sent → received, with the rate) appears once you've sent any requests. At the bottom, the 5 most recent reviews — any state — each with stars, author, verified-buyer mark, product and status; clicking a row navigates to the Reviews page. The section requires the View reviews permission.

Your Audience Avatar

The newest section of the Dashboard is an aggregated psychographic profile of your audience, generated from the customer voice your account already stores — published reviews, post comments and conversation messages. No external data is used.

When an avatar exists, the card shows: a portrait — a prose demographic summary with a confidence pill, the audience's awareness level with its rationale, and the corpus size used; a confirmation progress bar; three evidence columns — Goals & desires, Pains & frustrations, Objections — each entry backed by quotes; your customers' words — the literal phrases your audience uses; suggested hooks per stage, each with a button to use it directly in a broadcast; and a provenance footer with the generation date.

You can confirm or correct each conclusion inline — corrections are saved and feed the next generation. Update opens a modal with an optional steering note that the next generation treats as an owner's instruction; the button only registers the request — there's a 60-minute cooldown, a background worker does the generating, and the card shows a generating state until the new version lands. History lists every version with its date, state and corpus size, and any non-failed version opens read-only. A scope selector (shown when you have saved segments) keeps a separate avatar, history and cooldown per segment.

Generating consumes units

Generating an avatar spends units — which is why the first one is always requested by hand, with the Generate button. After that it refreshes itself when at least 7 days have passed and 25+ new corpus items exist, or after 30 days with any new material. The section needs only the View contacts permission and sits near the bottom of the Dashboard.

Sales Recovery

The last section on the page is Sales Recovery — one card, titled Recovery performance, answering one question: did the marketing messages your account sent turn into purchases? Its subtitle states the rule it works by: "Purchases attributed to your marketing touches — recovery flows, sequences, and broadcasts (last touch within 7 days)."

It is a table with one row per source and a Last 7 days / Last 15 days / Last 30 days picker in its header, opening on 30. The columns are Flow, Messages, Contacts, Purchases and Revenue: how many marketing messages that source sent, how many different contacts they reached, how many purchases were credited back to it, and what those purchases were worth. Revenue shows instead of a number until something is credited.

Three kinds of source show up, each under the name you gave it. A store connector's marketing events — browse, cart and checkout abandonment, plus Hotmart's subscription-cancelled winback — read as the connector and the event, like Shopify — Cart abandoned. A sequence's row reads Sequence followed by the sequence's own name; a broadcast's reads Broadcast and its name the same way. Delete the sequence or broadcast afterwards and the row survives with # and its id in place of the name, so the history doesn't vanish with the object.

Last touch, not full funnel

A purchase is credited to the most recent marketing message that contact received in the 7 days before they bought — one purchase, one row, never split between two flows. So the table tells you which flow was last in the door, not everything that contributed. Revenue adds up each order's total exactly as it was recorded, which is what the card's own tooltip warns about: "Revenue sums order totals as recorded; mixed-currency stores see a blended figure."

The rows are written from the same per-contact marketing ledger that enforces the marketing frequency cap, and a row is recorded for every identified contact even when the caps are off — which is why the report still works on an account that never turns them on. A contact IcloneU could not identify produces no row, so anonymous traffic is invisible here by design. Until something has been sent in the window the card reads "No recovery messages sent in this period yet. Connect a store and set a recovery workflow Live to start measuring." The section needs the View contacts permission and nothing else.

Customize your dashboard

None of this layout is fixed. The gear button at the right of the KPI strip opens the Customize Dashboard dialog, which has two tabs — Sections and KPI cards — and an N shown · M hidden count at the top of each.

  1. Open the dialog

    Click the gear at the end of the KPI strip. It opens on the Sections tab; switch to KPI cards with the tab bar to manage the strip instead.

  2. Toggle and reorder

    Each row has a drag handle, up / down arrows, and an on-off switch. Drag or arrow rows into the order you want, and flip the switch to show or hide. On the KPI tab the first four visible cards get a TOP 4 badge (always above the fold) and the rest a SHOW MORE badge; hidden ones read HIDDEN.

    Note

    On the KPI tab, whichever four visible cards sit highest become your always-on row — so reordering doubles as choosing which metrics stay above the fold.

  3. Save (or reset)

    Click Save to apply — nothing changes until you do, and Cancel discards your edits. A Reset to Defaults link restores the out-of-the-box layout.

The Customize Dashboard dialog on the KPI cards tab: rows with drag handles, TOP 4 / SHOW MORE / HIDDEN badges and on-off switches, the shown / hidden count, and the Reset to Defaults / Cancel / Save controls
The gear opens Customize Dashboard — reorder, toggle, then Save.

Frequently asked

It depends which card. On attention cards (Pending Approval, Handover Requested, Unread Notifications) a red +N is just a count of items waiting on you — clear them and the pill goes grey. On trend cards like Conversion Rate, a red down-chevron means the number genuinely fell versus the previous period. The card's sub line is the tell: Needs attention / Unread means it's a queue; vs last month means it's a trend.

A grey em-dash means there's nothing to compare yet — many cards (Messages Responded, Active Leads, Avg Engagement, Active Handovers, Active Conversations) simply don't carry a prior-period value, so they show a dash by design rather than a fake trend. Attention cards also show a grey dash whenever their count is zero.

Today's focus is an action list — it surfaces only the things you can do something about right now (handovers, pending approvals, unread notifications, and Reviews-module items like flagged or held reviews, unreplied published reviews and unanswered questions) with a button to go handle each. The KPI cards are measurement — a steady read on your numbers. There's overlap (a pending-approval count shows in both), but focus is "what should I do today" and the cards are "how are things going."

The Dashboard only reflects real activity. With no Connections active and no Clone replies yet, charts read 0, "No data…" or "…not detected yet". They fill in as you connect channels and your Clones start handling conversations.

Because a conversion is attributed to the month the lead was created. A lead created in June that converts in July raises June's rate — so a closed month's figure can keep moving for a while. It isn't a bug.

Yes — the gear at the right of the KPI strip opens Customize Dashboard, where the Sections and KPI cards tabs let you toggle, reorder and reset everything. Changes apply only after you click Save.

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