Widget reference

Twelve widgets are available on an artist dashboard, grouped in the Widget Manager by what they are for. These five answer the question you open Maelo to ask: what is happening, and how did it go.

• •Calendar shows your bookings and events. Small, it is a date that flips to reveal what is on. Larger, it becomes a month grid with your upcoming events beside it, and at its widest a full calendar with an event panel.
• •Agenda is the same information as a running order rather than a grid. Small, it is just your next session. Larger, it becomes a timeline across several days, and at its widest a list with the full details of whichever session you tap.
• •Payments shows your Stripe balance and what is on its way to your bank. The wide version lays out the payout details and gives you an instant payout button.
• •Bookings counts the work itself: how many appointments, broken down by type and by status.
• •Revenue tracks money actually collected, split by service type, against a goal you can set on the card. Larger sizes add a breakdown chart, a weekly trend and a year to date view.

Two widgets cover the people waiting on you. Both are the reason to open the app in the morning.

• •Client Requests tracks incoming enquiries and where each one has got to. Small, it is a count of what is new. Larger, it becomes a list with tabs, and at its widest a table you can act on without leaving the dashboard.
• •Messages shows unread client messages. Small, it is a count that flips to a preview. Wide, it shows two message cards. At its largest you can read and reply to a client right there in the card.

Neither replaces the real page. Clicking through takes you to your requests inbox or your messages, where the full thread, the reference images and the approve and decline actions live.

Events & Travel keeps track of conventions, pop-ups and guest spots. Each one carries a status, so a trip you are only interested in reads differently from one that is confirmed and paid for.

Small, it is a count of upcoming trips that flips to the list. Wide, it shows your next four as a grid. At its largest it is the full list with tabs by category, which is the size worth having if you travel more than a couple of times a year.

Setting the events up in the first place happens on your events page. See guest spots and events.

Two small widgets that do a job rather than report one. Both stay useful long after the stats cards have become wallpaper.

• •Quick Links is four buttons in one square. Pay opens a one-off payment for a walk-in or a piece of merch, Share gives you your booking link with a QR code you can hold up in the studio, Site opens your public page and Book opens your booking form.
• •Notes is a notepad with checkboxes, saved as you type. Small, it is four lines. At its largest it holds several notes on tabs with ten lines each, which is enough for a real running list.

Two widgets exist purely because a dashboard you enjoy looking at is one you actually open.

• •Photo Showcase cycles through photos you upload to it. You choose the photos, the order and how often it changes, and it comes in four shapes including a full grid.
• •Zen Quote is one quote a day in a single square. Everyone on Maelo gets the same one, which makes it oddly good company.

Neither reads any of your client data, so both are safe to keep on screen if you work with clients looking over your shoulder.

Sizes are written as columns by rows, so 1×1 is a single square, 2×1 is a wide strip, 1×2 is a tall one and 2×2 is a large square. A few widgets go further to 3×2, which is close to a page in its own right.

Every widget offers its own set, and each shape is a different design rather than the same card stretched. A widget at 1×1 usually shows a single number that flips to reveal more when you tap it. At 2×2 it shows the detail outright. Phone screens are two columns wide, so the widest sizes are offered on larger screens only.

You can change a widget's size at any time without removing it. See moving and resizing.