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# Around your Shopify admin

Find where Yedric appears beyond the Apps list: storefront and customer account blocks, an admin block on orders and customers, and Sidekick.

Yedric is not only a page in your Apps list. It adds a few things elsewhere in Shopify: blocks on your storefront and in customer accounts, a block on orders and customers in your admin, and answers in Shopify Sidekick. None of them are on until you add them, and none depend on your plan.

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## The chat on your storefront

The **Yedric chat** app embed puts the chat button on every page of your store. Turn it on with **Turn on in theme** on [Home](https://docs.yedric.ai/shopify/going-deeper/home/), or in **Online Store > Themes > Customize > App embeds**.

The embed has a few settings of its own in the theme editor, so you can adjust the chat while you design your theme:

* **Greeting message**: Leave it empty to use the greeting set in the Yedric app.
* **Accent**, **Background** and **Text** colors: Leave them empty to keep the colors set in the Yedric app.
* **Horizontal position** (Right or Left) and **Vertical position** (Lowest, Middle or Highest) of the chat button: Leave them on **Use Yedric setting** to follow the app.

Whatever you set here also shows in the Yedric app. On the app's [Settings](https://docs.yedric.ai/shopify/going-deeper/settings/#set-in-your-theme) page, those fields are marked **Set in your theme editor**, so the two never disagree.

![Screenshot of the Shopify theme editor (Online Store > Themes > Customize) with the App embeds panel open and the "Yedric chat" embed expanded, showing the Colors group (Accent, Background, Text) and the Button group with "Horizontal position" and "Vertical position" set to "Use Yedric setting", focused on the "Vertical position" dropdown](https://docs.yedric.ai/assets/2026-10-23-shopify-going-deeper-around-shopify-embed-vertical-position.png)

When a shopper is logged in to your store, the chat greets them by first name and already knows who they are, so they can ask about their orders without proving it again.

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## Product questions

The **Product questions** app block adds up to three questions shoppers can tap on a product page, such as "Which size should I get?", "When would it arrive?" or "Can I return it?". Tapping one opens the chat and asks it about that product.

![Screenshot of a Shopify product page on the storefront with the Yedric "Product questions" block under the Add to cart button, showing the heading "Questions about this product?" and three pill buttons, focused on the three question buttons](https://docs.yedric.ai/assets/2026-10-23-shopify-going-deeper-around-shopify-product-questions-block.png)

To add it:

1. In **Online Store > Themes**, click **Customize** and open a product template.
2. In the product information section, click **Add block** and choose **Product questions** under **Apps**.
3. Edit the **Heading** and **Question 1** to **Question 3** if you like. Leave a question empty to hide it.
4. Click **Save**.

The block opens the chat, so it needs the Yedric chat app embed on.

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## Order questions in customer accounts

The **Order questions** block puts **Ask about this order** on the order status page of Shopify's customer accounts, under the heading "Questions about this order?". It opens the chat on your storefront, already asking about that order, so the assistant can check where it is, explain tracking, or help with a return.

Add it in **Settings > Checkout > Customize** (the checkout and accounts editor) on the **Order status** page. It works with new customer accounts, and needs the Yedric chat app embed on.

![Screenshot of the order status page in Shopify's new customer accounts, showing the Yedric "Order questions" block with the heading "Questions about this order?", the line "Our assistant can check where it is, explain tracking, and help with a return." and the "Ask about this order" button, focused on the "Ask about this order" button](https://docs.yedric.ai/assets/2026-10-23-shopify-going-deeper-around-shopify-order-questions-button.png)

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## On orders, customers and abandoned checkouts

The **Yedric** admin block shows a shopper's recent conversations right on their order, customer or abandoned checkout page in your Shopify admin: the date, channel, a one-line summary, the sentiment, and whether your team stepped in (**Answered**, **Handed off**, **Open** or **Closed**). **View conversation** opens it in Yedric.

![Screenshot of an order details page in the Shopify admin with the pinned Yedric admin block listing two conversations, each with a date, channel, outcome badge, sentiment badge, one-line summary and View conversation link, focused on the Yedric block](https://docs.yedric.ai/assets/2026-10-23-shopify-going-deeper-around-shopify-admin-order-block.png)

Shopify does not add app blocks for you. To add it:

1. Open any order (or customer).
2. Click the customize menu on the page, add the **Yedric** block, and pin it so it stays.
3. Repeat on a customer page, and on an abandoned checkout if you want it there too.

On orders and customers, **Open in Yedric** under **More actions** shows the same list in a window.

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## Shopify Sidekick

Ask Shopify Sidekick about your assistant in plain words. For example:

* "How is my Yedric assistant doing this month?": Conversations, hand-offs, resolution rate and satisfaction.
* "What are shoppers asking Yedric about?": Top topics, with example conversations.
* "What can't Yedric answer?": Knowledge gaps. Sidekick can turn one into a draft [custom reply](https://docs.yedric.ai/shopify/capabilities/custom-replies/), which opens in the app for you to check and **Save**.
* "Is Yedric live on my store?": Whether the chat is on, when your catalog was last read, and how many conversations you have used.
* "How many support emails are waiting?" or "Show my open tickets": Your [email inbox](https://docs.yedric.ai/shopify/going-deeper/team-inbox/#email) at a glance.

Sidekick can also open an email conversation in the app so you can **Close** it, **Set pending**, **Reopen** it, or **Assign to me**. **Open in inbox to reply** takes you to the inbox to answer it.

Sidekick never changes anything without your click, and it only sees summaries of conversations, never shoppers' names or contact details.

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## Getting help

The **Support** button Shopify shows for the Yedric app opens the app's **Help** page, with the ways to reach ShopPad, the team that builds Yedric, and a link back to the setup guide.
