Admin login page

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

Developer seeks to implement a custom admin experience on a Shopify site, distinct from Shopify’s official Admin. They want successful admin logins on the storefront to open a custom admin dashboard in the browser instead of redirecting to Shopify’s Admin.

Key questions:

  • How to create an “admin account” similar to customer accounts, with roles/permissions separate from standard customers.
  • How to designate certain emails as admin and reliably detect/admin-authenticate them on the site.
  • How to ensure actions from the custom admin dashboard (e.g., adding products) propagate and display correctly on the storefront.

No technical solution or guidance provided yet; no code or attachments. The thread remains open with unanswered implementation details about authentication, role management, and syncing product changes to the storefront.

Summarized with AI on December 12. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi all ,

  • When a customer logs in to my site, the login is successful. At the same time, if the admin logs in to the site I developed, the admin dashboard should open in the browser instead of redirecting to the Shopify official page. How can I achieve this?
  • How can I create an admin account similar to how customer accounts are created?
  • How do I add an admin email and identify it as an admin email?
  • If the admin dashboard includes a feature to add products, how can I ensure these changes reflect on my site