> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.shopbroker.ca/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The ShopBroker iPhone beta is here - URL: https://blog.shopbroker.ca/shopbroker-iphone-app-toronto-gta/ - Published: 2026-09-05T16:15:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-05T16:14:59.000Z - Description: ShopBroker is now on iPhone, as a limited TestFlight beta in Toronto and the GTA. Same marketplace, same account, same listings, and now you can sign in with your fingerprint or face. - Author: Austin - Tags: Selling Tips, Local Commerce ShopBroker is now on iPhone. Limited beta, through TestFlight, in Toronto and the rest of the GTA. It is the same marketplace, the same account and the same listings. If you already sell on ShopBroker, everything is where you left it, and on iPhone you can now sign in with your fingerprint or face. ## How to get in From the app page. The beta is early, and what you tell us shapes what ships next. Places are limited and can close again. If you would rather look before you install, [what is selling around Toronto right now](https://shopbroker.ca/marketplace/toronto) is the fastest way to get a feel for it. ShopBroker is a marketplace for buying and selling locally in Toronto and the GTA, with payments handled through Stripe or PayPal. [Join the TestFlight beta](https://shopbroker.ca/app) What makes it worth installing is what you can do in it, and that is the rest of this post. Set a pickup place and a set of times before anyone asks. Get a courier to take the item so nobody has to meet at all. Be paid on a schedule you can read in advance, instead of on a notification you have to judge at the door. All of it in the app, and all of it still there in a browser, on the same account. ## What does this actually change about a local sale? Four things. Each one takes a decision that usually gets made in a message thread and settles it before the conversation starts. | What usually happens | What happens on ShopBroker | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | You give a stranger your address, because it is the fastest answer to "where are you?" | The pickup place goes on the listing before anyone asks, chosen from a curated set that includes police safe-trade zones | | You agree a time by message, then lose an afternoon when nobody turns up | You set 30-minute windows in advance and buyers choose from those. Signed-in shoppers see only your open times over the next 14 days | | You meet a stranger to hand something over | Often you do not have to. A courier can collect it inside the GTA, if the item clears both the size gate and the weight gate | | You read a transfer notification and hope it is real | With secure online payment, you are not being paid by message at all. The section below says exactly when the money moves | One thing worth saying plainly, because it does not fit in a table. Meeting someone in daylight in a public place is an ordinary errand, and it is the part people worry about most. The address, the time and the money are where the real exposure sits, and all three get decided in a message thread before anyone leaves the house. Moving those three out of the thread is most of what this is for. ## Where and when do you meet? You decide both before the conversation starts, which is the part that is genuinely hard to do inside a thread. A pickup at your door tells someone your building, your unit, your schedule and roughly what else is in the room, and none of that can be taken back afterwards. So the place goes on the listing first. The curated set you choose from includes police safe-trade zones, and whatever you pick, picking it first is the whole point. A Toronto seller with a spot already on the listing never has that conversation, because the place is settled before "where are you?" can become a question about where they live. Times work the same way. Sellers pick the 30-minute windows that work for them, and buyers choose from those. The listing never exposes the seller's full calendar. Signed-in shoppers see only the open windows over the next 14 days, and you can edit that availability at any time or turn local pickup off on a listing entirely. A booking is a commitment and not an attendance guarantee, so keep the same habits you would keep for any appointment with someone you have not met. ## Do you have to meet at all? Often, no. A courier can take the item instead, which removes the handoff from the sale completely, and whether that is available comes down to two independent gates rather than one. Both gates have to pass. The size gate is the one that catches resale goods, because plenty of things clear the weight comfortably and then fail on the box. | What you are selling | Can a courier take it? | How it reaches the buyer | | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | A camera body and a lens | Yes on both gates, with room to spare | A courier collects it and takes it to the buyer, so nobody meets | | A games console | Usually, once it is out of its original packaging | The same way, provided the packed size stays inside the size gate | | A pair of bookshelf speakers | Check the box, not the scale | Speakers clear the weight easily and fail on size far more often than people expect | | A bicycle | No | Weight is not what stops it. Dimensions are. This one is a pickup | Courier size limit: Two independent gates, and both have to pass: 50 x 30 x 30 cm and 35 lbs. Courier delivery runs across Toronto and the rest of the GTA. ## How does the money actually move? On a schedule you can read in advance, rather than on a notification you have to judge at the door. This is the part of a local sale where most real loss happens, and it happens on a screen rather than in a parking lot. Scam warning: A transfer notification is not money in your account. What arrives may be a request for money rather than money, or a link after your banking sign-in. Check your balance in your own banking app, and never through a link somebody sent you. With secure online payment, the buyer's card is secured at checkout, not charged. It is charged when the buyer confirms the item arrived, or, on a courier delivery, automatically 72 hours after it reaches them if they say nothing. The seller's payout releases after that. On an in-person pickup there is no automatic release, so the buyer confirming is what completes it. That is the secure online payment path specifically, and the scoping matters. Cash and an Interac e-Transfer at the door are still options a seller can enable, and they carry none of the above. Being on a marketplace does not change what cash is. The one rule that survives every version of this: if you are being hurried, the hurry is the message. ## What if a listing has a link in it? Treat it as the least trustworthy thing on the page, because a link is the one part of a listing that can take you somewhere its author controls. A description can be checked against the photos. A destination cannot. Where a listing description contains a URL, ShopBroker opens a dialog naming the host and the full address before anything loads, with "Stay on ShopBroker" and "Continue to site" as the two choices. It does not decide whether the destination is safe and it does not try to. It shows you where you are about to go and leaves the decision with you, and the scope of that is listing descriptions. If you want the longer version of all of this, with worked examples, we wrote one about [selling electronics safely in Toronto](https://blog.shopbroker.ca/sell-electronics-safely-toronto/), and another about [clearing out a place across the GTA](https://blog.shopbroker.ca/post-grad-cleanout-sell-safely-gta/).