Your dashboard now says when your store has no way to pay you

A store is created without a payment account, and until today nothing in the product said that out loud. The storefront looked finished, orders could arrive, and the one setup step between having a store and being paid for it was a settings page nobody had a reason to open. Payments activation is now a first-class notice: it appears in the notification bell, and — while your store still has no way to be paid — as a banner across the dashboard.

Changed

• A payments notice on every dashboard page. It carries the reason it is there and a single button to Settings → PlatformDTC Payments. Once payments are set up it disappears on its own; there is nothing to acknowledge.
• What it says depends on your store. If orders are already arriving and there is no payment account, the notice says how many, and it cannot be dismissed — money is being taken with nowhere to send it, and that is not something to hide behind a close button. If you have not sold yet, it is the ordinary setup nudge and closes for the day. If you run your own card processor, it is an offer rather than a warning, and it stays in the bell rather than taking a banner.
• One thing at a time on a new account. While your confirmation email is still outstanding — the thing holding your storefront offline — the payments nudge waits its turn rather than stacking a second banner on the first.
• Dismissing it anywhere dismisses it everywhere. The banner and the bell are the same notice, so closing one no longer leaves the other showing a badge for the same sentence.
• Payment notices no longer name our processor. Every message about the PlatformDTC Payments rail now calls it PlatformDTC Payments, matching the order timeline and the payments settings page. Your own connected Stripe account is still called Stripe Card, because that is what it is.

Unchanged

• Nothing about how you set payments up. Same page, same verification, same account.
• Stores that already have payments set up see nothing new. The notice only exists while there is no payment account, and it is per store, not per account.