A tour of the admin
Ambikly adds exactly one item to the WordPress admin menu. Click it and the plugin takes over the whole screen: a React app with its own dark sidebar, its own header, and its own navigation. The WordPress admin bar, sidebar menu and footer are hidden while you are inside it.
This page maps every screen, where it lives, and what it is for, so you can find things without clicking through everything.
Getting in and out
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Open Ambikly | Click Ambikly in the WordPress admin sidebar — the cart icon, near the top |
| Move between screens | Use Ambikly's own dark sidebar on the left. There are no WordPress submenus |
| Leave | Click WP Admin at the top right |
| Collapse the sidebar | Click the arrow next to the logo. It shrinks to an icon-only rail and remembers your choice |
| On a phone | Tap the hamburger at the top left to open the sidebar as a drawer |
The direct URL is wp-admin/admin.php?page=ambikly. Each screen adds a sub parameter — ?page=ambikly&sub=orders. Old-style links like ?page=ambikly-orders still work; they are redirected to the new form, carrying any extra query arguments with them, so bookmarks survive.
You need the ambikly_view_store capability to see the menu item at all. Administrators, Store Managers and Support Agents all have it. Without it the menu is absent and the URL renders nothing. See Roles & permissions.
The header toolbar
The bar across the top shows the current screen's title on the left, with a breadcrumb back to the list when you are editing something. On the right, four controls:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sun / moon icon | Toggles dark mode. Stored per browser and applied before the page paints |
| Wrench icon | Opens Tools. This is the only way to reach it — read the next section |
| Your name | The logged-in user. Display only |
| WP Admin | Returns to the WordPress dashboard |
Where Tools is hiding
Tools is not in the sidebar
The Tools screen — CSV import, CSV export and System status — has no entry in the Ambikly sidebar. The only way to reach it from the UI is the wrench icon in the top-right header. If you are looking for import, export or diagnostics and cannot find them, that is why.
The direct URL is wp-admin/admin.php?page=ambikly&sub=tools.
Overview
| Screen | Path | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboard | Ambikly | Your store's performance at a glance — the landing screen |
| Reports | Ambikly → Reports | Sales over a chosen period, top products, customer figures. See Reports |
Catalog
| Screen | Path | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Products | Ambikly → Products | The product list, with search, category/type/status filters, configurable columns and bulk actions. Add New Product starts here. See Products |
| Categories | Ambikly → Categories | Organize products into a browsable hierarchy. See Categories, tags & brands |
| Reviews | Ambikly → Reviews | Moderate customer reviews. Pending submissions are admin-only until approved. See Reviews |
Sell
| Screen | Path | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Orders | Ambikly → Orders | Every purchase. Open an order to see line items, change status, refund, add notes or print the invoice. See Orders |
| Abandoned Carts PRO | Ambikly → Abandoned Carts | Carts that were never checked out, and the recovery emails sent for them. See Abandoned Cart Recovery |
| Customers | Ambikly → Customers | People who have bought from you, plus manually added customers for offline and wholesale orders. See Customers |
| Companies | Ambikly → Companies | B2B accounts with net-terms billing and multiple buyer logins. See B2B companies & Net Terms |
| Coupons | Ambikly → Coupons | Percentage, fixed-cart and per-product discount codes. See Coupons |
Recurring & Digital
Every screen in this group belongs to a Pro add-on. They appear in the sidebar whether or not Pro is installed, marked with a PRO chip; without an active license and the add-on enabled, they are not usable.
| Screen | Path | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Subscriptions PRO | Ambikly → Subscriptions | Recurring plans, their billing schedules and renewals. See Subscriptions |
| Gift Cards PRO | Ambikly → Gift Cards | Issued cards, remaining balances and the per-card ledger. See Gift Cards |
| Licenses PRO | Ambikly → Licenses | License keys issued to your customers for digital products, with per-site activations. See Software Licensing Pro |
| Pricing Rules PRO | Ambikly → Pricing Rules | Quantity breaks, role-based pricing and scheduled discounts. See Dynamic Pricing |
| Bundles PRO | Ambikly → Bundles | Multi-product bundles sold as one item. See Product Bundles |
| Order Bumps PRO | Ambikly → Order Bumps | One-click add-on offers shown at checkout. See Order Bumps |
Configure
| Screen | Path | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Emails | Ambikly → Emails | Who receives transactional email, and the subject and body of each template, with a preview. Smart tags like |
| Webhooks | Ambikly → Webhooks | Notify other apps when something happens in your store. 9 events, HMAC-signed, with a delivery log. See Webhooks |
| Addons | Ambikly → Addons | Switch the 35 Pro add-ons on and off. Disabled add-ons are skipped at load time. See Managing add-ons |
| Settings | Ambikly → Settings | Nine tabs covering the whole store. Mapped below. See Settings reference |
| License | Ambikly → License | Activate or deactivate your Ambikly Pro license. Revalidated daily. See Install & activate a license |
Settings, tab by tab
Settings has its own menu down the left side of the screen. Only Email Configuration has sub-items.
| Tab | What it configures | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Store Settings | Store name, tagline, description, address, currency and position, contact details, social links, company details and tax ID, business hours, store policies, and feature toggles like guest checkout and reviews | See the caveats below |
| Payment Settings | All seven gateways: enable, title, description, instructions and credentials. See Payments overview | |
| Invoice & Packing | Invoice prefix, next number, footer text, and packing slip options. See Invoices & packing slips | |
| Tax & Duties | Taxes on/off, calculation basis, tax-inclusive pricing, and the rate table. See Tax | |
| Email Configuration → Notifications | Which emails send, to whom, and the From name and address. See Emails | |
| Email Configuration → Email Templates | The four editable templates | Only four exist |
| Roles and Permissions | Default customer role, role-based pricing, role-based access | Inert — nothing reads these |
| Storage Settings | File storage options | Inert — nothing reads these |
| Shipping | Zones, the regions each covers, and the methods inside them. See Shipping | |
| Features & Addon | Feature and add-on toggles | Inert — the code says so itself |
Two more things on the Store Settings tab that look functional and are not: the Store Logo and Store Icon upload buttons have no click handler and do nothing, and each of the four Store Policies dropdowns offers a single hard-coded option rather than listing your pages. Full detail in Settings reference.
Tools
Reached only by the wrench icon in the header. Four cards:
| Card | What it does |
|---|---|
| Export products | Downloads a CSV of every product, optionally filtered by status (Published, Draft) and type (Physical, Digital, Variable, External, Bundle, Subscription) |
| Export orders | Downloads a CSV of orders in a date range, with addresses and a flattened items column |
| Import products | Uploads a CSV. Existing SKUs or slugs are updated, new rows created. Download template gives you the correct headers. Results report rows processed, created, updated and any per-row errors |
| System status | Versions, database state, environment and active add-ons as JSON. Copy puts the lot on your clipboard for a support ticket |
See Import & export (CSV) and System status.
The setup wizard
wp-admin/admin.php?page=ambikly-setup still exists, but it is an orphan page: it is not in the WordPress menu, not in the Ambikly sidebar, and nothing links to it once setup is marked complete. Change settings from the Settings screens instead. See Setup wizard.
What is not in the admin
Worth knowing so you stop looking:
| You might expect | Reality |
|---|---|
| A store-pages setting | The page mapping is an option with no UI. See Store pages |
| Product editing in the WordPress post editor | Products are not a custom post type. They live in Ambikly's own tables and its own editor |
| Grouped or External product types | No admin UI. Creatable by CSV import or REST API only |
| A PayPal sandbox/live switch | Database only. See Go-live checklist |
| Block editor controls for Ambikly blocks | All 8 blocks are server-rendered with no editor UI. They work on the front end and appear as generic blocks in the editor. See Blocks & store pages |
| Shipping, cancellation or refund emails | Only four templates exist |
Who can see what
| Role | Sees the Ambikly menu | Can edit store data | Settings, Payments, Webhooks, System Status, Import/Export, Email Templates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrator | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Store Manager (ambikly_store_manager) | Yes | Yes | No |
Support Agent (ambikly_support_agent) | Yes | Read-only | No |
| Everyone else | No | No | No |
Store Managers and Support Agents can see the Settings screen in the sidebar, but its data loads only for users who can manage_options — the sensitive screens hold gateway secrets and webhook secrets in plain text. See Roles & permissions.
Next
You know where everything is. Products is the full field-by-field reference for the product editor, and the natural next stop.