As many of you know, Shopify recently changed the Admin page, rendering it much less efficient and helpful for many shop owners. If you look back on this forum, there are at least 6 posts lamenting these changes and they are filled with comments from shop owners upset at the changes. Information that used to be available at a glance is now hidden away, all to free up space on the admin page for . . . nothing. Just grey space.
Over the weekend, I happened to look at the app to see what my sales had been for the last number of days. I wish I could say I was surprised, but given what happened to the admin page, I just rolled my eyes. Of course the app is now less helpful. Where you used to be able to look back and see a graph with a bar for each day, there are now multiple bars for each day meaning that you can’t easily discern how the days’ sales compared to each other. I just really don’t get who Shopify is designing for anymore. Have they talked to Shop owners? Pretty frustrating.
I agree 100%. Thank you very much for pointing out that ruined this piece in the app too. If they wanted to change the buttons and fonts, that’s fine, but making us lose the at-a-glance data that we were getting previously has been a giant headache and caused my clients to waste a lot of time trying to find basic stats like how many orders were placed on my online store sale channel. Even the analytics dashboard doesn’t allow you to see that. You have to go in and run a report. Same goes for returns.
I detest the changes. The whole thing is ugly and difficult to use. As soon as we hit 1K in traffic and sales, we get a rounded number. The buttons look like an amateur late 90s design. The red and green arrows are everywhere and so distracting. And I still can’t fulfill an order with Route Package Protection without getting a 404 error. You’d think they’d at least fix that, but apparently, making the admin landing page unusable took priority.
Agreed! This is a big step backwards. Looks awful, especially on desktop. Functionality is really bad too. Maybe they hired the geniuses who worked on GA4 for Google? lol
