Practical guides, comparisons, and strategies for digital publishers managing multiple websites.
Write down every public host you operate, cross off the ones you will not repair, and add the rest as tiles. A dashboard can only check the URLs you gave it. The list is the product.
October 4, 2026
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Logged-in customers open Manage billing on the pricing page or under Settings → Payments. That starts a Stripe Customer Portal session where you can update the card or cancel. You do not need a support ticket to reach it.
October 2, 2026
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AI features on DashCanopy run when you save your own OpenAI key. The key is stored for the product to use server-side. The provider bills the provider account. The key is not included in the monthly plan price.
September 29, 2026
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An agency dashboard is a site list with a cap that fits the roster, and a clear rule that client hosting and billing stay in the client’s own tools.
September 25, 2026
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When a tile goes offline, confirm the URL, then move to the host. The dashboard’s job is to name the site. Logs, deploys, and DNS live in the tools that run that site.
September 22, 2026
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A SaaS portfolio is usually several hosts that fail independently: the marketing site, the app, the docs, and sometimes a status page. Put each public URL on its own tile so one outage does not pretend to be the whole product.
September 18, 2026
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Once a week, read visitor and revenue stats after the health pass. You are looking for a break in each site’s own pattern, not for a scoreboard that ranks the portfolio against itself.
September 15, 2026
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A health check says the site answered. A webhook says the site reported an event, such as an order, a signup, or an error. On Pro and Agency those events can sit in one feed. They do not replace the check.
September 11, 2026
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Email notifications come with every paid plan. SMS is on Pro and Agency, and it sends through a Twilio account you provide. Add SMS when you will actually read a text faster than you read mail. Otherwise email is the whole alerting setup.
September 8, 2026
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Install the DashCanopy plugin on one WordPress site, confirm the tile updates, then repeat. The API key, the settings screen, and the numbers that should move are the same on every site.
September 4, 2026
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Health checks do not count visitors. A tile shows visitor and revenue figures only after the site reports them, through a stats endpoint, the WordPress plugin, or another connection you set up.
September 1, 2026
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Add the site with its name and public URL. The first useful result is a health check, not a visitor chart. Stats come later, and only after something reports them.
August 28, 2026
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Pick the plan whose site cap matches the portfolio you operate this quarter. Starter covers 5 sites, Pro covers 15, and Agency removes the cap. Prices and the features that actually change are below.
August 25, 2026
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Online means the last health check got a successful response. Degraded means that response was slow. Offline means the check failed. Here is how to read those three states without guessing.
August 21, 2026
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A morning check is one pass over health, then stats, then alerts. Here is a repeatable order for a portfolio of sites so you stop opening a separate console for each one.
August 18, 2026
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