The Operations hub isn't a dashboard with its own numbers — it's a launcher. It's a single card grid that links out to the back-office tools that don't earn a permanent spot on the sidebar: Inventory, Staff schedule, Time clock, Cash drawer, Staff & roles, and Financials. If you're looking for actual data (this week's schedule, today's drawer count, this month's revenue), you'll click through to one of those cards — the hub page itself is just the directory.
Getting there
Operations isn't a top-level sidebar item. You get to it by clicking Growth & Marketing in the sidebar (under the "Run the shop" section), then clicking the Operations tab along the top of that page — it sits alongside Growth, Scoreboard, AI Tools, and AI Assistant as one of five tabs on that hub. If you already know where you're going, press Cmd+K (Ctrl+K on Windows) and type the tool name — the hub's own banner reminds you of this shortcut, since it's meant for jumping straight to a tool without stopping on this page at all.
What's on the grid
Six cards, each linking to its own page:
- Inventory — film rolls (length remaining), items, suppliers, low-stock alerts, purchase orders, and the COGS report. Tagged with a "Subnav" badge (more on that below).
- Staff schedule — weekly availability and shift assignments, built to fit drag-and-drop on the desktop calendar.
- Time clock — clock in/out, tips, and commission tracking, with a PIN-protected kiosk mode for shop-floor use.
- Cash drawer — open a register, log drops/payouts/pickups/adjustments during the shift, and close out with a counted-cash variance check.
- Staff & roles — invite users, assign roles (Owner / Admin / Manager / Service Writer / Front Desk / Technician), and set kiosk PINs.
- Financials — revenue, payments, refunds, payouts, deposits, gift card liability, and payment-processor status.
Hover any card and an "Open" link with an arrow fades in, but the whole card is clickable — you don't need to aim for that specific spot.
The Subnav badge on Inventory
Inventory is the one card marked "Subnav," and there's a reason: once you open it, you land in a page with its own sticky internal tab strip — Overview, Rolls, Items, Alerts, Reorder points, Deduct, Purchase orders, COGS, and Suppliers — rather than a single screen. The other five tools are single-page workflows with no further tabs to hunt through, so don't go looking for sub-navigation inside Time clock or Financials that isn't there.
One navigation quirk worth knowing
The Staff schedule card points to `/app/staff-schedule`, which is also the same view embedded as the Employees tab on the Calendar page — so if you're already on Schedules → Employees, you're looking at the same tool this card opens, not a different one. If you ever land on an older `/app/schedule` URL (an old bookmark, for instance), that's a deprecated duplicate that's been intentionally unlinked from navigation — it's missing edit, repeat/bulk-create, and copy-week support that the current staff schedule has, so use the Operations card or the Calendar tab instead.