Dashboard Overview
A tour of the dashboard: the product summary cards, the sidebar sections, the traffic chip in the top bar, and what Active versus Inactive means on a product.
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The dashboard is the signed-in area of the site. Everything you buy, configure and monitor lives here.
The sidebar
The left sidebar is the main navigation. It has three groups.
| Item | Opens | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboard | /dashboard | The landing page, with a summary card per product |
| My Products | /dashboard/products | The product list, and the products themselves |
| Residential Proxies | /dashboard/products/rotating-residential | Direct link to the residential product |
| Mobile Proxies | /dashboard/products/mobile | Direct link to the mobile product |
| Settings | /dashboard/account | Account Settings: profile, security, preferences, privacy |
| Billing | /dashboard/billing | Your invoices |
| Docs | /docs | This documentation |
| Contact Us | support@lightningbytes.com | Opens an email to support |
Both products are always listed, whether or not you own them. That is deliberate: an inactive product takes you to its buy surface rather than hiding the option.
The dashboard home
The landing page at /dashboard shows one card per product, always both, with the two numbers worth checking before a run and the actions you take most often.
Users (n/cap). How many of your users can use that product, out of your seat cap. The count is per product: a user enabled for residential but not mobile is counted once, on residential.
Traffic left. The spendable balance for that product, the same figure as the top bar chip. When a product has no plan, the card says so instead of showing a number.
Actions. Each card links straight into that product's page: Buy traffic opens the pricing tables, Configure proxies opens the Endpoint Generator, and Manage users opens the Users tab. An inactive product only offers Buy traffic, since there is nothing else to configure yet.
The cards add no new destinations. Every link lands on a tab the product page already owns, and account-wide pages such as Settings and Billing stay in the sidebar.
Active and inactive products
Each product shows one of two states.
Active. You hold traffic for that product. The command center card shows your user count and remaining traffic, the product page opens with its full set of tabs (Proxy, Users, Usage and Add Traffic), and every action is available.
Inactive. You do not hold traffic for that product yet. The sidebar shows a Buy pill, the command center card reports no plan, and the product page opens directly on its pricing tables. There are no tabs to switch between, because there is nothing to configure until you have traffic.
Note
An inactive product page deliberately hides its Proxy, Users and Usage tabs rather than disabling them. Editing the page URL cannot reveal them.
The top bar
The top bar holds the traffic chip and the navigation for small screens.
Traffic chip. Shows your available traffic at a glance. It is the number to watch before a large collection run.
Menu button. On narrow screens the sidebar collapses; the button opens it as a drawer. Selecting any item closes the drawer automatically.
On a phone or narrow window
The layout stacks. The sidebar becomes a drawer opened from the top bar, and the grid columns in tables and cards become single columns. Everything remains reachable; only the arrangement changes.
Where to go next
- Account Settings for your profile, security and privacy
- Billing overview for invoices
- Generating proxy endpoints for the main event