Inside the dashboard

The screens your office team lives in. Nothing hidden behind an enterprise tier — this is what you get on day one, on every plan.

Dashboard screen in the SMS-Patrol guard management dashboard

Dashboard

The overview your controller opens first: who is on shift right now, which patrols are running, what alerts are outstanding and anything that needs a decision today.

Live tracker screen in the SMS-Patrol guard management dashboard

Live tracker

Every clocked-on officer on one map across all sites and clients. Click a marker for their shift, their scans so far and their route since clock-on.

Roster screen in the SMS-Patrol guard management dashboard

Roster

Assign officers to sites and shifts. Clashes, approved leave and unavailability are checked before you publish to everyone's phone.

Job dialog screen in the SMS-Patrol guard management dashboard

Job dialog

The detail behind a single shift — site, times, rates, checkpoints required, notes for the officer and the record of what actually happened.

Templates screen in the SMS-Patrol guard management dashboard

Templates

Reusable patrol routes, incident forms and report layouts, so a new site under an existing client is configured in minutes rather than from scratch.

Invoicing screen in the SMS-Patrol guard management dashboard

Invoicing

Approved hours priced at per-client, per-site rates, with night and weekend uplifts applied, ready to review and send.

Reports screen in the SMS-Patrol guard management dashboard

Reports

Filter patrols, scans and incidents by client, site, guard or date, then export to PDF or Excel — or schedule the report to send itself.

Guard calendar screen in the SMS-Patrol guard management dashboard

Guard calendar

One officer's whole picture: shifts booked, hours worked, leave approved and absences, in one view for appraisals and payroll queries.

Rota system screen in the SMS-Patrol guard management dashboard

Rota system

The longer-range planning view — repeating patterns, four-on-four-off cycles and cover pools laid out weeks ahead.

How a control room actually uses it

The dashboard is not something anybody sits and admires. In practice it gets used in three bursts a day, and it is designed around that.

At shift change

Open the overview. Check every booked post has somebody clocked on. Chase the two who have not. This is the job that used to take twenty minutes of phone calls and now takes about ninety seconds.

Through the shift

The dashboard tells you when something needs you — a missed checkpoint, a late tour, an incident, an expired check-in. Nobody has to sit watching a map. Exceptions come to you.

At the end of the week or month

Approve the timesheets, look at the variances, run the invoices, send the client reports. The data has been accumulating all along, so this is a review job rather than a data-entry job.

Worth doing on day one: set up the scheduled client report. It runs itself every week, and it is the single thing customers tell us has the biggest effect on how their clients see them.
FAQs

Dashboard questions

No. Most controllers are comfortable within an afternoon. The screens map onto jobs you already do — the rota, the live map, the reports — rather than onto abstract software concepts.

As many as you like. Admin, supervisor and controller logins are unlimited and free on every plan.

Yes. Roles and permissions control which clients, sites and reports each user can access — useful when a supervisor should only see their own contracts.

Yes. The dashboard is a responsive web application, so it works on a laptop, a desktop or a tablet in the control room without installing anything.

Most customers prefer to send scheduled PDF reports, which is simpler for the client and keeps you in control of the relationship. If you want a client to have read-only visibility, talk to us on the demo.

See it working on your own sites — in 20 minutes

Book a free, no-pressure demo. We will set up a sample site, add a couple of checkpoints and show you a live patrol on screen. No card details, no contract, no sales script.

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