Dashboard customization

The dashboard is the first thing your team sees every morning — its job is to surface the right numbers without burying anyone in noise. Dashboard Settings is how you tune that mix: which stat cards show, what alert thresholds fire, what products get pinned for quick-glance tracking, and whether the post-count summary email goes out.

Standard cards

Three at-a-glance stat cards can be toggled on or off. Each shows the headline number plus a week-over-week comparison.

CardToggleWhat it shows
Inventory costOn/offTotal value of current inventory, computed from receipt costs (weighted average).
This week's spendingOn/offTotal received this week, with WoW comparison.
Weekly wasteOn/offTotal waste cost this week, with WoW comparison.

Turn off any card you don't want the team distracted by. Numbers are still computed and available in reports.

Alert thresholds

Two numeric thresholds tune the underlying alert engines, regardless of which dashboard cards are visible.

Expiration date warning

How many days before expiration to surface a product on the dashboard. Default 7. Range 1–90.

Tighter (3 days) keeps the card minimal — only truly urgent items show up. Looser (14 days) gives the team more lead time but more clutter. See expiration alerts.

Price alert threshold

The percentage cost change on a receipt that triggers a price alert. Default 5%. Range 1–100.

Lower (2–3%) catches more drift but creates noise from rounding and small per-case variations. Higher (10%) catches only meaningful jumps. See price alerts.

Low stock and Needs attention

The Low stock card and the Needs attention list react to what you've already ordered, so the dashboard reflects what's actually handled:

  • On order quiets the signal. When a low-stock product is covered by a pending order, it drops out of the Low stock count and the Needs attention list — you've dealt with it.
  • The Low stock card is a shortcut. Tapping it opens the order list in Order to par mode, pre-set to refill everything that's low. See order list overview.
  • Overdue gets louder. If a placed order passes its expected delivery date unreceived, the item comes back as a red "Delivery overdue" row. See overdue deliveries.
  • One row per product. A product surfaces under a single, most-actionable stock signal — overdue, then low stock, then stockout risk — never two rows for the same item.

Highlighted products

A custom section where you pin specific products you want tracked on the dashboard at a glance. Useful for high-value items, items with tight margins, or anything the team needs visibility on without opening the full inventory list.

  1. Open Dashboard settings.

  2. In Highlighted products, tap Add product and pick from the list.
  3. Drag to reorder. The order here is the order shown on the dashboard.
  4. Remove any product whose card is no longer useful.

There's no hard cap, but in practice 3–6 highlighted products is the sweet spot. Beyond that the section starts taking over the dashboard.

Email summary

When an inventory count session completes, Rinvy can send an email recap to owners and managers — low-stock items, reorder recommendations, and counts that changed significantly since the previous session.

ToggleEffect
Inventory count summaryEnables the post-count email to owners and managers (requires canViewReports).

Turn it off if your team already reviews the post-count screen in person and doesn't need the recap.

What's not in Dashboard Settings

A few things you might expect here but live elsewhere:

  • Timezone, operating days, business-day cutoff — see kitchen settings.
  • Push notification preferences — see push notifications. Per-user, not per-restaurant.
  • Billing / plan — Kitchen Settings → Billing (Owner-only).

Common mistakes

Turning off the alert card to silence the alert

Hiding the price alerts card doesn't stop alerts firing — the threshold still triggers them, and they still push-notify (if configured) and surface in the attention list. Adjust the threshold instead.

Pinning too many highlighted products

Past 5–6, the section dominates the dashboard and stops being scannable. Pick the products that matter today; rotate as priorities change.

Forgetting that "Inventory cost" is at receipt cost, not retail value

The number is what you paid for what's on hand, not what it would sell for. The retail value would need menu prices and an assumed consumption rate — out of scope for the card.

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