Quick answer
The Dashboard tab shows a row of counts across every open job, a "Needs attention" strip of the jobs with a deadline inside 30 days, overdue, or awaiting review, and four columns of jobs by status.
When you meet this
Any time. It is the first tab in the top navigation, next to Jobs, Clients and Settings. Partners and seniors use it to watch the practice; anyone with a working role can open it.
What the counts mean
Each count is worked out from the open jobs (a job that is signed off, closed, abandoned or reads Complete has left the pool). For deadlines, AllDone takes the soonest date still ahead for each job out of four: your firm's internal target for the job, the Companies House filing deadline (nine months after the year end), the CT600 deadline (twelve months) and the corporation tax payment date (nine months and a day).
Deadlines overdue. Jobs whose soonest deadline has passed.
Behind vs deadline. Jobs with a deadline inside 45 days that are still in Planning, Records intake or the first four Work steps: the clock is ahead of the progress.
Due within 30 days. Jobs whose soonest deadline is within 30 days.
Statutory due within 30 days. The Companies House deadline only, within 30 days.
Waiting on the client. Open jobs with at least one open client query.
Open client queries. The queries themselves, across the firm.
Awaiting sign-off. Jobs at the review stage.
Open jobs. Everything not yet finished.
Signed off this month and Avg days to sign-off. Finished jobs this calendar month, and the average from a job's creation to its sign-off.
Needs attention
Below the counts, the "Needs attention" strip lists every open job that is awaiting review or has a deadline within 30 days or overdue. Each card shows the client, the year end, the job's status and the deadline that triggered it, with the days remaining or the days overdue in red. Click a card to open the job.
Jobs by status
The rest of the page is four columns: To start, In progress, Awaiting review and Signed off / closed. Each card carries the client, the year end, the job's derived status (for example "Awaiting records" or "Blocked") and its next deadline. Full jobs list at the top right opens the searchable jobs table. See The jobs list and what each job status means.
If something looks wrong
A job shows overdue against a deadline you have already met. The internal target is set on the job's details screen and the statutory dates follow the year end; a job that is filed but not signed off in AllDone stays in the open pool until its sign-offs are recorded. See Second review and sign-off.
The internal target is missing. It is agreed on the Before call and saved to the planning schedule, or typed on the details screen under "Internal deadline". See The Before call.
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