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Product updates, playbooks, and behind-the-build stories from the Btab team.
Guide14 October 2026Is Btab right for your products? A checklist for suppliers
A plain checklist for makers and importers: what Btab is, the three ways to work with us, who is a good fit, what we need from you, and how joining works.
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Guide3 October 2026Can my ChatGPT guide me through setting up my store?
Yes. Connect ChatGPT, Grok, Claude or another AI assistant to your Btab store in a few minutes, then ask it to set up your theme, pages, products and prices with you. Here is what works today, what each assistant needs, and the exact steps.
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Guide2 October 2026How to build a storefront theme for btab, and how it compares
A btab theme is a set of colours, fonts and style settings plus a stack of approved blocks. There's no code in it. Here is how you build one, what we check, how it reaches shops, and how that compares with Shopify, WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Wix and Squarespace.
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Product29 September 2026Talk to your store from ChatGPT, Claude or Grok
Every BTAB store now works as a connector. Paste one address into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Cursor or any app that speaks MCP, press Allow, and ask about your products, orders and enquiries in plain words.
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Product29 September 2026Bring your reviews, keep your links, handle returns in one place
Five updates for stores that are moving to BTAB, or have just moved: import your reviews from Shopify or Judge.me, choose each product's web address, describe your photos, give buyers a proper returns page, and a map of your store for AI assistants.
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Guide23 September 2026Show the whole setup, sell it in one click
Nobody sets up a home office one product at a time, but most stores make them shop that way. Shop by Room lets you put a desk, a chair, a lamp and a shelf together in one room, so shoppers see the whole setup and buy all of it, or just the pieces they want, in one click. Here's how to switch it on and build your first room.
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Guide22 September 2026Scan your furniture in 3D with an iPhone
A step-by-step guide for suppliers: turn a sofa, headboard or rattan chair into a 3D model with an iPhone Pro or an Android phone, ready for the 3D view and 'place it in your room' on BTAB.
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Guide16 September 2026Connect your own domain to your store
Your store can answer on yourshop.com.au instead of yourshop.btab.app. It takes one DNS record at your registrar, about five minutes, and there is no certificate to buy — here is every screen and every field, including where to click at Crazy Domains, GoDaddy, VentraIP and Namecheap.
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Engineering2 September 2026How do we know when an AI's search is correct?
When an AI answers you, it searched something first — and a silently failed search sounds exactly as confident as a successful one. Plain-English background on the problem, and how our search now refuses to stay silent about its own blind spots.
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Product26 August 2026A quote is a price, a delivery, and a sentence
The quote composer now takes a delivery/freight amount and a note to the buyer. Both ride the quote email and the buyer's quote page, and both come back pre-filled when you re-quote.
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Product25 August 2026BTAB now runs the buy side end-to-end — and hands your books to Xero
Purchase orders that actually reach your supplier, receiving that expects partial deliveries, supplier bills checked line by line against what you ordered and what arrived, and aging in both directions — now in the same dashboard as your orders, with Xero-ready exports at the end of it.
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Company18 August 2026How to publish on the Btab blog
A staff guide to getting a post onto btab.app/blog: the phone-first publishing loop, the manual CMS lane, the house rules, and the painless undo.
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Engineering17 August 2026The Ledger and the Wire
How our internal dashboard does realtime messaging with no broker and no Redis — an append-only NDJSON log as the source of truth, and a 30-line in-process bus whose loss costs nothing but liveness.
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Product23 July 2026A cleaner checkout: a WooCommerce-style form and three ways to pay
The storefront checkout is now a clean, WooCommerce-style form — billing and shipping details, a GST-inclusive order summary, and three ways to pay: Credit Card, PayPal (coming soon), and Direct bank transfer that works on every store out of the box.
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Product18 July 2026Introducing the public storefront API (Phase 1)
Vendors can now read their own storefront — site, products, reviews, categories, search — programmatically via their API key, over a read-only, key-scoped, rate-limited surface.
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