Changelog
What we shipped, and what it means for your store.
A store that arrives ready to sell, with the pages Stripe asks for
Version 2026.09.8Getting paid online has a step nobody warns you about. Your payment provider looks at your store before it lets you take money, and it looks for things most new stores do not have yet: a refund policy, shipping terms, a...
New, Improved | Admin, Payments, Storefront
Activation that already knows you, and tells you where you are
Version 2026.09.6Activation moved into your admin last week. This week it stops asking you for things we already have, it works for founders who do not live in the United States, and it shows you the road instead of a percentage.
New | Payments, Admin
An address you type once, and a tax ID field that knows your country
Activation asks for up to two addresses: your business, and the person signing. That is five fields each, typed by hand, in a form where a wrong postal code costs you a verification round trip. It now takes a few...
New, Improved | Admin, Payments
Payouts every business day, and terms that say so
Version 2026.09.7Katching Payments used to move your money once a week. It now moves it every business day. Nothing about the reserve changes, and nothing is asked of you.
Improved, Legal | Payments
Activation now runs inside your own admin
Version 2026.09.5The eleven activation screens were already ours. They now run where they belong: on your own Payments page, in the same tab and the same session you were already in. There is no page on our website to visit, no link to...
New, Improved | Payments, Admin
Katching Payments, and the terms that go with it
Version 2026.09.3Until now, taking card payments on Katching meant bringing your own Stripe account, or your own API keys. There is now a third way, and it is the one the Payments page leads with: Katching becomes your payment provider,...
New, Legal | Payments, Admin, Platform
Activate Katching Payments without leaving Katching
Version 2026.09.4Activating Katching Payments used to hand you over to a form that was not ours. It looked like a different product, it asked in a different voice, and it was the one place in your admin where Katching stopped being...
New, Improved | Payments, Admin
Stronger cache headers on admin surfaces, visible build version
SecurityVersion 2026.09.2Pages behind a login could be kept by an intermediate cache. They are not anymore.
Fixed, Security | Admin, Platform
Legal documents, acceptance records, and security reporting
Action requiredVersion 2026.09.1This is the first entry in the Katching changelog. It describes what is running in production today.
New, Legal | Platform, Admin, Payments