What's new in 2026

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• Saving inside a dialog saves only the dialog.
• Image descriptions save in every language.
• The image cropper fits the image.
• The event date picker accepts typed dates.
• Businesses with several locations edit their social links in Website editor › General.
• Event venues get their own QR code.
• Connections › Tracking checks the format of your Google Analytics, Google Ads, Tag Manager and Meta Pixel IDs.
• On iPhone, dialog buttons stay visible when the keyboard is open.

Your website

• Dropdown menus stay inside the screen.
• Swedish booking and opening hours texts are reviewed.

Free cover pages

• Google shows your business name instead of "cover.page".

Domains

• A new domain is secure (https) within the hour.

Signing in

• Password managers fill in the login email.
• Signing in with Google asks for fewer permissions.

Take a review off your website

When a featured review no longer fits your website, take it off from the reviews inbox. Your reply now shows under each review.

• Press Remove from website: the review leaves your site but stays in the inbox, and you can feature it again later.
• Read a review and your reply as one conversation, with how long you took to answer.
• Edit a reply, or delete one you posted on Google.

Your website opens faster on phones

Visitors on a phone see your pages sooner, and booking and ordering forms are ready faster.

• Pages show sooner on a phone, because there is less to download first.
• When we update Stride, your visitors still get your page straight away.
• Booking, ordering and gift card forms (TheFork, Covermanager, EasyBooker and others) start loading sooner and show a short message while they do.
• YouTube videos only load when a visitor presses play.
• Slider dots and arrows are bigger, easier to tap.

Check your plan and pay invoices yourself

See what your plan includes and when it renews, open any invoice, and pay one that's due.

• Your plan on one card: the locations it covers, your options, and the next renewal or invoice.
• Open an invoice to see what it's for and its VAT, download the PDF, or pay it with Pay now.
• Keep your invoice email, VAT number and e-invoicing IDs up to date.
• Upgrade your plan in four steps, on the same page.
• Recommend Stride to another business and get a discount on your next invoice.

See what needs an answer as you log in

When you log in, the dashboard shows what needs an answer and how many people visited your site. Help, chat and calls with us are on the support page.

• Needs your attention shows what is waiting in Inbox, Reviews, Reservations and Appointments.
• See your page views over the last 30 days, your team, your partner and your next meeting.
• Shortcuts start with what is missing, such as connecting Google or completing your legal notice.
• A Special hours tile tells you how many of next month's public holidays have no hours yet.
• On the support page, search the help centre, chat with us, or book, move or cancel a call with a specialist.

See every location’s bookings on one list

With several locations, you see all your bookings on one list, day by day, and you can stop table bookings for a day from there.

• Each day shows its totals, for example "4 reservations · 13 guests". Filter by location when you need one.
• Show today, the next 7 days, your own dates, or one status.
• Close or reopen table bookings for a coming day.

Google gets your holiday hours from your website

Your website now tells Google your holiday hours and closures, and describes each of your locations on its own.

• Holiday hours and closures reach search engines. Past ones are removed.
• With several locations, each one is described with its own name, phone, photos and page.
• Addresses include the street number.
• Blog posts carry their date for search engines.
• Pages that list your locations no longer create duplicate addresses in Google.

Fixes and small improvements

Your website

• Phone fields recognise the country code, with or without spaces.
• Forms send without reloading the page.

The app

• Leaving a page or closing a dialog with unsaved changes asks first.
• Pasted "fancy text" that your site's font can't show gets a warning.

Google

• An unpublished business keeps its address off Google and Facebook.

Domains

• Older and premium domains show their real renewal price.

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• Removing a section's cover image is saved.
• Editing a menu item takes one tap in Safari on iPhone.
• The cover picture can be set per location.
• Photo credits can be added to menu images.

Your website

• The French data protection page is reviewed.

Google

• After a temporary error at Google, the sync retries instead of stopping.

Fixes and small improvements

Your website

• Map pins on the store locator open their details.

The app

• Turning off the hero's second button removes it.
• The legal details form saves with optional fields empty.

Google

• Google sync can't be set up on an unverified Google location.

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• When Instagram needs reconnecting, the feed page says so, and anyone on the team can press Reconnect.
• You can add a second article to your blog.
• Website statistics explain when a browser blocker hides them, instead of showing a blank panel.
• The preview hides the cookie banner.
• The contacts list shows your real number of contacts.
• A YouTube link that can't be played on other sites gets a warning before you save it.
• Adding a photo to a menu keeps its name.
• In opening hours, the Open/Closed box leaves the first time slot visible.
• The reviews page opens faster.

Your website

• Your site's icon shows in browser tabs every time.
• Google Analytics and Google Ads count visits from outside Europe.
• On cover pages with a notice banner, the logo stays centred.
• The event venue booking form asks for a valid number of guests and refuses past dates.

Google

• Your booking link reaches Google even when your listing already has one from another site.

Getting started

• Choosing your free cover page address always shows suggestions.
• A new business's first description is written in your language.

Plan & billing

• Moving to a plan with a commitment applies it at checkout.

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• On a phone, one tap opens a menu item for editing.
• The dashboard shows your real number of clients.
• The dashboard opens without waiting for your review and inbox counts.
• New team invitations show on the dashboard straight away.
• Opening hours fit in narrow panels.
• You can add a blank line at the end of a text, and no empty line is added for you.
• Long descriptions in lists keep the buttons in view.
• Uploading a PDF menu is quicker.
• Page titles show your location names as you wrote them.

Your website

• With several intro slides, each button opens its own link.
• SVG logos have the right size, also in Safari.
• The menu page offers ordering or booking only when that service is on.
• Opening and closing notices say their dates in plain words.
• Blog tags are readable on coloured backgrounds.
• The cookie banner leaves the cookie settings page readable in languages such as Greek.

Your site stays up while we update Stride

Visitors no longer wait for the whole page before seeing anything, and an update on our side no longer shows them an error.

• Pages start to show before their heaviest parts, such as a large photo gallery, are ready.
• The page no longer jumps down while it loads, including cover pages with a holiday notice at the top.
• When we update Stride, visitors still get your page instead of an error.
• Visitors who turned off animations on their phone or computer see your sections without the scroll effect.

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• The app opens on older iPhones.
• On a browser too old for the app, a message says so instead of a blank page. On one that is partly supported, a warning you can dismiss.
• The app appears sooner when you open it.
• After we update Stride, the app reloads by itself instead of showing an error.
• Menu sections open for editing in one click.
• Phone and email entered in the website editor are saved.
• The app opens in the language set in your profile, and missing translations are added.
• The inbox list stays steady as you move between messages.
• After signing in, you land on the page you were trying to open.
• On a phone, the account menu opens with a tap.
• Opening a business you can't access shows Permission denied, with the option to use another account.
• Choosing a plan on the upgrade page takes you to checkout, and after paying you come back to your plan.
• The website preview shows a new font as soon as you pick it.

Your website

• Event times and opening hours show in your business's time zone, wherever the visitor is.
• Covermanager booking forms open in the visitor's language.
• On product pages, photos show one at a time in a slideshow that stays in view while visitors read.
• Slideshows and team cover images keep their height on phones.
• No extra gap under a header with several slides, and the section menu sits in the right place.
• On phones, hover effects clear after a tap.
• Screen readers announce the WhatsApp button, embedded forms and FAQs.

Google

• Setting up Google with no locations, or with no Google account linked, tells you what to do next.
• When Google doesn't allow a phone number to change, the rest of your details still update.
• A broken link on your Google listing is cleaned up instead of stopping the update.

Domains

• Your domain's page shows whether it is reachable.

Your pages no longer jump around as they load

Visitors see your pages sooner, on a phone most of all, and the page no longer jumps around while it loads.

• Your page starts to appear while the rest is still on its way.
• Photos come in the size the screen needs, and those further down load as the visitor scrolls.
• Your text shows straight away, even before your own font has arrived.
• A video in your header shows its picture first and only loads once the page is ready.
• Your logo and header keep their place, so nothing shifts as the page fills in.

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• Creating a theme starts with a choice: from scratch or from a preset.
• If analytics is blocked by your network or browser, the page says so and offers Retry.
• The opening hours field fits on a tablet.
• A second time slot on a public holiday can be edited or removed.

Your website

• Booking links in news posts keep the party size, date and time they carry.
• Instagram photos on your home page stay up to date.
• Filtering projects by several categories shows the projects that are in all of them.
• The opening hours window has its title in every language.
• Menu and price list pages show all their items, without page numbers.

Google

• Unverified Google locations are marked and can't be chosen for updates.
• Google Business shows how many of your locations are connected.
• Google gets the right phone number, and an attribute you remove is removed on Google too.
• Menu and booking links reach Google.

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• On touch screens, you can drag gallery photos to reorder them.
• Analytics says when loading is slow and offers Retry.
• Word count hints for search engines show only on the texts where they apply.
• Menus, price lists and catalogues used in up to five locations show those locations' names.
• History's translation warnings point to the right tab.
• Portfolio categories show in your language.
• The onboarding shortcuts for your profile picture and for connecting Google open the right page.

Plan & billing

• Choosing options while upgrading your plan keeps you on the same step.
• Each invoice shows the status of its e-invoice.

Your website

• Menu QR codes printed before you added locations open the menu.
• German texts are reviewed.
• A chat button you turn off stays hidden.
• The cookie banner is clearer, with a Learn more link to your data protection page.
• Video previews show the right YouTube image.
• On phones, menu items show as you scroll.
• Ad click tracking (Google Ads and others) is kept when visitors land on your site.

Google

• Your pages tell search engines the address they are served from, free cover pages included.

Signing in

• After signing in, you land on the page you were opening.
• If the security check fails at login, you see a clear message.

Show several virtual tours on your site

Add as many virtual tours as you have, for your business or for each of your locations, each with its own name and description.

• Press Add virtual visit link for each tour.
• Give each tour a name and a description in each of your languages.
• With several locations, add the tours on each location's page.
• Tours you added before keep showing on your website.

Check that your logo works everywhere

Before your logo goes on your website, see whether its SVG file holds up at every size and on every background, and what to fix.

• Press Assess SVG quality next to your logo, your logo mark or your combined logo.
• See how the file does on structure, complexity, effects and size.
• Read what to fix first.
• Preview the logo on the backgrounds of your website's theme.

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• Adding a menu item brings you back to the menu.
• After uploading a CSV file of items, you land on your items.
• The page stays responsive while you pick a date range.
• The colour picker accepts an empty colour.
• The inbox and its filters fit smaller screens.
• Your publisher details and your legal notice are edited on the same page, and it says which parts we manage for you.
• A facility you had set can be cleared.

Your website

• On the Menu page, a location with one menu opens that menu directly.
• Bold text shows in the Lato font.
• Spanish texts are reviewed.
• Your site's icon shows in browser tabs and search results, with a default icon when you have no logo.
• Menu QR codes open the right location's menu.

Signing in

• The login page shows sooner.

Ask us to build your site, from the app

When you create your business in Stride, you can ask our team to build your website and book the onboarding call without leaving the app. Starting from your Google listing brings its photos along.

• Choose Do it for me to have our team build your website, and book your onboarding call in the app. Do it yourself works as before.
• Starting from scratch, pick your business's category from suggestions.
• Starting from your Google listing, its cover photo and gallery are added to your business.
• Your business opens straight away, and a message tells you when the photos have finished uploading.
• Add a mobile number when you sign up, if you want.

Switch between your businesses from the menu

With several businesses or locations, you move between them from the top of the menu, and signing in has new pages.

• Switch between your businesses and locations from the top of the menu, or create a new business there.
• As you scroll down, the switcher hides, so the page gets more room.
• Sign in or create an account on new pages. The sign-in page marks the way you signed in last.
• Move around faster: the app loads each part only when you first open it.

Fixes and small improvements

The app

• Portfolio project descriptions can be formatted.
• Phone, email and website fields check what you type.
• A page you can't open says whether it doesn't exist or you don't have access to it.

Your website

• With several locations, the home page's main button keeps a contact, hiring, franchise or newsletter goal.
• Photo credits name the photographer and the source, in your visitor's language.
• YouTube thumbnails are sharper on large screens.

Booking forms

• Booking and gift card forms from TheFork, Zenchef, Treatwell and others can open full screen, and TheFork's can take a payment.
• Partner booking forms take your website's colours, Tableo's included.