What’s new

The receipts.

Every other page here makes claims of one kind or another. This is the page where you check them. The dates are when the work actually landed, which is not always the same week we got round to mentioning it.

July 2026

  • Print bridge, productized. The printing service became something a restaurant installs and forgets, with a guided device-hub setup for adding printers and kitchen screens.
  • Storefronts on your own domain. Verified custom domains and per-restaurant branding, so your ordering site is yours rather than a page on ours.
  • Onboarding and migration centre. The path from “signed up” to “taking orders” became a real guided workflow instead of a support conversation.
  • Browser register in continuous deployment. The installable register is now built, smoke-tested, and deployed automatically on every change.
  • Guest receipts and order status for real. Email and SMS delivery moved off stubs and onto production infrastructure, with transactional mail isolated from marketing sending.
  • QuickBooks Online and hardware integration checkpoint.
  • Hardware protocol foundation. Twelve distilled protocol specifications and the first production printer compilers — Epson thermal, Epson impact, StarPRNT line mode, and TSP100 raster.
  • Automated deployments. Changes now reach production through an audited pipeline rather than by hand.

June 2026

  • Site builder. A full visual editor for your ordering site — four layouts, sections, image and logo uploads, style controls, scheduled publishing, revisions, and undo.
  • Card gateway integration. The Merchant Tree / NMI adapter: authorizations, captures, voids, refunds, the customer vault for saved cards, settlement and chargeback webhooks, and the cloud card-present client for in-store terminals. See payments for where this stands.
  • Customer storefront. Browse, modifiers, cart, checkout with tips, guest details, confirmation, and live order-status tracking — plus a searchable directory across locations.
  • Combos, catering packages, and deposits. Composite items that price as a bundle while still routing and depleting each component correctly.
  • Multi-state readiness. Per-location addresses, per-location tax rates, and state-level reporting.
  • Enterprise management layer. Regions, region-scoped permissions, and roll-up reporting across locations.
  • Full-service workflows. Tables and seats, multiple checks per order, split, move and merge, transfers, and manager-gated reopens that correctly reverse inventory and loyalty.
  • Floor plan editor. Drag-and-drop table and area management.
  • Inventory and food cost. The stock ledger, weighted-average costing, recipe costing, waste, purchase orders, vendors, transfers, and low-stock sweeps. See inventory.
  • In-app co-pilot. An assistant that can read and navigate the back office under your own permissions — it can never see or do more than the person using it.

How this list is kept

Written from the commit history, not from memory.

Entries are dated from the commit history rather than from anybody’s memory of the quarter. Internally we keep a claims ledger that every public statement has to trace back to, which is why this site is more specific than most of them, and now and then less flattering.

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