Analytics & Dashboards
Build charts over your own records, group them onto dashboards, and read the Performance and Executive Monthly boards.
By Sebastian StreiffertPublished Jan 10, 2026Updated May 4, 20268 min read
What you can do here
Analytics answers questions about your own records. You build a chart, put it on a dashboard, and it stays current because it reads the same data everyone is working in.
| The question | What to look at | Where |
|---|---|---|
| "How is the pipeline doing?" | Deals by stage, as a funnel | Funnel chart on deals |
| "Are we creating enough new business?" | Deals created each month | Bar chart, bucketed by month |
| "Which of us is closing?" | Win rate per person | Performance board |
| "Did revenue actually grow?" | What was gained and lost each month | Executive Monthly |
| "Where do deals stall?" | Time and drop-off between stages | Stage conversion chart |
| "How big is this customer?" | One figure you can put on a wall | KPI number |
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- 1Your dashboards: Yours and the ones shared with you
- 2Charts: Drag to rearrange and resize
- 3Click through: Any bar or slice opens the records behind it
Build your first dashboard
Create it
Analytics → Create Dashboard. Name it after the question it answers, not after a department. "Pipeline health" beats "Sales".Add a chart
Decide who sees it
Build a chart
Start from what you are counting
Pick the records first: deals, contacts, companies, activities, tasks, invoices, or lists. Then how to measure them, which is usually a count, a sum of value, or an average.
Then pick a shape
| Chart type | Reads well when you want |
|---|---|
| KPI number | One figure, with the change against the period before. |
| Bar, stacked, 100% stacked | Compare groups. Stacked splits each bar by a second thing. |
| Line, area, combo | Change over time. Combo mixes bars and a line. |
| Pie, donut | Share of a total. Keep the groups few or it turns to confetti. |
| Funnel | Drop-off through ordered steps. |
| Stage conversion | Conversion rate and average days between stages. |
| Treemap | Size comparison when there are too many groups for bars. |
| Data table | The rows themselves, sortable, with a CSV export. |
Then set the window
The period sets how far back to look, from today through to a custom date range. The bucket sets the grain: day, week, month, quarter, or year. There are also seasonal views that stack the same month across years, which is how you see whether August is always quiet or only quiet this time.
Compare people and teams
The Performance board puts everyone on the same metrics: activities, meetings, deals created, deals won, revenue, win rate, and tasks done.
- Choose a scope: everyone, a few people you pick, or team by team.
- Compare head to head: put a handful side by side. Pick at least two.
- Save a cohort: keep a selection you look at every week instead of re-picking it each time.
Read recurring revenue
Executive Monthly takes invoiced revenue month by month and shows what moved. A flat total can hide churn cancelled out by expansion, and this is where you see that.
| Movement | What it means |
|---|---|
| New | A customer billing for the first time. |
| Reactivated | Billing again after a gap. Not a new logo. |
| Expansion | More than last month. |
| Contraction | Less than last month, still a customer. |
| Churn | Billed last month, nothing this month. |
Four views sit on the same numbers: Overview, Movement, Segment, and Cohorts. The headline figures are total, existing and new revenue, net and gross revenue retention, and new clients.
When something looks wrong
| What you see | What to do |
|---|---|
| A chart is empty | Widen the period. A month view on a quiet week shows nothing. |
| A number looks too high | Click it. The records behind it are the fastest way to find the odd one. |
| Revenue is higher than you expect | Draft invoices are counted by default. Turn Count drafts off. |
| A board says you need permission | Performance and Executive Monthly are granted separately. Ask an admin. |
Forecasting is its own feature with its own models, not something you configure here. See Forecasting.
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