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Dashboard

The dashboard is the first screen every morning: today's revenue, delivery success rate, ad spend, and the small red flags before they become expensive. Built so a founder running 50 orders a day can spot problems in 30 seconds, and a manager overseeing 2,000 orders a day can drill into any anomaly without leaving the page. This is where every workday starts.

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What this module does

  • Live KPIs — revenue, orders placed, orders delivered, RTO rate, ad spend, true profit — for today, last 7 days, and last 30 days, with a custom date range on demand.
  • Alerts for the things that silently kill COD businesses: stuck-in-transit parcels, no-answer confirmations, stock about to run out, ads burning cash on losing products.
  • One-click drill-through into the underlying orders, campaigns, warehouses or products so you never lose context.
  • Multi-currency display — every number renders in your workspace currency (MAD, SAR, AED, EGP, EUR, USD…) without touching stored values.
  • Real-time refresh — the dashboard listens to order status changes and updates automatically as your day unfolds.
  • Per-role dashboards — an owner sees profit; a confirmation agent sees today's call queue. Each role's dashboard is tuned to what they actually control.

Key features

Time-window switcher — Today, 7d, 30d, MTD, YTD, and custom ranges.
Delivery-success snapshot per carrier — instantly see which courier is dragging you down.
Cash flow forecast — projected COD receivables + upcoming payables for the next 30 days.
Ad-attribution summary — what Facebook / TikTok / Google actually delivered, in true profit terms.
Top-5 product movers — the SKUs driving today's revenue.
RTO risk flag — top orders likely to bounce, based on address quality, phone behaviour and product return history.
Quick actions — respond to alerts inline without leaving the page.
Stuck-in-transit widget — parcels that haven't moved in > N days, with one-click follow-up.
Confirmation SLA meter — how many orders are past the "should have been called" threshold.
Warehouse stock alerts — SKUs at or below reorder point.
Return cost tracker — full landed cost of RTO for the period (COGS + delivery round trip).
Weekly digest email — a Monday-morning summary of the week that just closed.

How this changes your business

3× faster decisions

Founders who check core KPIs every morning consistently outgrow those who look weekly — because in COD, one bad ad campaign can burn a week of profit before you notice.

15–30% ad savings

Live cost-per-delivered-order visibility lets you kill losing campaigns days earlier than platform-native dashboards, which only track click-through and hide the RTO cost.

60–80% of your day back

Instead of copying numbers from Shopify + Facebook Ads + your delivery portal into a spreadsheet, one page has all of it — with the returns math already baked in.

48-hour early warning

Stuck-parcel + confirmation-SLA alerts catch problems ~2 days before customer complaints hit WhatsApp. Two days is often the difference between a saved order and a lost one.

Getting started

  1. 1Open the dashboard first thing every morning — before checking WhatsApp, before checking Facebook.
  2. 2Scan the alert strip at the top. Anything red gets handled first.
  3. 3Check delivery-success by courier. If one drops below 70%, click through and investigate.
  4. 4Check ad-cost-per-delivered-order. Kill any campaign above your break-even.
  5. 5Review the confirmation SLA meter — if agents are behind, redistribute the queue before it gets worse.
  6. 6Glance at stock alerts and stuck-in-transit before closing the tab.
  7. 7Only then start your normal work — order fulfilment, customer follow-up, etc.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Looking at revenue instead of true profit. In COD, revenue lies — a $10K day with 40% RTO is worse than a $6K day with 15%.
  • Ignoring the weekly digest email. It's the only proactive nudge that reaches you when the tab is closed.
  • Only checking the dashboard when something feels off. By the time it feels off, you've lost days of margin.
  • Not sharing the dashboard with the team. A confirmation agent who can see today's numbers works differently from one who can't.

Advanced tips

  • Set a "cost of delivery" alert threshold — if per-delivery cost jumps 20% versus last week, something has structurally changed (fuel, carrier fee update, route quality).
  • Compare same-day-last-week vs today for every KPI. Weekends and Fridays behave very differently in MENA — a like-for-like comparison beats a raw number.
  • Use the drill-through on ad ROAS to see WHICH orders drove the revenue. Often two products carry 80% of the campaign — scale those, kill the rest.
  • Bookmark the dashboard as your browser homepage. Zero friction = you actually check it daily.
Pro tip

The most valuable habit for a COD operator is 15 minutes on the dashboard every morning, in the same order every day: alerts → delivery by carrier → ad ROAS → confirmation SLA → stock. Do it 30 days in a row and you'll start noticing weak signals before your team does.

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