A project dashboard you build, not one you are given
Onplana gives every plan a dashboard, including Free, and on Professional you arrange your own from 18 card types and pin any saved report onto it as a live card.
Start freeA dashboard is on Free. The builder is Professional.
What changes on Monday morning
Assembling the picture by hand
- Open each project in turn and read its task list.
- Export what you need to a spreadsheet and paste it into last week's tab.
- Message four people to ask whether a number is still true.
- Rebuild the same chart in the deck, because the old one is a screenshot.
- Present it, and field the question about the one project you did not open.
Reading a board you arranged
- Every project is on one screen, whether or not you opened it.
- The numbers are live, so nobody has to confirm them.
- The saved report is a card, not a screenshot that ages.
- The health grid derives status, so nobody can forget to set it.
How it works
Step 1
Open the one you already have
Every plan, Free included, lands you on a dashboard: portfolio health if you manage, My Work if you deliver. Look at it before you buy anything. If it already answers the question you came with, the rest of this page is not for you and that is a fine outcome.
Step 2
Arrange the cards that answer your question
On Professional the board becomes yours. Open the catalogue, pick from 18 card types across six groups, and drag them where you want them. Every card in the catalogue shows its tier on the face of it rather than being hidden, so you can see what you are not buying.
Step 3
Pin a saved report as a live card
The card set is fixed and your reports are not, so the report builder is the escape hatch from any fixed list. Choose the columns, the grouping and the chart, save it, then pin it on the board. The builder itself is on Free; pinning it onto a board you arranged is the Professional part.
The numbers on this page
23 card types exist, 18 of them open on Professional, and the tier split above is read out of the same pricing matrix that renders the pricing page, counted on 17 September 2026.
That source is us, and this block says so rather than dressing it up. What makes it checkable is that the product does not hide the difference: the card catalogue lists every locked card with its tier on the face of it, so a reader on Professional can count what they have and see exactly what they have not bought, without asking us and without upgrading to find out.
What it costs, and what it does not do
It replaces the weekly status spreadsheet and the deck rebuilt from it. What that costs splits three ways, and the split matters more than the price:
What the Free plan includes, and where it stops
- A dashboard, on Free. Portfolio health if you manage, My Work if you deliver. It is the screen you land on.
- The report builder, on Free. Columns, grouping and charts across every project, with share links that need no login.
- Building your own, on Professional. The card types, drag and drop, and pinning a saved report as a card.
The honest limits
- You may not need the builder at all. If the default view already answers your question, upgrading buys you rearranging and nothing else. That is a strange thing for this page to say and it is true, so it is better said here than discovered after an upgrade.
- It is not where you plan. Moving a date, wiring a dependency or reflowing forty tasks happens on the Gantt, which is the surface with the scheduling engine behind it. Notice it on the dashboard, fix it on the plan. A card pretending to be an editor would be a worse version of both.
- 5 of the 23 cards need Enterprise. The four governance cards and revenue at risk. They appear in the catalogue with their tier showing rather than being hidden, so nothing about them is a surprise, but they are not part of what Professional buys.
Which cards earn their space
A dashboard with fourteen cards on it is a dashboard nobody reads. The useful test is whether a number would change what you do this week. Percentage complete rarely does. Overdue count, budget burn against elapsed time, and the tasks that control the finish date usually do.
Two are worth knowing about because they answer a question the others cannot. The health grid derives its own status rather than asking anybody to set one, so it cannot be gamed by a green light somebody forgot to change. And data freshness lists the projects whose work has gone untouched, worst first, which is how a quietly dead project stops looking fine.
Personal
My tasks, overdue, upcoming deadlines, activity feed. What one person owes this week.
Projects & sprints
Stats cards, the project health grid, data freshness, the milestone timeline, sprint progress.
Analytics
Task status charts, team utilisation, budget burn, goal progress, a cross-project table.
Reports
Any saved report, pinned onto the board as a live card.
Governance
The proposal pipeline, gate scores, criteria and the scorecard. Enterprise.
Compliance
Project compliance, billable utilisation, billable mix, revenue at risk. The last of those is Enterprise.
Some cards are manager-only by role, independently of your plan, because a utilisation chart of the whole team is not for everyone.
Questions people ask
Do I need a paid plan to get a dashboard?
No. Every plan including Free opens on a dashboard: portfolio health if you manage, My Work if you deliver. What Professional adds is BUILDING your own, arranging the cards you want rather than the ones we chose. If the default view already answers your question, you do not need the builder.
How many card types are there?
23 in total, of which 18 are available on Professional. The other 5 need Enterprise: the four governance cards, which need the governance feature, and revenue at risk, which needs audit logs. They are shown in the catalogue with the tier on them rather than hidden, so you can see what you are not buying.
Can I put a report on a dashboard?
Yes, and the report builder itself is on every plan including Free. Build a cross-project report, save it, then pin it as a card. Pinning is part of the builder, so the report is free and the pinning is Professional.
Can different people see different dashboards?
Each person builds their own, so a delivery lead and a finance manager are not fighting over one layout. Some cards are manager-only by role, independently of plan, because a utilisation chart of the whole team is not for everyone. Role-based templates that an admin pushes to a group are a separate Enterprise feature.
Do the numbers update, or is it a snapshot?
They are live. Every card reads the same data the underlying page reads, so a dashboard and the project it describes cannot disagree. The activity feed drops its polling when it is embedded on a page rather than a dashboard, which keeps a busy board from hammering the API.
Can I plan on it, or only look at it?
Only look. A dashboard is useful for the shape of the work: what is due, what is committed beyond capacity, which milestones are near. Moving a date, wiring a dependency or reflowing forty tasks happens on the Gantt, because that is the surface with the scheduling engine behind it. Notice it here, fix it there.
Planning rather than reporting? The Gantt and the critical path is the surface with the scheduling engine behind it, and the features index covers the rest of the reporting surface.
Open the default one first
Start free, look at the dashboard you get, and upgrade only if you want to rearrange it. That way round is cheaper for you, and it is the one we would pick.
Start free