The Admin Panel is the staff-facing home screen — the first thing administrators and operations users see when they sign in. It's a dashboard of quick links, KPIs, and shortcuts to the most-used parts of the application.
What You See
- KPI bar: Today's most important numbers — total active users, orders in the last hour, revenue this month, open support tickets, failed background tasks.
- Navigation cards: Grouped by category (Operations, Configuration, Reporting), each opens a particular admin section.
- Recent activity feed: Last 20 noteworthy events — new signups, large orders, failed payments.
- Quick actions toolbar: Common actions a click away — create user, send broadcast, view error log.
- Saved searches: One-click access to filtered views the admin uses frequently.
Customisation Levels
- Per-user: Hide cards you never use, reorder, pin favourites.
- Per-group: Default layout for each security group (e.g. support team sees ticket cards prominently; finance sees revenue and invoices).
- Per-tenant: Brand colours, custom logos, tenant-specific KPIs.
- Per-platform: Custom panels via the Page Builder.
Worked Examples
- Operations dashboard: KPI bar shows today's tickets, calls, escalations. Cards link to ticket queue, knowledge base, agent performance reports.
- Finance dashboard: KPI bar shows MRR, churned customers, overdue invoices. Cards link to invoicing, subscription management, Stripe sync status.
- Marketplace operations: KPI bar shows new vendor applications, disputes, GMV. Cards link to vendor approval queue, dispute mediation, fraud review.
- Product team: KPI bar shows feature usage, NPS, error rate. Cards link to feature flags, A/B test results, error log.
Tip: Each group's default layout should answer “if I look at this screen first thing in the morning, do I know my day's priorities?”. Anything that doesn't help with that should be hidden or moved off the home view.