Staff access audit app comparison
Best staff access audit app for Shopify: app-scope and staff reviews vs admin change history
Direct answer. Choose Adminlog ‑ Audit Trail when you want a searchable history of what changed in admin — products, inventory, orders, and refunds — with old and new values, undo for product changes, and alerts for unusual activity. Choose Staff Access Audit Guard when you want every installed app’s granted scopes classified and scored, customer-data and broad-write access flagged, and staff and collaborator access tracked with 30/90-day review reminders, without reading customer or order data. This page is not a ranking and not legal advice.
Staff Access Audit Guard (Shopify App Store · Write a review) reviews installed app access, granted scopes, staff access records, and ownership evidence without reading customer or order data. Adminlog ‑ Audit Trail (Shopify App Store) records admin changes by staff, collaborators, and other apps so you can see who changed what and restore a previous product version. Re-open both listings before you decide. Native Shopify still shows staff under Users and app permissions under Settings > Apps; Shopify’s Help Center page on app personal information documents that uninstalling an app revokes its access to data.
Free check first: App scope access reader runs in your browser and sends nothing. Paste an app’s access scopes and see which touch customer data or can write. It is a reading aid for a review conversation, not a score and not what any app checks.
What each app mentioned
“not mentioned” means that topic was absent from the public listing copy — not a claim about an unpublished feature. Sources: Adminlog ‑ Audit Trail · Staff Access Audit Guard. Rows restated on 12 Oct 2026.
| Topic | Adminlog ‑ Audit Trail | Staff Access Audit Guard |
|---|---|---|
| Job described | mentioned — records changes in Shopify admin by staff, collaborators, and other apps; each entry shows what changed, old and new values, when, and who made the change where Shopify provides it | mentioned — reviews installed app access, granted scopes, staff access records, and ownership evidence |
| Installed-app scopes | not mentioned | mentioned — classifies each granted scope, flags protected customer-data and broad-write access, and scores every installed app Low, Moderate, Elevated, or High (higher is safer) |
| Staff and collaborator reviews | not mentioned as a review reminder | mentioned — tracks staff and collaborator access with 30/90-day review reminders and overdue flags |
| Product, order, and inventory change history | mentioned — products, inventory, orders, and refunds; field-level before and after; search and filter the full history | not mentioned |
| Undo a mistaken edit | mentioned — restore the previous product version in one click, or revert many at once | not mentioned |
| Alerts after change | mentioned — alerts for unusual activity; scheduled reports | mentioned — drift alerts when scopes, owners, or costs change after a scheduled audit |
| Customer and order data | mentioned — tracks orders and refunds as part of the change history | mentioned — without reading customer or order data |
| Export | not mentioned on the listing copy used for this table | mentioned — export CSV or PDF evidence for internal reviews |
Native Shopify is still the user list and the app permission screen
Shopify Admin already lists staff and collaborators, and Settings > Apps shows each install. Since 11 March 2026 Shopify also shows Admin API activity, data-privacy notes, and app-permission history on that screen. Neither app replaces those screens. Adminlog adds a change log on top of admin edits. Staff Access Audit Guard adds a store-wide scope classification, a Low-to-High score, and review reminders. Confirm the live Help Center and changelog; this page is not a security attestation.
How to choose
If a price, description, or stock level was changed and you need old and new values, who did it (where Shopify provides it), and one-click restore for product changes, Adminlog ‑ Audit Trail fits that job. If you need every installed app’s scopes classified, customer-data and broad-write access flagged, staff and collaborator reviews with 30/90-day reminders, and evidence exports, without the audit app reading customer or order data, Staff Access Audit Guard fits that job. Many stores need both jobs; they are not substitutes. Open Adminlog ‑ Audit Trail and Staff Access Audit Guard and re-read the live copy.
What this comparison is not
- Not a ranking, traffic, review-count, or sales promise.
- Not legal advice, a security attestation, or a claim that either app makes a store compliant.
- Not a substitute for Shopify’s Users list or Settings > Apps.
- Not a claim about unpublished features. “not mentioned” means the public listing did not describe that topic.
Related pages
- App scope access reader — paste scopes in the browser; sends nothing
- Staff access audit: permission drift is not a one-time user list
- Audit staff and app access without reading customer or order data
- Which app scopes touch customer data
- App access risk score Low to High
- 30/90-day review reminders vs collaborator expiry
- Leftover Admin access checklist
- Shopify Help Center — app personal information
- Staff Access Audit Guard — live App Store listing
- Adminlog ‑ Audit Trail — live App Store listing
- Shopify apps hub
- Tools
Not legal advice. Not a ranking. Each row restates what the two apps describe on their public listings; re-open both before you decide. The browser checker is a reading aid and does not show what any app checks.