What You'll See
The Dashboard is your operational home screen. It's the first item in the left sidebar, or go straight to yoursubdomain.goodstay.pet/dashboard.
In order, top to bottom:
- Stat cards — Current Guests, Available Spaces, Total Spaces, and Pet Owners. The Current Guests card breaks down where everyone is (e.g., "4 boarding · 6 daycare" — daycare is named only if your facility offers it).
- Facility Occupancy — occupied-of-total spaces, an available count, a percentage bar, and a By Space Type breakdown
- A three-up row of the things needing attention:
- Care Tasks — Today's completed vs. total care items (feedings, medications, and recurring care tasks) with a progress bar and an Open Daily Tasks button to the Daily Care Tasks board
- Vaccination Alerts — Pets whose vaccines have expired or expire within 60 days — six at a time, with an overflow link to the full Vaccination Alerts page
- Recent Activity — A log of recent actions across your facility
- Today's Check-Ins / Today's Check-Outs — today's arrivals and departures side by side, each with a one-click Check In / Check Out button
- Daycare Today — If your facility offers daycare: today's capacity bar (booked vs. total), status counters, and a Play Areas list showing each yard's booked-of-capacity
- Grooming Today — If your facility offers grooming: today's booked-vs-open grooming slots, status counters (Expected / In Chair / Complete), and a Next Up card with the pet name, services, and time
- Upcoming Reservations — a look-ahead table (7 / 14 / 30 days) of who's booked next, with pet, dates, space, nights, and status
- Overdue Checkouts — An alert listing stays still checked in past their check-out date, with a days-overdue badge and a link to the Overdue filter on the Reservations list. Only appears when something is overdue.
During your free trial, a card above the stat cards offers to have the Goodstay team import your client records for you (it disappears once your roster is in, or when your trial ends). While an import request is in flight it shows the import's status instead.
The Sidebar
Every staff page shares a left sidebar organized into collapsible sections. What you'll find (some items appear only when relevant to your facility):
- Daily — Dashboard, Daily Tasks, Boarding Roster, Daycare Roster, Grooming (the daily schedule), Schedule (Arrivals & Departures), Recurring Schedules
- Bookings — Reservations, Messages, Availability, Waitlist, Daycare Packages, Blocked Dates
- Facility — Customers (the pet owner database), Welcome Packets, Pets, Vaccine Reviews
- Business — Invoicing, Contracts, Promo Codes, Report Cards, Activity Log, Analytics (which expands into Revenue, Forecast, Occupancy, Customers, Seasonal, and Regulatory on report pages), Settings
- Management (owners and managers only) — Staff, Export Data, Import Data
Your name and avatar sit at the bottom of the sidebar — click them to open your Profile. To sign out, use the Sign out button at the top right of the Dashboard.
The Daycare Board (the live kanban of today's daycare dogs) isn't a sidebar item — open it with the Board button on the Daycare Roster. Likewise the weekly Grooming Calendar is reached from the Availability page's view tabs.
Quick Actions
- Click any pet's name on a check-in or check-out row to open that reservation's detail page — or use the inline Check In / Check Out button right on the row
- Click View all on a section to navigate to the full list (e.g., all reservations, all alerts)
- Press Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows/Linux) anywhere to search the Help Center
The Dashboard reloads its figures when you navigate to it or take an action on it. To see a colleague's just-made check-in, refresh the page.