Could not agree more! They keep “fixing” what’s not broken with worse and worse versions. Clearly these things are not created by people who have ever run a business and know what we need. I still horribly miss the old live view that actually provided information instead of some stupid, worthless map. What a crock. And right after their prices just jumped a HUGE amount and the “help” gets less and less helpful. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL do they ever listen to us or CARE?! These kind of hurtful changes make NO sense and I am seriously looking at other platforms that use more common sense. Dammit this makes me UPSET
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Totally agree!! This new home dashboard is useless and creates more work by having to go dig for the information that was previously right in front of you. Everyone contact tech support and while you’re at it, please ask for them to reinstate the permanent search bar at the top of the product and inventory pages PLEASE!!! Another cumbersome and time consuming change that was a complete fail in my opinion.
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Agree absolutely the new page is a total loss of information. Shopify - please address! Can we go back to old screen?
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I’m glad I’m not the only one to have a problem with this new view. Change is sometime difficult but this one is straight up dumb! My view doesn’t even update in real-time, I have refresh my browser or navigate to another page.
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100% Agree. This change is causing more harm than help. They’ll never revert it or give us the option to revert. But they’ve already made some basic changes since the rollout (they added a pull down to choose sales channels for the home page analytics) so that’s a start. But there is so much more to fix (date pull down should allow for choosing custom dates, need to be able to choose custom comparison dates, we need a revenue vs returns breakdown, sales by channel breakdown, etc…). Just give us our right nav bar back and you can keep your fancy new 12pt font and rounded corners UI. I couldn’t care less about a new admin UI, but changing the home page analytics was a major mistake that needs to be corrected immediately.
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I agree with everyone. This changed dashboar is bot only completely worthless but will make my job much harder. Now there is no place where I have access to everything.
We are a small store that sells exclusive and somewhat expensive items. We don’t have a high daily volume. Knowing what is going on minute by minute, or even hour by hour is totally useless.
The old dashboard was perfect for our needs. Now It will take me many minutes instead of a few seconds to get where I need to be.
They already had messed up the orders page, now the dashboard is even worse.
Why make a platform less efficient?
The kind of info that is now on the dashboard is the kind employees don’t need to see, the kind that is not usefull in filling orders, the kind that makes no sense on a dashboard.
Come on Shopify. You are hurting the efficency of our business.
Give us a toggle to go back to the old view, this one is absolutely worthless.
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I also AGREE 100% with ALL of this!
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I agree as well. Shopify keeps making changes to the look and feel of the backend without actually improving on anything. First it was annoying to have the search bar hidden on order views page and products, etc. You now have to actually click to search. Thanks, one more step. And now this dashboard view is a mess. Much prefer the old dashboard. And why are all the buttons so tiny now. Everything looks like a 1997 internet page. Please stop changing the look and feel. Us store owners need to be able to get used to one dashboard that works and we know where to quickly glance for what we need. The fact you keep changing everything makes it absolutely worthless.
There is literally nothing I can point to in these recent updates that has made my store ownership easier or faster to manage.
Also please bring back the Shopify Plus overview where I can see total revenue for all my stores. What happened to all that?!
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someone in the forums previously pointed out a shortcut for the search field, when the page is loaded, press ‘f’ to bring up the search field and immediately type your search term. doesn’t work if you have caps lock on.
shopify, how about producing a TLDR guide on helpful shortcuts that’s actually useful for business owners?
also, how about sending a quick beta tests to store owners to gauge if any of your shocking changes actually do any good?
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in anycase, talking about the missing feature here isn’t gonna cut it. make it known to shopify is key, submit a request, ask for it through the support chat, put in a vote on their shopify update video on youtube. make your voice count.
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Oh my gosh; thank you so much for the shortcut! Was not aware of it!! Thank you!
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One wonders what kind of a lunatic is heading up the product development department?? It is hard to imagine a more myopic dweeb who first adds an extra step to the products and customers pages … forcing an extra click to open up the search field … which is the only reason you call up these pages (strike one)! Then the developers completely re-design the homepage dashboard and replaces all the useful bits with useless graphs and sales totals that only display rounded amounts to a single decimal (strike two, three, four, five …). They have created a dashboard that is completely useless to their clients - and now I am on the hunt for a new POS system. Disgraceful!!!
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Also, it looks like the update screwed up some things bc my live view is completely scrambled…The world map isn’t loading and it’s all smooshed to one side. The support agent I contacted was being really rude and saying they “can’t tell” what’s wrong because my screenshot is “too small”…And that everything looks fine on their end. I even tried different browsers. 
Completely unhelpful.
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1000% agree. It is frankly useless as it is today. A bunch of white space and no real useable on-the-fly data. Why why why did they make such a senseless change. The old dashboard was a brilliant quick look for our team… When I shared with help desk what I needed on the dashboard, they led me to a bunch of other sections.. Hello! No, we need it all in one place (on the first page). I really hope they listen to the community and give us options. I’d love to see it returned or at least an option to customize the dashboard to what WE deem necessary.. not Shopify’s opinion of what we need. Fingers crossed.
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I don’t know about everyone else, but we just love hanging out in the analytics all day just to get the basics that used to be on the dashboard. This is ridiculous. Someone needs a demotion. Seriously.
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Also agree 100%
Shopify has been playing games with my inventory levels for the past 2 months but this is the kind of thing they’re focused on wasting our time with. I mean, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, right? It takes a real special level of genius to go messing with things that work perfectly fine. Whoever made this decision should never be listened to again.
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For us, losing the to-the-penny sales totals on the Home page is a HUGE hassle. We keep a daily spreadsheet of sales breakdowns by channel and customer conversions and now we have to dig through the Analytics pages to find the exact totals where they used to be right on the Home page. Why Shopify, why? Is there any way to change this?
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The rounded numbers are ridiculous.
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This is an awful ‘upgrade’. Shopify please revert to the previous dashboard…or allow customers the choice to revert…as if this issue isn’t resolved I for one will be looking for an alternative platform when my current contract is up.
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Why would they give us LESS information on the Home dashboard? And why is Sessions the priority? It even has a report button when Total Sales doesn’t. Shopify…my SALES are my priority. 
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