Navigating the Shopify admin

The Shopify admin is your central hub for managing your online store. Using the Shopify admin sidebar or search functionality on all pages, you can navigate through the various functions of Shopify and efficiently manage your store.

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Sections of the Shopify admin

You can access the different sections of the Shopify admin by using the sidebar. Sections of the Shopify admin include:

• Core aspects of your Shopify business, including orders, products, and customers, analytics and reports, marketing and promotions, and discounts.
• Sales channels and apps, which are optional extensions that help you expand your business into other platforms or improve your business' operations.
• Settings applied to your Shopify store and account.

You can also navigate through your Shopify admin by using the search bar at the top of the page. The top bar also contains buttons to access Sidekick and your store's Alerts feed. If you have accounts in more than one Shopify store, then you can use the store switcher dropdown in the top bar to navigate to those stores.

Note

Depending on the device you're using, you can do different things in your admin. If you log in to your Shopify admin from a browser, then you can manage all aspects of your store. If you log in to the Shopify app from your mobile device, then some features might not be available.

Shopify Home page

The Home page of the Shopify admin displays real-time metrics such as sales and traffic, as well as task reminders and growth tips for your business.

Shopify Home highlights urgent actions or events, such as unpaid orders that still need to be captured. Click any of the actions to be directed to the appropriate page.

Learn more about the Shopify Home page.

Alerts feed

The Alerts feed notifies you of important, time-sensitive information or required actions in your store. These alerts are sent to the store owner and any staff with relevant permissions.

You might receive alerts for the following scenarios:

• A task that can prevent a disruption to your business activities or regular use of Shopify.
• A disruption to your business activities or regular use of Shopify.
• A communication of product compliance.
• Confirmation of a monetary transaction between you and Shopify.
• Confirmation that a time-consuming process that you initiated has been completed.

Click the icon in the top bar of the admin to open the alerts feed. The number of unseen alerts displays as a number next to the icon.

Within the alerts feed, you can click a specific alert to take action on that alert. You can toggle specific alerts as read or unread, or mark all alerts as read.

Searching your Shopify admin

Use the search bar (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl/Cmd + K) at the top of any page in your Shopify admin to help you find results based on your search. Click a search result to be directed to the appropriate page in your admin.

You can filter your search results by category, such as Orders or Apps, to help you find a more relevant list of results. Based on your search keywords, suggested filters can display at the top of the search results list, including the number of total results within that category.

Your recent searches are maintained in a search history, which you can clear at any time.

Tip

If your search returns no results, then click Ask Sidekick about ... to redirect your search to Sidekick. Sidekick has expanded capabilities beyond that of a simple search, and can likely help with more complex search phrases or tasks.

Learn more about searching your Shopify admin.

Staff permissions for accessing the Shopify admin

Account owners can control what parts of the Shopify admin their staff members have access to by assigning specific permissions to any staff members in their store. This lets account owners provide access to only the necessary information and actions that their staff need in their Shopify admin, and restricting access to pages and actions that they don't need. Account owners can also set up custom roles, such as "Merchandiser" or "Content Designer", to quickly assign and adjust sets of permissions to staff.

The following is a sample list of permissions that an account owner can grant to staff members:

• View orders
• Edit products
• Manage discount codes
• Export customer lists
• Edit themes
• View analytics

Learn more about roles and staff permissions.

Apps and channels

Your apps and sales channels are located in the sidebar of your Shopify admin. Items in this area include:

• Sales channels, including Online Store.
• Apps installed on your account.

Sales channels and apps are optional extensions to the Shopify admin that allow your business to expand into other sales platforms, or improve your business' operations. By default, new Shopify stores begin with only the Online Store sales channel installed.

You can install new sales channels and app from the Shopify App Store, or from the recommended apps in your Shopify admin search results.

Pinning apps and channels

You can pin your favorite apps and channels. A pinned app is added to the bottom of the item list (for example, Sales channels or Apps), and always displays in that list for quick navigation. You can rearrange your pinned apps and channels by clicking and dragging an item to a new position in the corresponding list.

To pin an app or channel, open the app or channel from your admin. Click the icon to keep the app or channel in your list. Click and drag the item to change its position. You can also pin an app or channel by dragging it directly to the preferred position in the side bar after opening it.

To unpin an app or channel, click the icon at the top of the app or sales channel header. To navigate to this app or channel in the future, use the search bar or the left sidebar navigation.

Note

Private or custom apps and apps that open into a new browser window can't be pinned.

Apps and sales channels settings

To access the Settings page for your apps and sales channels, click Settings > Apps and sales channels from the left sidebar.

On the Apps and sales channels settings page, you can Uninstall the app or channel, visit the Shopify App Store, or Get support for the app or sales channel. Access the About page through the overflow menu in the header of any currently open embedded app. Clicking the name of an app or sales channel opens the item in your Shopify admin.