Shopify sales and orders in your MacBook notch

Notch Metrics2 min read

Shopify's admin is a good dashboard and a slow page. On a busy day you open it to read one number and wait for twelve.

How do you watch Shopify sales without the admin?

Notch Metrics puts the figures in the MacBook notch. Collapsed, a thin strip. Hover the camera housing and it expands over whatever you were doing. Move away and it folds back to the shape it had.

What Shopify reports

Number What it is
Sales Order totals for orders that took payment
Orders Orders placed in the window
Average order value Sales divided by orders
Refunds Refunded amounts in the window
New customers First-time buyers
Customers Every customer record, ever
Recent payments The last ten orders

The first three belong together. Sales rising on flat orders is a bigger basket. Sales rising on flat average order value is simply more customers. One widget cannot tell you which; three can.

Connecting

A shop domain and a custom app access token. What the Shopify connector asks for. The token needs read access to orders and customers and nothing else, which is the smallest set that answers these questions.

It is encrypted on the server with a key unique to that one connection, bound to your account and the provider, so the Mac app never holds it.

The connector is in beta

Shopify's connector is marked beta on its page, and beta here means the edges are still being worked on rather than that the numbers are unavailable. It connects and it returns figures today.

Alongside everything else

If you also take subscription revenue, Stripe, Polar, Paddle, Dodo Payments and Lemon Squeezy sit in the same notch. Traffic comes from Plausible and Google Analytics, search from Search Console. Every source.

Apple silicon, macOS 14 and later. Seven days with no card, then $9 a month or $49 a year with every connector included. Download Notch Metrics.

  • shopify
  • sales
  • mac

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Questions

How do I see Shopify sales on my Mac without opening the admin?
Install Notch Metrics, connect Shopify on the web with your shop domain and a custom app access token, and place the sales widget in the MacBook notch. Hover the camera housing and the figure is there.
What Shopify permissions does Notch Metrics need?
Read access to orders and customers. That is the smallest set that answers sales, orders, average order value, refunds and customer counts, and a read-only token cannot change anything in the store.
Does Notch Metrics show Shopify average order value?
Yes, as its own widget. It is sales divided by orders over the window, and each sparkline point is that day's own ratio, so the headline is deliberately not the average of the points.
Is my Shopify access token stored on my Mac?
No. It is encrypted on the server with a key unique to that one connection. The Notch Metrics server calls Shopify and sends your Mac a normalised number.
Can I show Shopify and Stripe in the same notch?
Yes. Notch Metrics connects Shopify alongside Stripe, Polar, Paddle, Dodo Payments, Lemon Squeezy and RevenueCat, with every connector included and no per-integration charge.