What the Dashboard section shows
Four summary tiles. Blocked cart value, largest single block, rules involved, and stopped before adding, which counts shoppers who set a blocked quantity and never clicked Add to cart.
That last tile is deliberately separate from blocked attempts everywhere it appears. They measure different things, so they do not add up to anything, and trying to reconcile them is wasted effort.
A daily trend chart, and a per-rule table carrying rule, type, blocked attempts, stopped before adding, blocked cart value and a Detail button.
Why the money view matters
Blocked attempts tells you a rule is firing. It does not tell you whether the rule is protecting your margin or quietly costing you a wholesale customer a week.
A rule with 400 small blocks and one with 12 blocks worth thousands each are the same number in an attempts column and very different problems. This section is the one to look at before deciding whether a limit is set correctly.
Investigate one rule
Find the rule's row in the per-rule table and click Detail.
Read the tiles: blocked cart value, blocked attempts, customers affected and guest visitors affected. Customers and guests are kept apart so that one shopper blocked twelve times never reads as twelve shoppers.
Read "why it is blocking". A ranked breakdown of the actual reasons, below minimum, above maximum, not a valid pack multiple, below or above a value bound, below or above a weight bound, or a repurchase limit exceeded, each with a count and a share of the total.
Check products affected or orders affected, whichever applies to that rule, with links straight into your Shopify admin.
Review the rule's own trend chart for the period.
If the ranked reasons are not what you expected the rule to be doing, that is usually the fastest route into Why a rule is not working.
Common mistakes
- Looking for a Reports page in the navigation. It has gone. The content is on the Dashboard.
- Expecting stopped before adding inside the detail view. That metric appears only in the section's own tiles and table. The detail view is about completed blocks.
- Waiting for a CSV export button. There is not one currently, regardless of what some upgrade copy still promises.
- Seeing a product shown as an ID rather than a name. That happens for older blocked-attempt records, or a theme that has not been updated recently. It is a gap in the stored data rather than a fault in this view.
- Expecting blocked attempts here to match the Rules list exactly. The detail view counts only attempts that carried a cart value, so very old records can make the two figures differ slightly for the same period.