Admin Shopify: Show "Active" Tab first by default on the "Products" page

Store Design

Topic summary

A Shopify store admin wants the “Products” page to default to showing only “Active” products instead of the “All” tab, which includes drafts and archived items. This current setup requires an extra click each time and complicates product analysis.

Current limitation:

  • No native option exists in Shopify Admin to reorder or set a default tab view
  • The “All” products tab always displays first by default

Suggested workaround:

  • Modify the URL from “?selectedView=all” to “?selectedView=active&status=ACTIVE”
  • Bookmark this modified URL to bypass the default “All” tab
  • This solution was referenced from a previous community thread discussing the same issue

The discussion confirms this is a known limitation without a built-in solution, requiring users to rely on URL manipulation as a workaround.

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In the Shopify Admin → Products page.

I need to see by default only my active products. In the current Admin design – the first tab is “All” products, including drafts and archived products. This greatly hinders the analysis of goods. And also this is always additional click for me to switch to actual products tab. And there is no way to reorder these tabs.

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Hi @kolomiets_t ,

You’re right, this doesn’t seem to be possible. I found another thread about this very topic (here), in which the following solution is provided: change the URL from “products?selectedView=all” to “?selectedView=active&status=ACTIVE” and bookmark this page.