Changelog

Your storefront address can now open on a page of your choosing instead of the catalog. Open Apps → Website, pick a page under Home page, and it becomes what visitors see first; your catalog moves to its own address, menu by default, or a word that fits your business such as pre-order. The Catalog entry in your top navigation, your sitemap and every link in the dashboard follow automatically, and category and product links stay exactly where they were. Switch back to the catalog at any time with one click. Nothing changes for you unless you choose a page.

A new Website app lets you place text and photo blocks above and below your catalog, so an "our story" paragraph with a couple of photos beside it, or a note about parking and pickup under the product list, no longer needs a separate page. Write in the same editor Pages uses, add up to four photos, choose which side they sit on, and put the block on a coloured or photo band when you want it to stand out. The same blocks can build a whole page: switch any page to composed, mix text blocks and your promo card groups in any order, then link it from your storefront's top navigation, which you can now edit yourself. New blocks start hidden until you switch them on, so nothing half-written reaches customers. Turn it on under Settings → Apps → Website.

Closing an order is final — it marks the order as Paid and locks its status for good, which keeps your sales history and loyalty rewards accurate. Since one stray click shouldn't lock an order forever, WhatsMenu now asks you to confirm before an order is closed, whether you close it from the order page or in bulk from the orders list. The confirmation also tells you when that click will award loyalty points to the customer, so there are no surprises. The same protection now applies everywhere, including the vendor app: a settled order can no longer be switched back to unpaid.

Editing your custom fields no longer changes what past orders show. Every order now keeps its own permanent copy of the questions it asked, so deleting a field, renaming one, or switching off item custom fields only affects orders from that point on — a "name to engrave" collected last month stays on that order, on its receipt and on the customer's tracking page, no matter how you reorganise your fields today. Checkout field responses are protected the same way, including in your orders report and exports, where a deleted field's column used to disappear along with its answers. Two smaller fixes come with it: orders placed while item custom fields were switched off no longer show empty rows, and a field you add today no longer appears as a blank question on orders that came in before it existed.

Open any app under Settings and you will find a short explanation at the top telling you what it does, what changes for your customers, and where to look once you switch it on. Sixty apps had nothing there before, so the only way to find out was to enable one and see what happened. Payment methods now say where to get your keys and whether orders are marked paid for you or you confirm each payment yourself, which is the difference between a gateway your customers pay through at checkout and a QR they pay after ordering. The explanations appear in the language your dashboard is set to.

WhatsMenu Vendor 3.2.0 is on Google Play. Order details now show the payment proof your customer uploaded, and you can mark an order paid or unpaid from the same screen. Failed deliveries have their own place in the Active list, and the answers customers give in item details appear on the order and on the printed receipt.

In POS, items with choice groups show their rules before you add them, so a sale is never refused afterwards, and the items already in the cart are easier to spot on the grid. New-order alerts are clearer, signing out now ends the session on the server, and the app no longer asks for permissions it never used.

The words you write for customers at checkout now follow the language they are browsing in. Your service labels (the Service options heading, and your names for Delivery, Pickup and Dine in), your checkout message, your success page message, the note on your date and time picker, your order message template, and the name and description of every payment method you offer all translate per language. Switch language using the selector at the top of your dashboard, type them in that language, and save; the other languages keep what they had, and a badge beside each field shows which one you are editing. The payment description is worth doing first if you take bank transfers — it is where your account details and instructions sit, and a customer who cannot read them cannot pay you. Nothing changes until you choose to translate: everything you have already written keeps showing to everyone exactly as it does today, and any language you have not filled in falls back to your default rather than going blank.

If you collect extra details on an item — a name to engrave, a preferred date, a note for the kitchen — you can now correct those answers from the order page. Each item's details block has an edit button; change what you need and save, and the correction flows through to the kitchen ticket, the receipt and the customer's tracking page. This works even after the order is paid, since these answers don't change the amount. Dropdown answers also now record the option you set up rather than a position number, so an order that used to read "Option: 0" now reads the actual choice.

The page editor now has a table button on its toolbar. Pick how many rows and columns you need, type into the cells, and add or remove rows later from the same button — handy for size charts, product specifications, price lists, and opening-hours grids. Tables have always rendered on your storefront; now you can build one without knowing how to write it by hand. Wide tables also scroll sideways on phones instead of squeezing every column onto a narrow screen, so a detailed chart stays readable for customers browsing on mobile.

If you use Preparation Time, the estimate you picked when accepting an order wasn't being saved — so nothing reached the customer. That's fixed: choose a time when you accept and it now shows on the customer's order tracking page and in their notification, in your own language. Save stays unavailable until you actually pick a time, so an order can't slip through with a blank estimate. The customer's countdown also runs from the moment you accept rather than from when the order came in, so an order that waited a while no longer shows a "ready by" time that has already passed. On the order details screen you can still type any number of minutes, or clear the field to drop the estimate.

Settings → Notifications now lists every message WhatsMenu sends for your store, to your customers and to you, grouped into orders, bookings, reviews, loyalty and your website. Each one has its own switch for Email, WhatsApp and Dashboard & app, so you decide exactly what goes out and how. The switches that used to sit in Loyalty and Reservations settings live here now; timing, like when a booking reminder goes out, stays where it was.

There's more to choose from, too. You can get new orders, bookings, reviews and website enquiries by email or WhatsApp, and send customers an order confirmation and a review invitation on WhatsApp. Each booking message has its own switch, so you can, say, keep reminders on email only. WhatsApp messages go from your own number if you use WhatsBox, or from the WhatsMenu number using credits, with your balance and a Top up button at the top of the page.

Order confirmation emails to your customers are now included for every store.

If you use keyword shortcuts to help visitors narrow your catalogue, anything you typed with a space in it — a neighbourhood, a service name, a brand — was quietly being squashed into one word, so the shortcut looked right but found nothing. Multi-word keywords now work as written, which makes the feature genuinely useful beyond single words. Three other fixes came with it: tapping a keyword now filters the page instantly instead of reloading it, the applied keyword is highlighted so it's clear what's being shown, and a keyword that happens to match nothing no longer leaves visitors stuck on an empty page with no way back to the full catalogue. If you'd tried keyword shortcuts before and found them unreliable, they're worth another look.

Create the filters your customers actually ask for — Location, Type, Brand, Purpose, whatever fits your business — and they appear on your storefront under the category bar. A filter with three options or fewer shows as buttons so every choice is one tap away; a longer list becomes a dropdown so it never fills the screen. Filters work the moment you create them, matching items on their name, summary and category, and you can tag items individually on the item edit page whenever you want a filter to be exact. Switch on the price filter and visitors get price ranges too, worked out from your own prices with nothing for you to set up. Picking a filter narrows the page instantly without reloading it, and the address bar keeps up, so a filtered view can be shared or bookmarked. Filter names can be written in each of your storefront languages. You'll find it in Settings > Apps, then Search Filters in your sidebar.

Your collected reviews can now appear on your storefront. Turn on Show reviews on your storefront in the Reviews settings and visitors see a section below your catalogue with your overall rating, the one-to-five spread, and your most recent reviews — your replies shown underneath them. Nothing publishes until you've collected enough to be worth showing, three reviews by default, and hidden reviews stay out of both the list and the average. Only first names appear, never a full name or contact details. Your rating is also published in a format search engines read, so Google can show stars beneath your storefront in search results.

Paste your Google review link into the Reviews settings and a customer who rates you four or five stars is offered a one-tap link to post the same review on Google, right after they submit. It's the quickest way to turn the reviews you're already collecting into the ones new customers see when they search for you. Customers who rate you one to three stars aren't shown the link — they've told you something went wrong, and the useful next step is you reading it and replying. Nothing is hidden or filtered either way: every rating still counts towards your average and still appears on your storefront.

Once an order is delivered or closed, customers can rate it and leave a comment. A "How was your order?" card appears on the order status page they already use to track it, an invitation goes out by email if you have customer emails switched on, and a {REVIEW_LINK} placeholder lets you drop the link into a WhatsApp message you send by hand. Customers who checked out as guests can review too — no account needed. Everything lands in Apps > Reviews, where you'll see your rating, the spread across one to five stars, and how many reviews are waiting on a reply. You can answer any review publicly, hide one that's abusive, and set how long customers may change their mind — seven days by default.

We went through every part of WhatsMenu that depends on the clock and made sure it all runs on your store's time zone, precisely. Coupons now work through the whole of their last day, and happy-hour windows and day-of-week rules kick in at your local time. Scheduled promotions — carousel slides, announcements, popups and promo cards — go live and expire at exactly the time you set. Daily order limits count orders against the day the customer scheduled them for, menus that change by time of day switch over on your clock, and the order status page shows customers times in your local time. If you spot a date or time anywhere that looks off, it should be a thing of the past.

Leaving the WhatsApp number blank in Settings → Messaging now switches WhatsApp off properly: enquiry buttons, order sharing and new order alerts all stop with it, so nothing is sent to a number you no longer use. If you had previously entered 000000000 to disable it, that still counts as off and you don't need to change anything.

We fixed an issue where emptying your business address, customer hotline or WhatsApp number in Settings did nothing — the page said it saved, but the old value came back. Clearing any of these fields now removes it properly, and entering a new value still works as before.

An add-on adds to the price — extra sauce, a bigger size. That works until you need to count sizes separately in your storeroom, give one its own photo, or set a price that isn't just the base plus a bit. Open an item's Add-ons menu and choose Convert to variants: pick the groups you count separately, and each combination becomes a variant with its own price, stock, photo and barcode. Prices carry over from what each add-on already added, so nothing needs retyping. You can convert them back later, though that removes the variants and anything you set on them. On the Variants card you'll also find Generate missing variants, which fills in every combination that doesn't have one yet at your item price — handy when you want to price and stock each one properly. Turning variants on is automatic now: add a variant group and the item sells variants, remove the last one and it stops.