Dashboard tour
What every screen in the Varn admin does, and which one you want.
The left navigation is ordered by the job you came to do, not by how the app is built.
Home#
The setup guide, your theme status, and quick links. Three steps:
- Activate on your theme. Verified live from your theme every time the page loads, not remembered from a click.
- Configure your swatches. Ticks itself once your store actually has swatch assignments saved. Verified server side, so it survives a new browser or a cleared cache.
- Go live and preview. Self-marked, because there is no honest way for us to know you looked at your storefront, and inventing that signal would be a lie.
Swatches#
The main editor. Decide what each color value looks like: chip, two tone, gradient or photo. See Your first swatches.
Variants#
The photo editor. Decide which product photos belong to each color, and their order. See Per-color photo galleries.
Groups#
Show separate products as one swatch row, for stores that list each color as its own product. See Product grouping.
Style#
The style studio. Shape, size, spacing, labels, borders, effects, sold-out appearance, and which surfaces swatches appear on. Everything is previewed live and saved through Shopify's own save bar. See Style studio.
The master switch at the top, Show swatches on your storefront, is the one true off switch. Turning it off renders nothing, anywhere, immediately.
Analytics#
Which colors get clicked, which sold-out colors people still want, and merchandising advice once you have enough data. Advance and Premium. See Swatch analytics.
Agent readiness#
Scores your products on how well an AI shopping agent can understand them, and offers one-click fixes for the gaps. Free to view. See Agent readiness.
Plan and billing#
Compare plans, see your trial countdown, upgrade or downgrade. Every plan change goes through Shopify's own confirmation page, so you are never charged silently. See Manage your plan.
Support#
FAQs, video guides, and a direct line to the team.
Things that are true on every screen#
- Save bars, not save buttons. Configuration screens use Shopify's context save bar, which appears when you have unsaved changes.
- Locked features look locked. A feature your plan does not include renders visibly disabled with the plan named, never as a live control that fails when you press it.
- Empty, loading and error states exist. If something cannot load, you get a specific reason, not a spinner forever.
- Counters show their limit. Anything with a cap (groups, products per group, the free photo allowance) shows a meter with the number in words as well as color.