Your dashboard: widgets, layouts, and the numbers on it
The dashboard is a grid of live widgets (rent income, rent due, occupancy, owner payouts, leasing, bookings, maintenance). It starts from a layout for your rental type, and you can rearrange, resize, add or remove widgets with Customize, change each widget's range or Earned/Collected basis, and admins can save a team default.
The Dashboard is your home page: a grid of widgets, each reading live data from the same ledger, bookings and payout runs as the rest of Nexxus.
Where the starting layout comes from
You see, in order of preference: your own saved layout, then your team's default, then a built-in layout for your rental type (short-, mid- or long-term). The built-in layouts lead with a row of stat tiles (for example Rent income, Rent due, Occupancy & turns, Owner payouts), then the daily digest and quick actions, then charts and lists. Team members get an operations-first version without the owner-money widgets.
Customize
Click Customize at the top right. Then:
- Drag a widget to move it, use the corner handle to resize it, or remove it.
- + Add widgets opens the Widget Library: search, or browse New, Recommended for you, Popular on your team and the categories (Money, Leasing, STR & Calendar, Operations, Owners, AI, Utility). Previews use your real data.
- Presets ▾ → Reset to my default, or start from the Short-term rentals (STR), Mid-term rentals (MTR) or Long-term rentals (LTR) layout.
- Admins can click Set as team default, which becomes the starting layout for teammates who haven't saved their own.
- Done saves your layout, and Cancel throws away the changes.
The library also has Create with AI for building a custom widget by describing it. See Meet Nex.
Per-widget controls
Range-driven widgets have a time range picker in their header. Your choice sticks to that widget. Rent income also has an Earned / Collected toggle: Earned (the default) is income recognized when it's due, and Collected is cash actually received. Charts have a Chart options menu where you can show the current, still-filling month to date (drawn dashed as "so far") or hide it until it closes. Some charts also switch views. See Occupancy, revenue charts, and channel numbers for how the numbers are calculated.
A few widgets worth knowing
- Rent income: this month's income paced against last month. Longer ranges show monthly bars, with the current month provisional.
- Rent due and Delinquency aging: who owes rent right now and how late it is. See Due now and past-due balances.
- Owner payouts: runs awaiting approval or send this cycle, the next run date, and management fees year to date. To work the runs, see Reviewing, approving and sending a payout run.
- Paid to owners: monthly owner disbursements. A month with drafted, unsent runs is drawn as provisional.
- Occupancy & turns and Vacancies: occupancy tonight with its trend, and which units sit empty, for how long and when the next stay starts.
- Owner health and Property performance: paid year to date and pending runs per owner, and every unit side by side with revenue, occupancy and open tasks.
New accounts
Until setup is finished, the account owner sees a setup progress card above the widgets. Its checklist includes importing your data (Importing your data).
Related guides
Occupancy, revenue charts, and channel numbers
Occupancy is occupied nights over the nights you actually managed each rentable unit. Every dollar figure comes from the ledger, either Earned (income recognized when due, the default on the dashboard's Rent income widget and two reports) or Collected (cash actually received), never from booking totals.
Rent due, Due now and past-due balances
The dashboard's Rent due widget lists every tenant who owes money today — after credits, with days late, one click to their ledger. Covers how Due now and past due are calculated, why long-departed tenants drop off the widget (never the ledger), and how to send a payment reminder.
Reviewing, approving and sending a payout run
How to work a month on the Payouts page: read the draft, check each line's Built from proof, add rent the ledger missed or an owner expense, make a one-off correction, Approve, then Send by direct deposit or mark it sent after paying another way.
AI assistant: meet Nex
Nex is the AI assistant built into Nexxus: it answers how-to questions, looks up your own portfolio (who owes rent, what's free, why a payout changed), and drafts replies, payment reminders, work orders, vendor emails, lead updates and application notes as approval cards that only run when you approve them. It never moves money, signs anything or messages anyone on its own.
Reports: what's available and how to run them
Reports has eight runnable reports: Operator Income Summary, Owner Income Statement, Owner Payments (paid), Revenue by Property, Tenant Ledger, Maintenance & Expenses, and the Owner 1099-MISC and Vendor 1099-NEC worksheets. Each runs for a preset or custom period and exports to CSV and branded PDF. Operator Income and Revenue by Property open on Earned; the rest count cash.