Overview
If you live in Neev all day, your hands should never leave the keyboard. The admin desktop wires a small set of shortcuts so you can jump anywhere, flip the screen between roomy and tight, and step through orders one after another — no mouse, no scrolling. This page lists only the shortcuts that actually work today.
Where to find it
These shortcuts work everywhere inside the web admin desktop (any page under the main shell). They are a desktop-only feature — the mobile field apps don't use a keyboard.
To see the built-in cheat-sheet on any page, press ? (with your cursor outside any text box). That opens the help panel grouped under Navigation, View, Actions, Tables & lists, and Sheets, modals & search.
The in-app panel lists some bindings that are planned but not wired yet (the G-then-letter "go to" jumps, Mod+/ search focus, P record payment, Shift+N new invoice, E edit cell, Space select row, and a few more). They won't do anything yet. The list below is the set that genuinely works today.
Key concepts
- Command palette — a search box that pops over the page so you can jump to any destination (orders, customers, SKUs) by typing. Placeholder reads "Search anything in Neev…".
- Density — how tightly rows pack. Cozy (comfortable) is roomy; Dense (compact) fits more on screen. Your choice is remembered on this browser.
- Detail sheet — the panel that slides in when you open one order. From inside it you can step to the previous or next order without going back to the list.
- Mod key — the command key. Neev shows ⌘ on a Mac and Ctrl on Windows/Linux automatically; same for ⌥/Alt, ⇧/Shift, ⌫/Backspace and ↩/Enter.
Common workflows
Role notes
The shortcuts themselves aren't tied to a role — anyone working on the web desktop can use them. What changes by role is where they take you, because that follows the same permissions as the rest of Neev.
- The command palette (CtrlK), density toggle (Ctrl\\), the help panel (?) and Esc work for every role.
- The new-order shortcut (N) lands on the new-order screen, which only matters for roles that can actually start an order. Owner, Manager, Operator and Sales can create order drafts, so the key is useful to them. Accountant has no order access at all; Warehouse and Delivery can view orders but cannot create one — so N has nothing useful to do for any of the three.
- Pressing N only opens the new-order screen. Operator and Sales can key in a draft but cannot confirm it; an Operator can't advance the order at all after drafting. The shortcut never grants a power the role doesn't already have.
Tips & time-savers
Forget a shortcut mid-task? Just hit ? from any page (cursor outside a text box) for the full cheat-sheet, then carry on. And once you set Ctrl\\ to Dense on a busy machine, it stays Dense next time you log in — no re-clicking.
Stepping through a day's orders is fastest from the detail sheet: open the first one, then ride ArrowLeft / ArrowRight down the list instead of closing and reopening each row.
Gotchas
The single-key shortcuts — N for a new order, ? for help — are deliberately ignored while your cursor is in a text box, search field, or dropdown, so they never fire mid-typing. If a single-key shortcut "does nothing," click on the empty page first to move focus out of the field, then press it.
If a shortcut in the in-app cheat-sheet does nothing, it is one of the planned-but-not-yet-wired bindings noted above, not a bug on your machine. Only the keys listed in Common workflows are live today.