Setting and comparing time ranges for your reports

For most of your reports, you can select a date range for the data that the report shows. For example, you can choose a narrow date range for a focused view of orders over just a few days. Or you can choose a wide date range for a big picture of the orders that you've received over the whole year.

For some of your reports, you can compare a selected date range to a previous date range.

For reports that show data over time, such as the Sales over time and Customers over time reports, you can also choose the unit of time that the data is grouped by (for example, by day, month, or quarter).

Set a date range for a report

When you open a report, data is shown for a default date range. For example, the default range for some reports is the past 30 days. You can set the range to any other period, and the range that you set is kept as the default until you change it again.

You can also select a date range from a predefined list, which has popular options like quarterly periods and Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM).

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Analytics > Reports.

2. Click the name of a report that you want to adjust the date range for.

3. Do any of the following actions:

   • Click the date range indicator in the upper-left corner of the report.
   • In the configuration panel's Filters menu, click the Date range value.

4. Select a predefined date range or choose any other range by clicking the calendars.

5. Click Apply.

Compare date ranges in a report

To help analyze your data, you can compare data from a selected date range to a previous date range on any time-based report. The comparisons are shown in both the visualizations and data tables on your report page. The charts show the comparison date range as dotted or faded and the current data as solid.

You can also select a date range from a predefined list to compare to, which has popular options like quarterly periods and Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM).

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Analytics > Reports.

2. Click the name of a report that you want to set a comparison date range for.

3. Do any of the following actions:

   • Click the Compare to indicator in the upper-left corner of the report.
   • In the configuration panel's Comparison menu, click the Comparison to past value.

4. Select a predefined date range or choose any other range by clicking the calendars.

5. Click Apply.

Group your report data by time unit

For reports that show data over time, such as the Sales over time report, you can select the unit of time that the data is grouped by. The grouping options that are displayed depend on the date range that you've selected. For example, if you select Last 30 days as your date range, you can choose to group your data by hour, day, week, month, hour of day, or day of week.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Analytics > Reports.

2. Click the name of a report that you want to set a Group by unit for.

3. Do any of the following actions:

   • Click the Group by indicator in the upper-left corner of the report.
   • In the configuration panel's Dimensions menu, click the existing unit of time.

4. Select your preferred time unit. If you select None, then no time unit is shown in the report.