Tomas
posted this on May 26, 2011 07:53

1. Links for Settings, Accounts, Support and Logout.
Here you will see a quick link to your store (opens in a new window), links for the Settings, Account and Support drop-down menus and a logout link.
2. Navigational Menu
Access all of the administration areas from the drop-down navigational menu.
3. Search Form
The search form allows you to search for customers, orders and products. Enter partial titles, SKU's, email address, last names or URL Handles to display results.
4. Traffic Statistics powered by Google Analytics.
If you have Google Analytics enabled and installed on your store and have traffic data, you will be able use the interactive traffic history graph that shows traffic trending and statistics for the past 4 months.
5. Store Summary
A snapshot of the quantity of out of stock products, products and orders.
6. Sales Summary
Get a snapshot of your store's sales for various time periods.
7. Sales Comparison
See your stores current months performance compared to sales generated the previous month.
8. Recent Orders
A quick list of all of your recent orders placed on your store (last 48 hours).

If you are a new account, you will be displayed with a Getting Started Checklist on your dashboard. This gives you quick links to all the tasks needed to get your store up and running. After you have completed the steps, or to hide the check list at any time click on the "x" link as illustrated above.