The Store Dashboard is where you submit a new app, see how your current apps are doing, and plan your next app.
Accessing your Store Dashboard
To access your Store Dashboard, you must have a Windows Store developer account and be signed in. If you don't have a Windows Store developer account, see Opening a developer account.
Open the Windows Store app Developer Center, sign in, and then click on the Dashboard tab.
Submit an app
To submit a Windows Store app to the store, open your Store Dashboard and click Submit an app in the left menu. If you want to list a desktop application in the Windows Store, see the desktop app developer checklist.
This opens the release summary page from where you can enter all the info about your Windows Store app and upload its packages for certification. To learn more, see Submitting your app.
View your apps in progress
After you create a Windows Store app, but before you submit it for certification, your app will appear in this section of the Store Dashboard. While you are working on your app submission, you can save the info and quit at any time during the process, and continue later.
To go back to an app in progress, click Edit in the app's tile in the Dashboard.
After you submit your app for certification, you can see its progress by clicking Details in the app's tile. To learn more, see How to check on your app's certification status.
View your apps in the Windows Store
Your apps that are listed in the Windows Store appear in the Apps in the Store section of the Store Dashboard. From the tiles in this section, you can see how well the apps are doing, or you can update the app.
To see how an app is doing, click Reports in the app's tile.
To see the app's description metadata, click Details in the app's tile.
To update the app and create a new release, click Details in the app's tile to show the app's description info. From the Release details page, click New release.
We describe the reports and information we provide for your apps in the section, Analyzing your apps in the Windows Store.
See also
Other Dashboard actions
View notifications
Important info about your account or one of your apps is displayed at the top of the Dashboard in the Notifications section. The notifications often contain links to more detailed info. After you are done with the notification, you can delete it from the Dashboard by clicking the x in the right column of the notification.
Research your next app
The Explore store trends link in the left menu takes you to a page where you can see how apps in different categories are doing now.
Manage your developer account
You can update your developer account info using the Profile links in the left menu of the Dashboard.
Tips for desktop app developers
If you have registered with the Windows Certification Program to certify your desktop apps, you can use your Dashboard to list your certified desktop apps in the Windows Store.
Note You will see the Desktop option only if you have registered with the Windows Certification Program under the same Microsoft account as your Windows Store Dashboard.
Viewing desktop apps from the Store Dashboard
To see the list of your certified desktop apps that can be listed in the Store, go to your Store Dashboard and select Desktop at the top of the page. Your certified desktop apps will be listed in the Certified apps table.
Listing a certified desktop app in the Windows Store
To list a desktop application in the Windows Store:
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In the Certified apps table on the Dashboard for Desktop apps, find the certified app that you want to list and click Submit.
This opens the release summary page for desktop apps.
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In the release summary page, click Name, to enter the name under which to list it in the Windows Store.
Enter the name of your app, and then click Save.
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Enter the remaining info about your app, such as the Selling details, Age rating and rating certificates, Description for each language that you selected in Selling details page, and finally any Notes to testers.
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After you enter all the info about your app, review it for correctness and click Submit for certification to submit your app.
Build date: 3/19/2013
