Changelog

The WhatsMenu admin and storefront are now available in 18 languages. New additions in this release fill out coverage across Europe and Asia:

Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

Pick your admin language from the language switcher in the top bar. Storefront languages are managed per-store under your settings — turn on the ones your customers actually speak, and they'll see your menu in their language automatically.

Your store's name and description can now be translated for each language you offer. Customers browsing in Malay see the Malay version, customers in English see the English version — automatically.

The language selector in the admin and on your storefront also got an upgrade: it now uses your store's own language labels, so what you type is what your customers see in the picker.

Set translations under your company general settings; the language switcher is in the top bar.

You can now configure whether the prices you set on items already include tax (common in EU, UK, Australia) or are net of tax with tax added at checkout (common in the US, Canada).

The cart and checkout adapt to your choice — tax-inclusive shows the tax breakdown without changing the total, tax-exclusive adds the tax line on top. Customers always see a clear breakdown so there are no surprises at the end.

Set the mode under your store's localisation or tax settings. Existing prices keep working as-is; switching the mode does not retroactively change item prices.

Customer signup forms on your storefront now have tighter bot protection — invisible reCAPTCHA, a hidden honeypot field, and stricter validation on names. Bots that automate fake account creation get blocked before they ever touch your customer list.

You should see fewer junk accounts, fewer rejected first-order coupons used by spammers, and cleaner customer marketing data. Real customers won't notice anything different.

No setup needed — the protection is on automatically across all stores.

You can now turn off the small "Powered by WhatsMenu" line in your storefront footer. Useful if you'd rather present a fully-branded customer experience or have your own footer copy.

Toggle it under your store settings. Off by default for new stores; existing stores keep the footer until you change it.

WhatsMenu's admin panel and storefront can now be displayed in multiple languages. The first release ships English, Chinese, and Malay — pick yours from the language switcher in the top bar.

Your customers see the storefront in their preferred language too, automatically based on their browser or your default. You'll see the language picker on customer-facing pages so they can switch if they prefer.

More languages roll out in the months ahead. No setup needed beyond turning on the languages you want to offer in your store settings.

A search bar now sits in the admin top bar. Type anything — an order number, a customer name, a product, a settings page — and jump straight to it without clicking through menus.

Especially useful when your catalogue grows past a couple of pages, when you're looking up a specific past order, or when you can't remember which settings tab a particular toggle lives on.

No setup. Open the admin and start typing in the search box at the top. Click a result to go straight there.

You can now plug an email-verification service into your storefront customer signup. When a shopper enters an obvious throw-away or invalid email (mailinator, tempmail, gibberish addresses, etc.), they're asked to use a real one before creating an account.

Helps keep your customer list clean — no more orders tied to addresses you can't email later, fewer fake accounts gaming first-order coupons, and saner marketing exports.

Optional. Activate under Settings → Apps → Email Validation; you'll need an EmailListVerify API key. Leave it off and signup behaves exactly as before.

When you set or change your storefront subdomain (the your-store-name part of your-store-name.whatsmenu.page), the form now catches problems earlier — invalid characters, reserved words, or names already taken — and shows a clear message explaining what to fix.

Previously some invalid subdomains slipped through and only failed later, sometimes mid-checkout for your customers. The tighter validation prevents that and keeps your storefront URL stable.

No action needed if your existing subdomain works — only new changes go through the new checks.

The cart on your storefront can now adapt to what you sell, instead of using a single one-size-fits-all layout. Modules ship their own cart templates so the checkout experience matches your business — pharmacies can show dosage instructions, restaurants can show preparation notes, age-restricted products can show a confirmation, and so on.

Customers see a cart that fits the kind of thing they're buying. As a merchant, you don't have to configure anything — when you turn on a module that ships a cart template, the layout updates automatically on your storefront.

More cart variations will come as additional modules adopt the pattern.

A new module lets you show a pop-up on your storefront before a customer can browse — typical use cases include age verification (alcohol, vape, adult products), allergen warnings, or asking the customer to confirm a preference like dine-in vs takeaway.

The pop-up can require a date of birth, a yes/no confirmation, or a custom text input. Once a customer accepts, the choice is remembered for the session so they're not re-prompted on every page.

Activate under Settings → Apps → Menu Modals. Useful for any merchant whose products are restricted by age or law, or who needs the customer to acknowledge something before browsing.

The Apps page (where you turn modules on and off) now shows a friendlier name and a one-line description for each module, so it's obvious what something does before you enable it.

Previously some modules showed only their technical name with no context, which made browsing slow. The new labels and descriptions match what you'd see in the rest of the admin.

No setup needed — open Settings → Apps to see the cleaner layout.

Order numbers no longer have to be plain auto-incrementing IDs. You can now define a template that includes the year, your store prefix, the day of the year, or a custom counter — anything that fits your numbering convention.

Examples:

• INV-{YEAR}-{SEQ} → INV-2025-0142
• {STORE}-{DATE}-{SEQ} → BAKERY-20250602-014
• Plain sequential, your prefix, no prefix — your call

Useful for matching your existing accounting or invoice numbering, separating online from in-store orders, or just looking more professional. Set it up under your store settings.