Most business problems appear in the numbers before they affect operations. Cash shortages begin with delayed collections; sales slowdowns first appear in revenue trends; and payment pressure becomes visible through upcoming payables. The challenge for most founders is not access to data, but visibility into the right numbers at the right time.
TallyPrime’s Dashboard brings key business metrics such as cash balance, daily cash movement, overdue receivables, supplier payables, sales performance and inventory trends into a single interface. With configurable tiles, graphs, drill-down reports and real-time insights, founders can monitor business health daily and make faster operational and financial decisions without navigating through multiple reports.
What are the top 5 financial metrics every business owner must track?
The following are the metrics that every business should monitor in TallyPrime's Dashboard:
1. Cash and bank balance
This is the amount of money that is immediately available across your cash accounts and bank accounts at the start of the day. It is the clearest picture of your current liquidity position. Unlike sales figures or outstanding invoices, this number reflects money that the business can actually use right now for salaries, supplier payments, GST liabilities, purchases and operational expenses.
Daily monitoring helps founders identify excessive operational spending, rising payment pressure or poor working capital planning before the situation becomes urgent.
2. Collections and payments due
This number tracks the money expected to come into the business today and the payments that must go out before the end of the day. It includes customer collections, NEFT or UPI receipts, post-dated cheque deposits, supplier payments, loan instalments, salaries and statutory obligations.
It helps founders identify collection delays, unusually high outgoing payments or situations where vendor obligations are beginning to outpace daily inflows. Early visibility gives founders time to arrange funds or renegotiate payment schedules before operations are affected.
3. Customer receivables overdue
Customer receivables overdue shows which customers have unpaid invoices and how long those payments have been pending. It separates recent dues from older outstanding balances, helping founders understand the ageing of receivables instead of viewing all pending payments as a single number.
By monitoring it daily, founders spot deteriorating payment behaviour early enough to follow up, revise credit terms or pause further supply before exposure becomes difficult to recover.
Watch this video to learn how to manage receivables and payables in TallyPrime:
4. Daily sales performance
Daily sales performance shows how much revenue the business generated during the previous business day across products, branches, teams or sales channels. More importantly, it measures whether sales activity is moving in the expected direction instead of only showing a standalone revenue figure. It helps founders detect unusual sales declines, branch-level underperformance, slow product movement or a sudden reliance on one-time orders.
5. Inventory position
This report shows the quantity and value of stock currently available in the business. It helps founders understand whether inventory levels are balanced across raw materials, finished goods, fast-moving products and slow-moving stock. It helps identify low-stock risks, overstocked items, slow-moving inventory and unusual stock movement patterns.
How to set up the founder's dashboard in TallyPrime
Here is how you can configure the founder’s dashboard in TallyPrime:
Step 1: Open Dashboard in TallyPrime
From the Gateway of Tally, open the Dashboard or press Alt+G and select Dashboard. TallyPrime opens with default tiles such as Sales Trend, Cash/Bank Accounts, Receivables/Payables and Trading Details.
Step 2: Set the reporting period
Press Ctrl+F2 to define the reporting period for the dashboard. Businesses can monitor daily, weekly or monthly performance depending on operational needs.
Step 3: Add relevant tiles
Press Alt+A to add tiles related to sales, receivables, payables, cash flow, inventory, banking activities or stock movement. The same tile can also be added multiple times for different branches, groups or ledgers.
Step 4: Configure tiles for better visibility
Select a tile and press Alt+C to customise display type, sorting method, graph view, scale factor and filters for ledgers, stock groups or cost centres. This helps founders focus only on operationally important numbers.
Step 5: Save and organise the Dashboard
Reposition tiles based on priority and save the customised dashboard view for future use. Businesses can also configure TallyPrime to open directly to the Dashboard and restrict sensitive tiles based on user roles and access permissions.
Conclusion
Most founders begin their day responding to meetings, calls and operational issues without first understanding the financial position of the business. However, problems related to cash flow, collections or payment pressure usually appear in the numbers before they affect operations.
Cash balance, daily cash movement, overdue receivables, upcoming payables and sales performance are not advanced metrics. They are core business indicators that help founders make faster and more informed decisions. TallyPrime brings these numbers into a single dashboard, allowing business owners to review critical financial and operational information within minutes of starting the day.
