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Dashboard and Overview

Cashlytics has two summary surfaces: Dashboard for fast status checks and Overview for broader monthly context.

Dashboard​

Use the dashboard to verify that your financial data is up to date after adding or changing accounts, income, expenses, or transfers. Changes show up immediately.

The dashboard contains:

  • four KPI cards: Monthly Balance, Monthly Income, Monthly Expenses, and Savings Rate
  • a Reserves card for the reserve plan
  • Upcoming Payments
  • Expenses by Category
  • Recent Transactions

KPI Cards​

  • Monthly Balance is income minus expenses of the current month across all accounts. It is not a total of your account balances.
  • Savings Rate is an amount in your currency (the same difference), not a percentage.
  • Income and expenses show a trend against last month.
  • Transfers between your accounts do not count in these totals.

Calculation View: Reserve vs. Cashflow​

The Calculation View switch changes how Income, Expenses, and Savings Rate are calculated. The default is Reserve.

  • Reserve: non-monthly items are spread into a monthly amount (for example a yearly bill divided by 12).
  • Cashflow: shows the payments that are actually due this month.

The same switch exists on the account detail page.

Upcoming Payments and Recent Transactions​

  • Upcoming Payments lists the next 14 days: the next due date of each recurring expense (one-time expenses excluded) plus daily expenses dated in the future. Subscriptions carry a card icon.
  • Recent Transactions shows the five most recent daily expenses. Income, transfers, and recurring expenses do not appear here.

Overview​

Use Overview when you want a broader snapshot of the current month. It contains:

  • Payment Calendar: a monthly calendar of planned income and expenses with day details; you can switch months.
  • KPI cards for income, expenses, and balance.
  • Active Subscriptions: the expenses marked as subscription, with a monthly sum.
  • Expenses by Category.
  • Monthly Fixed Costs, Reserves for Periodic Expenses (with Open reserve plan), and the total of both.
  • 3-Month Forecast.
  • An account filter when you have more than one account.

Common Checks​

  • If a recurring item is missing, check its start date, end date, and recurrence type.
  • If totals differ from what you expect, check the Calculation View (Reserve or Cashflow).
  • If category totals are incomplete, assign categories to expenses and daily expenses.
  • If imported rows do not appear, finish the CSV import confirmation step.
  • The dashboard totals are calculated from income, expenses, and transfers. The balance you set on an account does not affect them.