> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.kredz.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The dashboard

> A tour of the Kredz home screen — balances, rules, and recent activity.

The dashboard is the first thing you see when you open Kredz. It's built around
the question you'll ask most often: **how many credits does each child have right
now?**

## What you'll see

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Balances" icon="wallet">
    A card for each child showing their current balance. This is the running
    total of every transaction in their history.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Your rules" icon="list-check">
    Your reusable earn, spend, and penalize rules, ready to apply with a tap.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Recent activity" icon="clock-rotate-left">
    The latest transactions across the family, newest first.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Family & settings" icon="gear">
    Manage who's in the family, invite caregivers, and reach your account
    settings.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Reading a balance

A balance is never typed in by hand — it's always the sum of what's been
recorded. That's what makes it trustworthy: if a number looks off, you can open
the child's history and see exactly which transactions add up to it.

<Tip>
  Tap a child's balance to open their full history and see every earn, spend,
  and penalty that built the current total.
</Tip>

## Recording from the dashboard

The fastest way to record something is right from here:

<Steps>
  <Step title="Pick a child">
    Open the child you want to record for.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Apply a rule or adjust">
    Tap one of your rules, or make a one-off adjustment for something that
    doesn't fit a rule.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Done">
    The transaction lands in the history and the balance updates immediately.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Next: learn how [rules](/using-kredz/rules) and
[transactions](/using-kredz/transactions) work in depth.