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Mayuri Parmar
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What Is an Ecommerce Dashboard? (Complete Guide)

An ecommerce dashboard is a visual analytics portal that helps business owners (and store managers) and SaaS platforms to track their sales, customer activity, orders, product performances and their own KPIs in real-time. It consolidates all ecommerce data marketing, revenue, inventory, user behavior and transactions into a simple, intuitive view.

It’s no longer optional to have a dashboard in the ecommerce world of today! Whether you run an Shopify shop, WooCommerce store or a custom ecommerce SaaS; dashboards help you take smarter decisions faster.

For those looking for a streamlined solution, CRM dashboards can be integrated into your system to improve customer relationship management and boost business growth.


Why are E-commerce dashboards important?

Here’s why modern ecommerce teams rely heavily on dashboards:

1. Real-Time Decision Making

Business owners can quickly see all the:

  • Today’s revenue

  • Active customers

  • Best-selling products

  • Orders waiting for fulfillment

  • Marketing campaign performance

2. Better Inventory Management

Stock-outs and overstocks costs online business thousands each month.

  • Low stock alerts

  • Inventory value

  • Fast-moving items

  • SKU performance trends

3. Improved Customer Understanding

Understand customer behavior:

  • Repeat vs new buyers

  • Order value patterns

  • Abandoned carts

  • Browsing vs buying ratios

4. Monitor Sales Channels

If you sell on multiple platforms, dashboards combine:

  • Shopify

  • Amazon

  • eBay

  • Your custom ecommerce admin

5. Powerful Visualization

Instead of dull, static spreadsheets, dashboards provide:

  • Graphs

  • Pie charts

  • Funnels

  • Heat maps

  • KPI widgets


Essential KPIs For Your Ecommerce Dashboard

Here is how a successful ecommerce dashboard looks like :

Sales Metrics

  • Daily/weekly/monthly revenue

  • Earnings by channel

  • Average order value (AOV)

  • Sales conversion rate

Order Metrics

  • Total orders

  • Fulfilled / pending orders

  • Refund & return rates

Product Metrics

  • Best-selling items

  • Low stock alerts

  • Most viewed products

  • Product profitability

Customer Metrics

  • Lifetime value (LTV)

  • Customer acquisition cost (CAC)

  • Returning vs new customers

  • Abandoned cart rate


Use Cases for Ecommerce Dashboards

  • Ecommerce SaaS platforms

  • Online store owners

  • Agencies building custom dashboards

  • Multi-vendor marketplaces

  • Dropshipping businesses

  • Analytics teams


Top Ready-To-Use Ecommerce Dashboard Templates

Developers don't like having to create admin dashboard templates from scratch and would rather use ready-made templates.

Here are a few high-grade ecommerce dashboards you can choose:

  • Spike Ecommerce Dashboard

  • Modernize Ecommerce Dashboard

  • MaterialM Ecommerce Dashboard

  • MaterialPro Ecommerce Dashboard

The templates are available in React, Angular, Vue, Bootstrap and Tailwind versions. Free admin templates are also available to help you get started without any cost.


Final Thoughts

An ecommerce dashboard is one of the best ways to increase revenue, learn about your customers and maximize product performance. Adopting a pre-built dashboard from the start would give devs Speed To Market, focus on core business logic instead of UI stuff.

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