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The Home Dashboard is the main overview screen. It lists every Shopify store environment that has been linked inside your assigned Vortex Staging tenant, and it shows what is happening across those environments at a glance. Use this page to quickly confirm which environments exist (for example, Production, Staging, UAT, Integration1), how recently migrations have run, and whether anything requires attention. Vortex Staging home dashboard

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Key buttons and columns

  • View (Front-end column). Preview the storefront of the respective Shopify store environment.
  • View (Control Panel column). Open the Shopify Admin (control panel) of the respective Shopify store environment.
  • Add User (Git Branch). Applies only to GitHub integration. See GitHub deployment.
  • Date Created. Shows the date of the latest migration task for that environment.
  • Data Migration and Theme Status. Shows migration start and end timestamps with a progress bar for completion.
  • Details. Click to see the migrated entities, counts, migration status, and errors (if any).
If you are troubleshooting a migration, open Details first. It is the quickest route to entity-level progress and error messages.

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Reading the status column

The Data Migration and Theme Status column gives you the high-level state per environment:
  • In progress. A migration or theme deployment is currently running. The progress bar shows how far through the entity list the run has reached.
  • Completed. The most recent migration finished. Click Details to see per-entity success and any partial failures (for example, a small number of products that hit Shopify API validation errors).
  • Failed. The migration as a whole failed (for example, an authentication issue or a Shopify outage during the run). Open Details and the downloadable log file to investigate.
  • Idle. No migration has run for this environment recently. The Date Created column shows when the last run was.

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What “environments” actually are

Every row on the home dashboard is a linked Shopify store. Each store is its own Shopify tenant with its own URL, its own theme, its own products. Vortex Staging links those tenants together under a single Vortex IQ tenant so you can move data between them with a few clicks. Production is the live storefront, reserved by the platform. Staging, UAT, and any Integration environments you create are sandbox Shopify stores that Vortex Staging can write to.

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What you can do from the home page

  • Open the front-end of any environment to spot-check a deploy.
  • Open the Shopify Admin of any environment to verify a setting.
  • Open Details on the latest migration to see per-entity counts and errors.
  • Add a Git user to an environment if you are using GitHub for theme deployments.
  • Confirm at a glance that no environment has a stale migration that has been “in progress” for longer than expected (often a sign of an API throttling issue worth opening a ticket for).

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FAQ

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Can I see migration history older than the latest run from the home page?

Not directly. The home page shows the most recent migration per environment. For older migrations, open the Migration history tab.

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What does “Add User” do for an environment without GitHub?

If you have not connected a GitHub repository, the Add User control will not auto-create branches. Connect GitHub first via GitHub deployment, then per-developer branches per environment are created automatically.

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Why is one environment greyed out?

A greyed-out environment usually means the Vortex Staging app has been uninstalled from that Shopify store, or the OAuth token has expired. Reinstall the app on that store, or contact the Vortex IQ Helpdesk.