Dashboard, API docs & face vectors

The three remaining platform screens.

The platform dashboard

Sidebar → Dashboard

Your overview: how many schools, how they are doing, what is expiring, what has been paid.

Read it in this order

1. Expiring soon — who needs a renewal conversation this month
2. Recent payments — money actually arriving
3. School count and status — active versus suspended
4. Everything else

Two minutes a day covers the parts that affect revenue.

Branch admins see the same screen renamed Branch Overview, showing only their own branches — see who does what.

API documentation

Sidebar → API Docs

Live documentation of every endpoint in the system, generated from the code itself, so it is never out of date. It can be exported for tools like Postman.

You need this when:

• A school asks to connect the system to something else they use
• You are building an integration
• A developer is working on the mobile apps

This is a sales asset for larger customers

A group or trust evaluating you will ask whether the system can integrate with existing software. "Here is the full API documentation" answers that far better than "yes, probably".

Documented does not mean open

The documentation lists what exists. Access still requires authentication, and every request is scoped to the school it belongs to.

Face vectors

Sidebar → Settings → Face Vectors

Manages the face data behind face recognition — attendance by face, and face login.

VPS only

Face processing needs Node.js on the server, so this cannot work on shared hosting. The screen checks for it and tells you if it is missing.

See which hosting do I need.

Face data is generated from photos already in the system and refreshed on a schedule, so it keeps up with newly added students without anyone doing anything.

Face data is personal data

It is biometric information about children. Treat it accordingly:

• Tell schools it is being stored, and where
• Check what your local law requires — several countries treat biometrics as a special category needing explicit consent
• Do not enable it for a school that has not asked for it

If in doubt, leave face recognition off. Ordinary and biometric-machine attendance cover the same need without the legal weight.

Settings Center

The Settings Center is a shortcut panel that gathers every settings screen in one place, grouped by purpose. Nothing lives only there — it is a faster way to reach screens that are otherwise spread across the menu.

If you are hunting for a setting and cannot remember which section it is in, open that first.