Finding your way around
A tour of the top navigation, the dashboard, and how to move between screens.
decavet has one main menu across the top of every screen. Each item is a area of your practice, and many open a quick dropdown when you hover or tap them.
The top navigation
| Menu item | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Calendar | Your schedule — appointments and the day's route of stops. |
| Contacts | Your address book — clients, barns, trainers, suppliers, pharmacies, referring vets. |
| Patients | Every animal under your care. |
| Invoices | Bills and estimates you've created. |
| Payments | Money you've received and how it's applied. |
| Inventory | Medications and supplies, with stock tracking. |
| Reports | Practice analytics — coming soon. |
| Settings | Configure your practice, team, catalog, pricing, and more. |
Each module has its own color throughout the app (Contacts is violet, Patients is teal, Calendar is blue, Invoices are amber, Inventory is a warm brown, and so on). That color follows the object onto its detail pages and these help guides, so you always know where you are.
The dashboard (home)
Clicking your practice name or Home shows your dashboard. Depending on how far along you are, you'll see:
- An onboarding checklist when your account is new — it tracks setup tasks like adding your first client and scheduling a visit.
- Today's schedule — your appointments for the day, in stop order, made for glancing at between barns.
- Outstanding billing — what you're owed, grouped by how overdue it is.
- Recent activity and recent payments — a running feed of what's changed.
Moving between screens
- Lists → detail. Most areas open as a list (all contacts, all invoices). Click any row to open its detail page, where edit and other actions live.
- Edit and delete are always visible. decavet shows action buttons directly on each row and on detail pages — you won't have to hunt through hidden menus.
- Slide-in panels. Creating or editing something (a contact, a patient, a service) usually opens a panel that slides in from the side, so you keep your place in the list behind it.
- Search. Most lists have a search box at the top to filter by name.
Working in the field
decavet is built for phones and tablets. The layout collapses to fit a small screen: the menu becomes a button, tables become tap-friendly cards, and forms stack into a single column. Large buttons mean it still works with gloves on or dusty hands.