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Shopstar Go is now on your phone

Download the free Shopstar Go app for iPhone, iPad and Android. See every order and booking, get a notification when someone pays, and look after your shop from wherever you are.

  • Sign in with the email you already use for Shopstar, and your whole shop is there.
  • Lock the app with Face ID or your fingerprint, so your shop stays private on a shared phone.
  • Your team can download Shopstar Go Front Desk to run the day: today’s appointments, walk-ins, payments at the counter and ticket scanning at the door.
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Send booking updates on WhatsApp

Your customers can now get their booking confirmations, reminders, payment links and tickets on WhatsApp, from your own number. Connecting it takes about five minutes.

  • Keep the number you already use in the WhatsApp Business app, or use a new number just for updates.
  • Customers choose WhatsApp at checkout, and anyone who replies STOP goes back to email.
  • If a WhatsApp message can’t be delivered, the email still goes, so nobody misses their booking.
  • Meta charges a small fee per message and bills you directly. Shopstar adds nothing on top.
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Run your front desk from your phone

Shopstar Go Front Desk is a new app for you and your team, on every plan: see today's appointments, mark who has arrived, take the balance on the card saved with the deposit, and scan event tickets at the door.

  • Your staff sign in with their own email and see their own appointments. Turn on Staff can see everyone's appointments if you'd rather they see the whole calendar.
  • Create, move and cancel bookings, block out time, and send a payment link without opening a laptop.
  • Get a notification when a booking comes in, is cancelled or moved, or when a customer pays.
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Pay your staff their share of every booking, automatically

Give a staff member a percentage of the bookings they do. Paystack pays their share straight into their own bank account when it pays you.

  • Set a usual percentage for each staff member, and a different one per service if you like.
  • Invite your staff to add their own bank details. They're checked in their name and you never see them.
  • Shares on cash, card machine or Stripe payments show as owed in Staff earnings, and you can mark them settled once you've paid.
  • Staff earnings shows what each person earned in any period, with a CSV download.
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Take deposits for bookings, and collect the rest at the appointment

Choose how customers pay for each service: in full, a deposit now and the rest at the appointment, or on Subscription, everything at the appointment.

  • Customers who pay a deposit by card can save it, so you can charge the rest once they arrive, including any extras they approve on your screen.
  • Send a payment link that lasts, or mark the balance as paid in cash or on your own card machine. There's no Shopstar fee on money you take yourself.
  • Manual bookings can send a deposit link, and the Balance due filter on your calendar shows who still owes you.
  • Your sales and reports count only the money you've actually collected.
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Ship with Bob Go: courier prices at checkout and one-click bookings

Connect your Bob Go account and customers can pick a courier at checkout, priced for their address. Then book the courier from the order, print the waybill, and tracking updates on its own.

  • Customers see the delivery options you set up in Bob Go, with the dates their parcel should arrive.
  • Book The Courier Guy, Pudo, Aramex and more from any order. The courier your customer chose is already picked.
  • When the courier collects and delivers the parcel, the order updates and your customer gets their tracking link.

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