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Keep Shopify and eShipper open as tabs on your desktop

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On the desktop app you can keep your Shopify admin and your shipping page open as tabs, in their own Web group beside Mail and the Ledger, so the working day happens in one window instead of a pile of browser tabs. These are the real websites, shown inside TALISK_HQ. TALISK_HQ does not read them and they do not read TALISK_HQ.

Add one

The Web group is the one at the right-hand end of the tab strip, marked with a globe icon. It has no tabs until you add a site. Press the + at the end of that group, or press Cmd+T while you are on a site tab, and the Add a site window opens.

Choose Shopify admin (it appears when a Shopify store is connected, and opens that store) or eShipper, and the address and a name are filled in for you. Or type the address of any secure site, one that starts with https. Then press Add. The new tab joins the Web group and stays there the next time you open the app.

You only see the Web group in a desktop app that supports site tabs. If you do not see it, update the desktop app.

You can keep TALISK_HQ's own public website open as a tab too: type taliskhq.com in Add a site. The TALISK_HQ app itself cannot be a site, because it already has its own tabs, and neither can the demo. A link from the website into the app does not open inside the site tab. If the app says taliskhq.com cannot be added, update the desktop app.

On a Mac, site tabs need macOS 14 or later. Each site keeps its sign-in apart from TALISK_HQ, and an older macOS cannot do that, so the app tells you so and does not open the site. Use that site in your browser instead.

Give a site a name

A site tab is named after its address by default, such as admin.shopify.com, which is long to read on a tab. The Add a site window has a Name (optional) box: type what you want the tab to say, such as Orders, up to 40 characters. Leave it empty and the tab uses the site's address. Shopify admin and eShipper bring a name of their own, which you can change before you press Add.

To change a name later, double-click the name on the tab. It turns into a box with the name selected. Type the new name and press Enter, or click anywhere else, to save it. Press Esc to leave the name as it was. To go back to the site's address, empty the box and press Enter. If you would rather use the keyboard, select the tab and press F2.

Only site tabs can be renamed. The tabs for your mailboxes and the Ledger have fixed names. A renamed site keeps its name the next time you open the app, because the name is kept with the list of sites on your computer.

Sign in once

Each site asks you to sign in the first time and then remembers you, the way a browser does. On a Mac it still remembers you after you quit the app or update it. A site can ask again when its own sign-in runs out, or after you sign out of it. Your sign-in for a site is kept on this computer, apart from your TALISK_HQ sign-in.

Passkeys will not work in a site tab. Sign in with your email and password, or with Google, which asks you to type your password, and add the site's 2FA code if it asks for one. If a site only lets you in with a passkey, keep that site in your browser.

The first time a site tab opens, a small window says this before the site is shown. Press OK to go on to the site, or Open in browser instead to open that site in your browser. It does not come back for that site.

On a Mac, a password manager such as 1Password can fill in a site tab, but Apple Passwords and Chrome's saved passwords cannot. The app can also save a site's password itself (below). On Windows, a site tab can remember a password you type, for that site.

Save a password (Mac)

This needs the Mac app, version 1.5.0 or later. After you sign in on a site tab, a line under its toolbar asks whether to save the password, naming the account and the site. Press Save to keep it, Not now to skip it this time, or Never for this site to stop being asked on that site. If you changed a password the app already saved, it offers Update instead. Nothing is saved until you press Save.

To fill it the next time a site asks you to sign in, press Fill password in the toolbar and confirm with Touch ID or your Mac password. If you saved more than one account for that site, choose which one. Some sites ask for the email on one page and the password on the next: press Fill password on each page.

A saved password is only filled into the exact site it was saved for, so a look-alike address gets nothing. It is kept in your Mac's Keychain, with the sites of the TALISK_HQ window you saved it in, and TALISK_HQ never sends it anywhere. Anyone who can unlock this Mac with your Touch ID or password can fill it.

To see or remove your saved passwords, go to Settings, Account, Desktop App, Saved passwords: press Remove beside one, or Forget all saved passwords. Signing out of all sites keeps them.

Getting around

Every tab has a toolbar that is always on screen:

  • Back, Forward and Reload.
  • Home, which takes you back to the start page of that tab. If a link has taken you somewhere you did not mean to go, press Home.
  • The real address of the page you are on, with a padlock when it is secure. Check it before you type a password.
  • Print, and Open in browser, which sends the page you are on to your usual browser.

When you download a file from a site, the toolbar says Saved with the file's name, and offers Show in Finder (Show in folder on Windows) and Print it. The file goes to your Downloads folder and never replaces one that is already there.

A link to the same site stays in the tab. A link to a different site, such as a tracking number that opens UPS, opens as a new tab beside the one you were on, with an ✕ to close it. Closing that tab takes you back to the one you came from, exactly as it was. A sign-in window that a site asks for opens as a small window of its own.

Banks belong in the browser

You can add any secure site, but keep your bank in your browser. Banks add extra checks that do not work well inside another program, and TALISK_HQ would rather not sit between you and your bank.

Remove a site, or sign out of all of them

To remove a site, close its tab with the ✕. To make every site forget you, go to Settings, Account, Desktop App, and use Sign out of all sites. Your TALISK_HQ sign-in is not affected, and passwords you saved are kept.

The list of sites you added is kept on your computer. It is not stored in your TALISK_HQ account, so a second computer starts with none.

Good to know: Sites in tabs are a feature of the Talisk HQ desktop app on a computer whose app is recent enough to support them. On a Mac they need macOS 14 or later. In a web browser there is nothing to add, because the browser has its own tabs. Passkeys do not work inside a site tab on a Mac, and neither do saved passwords from Apple Passwords or Chrome. Signing in with an email and password works, and so does Google, which asks for the password. On a Mac a site stays signed in after the app quits or updates, until the site itself ends the sign-in, and the app can save a site's password in the Mac's Keychain and fill it after Touch ID; that password never leaves the Mac. Talisk's public website can be added; the Talisk app and the demo cannot. Banks are not offered. Printing a shipping label from a site tab has not been confirmed, so this article makes no promise about it. Talisk does not read the sites and keeps the list on the computer, not in the account. A site tab can be given a name when it is added and renamed later by double-clicking it; the name is kept on the computer with the list. Mail and Ledger tabs cannot be renamed.

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