Shopify released Shopcast, an Apple TV app that turns a television into a store dashboard for a shop floor, back office, or team room. (No thanks, we prefer to stream episodes of The Office on our shop floor.) Merchants can use the remote to move through five views reporting sales, orders, units sold, and average order value, with a retail and geography view that shows the busiest store locations, compares online sales with Shopify POS, and plots incoming orders on a globe. Anyone running several stores can switch between them, with each shop’s data kept separate. The app itself is read-only, with totals refreshing through the day rather than streaming, and currently doesn’t offer any administrative capabilities, such as the ability to fulfill orders or edit products and pages.
