March 2026

Changes in March 2026

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 customise 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 customise your Shopify staff order email notifications to perfectly suit your cafe’s workflow. The new custom template highlights crucial details like pickup dates, fulfilment 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 organised 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 customised staff order emails here.

POS Cafe 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: Optimised 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 customisations 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.

Online Ordering

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 customisation to match your brand
  • A new date & time picker for order-ahead functionality
  • Deep integration with Order Types
  • And much more!

Admin

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