Dev Dashboard
The Dev Dashboard is where you build on Shopify. Create and monitor apps, work in your stores, create saved catalogs for AI agents, and manage your organization.
Anchor to Track alerts and earningsTrack alerts and earnings
Home shows what needs your attention:
- Portfolio summary: Your apps and stores with problems, most severe first, five at a time. Each badge is an alert status. If fewer than five need attention, then recent apps and stores fill the rest, without a badge.
- Earnings and Payouts: What your apps earned after revenue share, fees, refunds, and chargebacks, and when you'll next be paid. These cards need the View financials permission and appear once your organization has earnings. Refer to View charges and earnings.
If your role covers stores but not apps, then the Dev Dashboard opens on Stores instead of Home. Refer to If you can't open the Dev Dashboard.
Anchor to Create and manage appsCreate and manage apps
Your organization's apps are in one list under Apps, whether you created them with Shopify CLI or in the Dev Dashboard. A few settings live only here, not in your shopify.app.toml: your app's client ID and secrets, the icon and contact email that merchants see, an IP allowlist, and an Amazon EventBridge destination for webhooks.
To see the stores an app is installed on, click its install count. Click a store to open its app history page.
To list your app on the Shopify App Store, refer to About distribution. Distribution is still in the Partner Dashboard.
To create an app, pick the path that matches what you're building:
Anchor to Drill down into app performanceDrill down into app performance
An app's Overview charts how it's performing for merchants, and Logs shows its API requests, webhook deliveries, and Function runs on one timeline. Both work without any setup. You can also send your own app events to the same timeline.
- A merchant reports a problem: Filter Logs to their shop to see what your app did there.
- Webhook failures go up: The error-rate charts link to the failed deliveries.
- You ship a change: Send an app event when you release, and it appears next to the requests and deliveries around it.
These metrics also drive your app's alerts. Admin performance uses the same Core Web Vitals that Built for Shopify assesses.
Anchor to Manage storesManage stores
Stores lists every store your organization can access, so you can find a store by name. The store type depends on who owns it:
- Dev stores: You own them, for building and testing without touching a live store.
- Client transfer stores: You own them while you build, and the client owns them after they accept the transfer.
- Collaborations: The merchant owns the store and approves your request for access.
Click a store to open its store page, with its details and which of your apps are installed on it. With the View financials permission, it also shows the store's earnings.
Anchor to Create saved catalogsCreate saved catalogs
A saved catalog is a filtered view of the Global Catalog, limited to the product categories, price ranges, or shops you choose. When your AI agents search with a saved catalog, they only find products in it.
Set up the filters here, preview what a search returns, and then give your agents the catalog's ID instead of sending the same filters with every request.
Anchor to Manage users, payouts, and billingManage users, payouts, and billing
In a Partner organization, click Organization settings in the lower left of the Dev Dashboard to manage your organization:
- Users: Add team members and choose their roles.
- Payouts: View and export payouts, and set up your payout method.
- Billing: Pay for App Store ads and manage ad credits.
- Partner API clients: Create clients that query your organization's data, in Users > Security.
To get emails about breaking changes and app issues, keep your emergency contact information up to date.
Anchor to Move from the Partner DashboardMove from the Partner Dashboard
To find where each Partner Dashboard tool is now, including payouts, billing, and Partner settings, refer to Migrate from the Partner Dashboard. If your app has extensions that you managed in the Partner Dashboard or that don't have a uid yet, then migrate them to Shopify CLI.
Anchor to Build for your own storeBuild for your own store
You don't need a Partner organization to use the Dev Dashboard. If you're a merchant, or a developer building for your company's own stores, then open it from the Shopify admin. On desktop, click your store name, and then click View Dev Dashboard (</>). You can also go to Settings > Apps, click Develop apps, and then click Build apps in Dev Dashboard. Apps that you create there are custom apps for your organization's stores.
To give someone access, assign them the App developer role in the Shopify admin, or a custom role on Shopify Plus. Refer to Merchant organizations. Organization settings in the lower left of the Dev Dashboard only appears in Partner organizations, so payouts, Partner billing, and Partner API clients don't apply.