Changelog

Online Ordering:

• Zapiet Pickup & Delivery Integration: POS Cafe Online Ordering now integrates with the Zapiet Pickup & Delivery app. If you use Zapiet for advanced pickup, local delivery, or last-mile options, customers can build their order in your POS Cafe menu and schedule pickup or delivery through Zapiet at checkout.
  • Seamless Hand-Off: With the integration enabled, tapping View Cart takes customers straight to your Shopify cart, where the Zapiet widget handles fulfilment.
  • Location Mapping: Map your Zapiet location IDs to your Shopify locations from the Integrations section of your POS Cafe settings.
  • Flows to Your Kitchen: Zapiet's pickup and delivery details carry through to your order tickets and FreshKDS.
  • Online Ordering Only: This integration applies to online ordering and doesn't affect the POS Tile.

Online Ordering:

• Now Available: The new Online Ordering extension is here! Rebuilt on Shopify's Storefront API, it serves a live, market-correct menu — up-to-date prices, the right currency for each customer, and live availability with per-location sold-out overlays.
• QR Table Ordering: Customers can scan a table's QR code and land straight on your menu, already set to the correct location and table (shown as "Area – Table", matching POS).
• Menu Status at a Glance: A new shop-level card and per-location indicator show whether each location's menu is live, so you always know what customers can see.
• Polished Mobile Experience: A refreshed mobile view with larger tap targets, cleaner product cards, a clearer close button, and a smoother Add to Cart flow.
• Online Ordering Translations: Translate or reword the storefront menu's labels and buttons to match your language and your business's terms — no code required.
• Order Type Support: The storefront now respects each location's default order type.

Table Management:

• Organise Your Venue: Group your venue into dining areas and tables, each managed independently per location.
• Assign Tables in POS: A new table bar on the browse and customise screens, plus a Tables entry button now live in the POS Tile, makes it easy to attach an order to the right table.
• Per-Table Online Ordering: Every table has its own copyable Online Ordering URL and QR code that deep-links customers to your menu, pre-set to that table.
• POS Draft-Order Integration: A per-area setting adds tables to POS draft orders, so open tabs are easy to tell apart across your locations.

POS Tile:

• Translate & Customise Tile Text: Translate any text in the POS Cafe tile into your language, or reword it to match your business's own terms — all from POS Extension Translations, with no code required.

Admin:

• Bulk Modifier Assignment: Assign modifier sets to products in bulk from Cafe Collections, with clearer setup hints and smoother add/remove modals.
• Safer Editing: Unsaved-changes prompts now appear consistently across settings and location pages, so you won't accidentally lose your edits when navigating away.

FreshKDS:

• More Reliable Sync: Improved FreshKDS syncing for more consistent updates during service.

POS Tile Performance & Reliability:

• Faster Add to Cart: Adding items to the cart is now noticeably quicker, especially when adding repeat items. Re-adding the same item with the same options now correctly increases the quantity instead of creating unnecessary duplicate lines.
• Smoother Navigation: Moving between collections, products, and the customise screen is now faster and more responsive, reducing lag during busy service periods.
• Improved Layout: Refreshed the POS Tile layout for a cleaner, more intuitive experience, with a completely redesigned mobile view that makes POS Cafe much easier to use on smaller screens.
• Quicker Item Editing: Opening an existing cart item to make changes now loads significantly faster, making it easier for staff to update orders on the fly.
• Improved Modifier Reliability: Fixed a rare timing issue where modifiers could fail to load if staff moved very quickly into a product.
• Clearer Discount Feedback: If a Cafe Discount cannot be applied or removed while editing an item, POS Cafe now shows a clear message instead of failing silently.

Order Types:

• Order Type Opt-Out: Locations can now fully disable Order Types. When all order types are turned off for a location, staff will no longer see the Order Type selector in the POS Tile, and no order type will be added to cart or line item details.
• Improved FreshKDS Routing: Orders that contain items with different item-level order types are now split into separate FreshKDS tickets, helping kitchen teams see each item under the correct order type.
• Cleaner Admin Settings: Order Type settings now have a dedicated POS Extension section in the admin, with clearer layout and improved messaging when Order Types are turned off for a location.
• Settings Save Fix: Saving Order Type settings is now smoother, with the save bar closing correctly after the first save.

Core Improvements:

• Additional performance tuning, stability improvements, and bug fixes to keep POS Cafe fast and dependable across both the current and classic POS Tile experiences.

FreshKDS:

• Clearer Order Details: Improved handling for customer names, order numbers, table numbers, and order notes so kitchen teams have the key information they need at a glance.
• More Reliable Order Processing: Enhanced processing and idempotency logic to reduce duplicate events, improve retry behaviour, and keep FreshKDS updates more consistent during busy service periods.
• Stability Improvements: Additional bug fixes, performance refinements, and under-the-hood improvements for a smoother KDS experience.

Order Tickets:

• Improved Ticket Information: Customer names, order numbers, table numbers, and notes are now handled more consistently across order tickets, helping staff prepare and route orders with greater accuracy.

Open Orders:

• Smarter Location Handling: Improved location mapping, error handling, and fallback logic to make open order workflows more dependable across multi-location setups.

Shopify POS Receipt Templates:

• Better Customer & Order Context: Receipt templates now handle customer names, order numbers, table numbers, and notes more reliably, making printed receipts clearer for both staff and customers.

Online Ordering:

• Improved Timezone Handling: Refined timezone logic for more accurate availability, scheduling, and order timing across locations.
• Money Format Fixes: Fixed money formatting issues to ensure prices display cleanly and consistently throughout Online Ordering.

New Features:

• Cafe Discounts (Highly Requested!): Introducing the ability to create and manage discounts directly within POS Cafe. This powerful new feature allows you to assign specific discounts to individual cafe items right from the POS Cafe tile in Shopify POS.
  • Flexible Options: Choose between a specific dollar amount off or a percentage off.
  • Streamlined Workflow: Apply discounts quickly during the customize process without leaving the POS Cafe tile.
  • Enhanced Control: Perfect for staff meals, loyalty rewards, or promotional items.
  Learn more and get started with Cafe Discounts here.
• Built For Shopify: POS Cafe has achieved "Built For Shopify" status. This means our app meets Shopify's highest standards for quality, design, and performance, ensuring:
  • Safe, secure, and reliable operations;
  • Blazing fast performance;
  • An intuitive, easy-to-use interface;
  • Maximum usefulness for your day-to-day operations.
• Staff Order Emails: You can now easily customize your Shopify staff order email notifications to perfectly suit your cafe's workflow. The new custom template highlights crucial details like pickup dates, fulfillment times, and ordered items at a glance.
  • Clear Information: Instantly see exactly when an order needs to be ready.
  • Grouped by Prep Area: Ordered items are organized by their prep area, making it easy for your kitchen and baristas to see what they need to make.
  • Online Ordering Ready: An essential upgrade for merchants leveraging our Online Ordering functionality.
  Learn how to set up customized staff order emails here.

POS Tile:

• Atomic Add to Cart: We've completely re-engineered the add-to-cart process in POS Cafe v2.0 to deliver significantly faster performance during your busiest hours.
  • What's New:
    • Faster cart updates: Optimized from multiple sequential operations to a single, streamlined process.
    • Improved reliability: Eliminates timing issues that could occasionally result in missing modifiers or properties.
    • Better peak-hour performance: Specifically designed to maintain speeds during the lunch and dinner rush.
  • What This Means for You:
    • Reduced wait times when adding items to the cart (targeting 1-2 seconds consistently).
    • A smoother experience for your staff during high-volume periods.
    • More reliable order accuracy, with all modifiers and customizations applied instantly.
  This update is live for all POS Cafe v2.0 users and requires no action on your part.
• Order Type Placement: You can now choose whether the Order Types options appear at the top or bottom of the customise screen, allowing you to tailor the interface to your workflow.

Admin:

• Numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and refinements to core functionality for increased stability.

Online Ordering v2.0 (Coming Soon):

• Our brand new Online Ordering functionality is almost here! We have rebuilt Online Ordering from the ground up to provide a superior experience for both you and your customers. The new version will feature:
  • Dramatically improved performance;
  • Complete customization to match your brand;
  • A new date & time picker for order-ahead functionality;
  • Deep integration with Order Types;
  • And much more!

POS Tile:

• Framework Update: Updated to the 2025-10 UI Extensions framework;
• Modern Tech Stack: Migrated to Preact framework and Polaris Web Components for improved performance and native feel.

Admin:

• Admin Action Intents: Merchants can now update Products & Collections directly from within POS Cafe (Admin links);
• Bulk Actions: Added new "Remove from Modifier Collection" action on the Modifiers page;
• Safety Warnings: Added a warning to the "Delete" bulk action to help prevent accidental deletion of modifier products;
• Responsive Design: Enhanced the layout for the Cafe Collection Products page on mobile and tablet screens;
• Bug Fixes: Fixed initialization issues on the Modifier Set page;
• Numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and refinements to core functionality for increased stability.

Core Performance & Reliability (Under-the-hood):

• Data Definitions: Migrated to new Shopify Declarative Custom Data Definitions for better reliability;
• Backend Update: Updated to Gadget Framework 1.6.0.

POS Cafe Tile v2.0:

• Add to Cart Performance: Significant refactoring to improve the speed and responsiveness of adding items to the cart, resulting in a faster and smoother checkout experience.
• Cart Transform Improvements: Optimised cart transform logic to reduce processing time and improve reliability when items, modifiers, and order rules are applied.
• Core Refactoring: Internal refactoring across the POS UI Extension to improve performance, maintainability, and overall stability of the POS Cafe Tile.

Holiday Maintenance:

• Performance optimizations for high-traffic holiday period;
• Minor bug fixes and UI improvements.

New Features:

• Order Types: Introducing full support for structured order fulfillment types, including For Here, To Go, Pickup, Drive Thru, Delivery, and Curbside.
  • Enable or disable specific order types per location for complete operational flexibility;
  • Set a default order type per location to streamline workflows for your team;
  • Support for mixed order types within a single order – assign order types at the item level for maximum accuracy;
  • Order types now flow through to both order tickets and Fresh KDS, ensuring your team always knows how items are being fulfilled.

Order Tickets:

• Filter by POS Register: Filter incoming order tickets by POS register, allowing multi-register cafes to route orders more intelligently.
• Single Item Tickets: Optionally print individual tickets for each item in an order – perfect for cup labels, sticky labels, and high-volume barista stations.

POS Tile:

• New Settings Page: Added a dedicated settings page within the POS Tile for easier configuration directly on the device.
• Register Devices: Devices can now be registered with the admin, enabling register-specific filtering for order tickets and improved reporting.

Admin:

• Numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and refinements to core functionality for increased stability.

Webhook / Order Processing API:

• Stability improvements and bug fixes to ensure more reliable order processing and webhook handling.