A monthly payments review often involves the same subjects: the markets you operate in, the methods your customers use, and the providers or infrastructure behind them. The research changes, but finding the relevant pages should not become a new task each time. Dashboard gives that recurring work a home inside Hub.

Its three tools answer different questions. Favorites asks, “What do I follow, and what has changed?” Compare asks, “How do these two records differ?” Deepdive asks, “What explains this one subject over time?” You can begin with any of them. A saved record is useful on its own; you do not have to configure a whole workspace before getting value from it.

Open an Atlas record and use its star to save it. This can be a market, payment method, bank, PSP or another supported record, including a card product. The star belongs to the record, so you are saving a route to the current information rather than freezing a copy of the page. Use it again when you want to remove that favorite.

You can also star available headline measurements individually. This distinction matters: following a method is useful for record changes and new evidence, while following a measurement focuses attention on a particular number. For example, a market and its GDP measurement are separate favorites. Keep both if you want the broad subject and the specific indicator in your working set. Sign in so those choices belong to your Aurato account.

Open Hub, choose Dashboard, then Favorites. The saved list shows the record name and type; a metric favorite also identifies the metric and its context where one is attached. Use the search box to find a subject, or switch between All, Records and Metrics to narrow the list. Removing a star removes that saved item rather than changing the underlying Atlas record.

This works best as a deliberate shortlist. For a review of two neighboring markets, save those markets and the methods you are investigating, rather than every record you open along the way. The list can then answer a practical question when you return: which of these subjects needs attention? Refresh reloads the saved information and update status when you want to check again.

Below the saved list, Updates brings together published activity associated with your favorites. Entries identify whether the event is a Record change, a New source or a Metric value, and show its date. A measurement update includes the published value and period. Open the subject from the entry; source and change entries also provide routes into the corresponding evidence or change list.

Unread entries remain distinct from ones you have reviewed. Use the check control to mark an entry as read, or Mark all as seen when you have finished your review. Reading an update leaves it in the list; its control then changes so you can remove the update. That removes the notification, not the favorite. Search and the Records/Metrics filters also narrow the displayed updates, and Show more reveals additional entries.

Open Compare and use the A and B search boxes to choose two different records of the same type. Markets, payment methods, PSPs, schemes, systems, banks and several other catalogs are supported. Selecting the first record narrows the second picker to the relevant type. The swap control exchanges A and B, and the link control copies the comparison URL so you can return to that pair.

The Side by side section aligns available measurements, attributes and linked records. A market comparison can put economic scale beside access indicators such as ATMs or bank branches per 100,000 adults and cards per adult. Method comparisons can expose differences in uses, channels, capabilities and infrastructure. Those connections are research routes: open a linked scheme, provider or market when you need to understand why the two subjects differ.

Compare makes differences easier to see; it does not make unlike measurements equivalent. Check the period beside each value and the scope in the original records. A global method total and a country figure answer different questions. A dash indicates unavailable information, and a count of linked providers describes mapped relationships rather than transaction share. Open record returns you to the full Atlas page for those checks.

Where both subjects have a compatible monthly history, How they evolved adds a chart for their shared observations. Choose the historical metric and switch between Absolute and Indexed · 100. Absolute shows scale; indexing expresses each series relative to its first nonzero observation, which makes relative growth easier to inspect. A line that rises faster from 100 can still belong to the smaller method. The indexed view does not equalize market coverage.

Deepdive focuses on one record. Search for the subject, inspect the available headline measurements, and follow its history and connections. The layout adapts to the record type. A payment method view includes monthly active users, transactions and payment volume, a selectable history window, leading measured markets, the distribution of activity, recent monthly observations and connected infrastructure.

Click a method headline to change the historical metric. The history readout identifies the month and the number of measured markets, so a published total does not silently become a claim of complete worldwide coverage. Average transaction is shown only when payment volume and transaction totals have matching periods and markets. A missing year-over-year comparison can likewise reflect insufficient comparable coverage rather than zero growth.

For a market, Deepdive starts with Population, GDP, GDP per capita and GDP growth. Select one of those headline numbers to inspect its published history, then move down to payment-method activity and the scheme history. This lets you ask a sequence of questions: how large is the market, what is changing in its economic context, and how is payment activity distributed?

The charts still depend on the published data available for that subject. An incomplete history is useful information about coverage. Follow View Atlas record when you need the full profile and supporting sources, and use the record’s Graph section to investigate a surprising observation. Deepdive helps you find the question to check; the underlying evidence is where you resolve it.

Start by saving the Netherlands and Belgium, plus two payment methods relevant to your research. Star the headline measurements you expect to revisit. On your next visit, review Favorites updates first, opening any new source or changed number that affects the question. Mark the entries you have reviewed, then compare the two markets to put their scale and infrastructure in context.

If one method deserves more attention, move to Deepdive and inspect its monthly history and measured-market distribution. Finish at the Atlas record to retain the source and period behind the conclusion you plan to use. The measurement guide explains how to read and follow individual numbers; the Workbench guide covers the next step when you need a dataset or a custom chart outside this research routine.