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How to Use the Dashboard

Read your home Dashboard at a glance, today's conversation metrics, AI impact, trends over time, and recent chats.

The Dashboard is your home base. It gives you a live, single-screen read on how your chatbots are doing today: how many conversations came in, how they were handled, the value your AI is adding, and trends over time. It is the first thing to check at the start of the day.

Who can use this

The Dashboard is available to Account Managers, Supervisors, Admins, and Owners. Agents and Support Agents work from Live Chats instead.

Open the Dashboard

Select Dashboard in the sidebar (under OVERVIEW). It opens on the current organization.

The Dashboard showing Today's Overview with Conversation Status, Performance, and Rates and Analytics cards

Today's Overview

The top of the page is a real-time snapshot of today's activity, grouped into three rows.

Today's volume

When you use more than one channel, a bar above the cards shows how today's conversations split across them, with a count and a percentage for each.

This split matters, because Total counts every channel while the five cards beside it describe chat only. If you run web chat and email, a day with 2 chats and 6 emails shows Total 8 next to a status breakdown that adds up to 2. The badge on the section heading spells this out (Chats only, 2 of 8), and the email conversations are accounted for in their own section below.

Conversation Status

MetricWhat it counts
TotalAll conversations today, across every channel.
ActiveChats currently open and needing attention.
ResolvedChats marked resolved.
ClosedChats closed by an agent or the system.
AbandonedChats the visitor left, worth reviewing.
Auto-ClosedSocial conversations (WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger) closed automatically.

Every metric except Total covers web chat, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. Email and voice have no equivalent status, so they are counted in Total only.

Email

This section appears when your plan includes email and you have received email today. Email threads often play out over days rather than minutes, so they are tracked by reply state instead of by the chat statuses above. The three cards always add up to your email count for the day.

MetricWhat it counts
Awaiting ReplyThe customer sent the last message and nobody has responded yet.
RepliedYou or the AI sent a reply on the thread.
DismissedThe draft was cleared from the SYNC inbox without a reply being sent.

Performance

CSAT Score and NPS Score come from customer feedback. Response Time and First Response track how quickly chats are answered against a benchmark. Transferred counts chats escalated to a live agent.

Rates & Analytics

Resolution Rate, Abandon Rate, and Transfer Rate summarize outcomes. Each card shows a benchmark so you can tell at a glance whether you are on target. These rates are calculated over your chat channels only, for the same reason the status cards are.

Your AI Agent's Impact

This panel translates activity into value: Conversations Handled, Time Saved (estimated at five minutes per chat), Instant Response Rate, and Messages Processed. A milestone bar tracks progress toward your next achievement.

The AI Agent's Impact panel and the Overview charts including Total Conversations Per Day

Overview charts

The Overview section analyses a date range you choose (the picker is at the top right, with an Export button next to it). It includes Total Conversations Per Day, Monthly Transferred Chats, and Chat Status Distribution, so you can spot trends rather than just today's numbers.

Recent Conversations

At the bottom, the Recent Conversations table lists your latest chats with their Chat ID, platform, chatbot, site, status, and sentiment. Select any row to open the full conversation. Sort by any column using its header.

Verify it's working

  1. Start a chat from your widget or the Playground.
  2. Return to the Dashboard and confirm the Total count and Recent Conversations update (the page refreshes in real time).

Troubleshooting

The Dashboard is empty or shows zeros

There is no activity yet for the selected period. Make sure your chatbot is published and that customers have started chatting, then widen the Overview date range.

Numbers look different from Reports

The Dashboard's Today's Overview is scoped to today, while Reports cover the range you pick. Compare like-for-like periods before reconciling figures.