Your store keeps getting better.

Feature descriptions and product videos now stay within the screen on phones and tablets.

The booking examples on our website now show the full service price and any selected extras together.

Wide and tall logos now display in full on your opening-soon and temporarily closed store pages.

You can now scroll through our selling guides on your phone without the page moving sideways.

Your product reports now count each order once when a customer buys the same product in several lines, such as appointments at different times.

Your product reports now show the same remaining ticket places as your storefront, including tickets already issued and places held at checkout.

Your customers can now see their booking extras and quantities on the order receipt sent after checkout.

Customers now see how many places were cancelled and how many remain confirmed, with one clear update for each group booking.

Resending booking details now keeps the remaining group together and shows the right extra quantities, including extras added at the appointment.

Your customers now see their selected extras after paying, with the right quantities for group bookings.

Simple products no longer show “Default” after their name, and your whole logo now shows on your shop's sign-in and account pages.

• fixed: A product without options is now just its name everywhere: orders, emails, invoices, inventory, reports and AI shopping feeds.
• fixed: Wide logos are no longer cropped to a square on your shop's sign-in and account pages.
• fixed: The daily bars on your Analytics sales chart show up again.
• fixed: When a shopper picks a colour or style, their cart shows the photo of that exact option.
• fixed: Long AI insight titles no longer run under the buttons beside them.

Guests on Gmail and Outlook can now see their QR code in ticket and reminder emails, so they can scan straight in at the door.

When your store is opening soon, offline for updates or paused, shoppers now see a page in your own colours and fonts, with your logo front and centre.

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.

• new: 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.
• new: Create, move and cancel bookings, block out time, and send a payment link without opening a laptop.
• new: Get a notification when a booking comes in, is cancelled or moved, or when a customer pays.

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.

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

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.

• new: 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.
• new: 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.
• new: Manual bookings can send a deposit link, and the Balance due filter on your calendar shows who still owes you.
• improved: Your sales and reports count only the money you've actually collected.

Before you start identity verification, give your store its own name, add a short bio and publish at least one product with a photo. Your store stays hidden from shoppers until you're verified, so you can build it at your own pace.

Before Shopstar reads a Shopify catalogue, add a product called “Shopstar Go Verification” to that store. You only need to do it once per store, and you can delete it afterwards.

Until your identity check and payments are approved, shoppers see an "opening soon" page. You can preview your store from your dashboard at any time.

• improved: If your identity check or payments ever need attention, your store shows the "opening soon" page again until it's sorted.

You can now sell bigger downloads, like video courses and print-ready art packs, with files up to 2GB each. Large files also finish their safety check reliably.

Orders booked with Bob Go now follow courier collection and delivery updates. Cancel the courier booking before cancelling the order.

Connect your Bob Go sales channel, add delivery instructions when booking, and see how courier charges and billable weight compare with your booking.

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.

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

When you mark an order as shipped or cancel it, the order page now updates in place instead of reloading, so you no longer see a brief error screen in Safari.

See what selling on different platforms costs in South Africa, using your monthly sales and average sale amount. Compare published fees for products, downloads, bookings, tickets and memberships.