Getting Started
Understanding the dashboard
The home dashboard (/dashboard) is your overview of pipeline, attention items, and recent activity.
Navigation
Desktop (md and up)
- Sidebar: New Proposal (top CTA), then Home, Proposals, Clients, Invoices, Contracts, Reports (Advanced). Footer: Invite users (Soon), Settings, Documentation (
/docs), Sign out. Clients, Contracts, and Reports may show a lock until your plan unlocks them. - Top bar: Search (includes Help & Docs), theme toggle, Get started checklist, and Help (Documentation + Contact support).
Mobile
- Bottom tab bar: Home, Proposals, Invoices, Clients, More (not a hamburger menu).
- More opens a sheet with Contracts, Reports, Settings, Documentation, Sign out (and Usage analytics for admins).
- Floating + creates a new proposal (
/dashboard/new).
See Mobile navigation for details.
Everywhere
- Get started panel: Checklist for signup, first proposal, branding, payments, and first invoice — open from the checklist icon.
- AI support chat: Message control (bottom-right; sits above the mobile tab bar on dashboard pages) — answers from the docs. See Using the AI support chat.
Main widgets
- Pipeline value — Pending / Approved / Unpaid style chips, plus shortcuts like New Proposal and Send Invoice.
- Needs attention — Proposals with changes requested, stale sent proposals (about 3+ days), and stale sent invoices (about 7+ days). Overdue invoices are tracked separately (see invoice auto-overdue).
- Proposal status cards — Counts for Draft, Sent, and Approved.
- Setup tips — Gentle prompts if branding, payments, or a first invoice are still missing.
- Charts (Advanced) — Paid invoice revenue over time and approval rate on the home dashboard. Deeper analytics live under Reports on Advanced.
- Recent activity — Latest movements across your workspace.
Plans and trial
If you are on a trial or Free plan, the sidebar (or mobile More sheet) may show remaining trial days and an Upgrade / Pay now link to Subscription settings. If you turned off auto-renew (cancelling at period end), the card explains that access won’t renew and offers Resubscribe instead of implying an upcoming charge — see Upgrading, downgrading, cancelling.
This documentation is a living guide and may not cover every edge case yet. Features and labels can change as Docora evolves.
Still stuck? Contact us at support@docora.io.