Monday morning
Your Monday morning dashboard
Two minutes of reading and you know your week. A tile-by-tile walk through what’s on the screen — and what stays dim until you have the data to fill it.
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What this does
Pulls every signal worth glancing at — how Sunday went, who’s new, who’s slipping — onto a single page so Monday morning takes two minutes, not twenty.
When you’d use it
Monday between coffee and email. Once a week is plenty. Open Dashboard, read top to bottom, decide whose card you owe a call. You don’t interact with the dashboard — you read it and leave. The real work happens on Follow-ups and Messages.
The dashboard bloomsas you use the app. A church with zero people sees a welcome screen and a checklist. A church that’s taken attendance once sees the full grid. This is on purpose — empty stat cards with em-dashes look like a broken house. The tiles arrive when the data does.
Step by step
The header
Top of the page. Reads “Welcome back, [your name]. [Latest count] attended [latest service].”If you haven’t taken attendance yet, the second sentence flips to the setup checklist line. The name comes from what you entered at signup — if it’s wrong, fix it on Settings.
The onboarding checklist (until everything ticks)
A four-step list: add your first people, print the connect card QR, create your first event, and take attendance this Sunday. Each step shows checked or unchecked based on real data — the checklist isn’t guessing. Once all four are checked, the checklist quietly disappears.
The quick-action row
Four cards: Add people, Record attendance, View follow-ups, Send message. These are shortcuts — the same screens you can reach from the sidebar, one tap closer for Monday. The row hides on brand-new churches so the welcome stack stays tight.
The weekly summary tile
A short, written summary of last week — how many came, who was new, who’s missed three Sundays in a row, what to think about. It’s written by an AI assistant against your church’s data and sent to you as an email at the same time it appears on the dashboard.
The email lands Monday morning (the job runs at 12:00 UTC, which is around 7 a.m. Central / 8 a.m. Eastern). If you signed up Wednesday and don’t see one yet, that’s expected — the first summary covers the week that just ended, so a mid-week signup means the first email arrives the following Monday. View past summaries at the bottom of the tile keeps a running archive.
The stats row
A grid of four numbers across the top:
Total people. Everyone in Peoplewho hasn’t been deleted. Includes visitors and inactive members.
Last attendance / Avg service attendance. When you have one recurring service, the tile shows that service’s rolling average. When you have two or more, the tile flips into a Servicesbreakdown with each service named separately — a cross-service average lies when your Sunday service is 80 and your Wednesday group is 6.
Weekly reach (only when you have 2+ services). Unique people across the last four weeks. Shows up instead of a single “last attendance” tile when your data warrants it.
New visitors. How many people filled out the connect card in the last seven days.
The attendance trend chart
A small bar chart of the last eight services. Each bar is a single service’s headcount, oldest on the left, newest on the right. Only renders once you have at least two services with attendance — a single bar isn’t a trend.
The follow-up pipeline tile
The four follow-up stages with a count next to each: New, Reached out, Returned, Connected. Tap any stage to land on Follow-ups filtered to that stage. The number you actually want to drive to zero by Monday afternoon is the one next to New.
New visitors this week
A short list of the most recent connect-card submissions from the last seven days. Tap a name to land on their profile. If the list is empty, the tile says “No new visitors this week.”
Haven’t attended recently
People who haven’t shown up in a while. The threshold is set per church — the default is 21 days, and you can change it on Settings. The header shows the active threshold (21+ days, or whatever you set). The list is capped at 10 here; a View all at-risk people link at the bottom opens the full list (capped at 500), which prints cleanly for a staff meeting.
This week’s milestones
Birthdays and wedding anniversaries falling in the next seven days, with the date next to each name. The tile hides entirely when there’s nothing in the window — an empty milestones tile would be pastorally useless every week of the year except one. Add a birthday or anniversary on the person’s profile to feed this tile.
What you won’t see (yet)
The dashboard doesn’t show prayer requests as a tile today — you’ll find them on a person’s profile and (when present) inside their connect card. If your church relies on prayer requests as a Monday signal, let us know and it earns its own tile.
If something goes wrong
The dashboard is just a welcome card and a checklist.That’s the first-run view — nothing’s broken. The page expands once you add a few people, create an event, and take attendance once. The checklist tells you the next step.
The weekly summary tile isn’t there. The job runs once a week, Monday morning UTC. If today is Sunday, you’re early. If it’s Tuesday and still missing, check your email’s spam folder for a Ministry Manager email — the first one sometimes lands there for new domains. The tile appears as soon as the first summary is written.
The attendance trend doesn’t show up. You need at least two services with check-ins for a trend to exist. One service is a number, not a line.
Someone’s on “Haven’t attended recently” but they were there Sunday. The Sunday check-in might not have been recorded. Open Events, find the service, and use Edit attendance to add them. The dashboard recomputes on the next page load.
The inactivity window feels wrong. The default is 21 days, which works for most weekly churches. If your services are bi-weekly or monthly, change the threshold on Settings so the tile surfaces the right people. The change takes effect on next page load.
The greeting is wrong / missing your name. The first name is read from your account profile. Update it from Settings — the greeting falls back to “Welcome back” when no name is set.