How to Use the New Shopify Admin (2026): Every Main Screen Explained

Описание: Shopify's new admin has a black left sidebar, and we couldn't find a setting to change it. This tour shows where every main screen and control is now.

Steps with screenshots: https://getpinflow.com/blog/how-to-us...

What's in the tour
1. Sidebar: search, your sections, Settings and alerts all sit in it. The button at the top folds it to icons, and Ctrl B does the same.
2. Search: the box at the top, or Ctrl K (Command K on a Mac). Results come back grouped: pages, orders, products and settings.
3. Keyboard shortcuts: press the ? key on any page for the full list. A then P adds a product, G then O goes to Orders. Esc closes it.
4. Home: your numbers are in the thin strip at the top. Hold the mouse over one for the full chart. The date pill has a Black Friday Cyber Monday preset.
5. Orders: views are behind the All button. Tick an order for the bulk bar and Create batch. Mark as fulfilled is in the Unfulfilled card, with the Notify customer toggle.
6. Products: variants are in one card on the product page. The barcode is now a small chip, with GTIN, UPC or EAN in its type menu. Sales past 90 days is on the right.
7. Customers, Growth (it was Marketing), Discounts and its Rollouts column, Content (Menus is your navigation), Markets and Finance.
8. Analytics: it opens on Today, so pick a longer date range to fill the charts. Reports are under it.
9. Online Store, Agentic (ChatGPT, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot and Shop) and Apps, which is a button that opens search.
10. Settings: the gear at the bottom. Customer emails are under Settings → Notifications.
11. Sidekick: the bar on every page and the box on Home. Open it and it docks on the right; the X closes it. We found no way to hide it in Shopify's help.

Good to know
Not every store has the same screens yet. Shopify is still rolling out the new look, and its changelog puts the wider rollout of the variant card in December, so your product page may not have it yet.
Create batch can group up to 250 fulfillments, by criteria such as product type or shipping destination (Shopify changelog, 16 October).
Notify customer starts off, then remembers your last choice, so check it on every order.
Shopify's Fall '26 Edition says Sidekick can make a plan, you approve once, and it applies several changes.

The 90-second version, on search and Sidekick:    • Shopify New Admin (2026): Where Did Search...  

Filmed on a dev store in the Shopify admin's new look on 5 November 2026.
Shopify changelog, the admin's new look: https://changelog.shopify.com/posts/s...
Shopify changelog, search and Sidekick: https://changelog.shopify.com/posts/s...
Shopify changelog, fulfill orders in batches: https://changelog.shopify.com/posts/f...
Shopify changelog, variants on the product page: https://changelog.shopify.com/posts/v...
Shopify Fall '26 Edition: https://www.shopify.com/editions/fall...
Shopify Help, keyboard shortcuts: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/pr...
Shopify Help, admin overview: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/sh...

An unofficial fix desk for Shopify merchants. Not affiliated with Shopify. Questions: [email protected]

0:00 The new admin's black sidebar
0:27 Search, Ctrl K and shortcuts
0:57 Home: where your numbers went
1:25 Orders and Mark as fulfilled
2:25 Products, variants and barcodes
3:07 Customers, Growth, Discounts, Content, Markets
3:39 Finance and Analytics
4:06 Online Store, Agentic and Apps
4:28 Settings and customer emails
4:49 Sidekick: can you hide it