Changelog

Two upgrades shipped together for PromoCards this week.

1. Group heading and description. When you create or edit a group, two new optional fields sit just under the internal group name: Heading and Description. Whatever you type renders on the storefront right above that group's cards — bold heading, muted lead paragraph — the same way category titles and descriptions read on the menu. Use them when a group needs framing: a Today's specials row reads better with a "Available until 10pm tonight" lead; a category-bottom row of related services can introduce itself with "You may also like" before the cards. Leave both blank and the group renders exactly as it always has. The internal Group Name field is unchanged — that one is still for your own reference in the group list.

2. Every customer-facing field is now translatable. On multi-language storefronts, the group heading and description plus each card's Title, Subtitle, Description, and Button Text all support per-language values. Switch language with the top-bar selector, fill the fields in that language, save. Visitors automatically see whichever language they're browsing in, and any untranslated field falls back to your default language so cards always render. Images, button URLs, layouts, colours, and schedules stay shared across languages — change them once and they apply everywhere.

No migration steps for you — open any existing group or card, the new fields are right there.

If your storefront runs in more than one language, every text field on a Carousel slide now translates per language: Title, Subtitle, and Button Text. Switch language using the top-bar selector, fill in the text for that language on a slide, and save. Visitors automatically see whichever language they're browsing in, and any untranslated field falls back to your default language so slides always render.

What stays shared across languages. Images (desktop and mobile), the button URL, text position, colours, overlay, transition effect, schedules, and the slide order — change them once and they apply everywhere. Only customer-facing text is per-language.

No setup needed — open any existing slide and the fields are already wired up.

Length counters now show on the Title, Subtitle, and Button Text fields too, matching the rest of the admin.

If your storefront runs in more than one language, the announcement bar's Message and Link Text (used by Button Link and Text Link actions) now translate per language. Switch language using the top-bar selector, fill the fields for that language, save. Visitors automatically see whichever language they're browsing in, and any untranslated field falls back to your default language so the bar never breaks.

What stays shared across languages. The link URL, action type (Countdown / Coupon / Button / Text Link), schedule, colours, and coupon selection are shared — change them once and they apply everywhere. (The coupon's own name and discount text translate inside the Coupons module.)

Link Text now caps at 60 characters (was 100). 60 fits long-form German/French CTAs without letting merchants ship a wall of text on a button. Existing entries longer than 60 keep displaying fine on the storefront but will need trimming the next time you save them.

No setup needed — open any existing announcement and the fields are wired up.

If you run your storefront in more than one language, your Custom Item Fields — the merchant-defined extra fields per item (size, vehicle make, service type, special instructions) — now translate alongside everything else customers see.

In the Fields Editor. Open any item, click Open Fields Editor, and you'll see a row of language tabs above the field list — one per menu language you've enabled. Click a tab to switch which language slot every input reads from and writes into. Type the translated label, placeholder, and select-option values; switch back to confirm. Your previous-language values are preserved when you switch tabs.

Single-language stores see the editor exactly as before — no language tabs appear.

AI auto-translate covers them too. When you tick AI auto-translate to other menu languages on item save, the AI now fans the custom-field titles, placeholders, and select options out into every enabled menu language alongside the item's name, summary, description, variant group names, and add-on names. Same credit cost as the other translatable fields. Hand-edited translations are preserved unless you also tick Force translate all.

Existing fields keep working. Whatever language you'd typed your custom fields in before now lives in that language's slot — customers in other languages see your original text until you (or AI auto-translate) fill in their language. No customer-facing breakage; the storefront resolves to whichever language is configured.

What's not in scope (yet). Order-level custom fields configured under Settings > Checkout > Custom Fields stay single-language for now — that surface uses a separate editor and ships in its own slice. The per-item custom fields covered here are the ones on the Custom Fields card on each item's edit page.

Two new AI tools sit on every item's edit page next to the image upload field: Generate image with AI (creates a fresh image from your item's name and description) and Enhance photo with AI (cleans up the photo you already uploaded — background removal, lighting fix, sharper focus).

When to use which:

• You have a real photo → Use Enhance. Photoroom-grade cleanup of your own snap. The result still depicts your real product, so no customer-facing AI label is added.
• You don't have a photo yet → Use Generate. Fills the slot with an AI-rendered image based on the item name and description you've typed. The storefront shows a small "AI-generated" badge on the item card so customers know upfront.
• You want to try a different style on an AI image → Use Generate again. Each click opens the preview modal and lets you refine the prompt ("warmer lighting", "outdoor setting") and try again.

How it works:

Click the button → a preview modal opens with your current photo on the left (if any) and an empty slot on the right. Click Generate or Enhance → the AI processes for a few seconds → the result appears in the right slot. Like it? Click Use this image to save. Want a different angle? Click Try again — each attempt is a fresh AI run.

The preview-then-commit flow means an attempt you don't like never lands on your storefront. You see the result first, then decide.

What it costs:

5 credits per attempt. Each click on Generate or Enhance charges your credit balance, whether or not you save the result. The platform pays OpenAI / Photoroom for every generation; the credit covers that cost. The modal shows a running count: "Attempt 3 — 15 credits spent so far."

If you'd rather not spend platform credits, you can plug in your own OpenAI API key and (for enhancement) your own Photoroom API key in Settings → Apps → AI Kit. With either key on file, the calls route through your account, your provider bills you directly, and platform credits aren't deducted. See the BYOK update for details.

The customer-facing badge — and why it matters:

Items whose photo was created by Generate (not photographed) show a small "AI-generated" label in the corner of the item card on your storefront. This badge:

• Protects you from "not as described" customer disputes. Stripe and PayPal both accept this as a chargeback reason. A visible AI label on the storefront establishes that the photo is illustrative — Stripe's dispute reviewers see it and side with you.
• Sets customer expectations up front. Fewer surprises when the dish or product arrives = fewer disputes at the source.

Items enhanced from a real photo show NO badge. Enhancement just cleans up your phone snap — the product depicted is still your real item, so no disclosure is needed.

The badge appears on the catalog grid and on the item detail page. It's small, sits in the top-right corner of the image, and includes a tooltip on hover ("This image was generated by AI from the item description, not photographed.").

Tips for better results:

• Generate: write a clear, descriptive item name and a short description before clicking. The AI builds the image from what you've typed. "Beef burger with cheddar, lettuce, tomato on a brioche bun, side of fries" produces a sharper image than "Burger."
• Enhance: shoot from above on a plain surface for catalog-grid uses; a busy background is harder to clean up perfectly. The AI works best when your phone snap is already in focus and well-lit — Enhance polishes, it doesn't rescue.
• Try again is cheap. Each attempt costs 5 credits; if the first result misses the mark, refine the prompt and try once more. A soft cap of 10 attempts per modal session protects your balance from accidental click-spam.

What's NOT supported yet:

• Bulk Generate / Enhance for the whole catalog. Single-item only for now. Reach out via the Helpbot if this would unblock a catalog rebuild.
• Faces and people. OpenAI's image policy declines portrait-style outputs for safety reasons. Stick to product photography use cases (food, retail, services) — a salon merchant who wants "haircut model" images is better off using real photos with consent.

You can now plug in your own OpenAI API key so AI calls from your company route through your own OpenAI account directly. Your tokens get billed to OpenAI; platform credits aren't deducted for those calls.

Where to set it. Open Settings → Apps → AI Kit (or https://whatsmenu.page/getapp/aikit). A new Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) section sits at the top of the form. Paste your OpenAI key (the one that starts with sk-, created at platform.openai.com/api-keys), click Save Settings.

The key is encrypted at rest and the panel never displays it back to you — the field always renders blank after saving.

To replace your key. Paste the new value and save. It overwrites the previous one.

To remove your key. Tick Remove my stored OpenAI key on next save and click Save Settings. Platform credits resume on the next AI call. (Leaving the field blank without ticking the remove box keeps your current key — no accidental wipe.)

Cached results stay free. When another merchant on the platform has already run the same prompt, your call returns from cache instantly — same as before. Neither your OpenAI account nor platform credits are charged for cache hits. Only fresh generations bill your OpenAI account.

If your key gets rejected by OpenAI (wrong, expired, revoked) the AI feature you triggered surfaces a clear error pointing you back to AI Kit settings to update the key. There's no silent fallback to platform credits — your bill stays predictable.

Covered AI features. Every AI Kit surface that uses chat completions — AI Enhance, photo-to-description, Reply Assist, AI Insight advisors (Catalog, Timing, Restock), AI auto-translate. All of them honour your BYOK key automatically when one is on file.

A new Draft with AI button sits inside the WhatsApp Customer card on every order. Click it, and the AI writes a short, ready-to-send message right into the same textarea you'd use for a saved template — no copy/paste, no tab switching. You still pick when to send and what to send.

Reply Assist reads the order in front of you and picks the right tone:

• A heads-up that the order is being prepared, or that it's on the way
• An out-of-stock note asking the customer about a substitution
• A warm "thanks for ordering again" for returning customers
• A polite ETA-update for orders running long

You don't pick the scenario — the AI does it from the order data. Each draft costs 1 credit. Read the draft in the textarea, edit if you want, then click Send Whatsapp message as usual.

This is meaningfully different from the "AI" customer messaging you'll see on most other platforms. Most of them are mail-merge in disguise — pick a canned template, fill in {customer_name}, send. Reply Assist generates a new message every time, tuned to your specific order:

• The wording for a returning customer's substitution is different from a brand-new customer's first-order substitution.
• A 50-minute-old "preparing" order gets a more apologetic ETA tone than a 15-minute-old one.
• If you run your panel in Bahasa Malaysia or Chinese, your draft comes back in that language too — same quality of natural, polite copy.

The AI is strictly forbidden from inventing things it doesn't know: it won't claim an item is in stock when stock tracking says it isn't, won't quote prices the system didn't give it, won't promise specific delivery times. If you spot it making any of those up, that's a bug — let us know.

Nothing leaves your account until you send it. Reply Assist is a writing helper, not a chatbot. No autonomous sends, no inbox watching, no bulk broadcasts.

The button shows up automatically inside the WhatsApp Customer card for Owners, Staff, and Managers. Drivers don't see it — dispatching is their concern, customer messaging isn't. The WhatsApp Customer card must be turned on (Settings → Apps → SendStatus) — without it, there's no send button to go with the draft.

If your credits run low, an inline Top Up button appears instead of a draft. If your platform isn't set up for AI yet, your administrator can enable it in settings.

With Reply Assist, all three of this season's AI advisors are now live: Catalog Advisor, Timing Advisor, Restock Forecast, and Reply Assist. They're independent — use whichever one matches the question you have.

Upload an item photo, click one button, get a draft name, summary, and description in your panel language. Useful when you have a folder of product shots but no copy yet — or when "good chair, $30" is all the spreadsheet import left you with.

Where to find it. Open any item edit page. Once a main image is uploaded, Generate from image sits in the top-right corner of the Basic Information card — right next to the name, summary, and description fields it fills in. Click it.

What you'll see. A modal opens with your photo on the left and three suggested fields on the right — Name, Summary, Description. Click Insert into all three fields to fill the form. Nothing saves until you press the item's own Save button, so you can edit any of the three suggestions first.

Re-roll if it's off. Click Generate again for a fresh draft from the same photo. Each generation is 3 credits; the first cached response on the same photo is free if you re-open the modal later.

It only describes what it can see. The AI looks at ingredients, materials, finish, colours, distinguishing features — and writes catalog copy from that. It doesn't invent prices, brand names, or specs that aren't visible. Clear product-on-clean-background photos give noticeably better results than dim or cluttered ones.

Industry-aware framing. The AI pays attention to the right visual cues for your business:

• Food & beverage photos — ingredients, plating, portion size, packaging
• Retail photos — material, finish, colour, dimensions, distinguishing features
• Specialty / handmade photos — materials, craftsmanship details, finish, scale

Hidden when it wouldn't help. The button doesn't appear on service-industry stores (haircuts, lessons, repairs, consulting), where a photo of a storefront or staff portrait wouldn't produce useful catalog copy. Set your Business industry under Settings → General to a product industry and the button shows up.

Works alongside auto-translate. Generate first in the language you're editing in, then turn on AI auto-translate to other menu languages when you save. The same content fans out to every other configured menu language for the price of one auto-translate run.

If you run your storefront in more than one language, you've probably spent more evenings than you want re-translating items. Auto-translate is the fix: tick a checkbox on an item, save, and AI Kit fills in the name, summary, and description in every other language you've enabled — automatically, in the background.

Per-save action, not a persistent setting. The checkbox always starts unticked when you open an item. Tick it for this save if you want translations to fan out — every subsequent save where you leave it unticked is just a normal save with zero AI calls and zero credit spend. No surprise translations, no accidental re-overwrites.

Translates the whole item, not just the description. When you tick it, the AI fans these fields out to every other menu language:

• Item name, summary, description
• The custom title you set for the add-ons group (e.g. "Choose your sides")
• Variant group names (e.g. "Size", "Colour")
• Add-on names (e.g. "Extra cheese", "Side salad")

So the storefront stays fully consistent in every language — not just the long-form description but every label the customer sees on the item modal.

Two modes, on the same form. Tick the main checkbox and a sub-option appears: Force translate all (overwrite manual edits).

• Default mode — empty target-language fields get filled, fields that haven't been hand-edited stay in sync with the source on every save, and hand-edited target fields are preserved. To force a re-translate of a single manual edit, clear it and save again.
• Force mode — every save replaces every target-language field with a fresh AI translation, including hand-edited ones. Useful when a merchant trusts the AI more than past manual edits, or wants a bulk re-translate run (tick force, save, untick force).

The contract is honest about cost. Each translated field is 1 credit. Three menu languages (e.g. English / Bahasa Malaysia / Chinese), one full item save with all three fields needing two non-source translations each — that's 6 credits. But here's where it earns its keep: re-saving the same item without changing the source content costs zero, because the same source text already gave us the same translation, cached. Edits that don't touch the translatable fields = free.

Nothing slows down your save. The translation work happens after your save response is sent back, so the editor still feels instant. Refresh the item page a few seconds later to see the newly-filled languages.

This is different from the AI Enhance button sitting on the same form. AI Enhance rewrites your draft in one language (the panel language). Auto-translate copies your exact content into every other language. Both can run on the same item — write English with AI Enhance, then save with Auto-translate ticked, and Bahasa Malaysia + Chinese fill in to match.

Heads up if your menu is single-language. The checkbox doesn't appear unless your store has more than one enabled menu language. Add another language under Settings → General → Menu Languages first, and the checkbox shows up on every item edit page.

Three new AI-powered reports under Reports → AI Insights. Each one takes your existing sales data and tells you, in plain words, what's worth your attention this week:

• AI Catalog Advisor surfaces slow movers, items where revenue and volume disagree, and quiet hits with strong repeat customers. Period-over-period comparison shows you whether each bucket is growing or shrinking.
• AI Timing Advisor finds your busiest and quietest hours of the week, and flags time windows where activity is trending up or down compared to the prior month. Useful for staffing, off-peak promotions, and noticing when patterns shift.
• AI Restock Forecast predicts which stock-tracked items will run out in the next 14 days, sorted by urgency. Refreshed once a day in the background so you can plan your next purchase order before things hit zero.

Each advisor shows the raw numbers immediately when you open the page. To get the AI-written narrative — three short paragraphs explaining what stands out and what to do — click Generate weekly digest. That part costs 3 credits per generation; re-reads of the same week are free.

The reports adapt to your business. Set your industry under Settings → General → Business profile so the advice fits how your business actually works — whether you sell food, run a salon, manage a workshop, or anything else.

If the Generate button isn't there, the page tells you why: you might be a brand-new merchant without enough order history yet, or the restock forecast might be waiting for you to turn on stock tracking. Once those gates clear, the button appears.

No customer details ever leave your account. The AI only sees aggregated counts and item names — no phone numbers, no addresses, no personal data.

Cashiers can now record an order without taking payment immediately, then collect payment when the customer is ready. Works for dine-in, takeaway, and delivery.

Two ways to finalize an order:

The cart now has two buttons:

• Pay now — opens the payment screen so the customer pays before they leave the counter or table. Same flow you've always had.
• Save & continue (new) — records the order, fires the kitchen ticket, and saves it for payment later. The customer hasn't paid yet, but the kitchen is already cooking.

Where saved orders live:

Saved orders show up in the Orders list with a Saved badge. When the customer is ready to pay, tap the Pay button on that row — the payment screen opens preloaded with the order. Once paid, the row flips to Paid.

Common flows this unlocks:

• Dine-in: customer sits down, orders, eats, and pays at the counter on the way out.
• Takeaway: customer orders at counter, browses the shop while food cooks, pays when called.
• Delivery (cash on delivery): cashier records a phone or walk-in delivery order. Driver collects payment at the door.

Cancelling a saved order:

Tap the trash icon next to a Saved row to cancel. The kitchen is notified so they stop preparing it. (You can't cancel a paid order from this list — that's a refund flow, separate.)

Reprinting a paid receipt:

Paid orders now stay on the orders list for the rest of the day with a Reprint button — useful if the customer asks for another copy of the receipt.

What's required:

If your Force Customer Information setting is on, the same fields that gate Pay now also gate Save & continue:

• Dine-in: optional (the table is the identifier).
• Takeaway: customer name + phone (so you can call them when food is ready).
• Delivery: address + phone (so the order is actually deliverable).

No setup needed beyond that.

Starting a catalogue from scratch can feel like a blank page. Now, on the Catalog page, Generate sample items drops in a small set of ready-made example products so you can see how everything fits together before building your own.

The samples cover the main things items can do:

• A basic item with a name, description, and price
• An item with variants — size and colour combined, where size changes the price
• An item with add-ons — optional paid extras with minimum and maximum rules
• An item with variants and per-variant add-ons — where each variant offers a different set of add-ons, plus one shared by all of them
• A display-only showcase item — no price and no "Add to Cart" button, for products or services customers enquire about rather than buy online

Open any of them to see how it's built, or edit them to make them your own. When you're done, the Catalog Actions menu shows Remove sample items — one click clears the samples and their category, and never touches anything you created yourself.

You'll find Generate sample items in the Actions menu on the Catalog page, or on the welcome screen that appears when your catalogue is still empty.

Meet Schedule: a calendar page in your sidebar that lays every reservation across a month, week, or day so you can see what's coming without opening separate panels.

Four views in one place:

• Month — a grid of the whole month with up to three events per day visible.
• Week — a vertical timeline of seven days side by side with hour markers.
• Day — a single day's hour-by-hour timeline.
• List — a compact agenda-style list, especially useful on mobile.

Switch views from the toolbar at the top of the calendar.

Click a day for the full picture. A side panel slides in with every reservation for that date — customer name, party size, time, phone, code, special requests, and a coloured status pill. A button takes you straight to the Reservations panel for that booking.

Colour-coded by status so a busy month is still readable. Yellow for pending, blue for confirmed, green for seated or completed, red for late, grey for cancelled or no-show.

Sidebar source filter. Today only Reservations lives in the calendar. As you turn on more features, additional sources appear automatically — scheduled orders, closed days, and promotion windows are on the way.

Built for every kind of business. A restaurant can spot busy weekends weeks ahead. A salon can check each day's appointment load. A clinic can map tomorrow's consultations. A retail merchant can track scheduled pickups. The calendar adapts to whatever you book.

Mobile-first. The page defaults to the list view on phones because a month grid is hard to read on a small screen. Sidebar collapses on small screens with a tap of the menu icon in the toolbar.

Enable it in Settings > Apps > Schedule. Once on, a Schedule entry appears in your sidebar.

PromoCards just got more dynamic: any card can now use a YouTube video in place of its static image. Pop a video on a "Watch the kitchen at work" card, a product demo, a property walkthrough, a service intro — anywhere a moving image tells the story better.

How to use it:

1. Open a PromoCards group, click into a card.
2. In the Video section, paste any YouTube link:
   • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
   • https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID
   • https://youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID
3. Save. That's it.

What visitors see: a thumbnail with a red play button. Clicking starts the video. Until they click, the player isn't loaded — keeps the page fast even with multiple video cards.

YouTube Shorts / Reels work too. Paste a youtube.com/shorts/... link and the card automatically switches to a vertical 9:16 frame so the short plays at its native portrait aspect — no letterboxing. Great for quick recipe clips, before/after reveals, or any short-form content you've already filmed for Shorts.

Some details that may matter:

• Cards with a horizontal video are forced to 16:9 aspect ratio. YouTube videos are 16:9 native; squeezing them into Compact / Vertical / Tall heights would letterbox awkwardly. The Card Height setting still applies to image cards in the same group. (Shorts get 9:16 instead, automatically.)
• The Desktop Image field becomes optional when a video URL is set. Upload one only if you want a custom poster — skipping it uses YouTube's high-quality thumbnail automatically.
• Privacy-friendly: WhatsMenu uses YouTube's nocookie domain, so YouTube tracking cookies aren't dropped on your visitors' browsers until they actually press play. No extra setup on your side.
• Stacked and Beside card styles work best for video. Overlay style still works, but text overlays on a playing video can feel cluttered — try Stacked first.
• For "click anywhere on the card to do something": if you want a video card that also sends visitors to a URL, fill both the Button Text and Button URL fields. The button stays as a separate element; clicking the video plays it; clicking the button navigates.

Not yet supported (let us know if you need any of these): Vimeo, TikTok, Instagram videos. We'll add them based on demand.

Meet PromoCards: static banner cards that sit in fixed spots around your storefront. Unlike Carousels, which rotate, all your cards are visible at once — ideal for showing multiple promotions, category shortcuts, trust badges, or feature blocks side by side.

Four places cards can live:

• Page Top — Below the hero/cover at the top of your storefront.
• Category Top — Between a category's title and its items (per category you pick).
• Category Bottom — Under a specific category's items.
• Page Bottom — Above the footer at the bottom of the page.

Eight grid layouts: 1 full-width, 2 equal, 1/3+2/3, 2/3+1/3, 3, 4, 5, or 6 columns. Each layout shows a small visual preview in the picker so you can see what you'll get.

Three card styles:

• Stacked — image on top, text below (good for product-style cards)
• Overlay — text sits on the image (good for visual heroes)
• Beside — image on the left, text on the right (good for text-heavy cards)

Three card heights (Compact 2:1, Normal 16:9, Tall 3:2) and a Mobile Columns override so you can force a specific column count on phones — for example, keep a 4-col layout at 2 columns on mobile.

Other goodies:

• Leave button text blank and only fill the URL to make the whole card clickable.
• Schedule a group with start/end dates for time-limited promos.
• Show/hide based on business hours.
• Drag-to-reorder groups and cards.
• Multiple groups can share the same slot — they stack in the order you set.

Enable it in Settings → Apps → PromoCards. Once on, a PromoCards entry appears in your sidebar. Works on Spreader and the default template.

Wondering whether a kitchen ticket actually printed in the middle of a rush? Every order now carries its own print history.

Open any order detail page and look for the Print history card. Each row shows the status (Printed / Failed), which printer it targeted, what triggered the print (auto-on-received, auto-on-accepted, manual, bulk, plus the staff member when relevant), and when it happened. Failed attempts show the error on hover, so you can tell apart "printer was offline" from "template had a problem."

Every kind of print is tracked — PrintNode auto-prints, manual prints from the order page, and bulk prints from the order list. The card keeps the 10 most recent attempts per order; the full log retains 90 days of activity and gets auto-purged beyond that.

The order success page used to push customers straight into WhatsApp. That's still the default and the loudest button, but customers now get a dropdown to share their order summary by Email or copy it to the clipboard instead.

Useful for B2B customers who don't use WhatsApp, services and trades that confirm by email, or anyone who'd rather paste the details into another channel.

The QR code adapts to whichever channel they pick. Toggle the share button on or off under your company's after-order settings.

Three new coupon controls landed in this release. Mix and match with your existing fixed-amount and percentage coupons.

• Free shipping coupons — waive the delivery fee instead of discounting the cart. Useful for "free delivery this week" campaigns or rewarding loyal customers.
• First order only — restrict a coupon to customers who have never placed an order with you. Standard new-customer welcome offer, now built in.
• Time-of-day and day-of-week limits — run a coupon only on certain hours (e.g. lunch 11:00–14:00, late-night specials 22:00–06:00) or only on chosen days (Mondays, weekends, etc.). Overnight ranges work too.

All controls are optional — leave them off and existing coupons behave exactly as before. Set them up under your coupon's edit page.