Recommendations
An automatic checklist of fixes and improvements for your store, what each one checks, and how refreshing and dismissing work.
The Recommendations page scans your store and lists things that could be costing you sales, from missing payment methods to products without images. Open it from Recommendations in your admin sidebar.
Reading a recommendation
Each card shows:
- A priority: Critical (buyers may not be able to purchase), Important, or Suggested.
- An area: Product Catalog, Payments, Storefront, Trust & Security, Shipping, Orders, Pricing, Content, or Discovery.
- A short explanation and a button that takes you straight to the right place, such as Go to Products or Customize Store.
- For product issues, a list icon (View affected items) that shows exactly which products need attention, each with an edit link.
The badges at the top count how many recommendations you have of each priority. When there's nothing to fix, you'll see Your store is looking great!
What gets checked
| Area | Recommendation | Priority |
|---|---|---|
| Product Catalog | Products are missing required information | Critical |
| Product Catalog | Products have no short description | Important |
| Product Catalog | Products are out of stock | Important |
| Product Catalog | More than half your products are inactive (when you have 3 or more) | Important |
| Product Catalog | Products have no images | Important |
| Product Catalog | Products have no search keywords | Suggested |
| Payments | No payment method is configured | Critical |
| Payments | Add Stripe or PayPal to accept card payments | Suggested |
| Storefront | Your shop, services, or events link is hidden but you have active items of that type | Critical |
| Storefront | Build your store's hero section using the hero builder | Important |
| Storefront | Add a store bio (missing or under 20 characters) | Important |
| Storefront | Add a logo to your store | Important |
| Storefront | No carousel images are set (only if you have no Hero Builder design) | Suggested |
| Storefront | Feature your best products on your homepage (when you have 3+ active products and none featured) | Suggested |
| Storefront | Add social media links to your store | Suggested |
| Trust & Security | Verify your email address | Critical |
| Shipping | No shipping or local pickup is configured | Critical |
| Shipping | You're only shipping to one country | Suggested |
| Shipping | Consider offering local pickup | Suggested |
| Orders | Orders awaiting payment for 3+ days (orders from the last 30 days) | Important |
| Orders | Confirmed orders unprocessed for 7+ days (orders from the last 30 days) | Important |
| Pricing | None of your products have a sale price (3+ products) | Suggested |
| Pricing | All your products are the same price (5+ products) | Suggested |
| Content | Products have a very short description (under 30 characters) | Suggested |
| Content | Products have no brand set | Suggested |
| Discovery | All your products are in one category (when you have more categories available) | Suggested |
| Discovery | Set your store's selling category | Suggested |
When the analysis runs
- The analysis runs automatically when you open the page and the last one is more than 24 hours old. You'll see Analyzing your store… while it works.
- Last analyzed at the top shows when it last ran.
- Click Refresh Analysis after fixing things to update the list straight away. You can refresh once every 5 minutes; until then the button is disabled and shows how long to wait.
Dismissing
Click the × on a card and confirm Dismiss to hide a recommendation you don't plan to act on.
Dismissing is temporary. The next time the analysis runs (automatically after 24 hours, or when you click Refresh Analysis), any issue that still applies comes back. To make a recommendation go away for good, fix the underlying issue.