{"id":108,"date":"2026-09-22T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowsquare.shop\/blog\/zastosunok-yak-vstanovyty\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:57:11","slug":"zastosunok-yak-vstanovyty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowsquare.shop\/en\/blog\/zastosunok-yak-vstanovyty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yellow Square app: how to install it and what it can do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow Square now has a phone app. It is not one more program from an app store \u2014 it is the shop itself: it lands on your home screen in a few seconds, runs without an address bar and keeps prices and stock fresh on its own. Below is how to install it and what it actually does.<\/p>\n<h2>What it is<\/h2>\n<p>Technically it is an installable website (a PWA \u2014 Progressive Web App). The phone adds a shortcut to the home screen and keeps the pages on the device. It looks and opens like a normal app: full screen, no browser bars.<\/p>\n<p>Why we did it this way instead of an app in Google Play and the App Store:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Updates are instant.<\/strong> We change a price or add a product \u2014 you see it right away, with no new version to download.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It weighs nothing.<\/strong> The app takes a few megabytes \u2014 those are saved pages, not a separate program.<\/li>\n<li><strong>One shop, not two different versions.<\/strong> Cart, orders and account are shared with the site: start on a computer, finish on your phone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to install<\/h2>\n<h3>Android (Chrome)<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Open <a href=\"https:\/\/yellowsquare.shop\/en\/\">yellowsquare.shop<\/a> in Chrome.<\/li>\n<li>Tap the \u201cInstall app\u201d button on the home page \u2014 or the \u201c\u22ee\u201d menu \u2192 \u201cInstall app\u201d \/ \u201cAdd to Home screen\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Confirm. The shortcut will appear next to your other apps.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>iPhone and iPad (Safari)<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the site in Safari (Chrome on iPhone does not offer this).<\/li>\n<li>Tap the \u201cShare\u201d button \u2014 the square with an arrow pointing up.<\/li>\n<li>Choose \u201cAdd to Home Screen\u201d \u2192 \u201cAdd\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Computer<\/h3>\n<p>In Chrome and Edge an install icon appears at the right of the address bar. After that the shop opens in its own window.<\/p>\n<h2>What the app can do<\/h2>\n<h3>Prices and stock update themselves<\/h3>\n<p>While the app is open it asks the warehouse once a minute whether anything has changed. If it has, the product cards update right on the screen: new price, new stock status. No need to reload the page \u2014 you will see a short \u201cPrices and stock updated\u201d message.<\/p>\n<p>It works very simply: the server keeps a \u201ccatalogue version\u201d that changes every time we edit a product. The app compares it with its own and pulls changes only when there really are any. That is why it uses almost no traffic.<\/p>\n<h3>Works without the internet<\/h3>\n<p>Pages you have already opened are kept in the phone\u2019s memory. In the metro, in a lift or at a country house the catalogue opens without a network \u2014 you see the last known prices. As soon as the connection returns, the data refreshes itself.<\/p>\n<h3>Quick jumps<\/h3>\n<p>Press and hold the app icon and shortcuts appear: \u201cCatalogue\u201d, \u201cCart\u201d and \u201cMy orders\u201d \u2014 straight there, with no extra steps.<\/p>\n<h2>FAQ<\/h2>\n<h3>Do I need to update the app?<\/h3>\n<p>No. It updates itself together with the site \u2014 the new version is picked up the next time you open it.<\/p>\n<h3>How much space does it take?<\/h3>\n<p>A few megabytes: saved pages and images. You can clear the cache at any time in your browser settings.<\/p>\n<h3>Does it send notifications?<\/h3>\n<p>Not yet. We write about order status in Viber or Telegram; in-app notifications are on our roadmap.<\/p>\n<h3>How do I remove it?<\/h3>\n<p>The same as any app: hold the icon \u2192 \u201cRemove\u201d. The site itself keeps working as usual.<\/p>\n<h2>\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0442\u043a\u043e<\/h2>\n<p>Install the app from the home page and the shop is always at hand: current prices, saved pages and quick access to your orders. If something will not install, write to us on Viber or Telegram and we will walk you through it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can put the store on your phone screen in a minute: prices and stock update themselves, pages open without internet, and the shortcuts lead straight to the catalogue, cart and orders.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-instruktsii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowsquare.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowsquare.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowsquare.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowsquare.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yellowsquare.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowsquare.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowsquare.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowsquare.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowsquare.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}