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Customize your dashboard

Choose what your Home page opens to and how often it refreshes.

Updated 2026-10-11

Your dashboard preferences are personal. They change what you see, and they do not affect anyone else on your team. Open Settings and choose Dashboard.

What you can set

  • Default reporting period: the period the finance dashboard uses when it first opens.
  • Default cash-flow view: which chart view appears first. You can still switch views on the dashboard.
  • Default Action Center view: which queue opens first, such as the review queue and open client work.
  • Deadline window: how far ahead the Action Center looks for tax and compliance due dates.
  • Automatic refresh: refresh the dashboard every 5 or 15 minutes while the page is open, or refresh manually. Background tabs stay paused.
  • Finance context: show the company, the books-through date, and review status above the KPI cards.
  • Quick actions: keep direct access to upload, transactions, reconciliation, review, close, reports, and Ask Max.

Choose Save preferences. A confirmation says your dashboard preferences were saved.

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