Your Monday Morning Command Center

You grab your coffee, open Vitals, and right away you see it: 847 people in attendance this Sunday (up 12% from the same week last year), giving was $23,400 (down slightly from last week but up 8% year-over-year), and 14 first-time guests filled out connection cards.

That's the power of the Vitals dashboard. Before your staff meeting even starts, you already know the story of the weekend. No waiting for someone to pull reports from three different systems. No guessing. Just clear, honest numbers that help you lead well.

Whether you're a senior pastor who wants the big picture, a campus pastor tracking your location, or an executive pastor preparing for an elder board meeting, the dashboard gives you exactly what you need in about five seconds.

The large card at the top of your dashboard is your quick-read scorecard. It puts three columns side by side so you can instantly see how this week compares:

Below the summary card, each metric gets its own card — attendance, giving, online viewers, first-time guests, and whatever else you track. Think of these as individual vital signs for your church (yes, that's where the name comes from).

Here's a real-world example: Your attendance sparkline shows a steady climb over the last 6 weeks, but this week dipped. Before you worry, you glance at the year-over-year comparison and see you're still up 15% from this time last year. That dip? Probably just a long weekend. The sparkline helps you see the forest, not just the trees.

At the bottom of the dashboard is the Trends chart — a full-width, 12-week rolling view of any metric you choose. This is where patterns jump off the screen.

For example, you might overlay attendance and giving to see if they move together. At many churches, giving actually stays strong even when attendance dips slightly in summer — that's a sign of a healthy, committed congregation. Or you might notice that first-time guests spike every time you run a sermon series with an invitational title. That's the kind of insight that shapes your programming calendar.

Click any metric name in the legend below the chart to switch what's displayed. You can overlay up to two metrics at once to spot correlations.

The dashboard always opens to your most recent week, but you can browse any past week using the week picker in the top-right corner. Selecting a prior week loads a full snapshot of all metrics exactly as they were recorded for that Sunday.

This is handy when you're preparing for a planning meeting and someone says, “What did Easter look like this year?” Just pick that week, and every number is right there — attendance, giving, guests, everything. No searching through emails or old spreadsheets.

The week picker snaps to Sundays. If your church meets on Saturdays, data will still be attributed to the weekend period and appear when you select that week.

If your church has multiple campuses, a campus dropdown appears in the top navigation. By default it shows All Campuses, which sums every location's data into one combined view — great for senior leadership who want the whole picture.

Select any individual campus to see only that location's metrics. This is exactly what campus pastors need: their own numbers, their own trends, their own story. A campus pastor at your north location doesn't need to sort through south campus data to find out how their service went.

Campus pastors with restricted access will only see their assigned campus in the dropdown — so you don't have to worry about people seeing data they shouldn't.

Every church is different. Maybe you don't track online viewers. Maybe giving is the first thing your executive pastor wants to see. Vitals lets you tailor the dashboard to show exactly what matters — in the order that makes sense for your team.

Numbers without context can be misleading. Here are some practical tips for interpreting what you see — so you can lead with wisdom, not just data.

The bottom line: let year-over-year comparisons be your North Star, use sparklines to spot trends early, and always ask “what was happening in the life of our church that week?” before reacting to a single number. Data is a tool for wise leadership, not a source of anxiety.