Charts
The dashboard ships with a catalog of pre-built charts that read directly from your live data. Drop them on the dashboard like any other widget, pin the time range you care about, and they update as soon as new attendance or donations come in.
You'll find every chart in Dashboard → Edit → Add widget → Charts.
The chart catalog
The most useful charts for most churches:
| Chart | What it shows | Where the data comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Member growth | Net new members per month | members.created_at, minus lost_at events |
| Active vs lost | Side-by-side bars of active vs lost members over time | members.status history |
| Attendance trend | Total weekly attendance, by meeting type if you split | attendance joined to meetings |
| Seasonal patterns | Same week-of-year stacked across the last 3 years | attendance rolled up by ISO week |
| Giving over time | Donation totals per month, optionally split by fund | donations filtered to amount_redacted = false |
| Demographics | Age bands, gender split, marital status pie | members joined to genders, relationship_statuses |
Every chart respects the dashboard's global filters (org unit, member type) plus its own time range.
The time-range picker
Each chart has its own picker in the top-right of the card: Last 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 12 months, YTD, All time. The selection persists per user — if you set member-growth to "12 months" once, it stays 12 months for you across sessions.
Override the global range
The dashboard has a global time-range filter at the top of the page. Individual chart pickers override it. So you can have a quarterly snapshot for most charts and pin one chart to "All time" without breaking the others.
If the chart was given an override, a small badge appears next to the picker so you know at a glance which charts are pinned outside the global range.
Hover details
Hover any bar, point, or wedge and a tooltip appears with the exact value, the period, and a delta vs the prior period. For stacked bars (active vs lost, giving by fund), the tooltip lists each segment with its individual count.
Click a data point to drill in: the members module opens pre-filtered to the matching cohort. Click a month in member-growth and you'll land on the list of members created in that month. Click a fund in giving-over-time and you'll see donations to that fund for that month.
Donations are filtered by privacy
The giving charts only include rows where amount_redacted = false. If your org marks specific donations as private — major gifts, anonymous gifts — those rows count in the donation count but not in the dollar totals. See Record a donation for the full rules.
Save as part of your dashboard
Once a chart is sized and ranged the way you want, leave Edit mode and the layout sticks. If you're an admin, Save as default publishes your layout as the org-wide default for any user who hasn't customized theirs.
See Customizing your dashboard for the drag/resize/save flow and Custom widgets for building your own from a query.
Next steps
- Customizing your dashboard — drag, resize, hide.
- Widget catalog — the non-chart widgets (KPI tiles, today's focus, member lists).
- Custom widgets — build your own widget from a custom query.