Ahhh, I read the description of the Admin page changes:
“We redesigned the admin and now, through a refreshed visual design and single-column layout for the home page, everything feels more streamlined, focused, and functional. Focus on everything that matters without distraction.”
… that puts me at ease, I suppose.
I don’t generally like when they tell me how I’m to “feel” after such an update.
My original statements stand – they should test these things out first, and if they actually did that, then all of us complaining here must be in the minority (or have not given it enough time to sink in).
Yet another TERRIBLE change from Shopify that makes our lives harder. I swear, do they ever actually consider the people who use it on a day to day basis? I don’t know what ‘users’ they have in their beta program, but they should all be fired.
Indeed. This does not “feel more streamlined.” It feels broken. When I first saw the new admin page I kept refreshing the page and even closed the window and reopened it. I thought the page was failing to load properly. In whose world is this an improvement?
I did the same. And then quickly lost all hope after realizing it is just another miserable update that they have forced on us. They need to include actual small businesses in their testing phases, people who run everything in the store as one person and see all aspects.
Agreed, when I first saw the new layout I instinctively checked the browser text size to see if it had accidentally been lowered. It’s way too small on a standard 13" macbook screen.
the graph would be MUCH more helpful for my business if it compared this month/week/day to last years opposed to a month/week/day ago. but I still hate it.
Yes, because our business is annually cyclical, seeing the previous weeks or months is meaningless, compared to seeing the same period during the previous year. (Gee, we sold less ice cream during Jan. - Mar. than we did Apr. - Jun… huh!)
Same here. Now I can’t even see the actual monthly total. It’s rounded up. If they’re not going to change it back, at least let me see all the digits of my monthly total.
no, they constantly do this crap to ‘make our lives better’ when in fact it makes it 10x harder. and they never actually listen or make changes when we ask. like the terrible fixes from about 6 months ago when they removed the search bars from ‘orders’ and ‘products’… something I use tons of times a day… because why wouldn’t I want to have to do an extra step every time. and that HORRID map of hexagons that is absolutely useless.
It’s beyond ridiculous. I’m convinced they don’t actually test these features on people who use Shopify daily as a user… even if they claim to have a testing team.
Hey Shopify - New admin page sucks. Can’t see when orders were made during the day. Funnel (adds to cart, add to checkout) completely gone. This is going backward, not an improvement.