PayPolka

Dashboard

Start on the dashboard to see what needs attention: hours to log, invoices to finish, or overdue balances to follow up. The page shows the information your role can access.

Owners, admins, and accountants see invoice and payment summaries. Members and managers see their week and projects without financial figures.

This week

Owners, admins, managers, and members get one line about their own week: hours logged so far, an Open my time link, and Log expense. Accountants don’t log time and don’t get this line. Two things can appear after it.

If you review other people’s time and approvals are on, an orange link says “3 weeks waiting for your approval” and opens the Team page’s review queue.

If one of your own weeks was sent back or is waiting, a link names it: “Week of Sep 1: Sent back” in red, or “Submitted, waiting for approval” in orange. See Time tracking.

For members and managers this line is a card at the top. For owners and admins it sits under the greeting.

The five tiles

Outstanding is the balance on every sent, unpaid invoice. It’s orange when above zero and links to View invoices.

Overdue is the part of that balance on invoices past their due date, in red, with a count of invoices underneath.

Open estimates is the dollar value of quotes still in play, with a count. It adds sent estimates that haven’t been answered and accepted estimates that still have money left to invoice. Drafts don’t count. Neither do archived estimates, or sent estimates past their valid-until date.

Collected (30 days) is what your clients paid in the last 30 days, less any refunds you made in those 30 days, in green.

Invoiced MTD is the total of invoices issued since the first of this month, sent or paid.

The three lists

Each list shows up to five items. Draft invoices and Overdue show the real total in the header. For open estimates, the count is on the tile.

Draft invoices, newest edit first. Each row has the number, client, and total. Open a draft when you are ready to review and send it.

Overdue, soonest due date first. Each row has the number, client, how many days late, and the balance in orange. When it’s empty it says “Nothing overdue.”

Open estimates, largest first. A sent estimate shows “Waiting for response” and its total. An accepted estimate with money left shows “Ready to invoice” and the amount remaining. Click through and the estimate page has the Amount to invoice box. See Estimate to invoice.

Recent activity

The last 20 things that happened to money: invoice events, estimate events, and payments. Each row has a date, time, a title that links to the document, a detail line, and a kind label (invoice, estimate, payment). Members and managers don’t see this feed.

My projects

Members and managers get this card instead of the money tiles. It lists every active project with its client, alphabetically, and each row opens the project page. From there they log time and expenses. See Projects.

The trial banner

During the free trial, owners and admins see an amber banner at the top until a card is on file: “Free trial ends” with the date, and an Add a card button that opens Settings, Account. The trial doesn’t need a card to start, and nothing is charged until it ends. See Account settings.

The two-factor notice

Until you turn on two-factor authentication, an amber notice sits near the top: “Recommended: turn on two-factor authentication”, with Set up and Remind me in 30 days. Turning it on takes a minute; see Account settings.

A daily routine

Overdue first. If it’s above zero, open the list and follow up.

Then drafts. Send them or delete them. A draft that’s been sitting for a week is usually one of the two.

Then open estimates. “Ready to invoice” rows are accepted estimates with an amount left to bill. Check the agreed billing schedule before creating an invoice.

For the bigger picture behind these numbers, the Accounting page has the year’s invoiced, collected, and outstanding figures. See Accounting and statements.