How is the Waise admin laid out?

Six areas along the bottom, tabs across the top, and a top bar with search, New, updates and help. Here is what each one does.

The six areas

A rounded bar of areas floats along the bottom of the screen, on a computer and on a phone. Each area is a question about your business:

• Today: what is waiting for me. Orders to ship, messages to answer, stock running out. The Dashboard, the period summary and the launch checks are here too.
• Sales: who buys from me. Orders, shipping and returns, abandoned carts, customers and messages.
• Store: what I sell and how it looks. Products, categories, product costs, design, pages and blog, images and videos.
• Marketing: how I bring more buyers. Discounts, automatic mail, pop-ups, campaigns, Google and AI search.
• Money: how much I earn. Summary, revenue, real profit and expenses.
• Settings: what is set once. Store details, domain, plan, payments and tax, shipping methods, connections, team and security, alerts.

Every area is there from the first day. A red number on an area shows how many things wait there. Pressing an area opens the last screen you used in it. Pressing the area you are already in takes you back to its main screen.

Tabs across the top of the page

The screens of the area you are in appear as tabs across the top. Where one tab holds several screens, they show as a switch at the top of the page. In Help we write a path like this: Sales → Shipping → Shipping labels.

The top bar

• Waise logo: back to Today.
• Search: the field that says Search, or ask Pulse. It finds orders (by number, name, email, phone or city), customers, products, screens and actions. If nothing matches, ask Pulse. Press Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac) to jump into it.
• Setup checklist: a small ring that shows how much of the setup is done. See Launch checklist.
• + (Create new): start something from anywhere: an expense, a manual order, a product, a category, a discount code, a content page or a blog post.
• Bell (Updates): what happened in the shop, such as a new order or a message. There are no tasks here. What waits for you is under Today → Waiting for me.
• ? (Help): a tour of the screen you are on, the full tour, video lessons on every screen (the Waise Academy), everything the system can do, Ask Pulse, guides and the setup checklist.
• My account: language, dark mode, View shop, your other shops, Show every screen and Sign out.

Pulse

Pulse is the assistant inside the admin. Open it from the middle of the bottom bar on a phone, or press Ctrl+. (Cmd+. on a Mac). Press ? on your keyboard, when you are not typing in a field, to see all shortcuts. For more, see Ask Pulse.

Tip Every screen has a short video lesson. Open ? → Video lessons on every screen.

Updated November 5, 2026