Your store keeps getting better.

Explore Shopstar Go with a short iPhone welcome and choose whether to receive new-order notifications. Account settings are clearer, with deletion requirements shown only when you need them.

• improved: You can turn on order notifications after signing in, or choose to do it later.
• improved: Account deletion requirements appear when you choose to delete your account.

When you open an order notification, we now switch to the store that received the order so you can view it straight away.

Managers and staff can enable device notifications from Account settings. Check-in team members can request or cancel account deletion, and merchant links stay ready while you sign in.

Review every affected store and finish remaining orders, bookings and memberships before closing your account. Receive reminders during the cancellation period; your store address becomes available again after closure.

Request account deletion from account settings and cancel within 14 days. Stores you own close, platform billing stops, and your store addresses become available again; accounting records are retained.

Customers now see only colour and size choices belonging to published variants, including on products you previously imported.

What's New now has two tabs: Announcements for the big launches, and What's Changed for every improvement and fix. The sidebar badge only lights up for announcements.

Recent orders in your sales analytics now show Payment failed when a card is declined, matching your Orders page.

Switched banks? Update your payout account from Payments. Your current account keeps receiving payouts until the new one is verified.

If we need more information to approve your payments, we email you exactly what to send. Reply to that email to reach our team.

Your logo can now go up to 200% in Branding, and the Bio theme shows it at the size you choose.

Thousands more South African towns and suburbs are available when customers enter an address or you set up delivery areas.

• fixed: Customers who cannot find their town can keep the name they typed, and your delivery areas still apply.

Your customers can now pay with Scan to Pay alongside card and Apple Pay. It is already switched on for your store, with nothing to set up.

• new: Customers choose Scan to Pay, card or Apple Pay on the secure payment page.
• improved: Memberships still use a card, so renewals keep working.

Customers can now book several people into the same class, tasting or appointment in one checkout.

• new: Customers choose how many people are coming and see the price per person and for the group, extras included.
• new: Every person takes a place from your existing capacity, so you never overbook.
• improved: Group bookings arrive as one confirmation per session, and customers can adjust their group from the cart.

Apple Pay and Scan to Pay orders now show the right payment method on receipts, order details and payment reports, instead of card.

Shoppers using an AI assistant in their browser can find your products, fill their cart and get help through checkout on your page. There is nothing to set up.

Customers can choose extras and book appointments on stores with a shopstar.page address, even after refreshing the page.

The Store theme now looks and works like a proper online shop, with your name, photos and products up front.

• improved: A header with your logo, search and cart stays in place as shoppers scroll.
• improved: Your collections sit in a menu under the header, so shoppers can jump straight to them.
• improved: Products show two per row on phones and four on computers, with big photos.
• new: Shoppers can add simple products to their cart in one tap from your home page.

Product and booking pages have a cleaner side-by-side layout on every theme, and the Bio theme is lighter and easier to shop.

• improved: Your photos sit beside everything shoppers need to buy, with quantity and Add to cart together.
• improved: Booking pages let customers pick a location, day and time without scrolling past your gallery.
• improved: Reviews show as a wall of cards in your brand colour, with sorting and a quick way to write one.
• new: On the Bio theme, shoppers can add simple products to their cart in one tap.

Your cart, checkout and thank-you pages have a bold new look in your store colours and fonts.

• improved: The order summary fills the side of checkout, with the total and Pay button always in view.
• improved: Delivery and payment choices are big, easy-to-tap tiles.
• improved: On phones, the total sits at the top and the Pay button stays within thumb reach.
• improved: The thank-you page greets customers by name and shows what happens next.
• fixed: Buttons always have readable text, even when your brand colour is light.

Recording an order or booking that was paid in person no longer adds a Shopstar transaction fee. Fees only apply when a customer pays through a payment link.

Default payment reminders no longer tell shoppers their items are reserved when they are not. Reminders you have customised are unchanged.

On phones, the Gallery theme menu now closes when shoppers pick a collection, so they see the products straight away.

Ask clients the right questions, or have them sign a waiver, before they finish booking.

• new: Build forms with short answers, choices, dates, statements and a typed signature.
• new: Use a form on every service or only the ones you choose. Clients fill it in at checkout, before they pay.
• new: Read every answer on the booking, the order and the client's profile.

Shoppers who go back from the payment page no longer have to type their contact and delivery details again.