Understanding the merchant portal
Recharge's merchant portal lets you quickly access all the tools you use to manage subscriptions from both a desktop or mobile browser.
This article provides an overview of the updates to the merchant portal and tips for using the user interface.
Navigate the merchant portal
The navigation menu is a persistent left-oriented menu, with some sections that expand to reveal further options in a dropdown menu. When you first log in to your Recharge store, you will land on the Home page and see your store stats and Announcement banners.
The following pages in the navigation menu provide access to Recharge's main features:
- Analytics - Gain insight into your store's revenue, customers, and subscriptions.
- Customers - Access customer, subscription, and order information.
- Retain - Use Recharge's holistic suite of retention-focused tools to prevent customer churn.
- Grow - Offer targeted deals and maximize your revenue with Recharge's Grow suite.
- Products - Manage subscription products.
- Discounts - Create and monitor discounts to add value, improve loyalty, and gain new customers.
Storefront
Control your storefront configuration, manage discounts, create exports, download apps, and access account settings using the Storefront tab.
- Customer Portal - Personalize the customer's subscription management experience.
- Subscription Widget - Customize the subscription widget to match your brand.
- Copy & translations - Add alternate text to Recharge storefront UI or translate UI elements to another language.
- Theme Editor - Recharge Pro merchants have access to the Recharge Theme Engine, allowing them to customize the appearance of the customer portal.
- Checkout - Customize the look and feel of your store's checkout (if applicable).
Tools and apps
Access Recharge tools and apps to manage your customers and enhance your subscription offering through the Tools and apps tab.
- Exports - Access store data and create reports on customer account information, purchase and order details, discounts, and more.
- Bulk updates - Bulk update existing subscriptions using the Bulk Updater Tool.
- Quick Actions - Access the Recharge Quick Actions URL builder through the Storefront tab.
- Installed - Apps installed on your store.
- Marketplace - The app marketplace, where you can download and add third-party applications to expand store functionality.
- API tokens - Generate and manage API tokens for your store. See Recharge API for information on how to generate an API token.
Settings
The Settings tab contains areas of the Recharge app that let you perform various administrative tasks in your store.
- Payment - Add and update payment processors for the store.
- Billing & plan - Review your plan and any add-ons.
- Store - View store information and the billing information Recharge has on file for your account.
- Accounts - Create and manage store user accounts for employees.
- Taxes - Add and update the tax collection method for your store, if applicable.
- Shipping - Set up shipping rates for customer orders.
- Notifications - View and edit customer notifications.
- Legal - Update the terms and conditions that apply to the subscriptions you offer.
- Order processing - Configure how inventory is handled and what to include in orders at the time of order processing.
Help menu
The Help menu provides a one-stop shop for all things new and upcoming from Recharge.
The resources menu includes:
- Get help - Directs you to the Recharge Help Center.
- Browse guides - Access the Merchant HQ for relevant features and instructions to grow your subscription business.
- Product updates - Will open a changelog displaying new product releases. The menu displays an alert badge when new product updates are available to view.
- Early Adopter Program - Access the Early Adopter Program portal offering you the opportunity to try new products and features at Recharge.
- Roadmap - See the Recharge product roadmap.
FAQ
Why can't I see certain sections of the merchant portal?
Access to certain sections of the merchant portal is determined by the user's permissions. See Enabling Recharge user and account permissions for more information.
Why doesn't my merchant portal have the Taxes, Shipping, or Checkout sections?
Shopify Checkout Integration stores will not display these sections unless they have migrated customers.