In WooCommerce Home you can stay on top of your store performance, get useful tips and insights to grow your business, and quickly access some of the most important areas to manage your store.
In the Activity Panel area of the home screen in the upper-right corner, there is a panel that allows you to adjust the home screen layout called Display Settings.
Using this menu you can have the home screen display in either a single or two column layout depending on your personal preference.
The Inbox area is dedicated to informational content coming from multiple sources such as the WooCommerce core plugin, WooCommerce.com Subscription management, extensions activity, and store achievements. It also displays insightful content that could help with the day to day tasks of managing and optimizing a store. You can also access the Inbox in other pages, through the Activity Panel.
The Orders Panel displays Orders that are considered “actionable.” Orders needing fulfillment are shown by default. You can click the Order Number to go to the Order Details screen for that particular order.
Manage “actionable” order statuses settings at Analytics > Settings.
In this area, you can have a quick overview of the most important performance indicators of your store. Each performance indicator will display a label informing you of the statistic that is being presented, the value of that statistic for the date range selected and a percentage change over the prior period. At the top of this area, you can easily switch between three predefined date ranges: today, week to date and month to date. From here you can view associated charts and tabular data for deeper analysis.
Using the customization menu in the top right corner of the section, you can toggle the display of the following default performance indicators:
Indicator name | Description | Links to (report name > chart name)
Total Sales – Gross Sales − Returns − Coupons + Taxes + Shipping | Revenue Report > Total Sales
Net Sales – Gross Sales − Returns − Coupons | Revenue Report > Net Sales
Orders – The number of new orders placed for a selected date range | Orders Report > Orders
Items Sold – The discrete number of items sold | Products Report > Items Sold
Visitors* – The number of visitors. Counted when we see a user/browser in a given period | Jetpack > Site Stats
Views* – The number of page views. Counted when a visitor loads or reloads a page | Jetpack > Site Stats
* The aforementioned stats are only displayed if you have Jetpack installed and connected.
If you want to have a complete overview of your store performance, you can click on “View detailed stats” to access the Analytics main dashboard.
In the Store Management area you can quickly access some of the most important areas in your store:
Add products: access Products > Add New
Personalize my store: access the Shop page opened in the editor
Shipping settings: access WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping
Tax settings: access WooCommerce > Settings > Tax
Payment settings: access WooCommerce > Settings > Payments
Edit store details: access WooCommerce > Settings > General
View my store: view your store frontend