06 — Dashboards
Shopify's default admin is built for merchants. What about your CS lead, your warehouse manager, your content reviewer, your accountant? We build operational UI for the people the default admin wasn't designed for.
What we build
Purpose-built UI for the non-merchant roles inside an e-commerce operation — reviewers, warehouse leads, CS managers, accountants, compliance teams. Not a BI dashboard dressed up as an admin.
01 — REALTIME
Multi-store consolidated views. Cross-store inventory balancing. Low-stock alerts. Sales velocity at a glance. Built for people who monitor 3–30 Shopify storefronts at once and can't afford to tab between admins.
02 — QUEUES
Staff approve or reject: content, discounts, refunds, high-value orders, returns. Queue management with SLAs. Audit trail for every decision. Role-based permissions (reviewer vs. admin vs. superadmin).
03 — REPORTING
CSV, XLSX, PDF exports. Scheduled email delivery. Custom KPI dashboards (AOV, LTV, return rates, SKU performance). BI-tool ready — feed Metabase, Looker, or Tableau without re-querying Shopify.
04 — RBAC
Multi-user, multi-role. Scope data by store, department, or region. SSO integration (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Okta). Audit logs of who did what and when — the kind your compliance team will actually read.
05 — ALERTS
Slack, email, or SMS when thresholds hit. Stock below reorder point. Sales spike or drop. Fulfillment SLA breached. Failed webhook. Dispute opened. Quiet hours and on-call rotations where the team needs them.
06 — HOSTING
Your choice. Deploy to your own VPS with Docker (full control, no recurring fees) or we host it for you (less work for your team). Supabase, Vercel, Fly, Railway, or classic Linux VMs.
Stack
Typed end-to-end, self-hostable, owned by you. No Retool lock-in, no per-seat SaaS tax.
If your team prefers Retool, Appsmith, or ToolJet for parts of the admin, we'll wire into those — but for anything your team opens daily, a proper custom panel outlives the tradeoff.
Proof
Regional operator · Shopify multi-store
Three Shopify storefronts consolidated into one internal dashboard. Webhook pipeline → Postgres → cross-store inventory view, low-stock alerts, SKU-level reconciliation. Surplus redistribution in hours, not days.
Read the case on /work →Specialty retailer · compliance-sensitive
Shipping rate class tags, compliance destination flags, and an auditable rule engine — all surfaced through an internal admin panel the merchant's ops team actually opens every morning. Manual tagging eliminated.
Read the case on /work →D2C · multi-brand operator
Purchase-order dashboard on Postgres. Procurement team raises POs from Shopify low-stock triggers, tracks partial fulfillments, reconciles to the accountant's chart of accounts. Single source of truth across four systems.
Read the case on /work →FAQ
Your choice. We support both: fully self-hosted on your own VPS with Docker (full ownership, no recurring fees beyond infrastructure), or managed hosting on Fly, Railway, or Vercel (we handle deployments, backups, monitoring). Self-hosting is typical for merchants already running other Docker services.
Yes. Role-based access control is standard. Typical roles: admin (full access), operator (day-to-day use), viewer (read-only), auditor (audit-log only). We support Google Workspace SSO, Microsoft 365 SSO, or email+password with TOTP two-factor. Every action is audit-logged.
Yes. Custom dashboards replace Retool when the use case is stable enough to warrant owning the code rather than paying per seat. Retool is great for prototyping and low-volume internal tools; custom-built dashboards win on per-user costs, data privacy, and customization depth for teams over ~5 people.
Anything with an API: Shopify (orders, inventory, customers), ShipStation, Klaviyo, Google Analytics 4, Stripe, QuickBooks, Xero, Google Sheets, CSV imports, internal Postgres or MySQL databases, Shopify webhook streams, and custom APIs you control. The hard part isn't pulling data; it's designing the view.
Yes. Stock below reorder point, sales velocity spike or drop, fulfillment SLA breached, failed webhook, failed job, dispute opened, suspicious order pattern — all trigger alerts. Delivery: Slack, email, SMS, Discord, or phone call (via Twilio) depending on severity.
Pricing
Single-purpose dashboard
$5–15K
Multi-module admin suite
$25–80K
Fully-custom admin platform
$100K+
Ranges depend on the number of modules, user roles, data sources, and whether SSO, audit logs, or compliance features are in scope. Every project starts with a free scoping call and a written spec before we quote.
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