Everest Forms keeps the schema clean: wp_everest_forms_entries holds one row per submission with status, viewed flag, source URL and form_id, while wp_everest_forms_entrymeta holds one row per field per entry. That's a textbook long-format meta layout, easy to query but unreadable until something pivots the meta into named columns.

SleekView Charts does the pivot, then renders the result as a configurable dashboard. A Number card for total submissions this month, a Pie for entries per form, a Bar for status (publish, trash, abandoned), an Area trending submissions per week. Each card reads against the same indexed tables Everest's admin already queries, so nothing extra needs caching or duplicating.

Form admins keep using Everest's entry detail screen when a single submission needs context. The chart dashboard answers the questions a per-form list cannot: how the install is performing in aggregate, which forms are healthy, and where the team should focus next.

Everest Forms is unusual for storing entries in a clean dedicated table rather than abusing wp_posts for the job. That design choice pays off when something queries the data: indexed columns, predictable joins, no hunting through serialized arrays. What it doesn't change is the plugin's own admin, which gives a per-form entries list and trusts the operator to count rows or export CSV when they want aggregates.

SleekView Charts uses the schema for what it was always good for, aggregate reporting, and turns the result into a small dashboard. Form admins see the pulse. Marketing teams trace submissions back to source URLs.

Ops teams spot abandoned entries before they pile up. The plugin keeps owning the forms and the front-end submission flow, the dashboard just makes the data legible.