DashCanopy Setup Guide

Not sure where to begin? Pick the option below that best describes you and we'll point you straight to the right section. No need to read the whole guide if you don't want to.

Imagine you own five websites — a blog, an online shop, a portfolio, a client site, and a side project. Every morning you open five different browser tabs, log into five different dashboards, and check if everything is working. That takes 20 minutes and it's easy to miss something.

DashCanopy is the one tab that replaces all of them. It shows all your websites as tiles on a single screen. Each tile tells you:

• Is the site online right now? (green = yes, red = no)
• How fast is it responding? (slow sites show as yellow)
• How many visitors does it have today?
• Has anything gone wrong recently?
• A quick link to open the site's admin panel

You can add any website — it doesn't matter what platform it's built on. WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, a custom site, or anything else. As long as it has a URL, DashCanopy can monitor it.

DashCanopy uses email magic-link sign-in — you don't need a password. Enter the email on your existing account and open the one-time link we send you.

Adding a site takes about 30 seconds. You just need the website's name and its URL (the web address).

Every site tile has a coloured status badge in the corner. Here's what each colour means:

By default, DashCanopy only checks if your site is online. To see live visitor counts and revenue on your tiles, you need to connect your site's data. There are two ways to do this — pick the one that matches your platform:

For WordPress sites — Plugin method

add_action('rest_api_init', function() {
  register_rest_route('dashcanopy/v1', '/stats', [
    'methods'  => 'GET',
    'callback' => function() {
      return [
        'visitors'        => 0,  // replace with real visitor count
        'revenue_cents'   => 0,  // replace with real revenue in cents
        'recent_activity' => 'Site is running',
      ];
    },
    'permission_callback' => '__return_true',
  ]);
});

After adding this code, your stats URL will be:

https://yoursite.com/wp-json/dashcanopy/v1/stats

For Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, and other platforms

Go to Settings → Platforms in your DashCanopy dashboard. Pick your platform from the list and follow the step-by-step instructions shown there. Each platform has its own tailored guide with a copy-paste snippet.

Adding the stats URL to DashCanopy (if you built your own endpoint)

A webhook is a way for your website to push information to DashCanopy in real time. Instead of DashCanopy asking "what's new?" every 60 seconds, your site can shout "something just happened!" the moment it occurs.

Common uses for webhooks:

• A new order was placed on your shop
• A new user signed up
• A form was submitted
• An error occurred on your site
• A scheduled job completed

How to find your webhook URL

What to send

Your site should send a POST request with a JSON body. Here's a simple example:

{
  "event": "new_order",
  "message": "Order #1042 placed — $49.99",
  "severity": "info"
}

DashCanopy will log this event and create a notification in your bell icon feed. The severity field can be info, warning, or error.

The bell icon (🔔) in the top-right of your dashboard is your notification centre. It shows a red badge when there are unread notifications.

DashCanopy creates notifications automatically when:

• A site goes offline
• A site comes back online after being down
• A site's response time gets very slow
• A webhook event arrives from one of your sites
• New activity is detected on your connected network hub (if configured)

Here are some technical terms you might see in DashCanopy, explained in plain English: