As the owner of a Podia account, you can switch between two different views to help you manage your business and experience your site from a member’s perspective.
In this article, we’ll show you how to navigate your Podia dashboard and switch between these views.
Home feed
The Home Feed is the first screen you’ll see when you log in to your account. It lets you experience your site from a member’s perspective and interact with your content the same way your audience does.
From the home feed, you can see recent activity, create and interact with posts, join discussions, etc.
As the account owner, your Home Feed gives you access to everything you’ve created, so you’ll be able to view all of your products, events, spaces, posts, and other content.
You can easily navigate to different areas of the Home Feed — such as Products, Events, Chats, and more — using the navigation menu.
From the home feed, you and your members will be able to navigate to:
Home: Takes you back to the home feed
Chat: Opens up chat
Products: Allow you and your members to view products you have access to
Events: Opens the Events page
Members: Opens a directory of members of your community
Spaces: Allows you to navigate to spaces you have access to
Admin dashboard
If you’d like to make changes to your site — such as editing a product, updating your website, or viewing account stats — you’ll need to use your Admin dashboard.
From your home feed, click on your site name and select Admin from the dropdown menu.
From your Admin dashboard, you can use the navigation menu to navigate to:
Overview - View an overview of your account, viewing stats like number of contacts, sales, revenue and recent activity.
Website - Opens up a page where you can view and edit your site pages.
Products - Access the products page, where you can create and manage your products.
Plans - Access the plans page, where you can create and manage your community plans.
Events - Access the events page, where you can create and manage your events.
Spaces - Access the spaces page, where you can create and manage your spaces.
Blog - Access the blog page where you'll be able to create and manage your blog.
Email - Access the email page so you can create and send email broadcasts and email campaigns.
Audience - Access the audience dropdown to manage your audience and affiliates.
Affiliates - Access the affiliates page, where you'll be able to view and manage your affiliate program.
Sales - Access the Sales area to view your invoices, track purchases, and create coupon codes for your offers.
Files - Access your Files Library to view and manage your files.
Settings - Access your Settings page.
Billing - Access your Billing page to manage your Podia plan billing.
Refer-a-friend - Access the Refer-a-friend page to earn credits when you refer Podia to other people.
Recent activity
The recent activity area displays any recent activity, such as new sales, recent newsletter signups, the latest members of your community plan, and more.
The following are things you will see here and what they mean:
Signed up for...: Someone who has enrolled into a product, with the product name listed.
Joined...: Someone who signs up for a subscription plan to your community, with the plan name listed.
Registered for...: Someone who signs up for an event.
Canceled their ___ plan: Someone who cancels their subscription plan, with the plan name listed.
Subscribed for email...: Someone who signs up to your audience list via an email form.
Waitlisted for...: Someone who adds their email to a waitlisted product, with the product name listed.
New subscriber: Someone who signs up for your newsletter list.
Deleted customer: Someone whose account has been fully deleted, either by your action or theirs.
Joined your community: Someone who creates an account on your site and automatically gains free access to your community.
Has a failed payment: Whenever someone has a failed payment for a payment plan.
Overview
The overview area grants a high-level look at your site’s activity.
This area will display:
Contacts - Number of contacts (subscribers, customers, and members) in your account.
Sales - number of total sales in your account.
Revenue - total revenue earned so far.
MRR - Monthly recurring revenue earned from subscriptions in your account.
Pending - Amount yet to be paid from product payment plans.
Below are terms you'll come across here and what they mean:
Subscribers: Number of active subscribers on your account - those eligible to receive your broadcasts and campaigns.
Members: Anyone with an account on your site.
Sales: The total number of free and paid product sign-ups.
Revenue: Your revenue is all of the money you've earned using Podia. It's a combination of revenue made from selling products and subscription plans.
MRR: Your Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) is the total monthly revenue you're earning from people who are subscribed to your paid subscription plans. Annual charges are divided by 12 and included in your MRR calculations.
Product payment plans are NOT included in MRR calculations.