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Tour of the dashboard
What's in each option of the Shelfkat admin menu, in the top bar, and in your account dashboard.
Quick answer
Inside a store, the menu has four destinations: Home (what's left to publish), Products (what you sell), Design (how the store looks) and Settings (WhatsApp, domain, SEO, team and inventory). If you turn on inventory, a fifth destination appears: Inventory. Below that are Contacts and WhatsApp, and at the bottom Guides, Help, Plan and All catalogs. The top bar shows your plan status, the search box (Ctrl+K), your AI credits, notifications and your account.
On this page
The Shelfkat admin is at shelfkat.store/admin. It has two menu levels:
- The store menu, when you're inside a catalog (for example UrbaStyle).
- The account menu, when you click All catalogs and see your whole workspace.
The store menu#
| # | Option | What it's for | Guide |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Store switcher | Switch between your catalogs if you have more than one. | Plans |
| 2 | Home | Your next step, the The 5 steps checklist to publish, basic details, currency and a store preview. | Publish your catalog |
| 3 | Products | Create, edit, search, publish or move your products to draft. | Your first product |
| 4 | Design | The 8 steps to customize style, logo, colors, cover, text, collection, cards and footer. | Customize your store |
| 5 | Settings | Name and address, WhatsApp, QR code, SEO, pixels, social links, domain, team, inventory, categories and pages. | Store settings |
| 6 | Contacts | The people who left their details or placed an order. | Contacts |
| 7 | Inbox, assistant and WhatsApp connection (paid plans). | Orders over WhatsApp | |
| 8 | Guides | Short guides inside the dashboard. | — |
| 9 | Help | Open a ticket for the support team and check your tickets. | — |
| 10 | Plan | Your plan, what it includes and changing plans. | Plans |
| 11 | All catalogs | Leaves the store for your account's overall dashboard. | — |
Note
When you turn on the catalog's inventory, one more destination appears, Inventory, between Design and Settings (on your phone, in the bottom bar). It holds Stock, Movements and Counts. See How inventory works.
Tip
The guided tour that appears the first time sums it up this way: four destinations (Home, Products, Design and Settings); everything else lives inside Settings.
Home#
Home is the screen you see when you enter your store. The status (Draft or Published) and the View store and Publish buttons (or Pause store if it's already published) are always at the top.
- Next step: the dark card tells you what to do now (for example Confirm your WhatsApp). Once everything is ready it switches to Your store is ready, with Copy link and View products.
- The 5 steps: add your first product, upload a photo, set up WhatsApp, publish the store and share the link.
- Your store: quick links to Name and address, WhatsApp and QR code and link.
- Catalog currency: the currency for your prices.
- How your customer sees it: a live preview, on the right.
The top bar#
| # | Element | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Live | Your subscription status. |
| 2 | Search (Ctrl+K / ⌘K) | Jump to any dashboard section by typing its name. |
| 3 | Upgrade plan | Opens the plan comparison. |
| 4 | AI credits | The AI credits you have left this month. |
| 5 | Theme | Switches the dashboard between light and dark mode. |
| 6 | Share catalog | Copies or shares your store's link. |
| 7 | Notifications | Your alerts inside the dashboard. |
| 8 | Your account | Your account menu (with your initials). |
The account menu#
Clicking All catalogs shows your workspace's overall dashboard, with a menu grouped by task.
| # | Option | What it's for |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home | Workspace summary: plan, usage, published catalogs, and ones without WhatsApp. |
| 2 | Analytics | Visits, product views, WhatsApp clicks and carts, with AI analysis. |
| 3 | Catalogs | All your catalogs; create a new one with New or Create with AI. |
| 4 | Contacts | All contacts across all your catalogs. |
| 5 | Inbox | Chat with your customers over WhatsApp from the dashboard (paid plans). |
| 6 | Assistant | The automatic WhatsApp assistant (paid plans). |
| 7 | Connection | Connect your WhatsApp number (paid plans). |
| 8 | Domain | Your custom domains. |
| 9 | Team | Invite sellers and set their WhatsApp. |
| 10 | Plan | Plan, billing and customer portal. |
| 11 | Settings | Your account settings. |
| 12 | Guides | Guides inside the dashboard. |
| 13 | Help | Support tickets. |
Note
On mobile, the sidebar opens with the menu button and the main shortcuts appear in a bottom bar.
Last updated: 2026-09-27