The Bills and invoices dashboard in Mews Business Intelligence gives you a complete overview of billing activity and invoice performance. As a finance team member, accountant, or operations manager, you use this dashboard to monitor issued invoices, track payment status, review outstanding balances, and support financial reconciliation.
Use this dashboard for:
- Invoice tracking: Monitor issued, paid, unpaid, and overdue invoices across selected periods.
- Revenue reconciliation: Compare billed amounts with received payments.
- Outstanding balance monitoring: Identify unpaid revenue and aging invoices.
- Invoice status analysis: Review draft, issued, paid, canceled, or overdue invoices.
- Payment method insights: Analyze how invoices are settled, such as by card, bank transfer, or cash.
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The data on the Bills and invoices dashboard updates every two hours. You can check the “last updated” timestamp at the top of the dashboard to confirm data freshness.
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The Bills and invoices dashboard in Mews Business Intelligence
The Bills and invoices dashboard centralizes billing and invoice data, so you can monitor revenue collection and manage financial performance.
Key areas include:
- Invoice overview: Total number and value of issued invoices.
- Paid invoices: Total value of collected revenue.
- Unpaid and overdue invoices: Outstanding balances requiring follow-up.
- Aging analysis: Visibility into how long invoices remain open.
- Payment method breakdown: Distribution of settlement types.
- Invoice status distribution: Visibility into invoice lifecycle stages.
To access the Bills and invoices dashboard:
- In Mews Operations, go to the main menu
> Business Intelligence > Overview.
- Locate and click on the Bills and invoices dashboard.
Using the Bills and invoices dashboard
The Bills and invoices dashboard supports financial oversight and operational control. It helps you:
- Monitor billing activity: Track issued invoices and total billed revenue over time.
- Manage cash flow: Identify unpaid or overdue invoices that impact liquidity.
- Support reconciliation: Compare billed revenue with payments received.
- Improve collection processes: Detect aging invoices and follow up promptly.
- Analyze payment behavior: Review which payment methods guests or companies use most frequently.
For example, if you notice an increase in overdue corporate invoices, you can review credit terms or follow up with the client to reduce risk exposure.
You can learn more in the help article Using Mews Business Intelligence.
Data visualizations
The dashboard displays billing activity in multiple formats to support analysis:
- Invoice summary tables: Show counts and total values of issued, paid, and unpaid invoices.
- Aging views: Highlight overdue invoices by time range.
- Outstanding balance charts: Visualize unpaid revenue over time.
- Payment method charts: Display distribution of invoice settlements.
These visualizations help you move from high-level monitoring to detailed financial investigation when needed.
You can learn more in the help article Creating and using visualizations in Mews Business Intelligence.
Data filters
You can refine the Bills and invoices data using dashboard filters:
- Date: Analyze invoices within a specific billing period.
- Property: Review data for one or multiple locations.
- Invoice status: Focus on paid, unpaid, or overdue invoices.
- Payment method: Analyze settlement behavior.
To filter the full dashboard:
- In the dashboard view, locate the filters in the top bar.
- Select the filter field, for example, Date or Status.
- Choose your criteria.
- Click Apply.
This applies your selected filters and filters your view.
You can learn more in the help article Using filters in Mews Business Intelligence.
How to share the dashboard
Note: It is currently not possible to share the dashboards. This feature is coming soon.
How to export the dashboard
To export the dashboard, you can learn more in the help article How to export dashboards in Mews Business Intelligence.
How to schedule reports
To schedule reports of the dashboard, you can learn more in the help article How to schedule reports in Mews Business Intelligence.
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