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How TrackMyVendor is organized

In this article: A tour of the eight screens in the sidebar and what each one is for.

Everything in TrackMyVendor hangs off one idea: a contractor is a record, and licenses, certificates and other documents are filed against it. The sidebar is how you get at them from different angles.

The TrackMyVendor sidebar showing Dashboard, Action Queue, Calendar, Contractors, Documents, Requests, Projects, Tools and Settings
The sidebar on a Pro plan. This account calls its groupings Projects; a new account says Assignments until you rename it, and the item only appears if your plan includes it.

The screens

ScreenWhat it's for
DashboardYour home screen. The contractors who need attention most, deadlines in the next 30 days, document requests that have gone quiet, uploads waiting to be classified, recent activity, and your compliance rate. The export buttons are here too.
Action QueueEverything expired or expiring soon, grouped by contractor. This is the screen to work from day to day.
CalendarOne month at a time, every license and document deadline on the day it falls. Click a date to see who is affected and send one of them a notice.
ProspectsSubs you're vetting before you hire them: who's been asked, whose packet is in and ready to review, and who's overdue. Approve one and they move to Contractors. See Vet a prospect, then approve or decline.
ContractorsThe roster of everyone you've hired. Add, import, search, and open any contractor's detail page.
DocumentsEvery file you hold, across every contractor, filterable by type and status.
RequestsUpload links you've sent, and whether they've been used yet.
AssignmentsGroups of contractors — a job, a property, a client. Renameable; see What Projects are.
ToolsThe occasional jobs: License Search (search state licensing databases and attach what you find), Activity Log (a timestamped record of everything that happened, and who did it), Data Import and Data Export.
SettingsCoverage requirements, alert schedule, teammates, billing and your plan, labels, API key and webhooks. Each is a tab across the top.

Two screens do most of the work

Dashboard is where the day starts: the few contractors worst off, what is due this week, who hasn't answered a request, and how the roster stands overall. Action Queue is the full list behind it — every expired, short or expiring item, and the button that emails everyone on it — the screen to open when you have twenty minutes and want to spend them well.

The rest are places you go for a specific reason: to add someone, to find a file, to change a setting.

Tip

If a screen you expect isn't in your sidebar, it's almost always a plan question rather than a bug. Assignments and the export buttons need a Pro plan — see what each plan includes.

What happens next

Set your coverage requirements before you add anyone, so the first certificate that arrives is judged against the right numbers: Set your insurance requirements first.

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