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This package requires ConnectWise Manage and Xero integrations.

MSP Finance Team Financial Metrics Dashboard

This dashboard provides insights on a company's overall profitability and efficiency using data on Expenses, Revenue, Labor Hours, and Labor Costs. This aims to enable Business Owners and Service Managers to identify issues faster so that timely solutions can be implemented.

This dashboard can be filtered by Date Range. Users can drill through most widgets to view more details and/or breakdowns.


Widget NameTypeDescription CalculationsSources for Calculations
Gross MarginCard Number

A card number showing the overall Gross Margin for the selected date range.

Gross Margin is Revenue minus Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) which is expressed here as a percentage of Revenue.

Data available is for the last 6 months including current month.

(Total Revenue - Total COGS) / Total Revenue

  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Revenue, COGS
Expense MarginCard Number

A card number showing the overall Expense Margin for the selected date range.

Expense Margin is the ratio of Expenses and Revenue.

Data available is for the last 6 months including current month.

Total Expenses / Total Revenue
  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Revenue, Expense
Debtor amount over 60 days as % of debt 

Card Number

A card number showing the total amount of Debts ageing for more than 60 days. Shows data for the selected date range.

Computed as the ratio of Overdue Invoices and all Aged Receivables.

Data available is for the last 9 months including current month.

Total of Invoices ageing over 60 days / Total Aged Receivables

(Note: data used are values as of 1st day of the month)
  • Xero: Debt > 60 days, Total Aged Receivables
Normalized EBITDAGridA table showing Normalized Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) for each of the last 6 months.

Normalization method:
(Net Income + Dividends + Pensions + Other Contributions) - Owner Drawdowns

Data available is for the last 6 months.

Revenue + ITDA - Expense - COGS - Contributions & Drawdown
  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): COGS, Expenses, Revenue, Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization
  • Xero: Contributions & Drawdowns
Gross Margin TrendLine ChartA line chart showing the trend of Gross Margin for the last 6 months.(Total Revenue - Total COGS) / Total Revenue
  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Revenue, COGS
% Billable Professional UtilizationGridA table showing the percentage of Billable Professional Hours that are billable for each of the last 6 months.Total Billable Hours / Total Worked hours

  • ConnectWise Manage: Billable Hours, Worked Hours
Billable Professional UtilizationProgress TrackerA progress tracker showing the % Billable Professional Utilization for the selected date range.
% Billable Professional Utilization TrendLine ChartA line chart showing the trend of % Billable Professional Utilization for the last 6 months.
Total, Service, and Non-Service Revenue TrendColumn and Line Chart

A mixed chart displaying the Service and Non-Service Revenues through columns and the Total Revenue through a line graph.

Non-Service Revenue = Total Revenue - Service Revenue
  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Services One Time Revenue, Monthly Recurring
Revenue per SeatGridA table showing the ratio of Revenue and # of Seats.Total Revenue / Number of seats
  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Revenue
  • Teams: Utilization-Daily Total Work Hours
Revenue per Seat TrendLine ChartA line graph showing the trend of Revenue per Seat for the last 6 months.
Avg. Billable Professional CompensationGridA table showing the Average Compensation per Billable Professional for each of the last 6 months.

(Direct Wages + PAYE) / Count of Billable Professional

*Uses Direct Wages in calculation since PAYE in dataset is 0

  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Direct Wages, PAYE
  • Teams: Utilization-Daily Total Work Hours
Avg. Billable Professional Compensation TrendLine ChartA line graph showing the trend of Average Billable Professional Compensation for the last 6 months.
Service Revenue per Billable ProfessionalGridA table showing the average Service Revenue generated per Billable Professional for each of the last 6 months.Total Service Revenue / Count of Billable Professional
  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Services One Time Revenue, Monthly Recurring
  • Teams: Utilization-Daily Total Work Hours
Service Revenue per Billable Professional TrendLine ChartA line graph showing the trend of Service Revenue per Billable Professional for the last 6 months
Service Revenue to Direct WagesGridA table showing the ratio of Service Revenue relative to the compensation for Billable Professionals

Service Revenue / (Direct Wages + PAYE)

*Uses Direct Wages in calculation since PAYE in dataset is 0

  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): MRR Revenue, Services One Time Revenue, Direct Wages, PAYE
Service Revenue to Direct Wages TrendColumn and Line ChartA mixed chart showing the Service Revenue and Direct Wages through columns then their ratio through a line graph.

MSP Finance Team Financial Benchmarks Dashboard

The MSPFinance Dashboards Package is available to MSPBots users with ConnectWise Manage integration. This dashboard gives user a complete overview of the company's financial performance by providing reports on Expense and Revenue margins, Normalized EBITDA, Billable Professional Revenue and Utilization. These will give useful insights to enable Management in identifying financial problems quickly and implementing the necessary solutions.

This dashboard can be filtered by Date Range. Users can drill through most widgets to view more details and/or breakdowns.

Widget NameTypeDescription CalculationsSources for Calculations
Gross MarginCard NumberGross Margin is Revenue minus Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) which is expressed here as a percentage of Revenue.

(default date range is Last 30 days)

(Total Revenue - COGS) / Total Revenue



  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Revenue, COGS
Expense MarginCard NumberExpense Margin is a ratio of Expenses and Revenue

(default date range is Last 30 days)
Total Expenses / Total Revenue
  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Revenue, Expense
Debtor amount over 60 days as % of debt 

Card NumberRatio of significantly overdue invoices to all aged receivables

(default date range is Last 30 days)
Total of Invoices over 60 days / Total Aged Receivables

(Note: data as of 1st day of the month)
  • Xero: Debt > 60 days, Total Aged Receivables
Normalized EBITDA - Last 6 MonthsGridNormalized earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. 

Normalization method:
Net Income + dividends, pensions & other contributions - reasonable owner draw downs

Revenue + ITDA - Expense - COGS - Contrib & Drawdown
  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): COGS, Expenses, Revenue, Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization
  • Xero: Contributions & Drawdowns
Gross Margin - Last 6 MonthsLine ChartLine Chart showing Gross Margin trend for last 6 monthsUses Gross Margin data for last 6 months
  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Revenue, COGS
% Billable Professional Utilization - Last 6 MonthsGridPercentage of Billable Professional paid hours that are logged as billable hours% Utilization = Total Billed hours / Total Worked hours
  • ConnectWise Manage: Utilization daily time entry billable hour
  • Teams: Utilization-Daily Total Work Hours
% Billable Professional UtilizationProgress TrackerShows % Utilization of billable professionals for period (in slicer)Uses Gross Margin data for the selected period.
  • ConnectWise Manage: Utilization daily time entry billable hour
  • Teams: Utilization-Daily Total Work Hours
Service Revenue per Billable Professional - Last 6 MonthsGridShows efficiency by computing for revenue generated per billable professionalTotal Service Revenue / Count of Billable Professional
  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Services One Time Revenue, Monthly Recurring
  • Teams: Utilization-Daily Total Work Hours
Revenue per Seat - Last 6 MonthsGridShows generated revenue per seat/unitTotal Revenue / (Number of units + Number of seats)
  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Revenue
  • Teams: Utilization-Daily Total Work Hours
Avg. Billable Professional Compensation - Last 6 MonthsGridShows average compensation paid to billable professionals

(Direct Wages + PAYE) / Count of Billable Professional

*Direct Wages for calculation as PAYE in mapping is 0

  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): Direct Wages (while PAYE data is still 0)
  • Teams: Utilization-Daily Total Work Hours
Service Revenue to Direct Labor Ratio - Last 6 MonthsGridRatio to determine Service Revenue relative to cost of Billable Professionals

Service Revenue / (Direct Wages + PAYE)

*Direct Wages for calculation as PAYE in mapping is 0

  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): MRR Revenue, Services One Time Revenue, Direct Wages (while PAYE data is still 0)
Service Revenue as % of TotalBar GraphShows trend of total revenue and % of service revenueService Revenue / Total Revenue
  • Xero P&L (SLI-Mapped): MRR Revenue, Services One Time Revenue, Revenue
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