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# Understanding the Dashboard
The Dashboard shows your organization's membership, properties, invoices, and recent activity at a glance, and it is the first screen you see after you log in. It is built for looking, not typing: apart from the three Quick Actions shortcuts for adding a member, property, or invoice, nothing on it is a form to fill out.
##### **Your Organization's Summary**
At the top of the Dashboard, two cards show your organization's summary. Click either card to open that full list:
- MEMBERS card — a count of the members in that organization. It opens the Members list.
- PROPERTIES card — a count of the properties in that organization. It opens the Properties list.
Below those cards, Quick Actions offers three shortcut buttons (Create Member, Create Property, and Create Invoice) that jump straight into the real create form, not a simplified version of it. See [How Do I Use Quick Actions on the Dashboard?](https://help.hoastart.app/how-do-i-use-quick-actions-on-the-dashboard?hsLang=en).
##### **Invoice Status and Member Status charts**
Two donut charts summarize the selected organization's activity at a glance:
- Invoice Status — the organization's total invoice count broken down by Open, Late, Paid, and Voided.
- Member Status — the organization's total member count broken down by Created, Invited, Expired, Active, and Deactivated.
These charts are visual summaries only — the segments aren't clickable, but hovering over a segment shows its count, for example "3 Late Invoices". To see the individual invoices or members behind a status (for example, every Late invoice), go to Balances for invoices or Members for members, and filter by that status there.
##### **Recent Member Activity**
Below the charts, a list shows the organization's most recently active members, each with a View Profile button that opens that member's full profile page so you can jump straight to a record without searching for it first. The list loads more members as you scroll down, so there are no pages to click through.
##### **Good to Know**
- Your Dashboard also includes Open Invoices, Overdue Invoices, and Paid Invoices tiles and an Outstanding Invoices table. These show your own invoices (the ones billed to you), not the totals for the whole organization. It also has a Recent Property Activity list whose View Profile buttons open each property's profile page and a My Properties section covering any property you're personally attached to. The Organization Owner's Dashboard also shows an Organization Admins list with a Manage Admins shortcut.
- You can sort the Outstanding Invoices table by clicking the sort icon in a column header such as Invoice #, Invoice Name, Property, Issued, Due, Status, Amount, or Late Fees. The table reorders by that column.
##### **Related articles**
- [How Do I Use Quick Actions on the Dashboard?](https://help.hoastart.app/how-do-i-use-quick-actions-on-the-dashboard?hsLang=en)
- [Dashboard & Reporting](https://help.hoastart.app/dashboard-reporting?hsLang=en)
- [Members](https://help.hoastart.app/members?hsLang=en)
- [Properties](https://help.hoastart.app/properties?hsLang=en)
- [Documents](https://help.hoastart.app/documents?hsLang=en)
- [Email & Communication](https://help.hoastart.app/email-communication?hsLang=en)
- [Budgets & Expenses](https://help.hoastart.app/budgets-expenses?hsLang=en)
- [Invoicing & Billing](https://help.hoastart.app/invoicing-billing?hsLang=en)
- [Payments](https://help.hoastart.app/payments?hsLang=en)
- [Bank Reconciliation](https://help.hoastart.app/bank-reconciliation?hsLang=en)
- [Organization Settings](https://help.hoastart.app/organization-settings?hsLang=en)
- [Support](https://help.hoastart.app/support?hsLang=en)
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