Dashboard Overview
What's on your Dashboard, before and after Greenroom approves your company
Your Dashboard is a snapshot of where your production stands right now — not a checklist. It greets you, gives you one clear action, and shows what's happened with payroll so far. The setup checklist itself lives on a separate Company setup page; see Setup Progress and Approval Status for how the two connect.
Greeting and primary action
At the top, Greenroom greets you by first name ("Good morning, Jordan") along with your company name and show name, and gives you one button: Run payroll — or Resume payroll, if a run is already underway, which takes you straight back into it.
While your company is waiting on approval
If Greenroom hasn't approved your company yet, a banner appears below the greeting. Its wording changes with where you are in the process:
| Status | What the banner says |
|---|---|
| Not yet submitted | "Finish company setup, then submit for review" — with a link to Company setup |
| Submitted / under review | "Submitted — Greenroom is reviewing your company" |
| Changes requested | "Changes requested — see the reviewer's notes" — with a link back to Company setup |
In every case, the banner is explicit that only payroll is waiting on approval — setup, payees, and reports are already usable. Once Greenroom approves your company, the banner disappears for good.
Before you have any payees
A brand-new company sees an empty state instead of any payroll data: "Let's get [your show] ready for payday", with a reminder that union rules are already loaded, and an Add payees button to get started.
Once you have payees
With payees on the roster, the Dashboard fills in:
Alert cards. If a payroll run is currently open, a card links straight back into it. If any payees haven't finished onboarding yet, a second card shows how many, with a small progress bar — those payees are automatically excluded from payroll runs until they're done.
Company snapshot. Six numbers at a glance, each comparing itself to the prior run in green (up) or red (down) where a comparison makes sense:
| Metric | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Last run gross | Gross pay on your most recent run |
| Last run net | Net pay on your most recent run |
| Active payees | Total payee count, broken down by type |
| Fringe last run | Fringe/benefit contributions on your most recent run |
| YTD gross | Year-to-date gross, with a small trend sparkline |
| Next check # | The next physical check number in sequence |
Payroll spend. A bar chart of your paid runs' gross pay over time, with a line showing your running average, so an unusually high or low week stands out.
Recent payrolls. A short table of your latest runs — code, status (Draft, In review, Approved, Processing, Paying out, or Paid), and gross pay — with a link through to the full payroll history.
Best practices
- Check the approval banner if it's showing — it tells you exactly what's blocking payroll, if anything is.
- Use the "payees not onboarded" alert to catch stragglers before you try to run payroll and find them excluded.
- Glance at the payroll spend chart before submitting a run — a bar that's way off the average line is worth a second look before you approve it.
Next steps
Continue to Setup Progress and Approval Status to understand company setup and the approval banner in more depth, or head to Company Setup to begin configuring your production.