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We have three more really big updates to announce, each one bigger than the next. Let’s start with the first of the three. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been releasing a number of speed and search enhancements to the Sales and Products areas of your store’s admin dashboard, and we’d like to tell you about a few of them today.

Product Navigating & Searching Speed

For the first enhancement, look no further than your Products area. We’ve improved the loading of your products section, especially when paging back and forth across a very long list of products. Additionally, where searches across all of your products could have taken a while in the past, they now return instantly. Go on and give it try! We’ll wait.

Negative Search Terms

You’re back already? That was quick! Well, another of these updates includes support for negative search terms. Let’s say you put the word “Preorder” in the titles of all of your preorder products. When someone purchases that product, the order’s line item has a snapshot of the product and variation name at the time of purchase, so it will include the word “Preorder”. With negative search terms, you can now search in your sales area for unshipped orders matching “-preorder” and all orders for “preorder” products will be excluded from the search results. This should be a big help if you’ve found that your preorder sales have been crowding up your list of waiting-to-be-shipped orders.

When you’re ready to ship that preorder item, head over to the products area of your dashboard, remove “preorder” from the product’s title, and click the number in the “sold” column to search your sales area for every order that included that product.

Product Search Suggestions

One last enhancement we’d like to tell you about is the new “Search Suggestions” feature in the products area. Now, as you start typing a search term, we’ll instantly return matching products. Simply use your keyboard’s arrows or click on the product you want and the products area will update with that single matching product.

This update is perfect when you have a large number of products and want to easily jump around to see product stats and make edits. You already know what you’re looking for and now you don’t need to wait to find it.

We hope you find these recent search and speed improvements to your store’s dashboard helpful while managing your store. Enjoy!