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April 29, 2026

# Analytics metric targets now available in the GraphQL Admin API

DateApril 29, 2026

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Affected APIs[Admin GraphQL API](https://shopify.dev/changelog?api_type=admin-graphql)

You can now create and manage metric targets for merchants using four new GraphQL Admin API operations: [`analyticsTargets`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/queries/analyticstargets), [`analyticsTargetCreate`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/analyticstargetcreate), [`analyticsTargetUpdate`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/analyticstargetupdate), and [`analyticsTargetsDelete`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/analyticstargetsdelete).

With targets, merchants can set numeric goals for analytics metrics, such as "achieve $50K in gross sales this quarter," and track their progress with a visual gauge. The API has been available to apps from the start, enabling you to build on the same foundation that supports targets in the Shopify admin.

Whether you're developing a goal-setting tool, a reporting dashboard, or a planning app, you can now read and write the same targets that merchants view in their analytics, using the same API, rules, and validation.

### What you can do

* **Create**: Specify a metric, target amount, time period, and an optional filter (for example, limit to a specific sales channel or product).
* **Read**: Retrieve targets for a shop using `analyticsTargets`, with support for pagination.
* **Update**: Modify the metric, name, amount, time period, or filters.
* **Delete**: Remove targets using `analyticsTargetsDelete`. Deleted targets can't be recovered.

### Key details

* **Scope**: Requires [`read_reports`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/access-scopes) and [`write_reports`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/access-scopes) permissions.
* **Deduplication**: The API uniquely identifies each target by its metric, date range, and filters. Attempting to create a duplicate results in a `userError` with guidance on necessary changes.
* **Status computation**: The API automatically derives the status field (In progress, Achieved, Not achieved, Upcoming) from the target's date range and current metric value at query time.
* **Filters**: Each target can have one dimension-based filter in the [`WHERE` statement of ShopifyQL](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/shopifyql#where) using `=` or `IN` operators.

### Use cases

* **Goal-setting apps**: Create targets for merchants based on historical performance or industry benchmarks, providing smart defaults.
* **Reporting and BI tools**: Access merchant targets and display progress alongside your visualizations, ensuring consistency with Shopify.
* **Planning and forecasting apps**: Integrate external goals into Shopify Analytics, offering merchants a unified place to track all targets.
* **Agency dashboards**: Programmatically set and monitor targets across multiple client stores.

Targets created by your app appear alongside merchant-created targets in the Shopify admin, on the **Targets** index page with their own target gauge, and on merchant dashboards. Merchants can manage them consistently, regardless of their origin.

[View the API reference →](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/queries/analyticstargets)

### Related: new `ColumnDataType` enum values

API version `2026-04` adds two new enum values to [`ColumnDataType`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/enums/ColumnDataType) in [`ShopifyqlTableDataColumn`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/ShopifyqlTableDataColumn):

* `UNITLESS_SCALAR`: Represents a dimensionless numeric score with no associated unit. Applied to web performance metrics: `p50_cls`, `p75_cls`, `p90_cls`, `p99_cls` (Cumulative Layout Shift percentiles).
* `MULTIPLIER`: Represents a ratio or multiplier value (for example, 3.2x). Applied to `shop_campaign_return_on_ad_spend` (Return on ad spend).

These metrics previously returned `FLOAT`. This change doesn't affect callers on API versions prior to `2026-04`.