Here's what shipped to Tabwright. The latest day is open below; tap an earlier date to expand it.
A reliability safeguard for your terminals – build 926
A corrupted check can’t freeze a terminal
On the rare occasion a check’s data gets scrambled — a sync hiccup, or a check left open across an outage — the register used to try to draw it and could slow or lock up that till. Now it spots a check with far more lines than any real order could have, sets it aside with a clear “this check looks corrupted” notice and a one‑tap Void, and keeps the terminal running. Your good checks are untouched.
The weekly schedule rebuilt β House Shifts, Copy week, Print by job or department, and text staff a private link to their own schedule. Plus floor plans get their own screen and an important safety fix for your menu – builds 863–871
The weekly schedule, rebuilt
The Schedules tab now shows the week you’re working on. Staff are grouped into coloured bands by job, each with their hours and labor cost; totals run along the bottom. Flick to any week and a badge tells you if it’s published. Filter by job (Server, or Barback + Host + Server Assistant together) and by department. Overtime past 40 hours turns red — allowed, but impossible to miss.
π House Shifts β a shift with nobody on it
Someone calls out? Tap the shift β Move to House Shifts. It lifts to the top of the week where you can’t miss it, belongs to nobody (so nobody can clock in against it), and still counts toward the hours the week needs. Tap it to assign someone — only people who hold that job, are available, and aren’t already working then, least-loaded first. And tapping a shift no longer deletes it.
β§ Copy week Β· π¨ Print what you’re looking at
Clone last week into next week (Replace or add to it — blocked if it would double-book anyone; departed staff skipped). And Print prints exactly what you filtered: Back of House for the kitchen, Servers for the floor, or Barback + Host + Server Assistant on one sheet.
Text staff their schedule β no app to download
Employees β pick a person β π Text schedule link. They get a private link to their own schedule on any phone — no app, no password, no account. They see only their own shifts and hours, never anyone’s pay or phone number. Lost their phone? Tap βΊ and every link ever sent to them stops working immediately.
Your real menu can never be overwritten by the demo menu
An important safety fix. Tabwright’s built-in demo menu could, in rare cases (a restored backup, or a store syncing between devices), be added on top of a real menu — leaving demo dishes mixed in with yours. It now only ever fills a completely empty menu and never touches a store that already has items.
Floor Plans have their own screen
Find them under Areas → πͺ Floor Plans, alongside the rest of your physical setup. And if you have several — Restaurant, Bar, Patio — tapping each one on the register now actually opens it (anything but the first used to snap you back to the first).
Copy a restaurant without its table layout
Opening a second location? Duplicate a restaurant (or download it as a template) and you’ll be asked whether to include the floor plan — left out by default. Take the menu, settings and staff; draw the new building’s own table map.
Each Area picks the screen it opens on
Every Area now has a Default Landing — a floor plan, Tabs, a fresh check, or Reservations. One obvious place, instead of buried per job.
A cleaner import from your old POS
Internal marker rows like “**ADD ON**” are now skipped. Your toppings and add-ons come across as real products, hidden from order screens, ready to drop into a modifier group. And the four counts on the preview are now clickable filters.
Move your whole menu, staff & customers over from another POS in minutes, build next week’s schedule from a template, plus inventory & discount fixes – builds 852–862
Bring your whole restaurant over from another POS
New under System Settings → Database Import. Move your whole menu, your staff (jobs & pay rates) and your customer list over from your old POS in minutes. Tabwright auto-creates your modifier groups, printer/report groups and taxes as it goes. There’s also a “Clear this store for a fresh import” button that backs everything up first, so you can start clean without losing anything.
Make next week’s schedule from a template
New under Schedules → π Make the Schedule. Pick a week, choose Front- or Back-of-House, and drop your available staff into each shift. It only shows people with the right job, blocks double-booking, and warns you in red at 40+ hours (overtime).
Inventory fixes
New items no longer wrongly show “Out of Stock”, new categories stay visible instead of disappearing, and a new item now lands in the category you’re viewing.
Per-item discounts are now manager-only
The per-item “% off” now needs a manager, so staff can’t discount a single line on their own.
Import your whole menu from a spreadsheet, plus a fix so “Repeat” can’t run away with a check – builds 830–831
Import a menu from a spreadsheet
New under Menu → β¬ Import Items. Download the template, fill it in (name, category, price, station, modifiers & more), then paste or upload it. Tabwright checks every row against your current menu, brings in only the new items, skips anything already there so you never get duplicates, and gives you a report of what came in, what was skipped, and anything that couldn’t import. New categories are created for you, and modifier groups attach by name.
“Repeat” can’t run away with a check
The Repeat button that duplicates the selected items is now capped, so it can’t accidentally stack the same item onto one check thousands of times — totals stay accurate and tills stay quick.
A big kitchen-display upgrade, delete-a-category & a new Categories tree, an always-on keyboard option, a redesigned gift-card page, and dashboard filters & archiving – builds 781–792
Prioritize a ticket — on every kitchen screen
Tap a ticket on the KDS to Prioritize it — it changes colour and floats to the top, and now that priority shows on every kitchen screen, not just the one you touched. The chef can also press and drag tickets to reorder the board.
Choose what's on the ticket header, add or start new
Under Printers/KDS → Remote Check Formats you can now pick exactly what shows on the top of each kitchen ticket, laid out over two rows so the timer never gets squeezed off. And a setting lets a new round of food either add onto the existing ticket or start a fresh one. On long orders, the Prioritize/Bump buttons no longer get cut off.
Delete a category & a new Categories tree
You can now delete a category (it offers to move its items somewhere first). And Menu → π Categories shows your whole menu as a tree — Super Group → Report Group → Category — so it's easy to see how everything's organised and tap in to edit.
Always-on on-screen keyboard
A new option to always show the on-screen keyboard on a given device — handy for Windows tills or remote sessions where a keyboard doesn't pop up on its own.
A redesigned gift-card page, with a QR on the email
The online Buy a Gift Card page got a fresh branded look, and the emailed card now carries a QR code for the recipient. You can also resend or fix the email on a card that's already been bought, and share a store's gift link by store number (e.g. /gift/20).
Dashboard filters, store numbers & archiving
The multi-store dashboard gained a filter bar, a store number per row, sibling stores tucked under their parent, the ability to archive stores you're not using (fully reversible), and a custom start/end date range.
Run a whole group of restaurants from one screen — a multi-store dashboard, staff logins you control, a one-QR guest hub, and a customer display that stands on its own – builds 762–773
One dashboard for every store
A new group dashboard shows all your stores on one screen — one row each for Net Sales, Labor $, Labor %, Guests, Checks and Avg Check — with a Totals and Averages line across the whole group. The store name stays put as you scroll the numbers left and right, and you can tap any store to drill into its day. There's a dark / light switch too.
Sign in and see only your stores
Open app.tabwright.com/dashboard.html, sign in with the email and password your admin set, and you see just the stores you've been given — rolled up to a group total. An area manager sees their region; an owner sees the whole group.
Staff logins you control (Users & Access)
From the Cloud Office you can now create a login for a manager or owner — set their username and password, pick a role, and grant which stores they can see. They sign into the app and dashboard with those credentials. No more sharing one password.
Duplicate a restaurant to open the next one
Opening a sister store? β§ Duplicate restaurant in the Cloud Office clones an existing store — its menu and settings — into a brand-new one, so a chain can stamp out matching locations in seconds instead of rebuilding each one by hand.
One QR for guests: book, join the waitlist, or earn rewards
A new Guest hub lives at app.tabwright.com/guest/<your store> — one scannable code that lets a guest Book a Table, Join the Waitlist, or open Rewards. There's also a fast, standalone waitlist self-join page (it fixes a phone-keyboard snag on the old sign-up). Grab the link and printable QR in Back Office → Reservations settings.
A customer display that runs on its own
Set a spare tablet's type to the new "Customer Display" and pick the register it mirrors — it now boots straight to the rear customer screen, with no sign-in and no chooser. You can also pair a second registered device as a terminal's rear display from Areas → Stations.
Cash totals on the rear display & a Restart button
If you round cash, the rear display now shows the "If paying cash" total on the order mirror and the amount collected on the Thank-you screen. And a new π Restart button in Manager Functions lets staff reboot a stuck terminal themselves.
Small touches
The item editor has a Save & New shortcut — F1 on Windows, β + Return on Mac (the button shows the hint) — for fast menu entry. And a terminal now reliably opens as the type it's set to (a full register stays full), even on older app installs.
Your Tabwright iPhone app on TestFlight, cash rounding to the nearest coin, dashboard upgrades & a run of handheld fixes – builds 744–751
Your Tabwright iPhone app
Tabwright now has its own iPhone app, on TestFlight. It opens to a simple choice — Ordering or Manager Dashboard — and loads the live app, so it always stays up to date automatically without a trip to the App Store.
Cash rounding for the penny phase-out
Round the final cash total to the nearest nickel, dime or quarter — ready for the penny phase-out. Turn it on under Card/Cash Pricing. Card payments still charge the exact amount; the guest check shows an “If paying cash” line, and the receipt and Checkout report reconcile the rounding.
Dashboard upgrades
Tap Net Sales to drill into Sales by Category. Reservations now shows on the phone dashboard, and you can arrange your dashboard cards — reorder and show/hide them — in Back Office → General. Reservations is now a clear day view.
Fixes & polish
The native phone keyboard now opens for mobile sign-in, split checks display correctly on the handheld again, the desktop split concertina toggles cleanly, and you can now close an empty / $0 check from the handheld.
Online promo codes, cash-on-pickup & tips for online orders, a bright new kitchen display, and two new reports plus richer filters – builds 721–737
Promo codes for online orders
Create %-off or $-off promo codes for your online store, with an optional minimum spend to unlock them. Guests type the code at checkout and see the discount applied before they pay.
Cash on pickup for online orders
Let guests pay cash when they collect instead of paying by card online. Turn it on in your Online Ordering settings and checkout offers a pay-cash-at-pickup choice.
Tips on online orders
Decide who keeps the tips from online orders — give them to one person, split among a chosen team, or split across everyone on the clock at the time of the order.
A brand-new kitchen-display look
The kitchen display got a big makeover: each order type gets its own colour so staff spot it from across the room, a ticket turns RED when it’s running late (with a green ON TIME tag while it’s on track), and the server’s name shows right on the ticket. There’s a new light theme with a one-tap toggle, and it’s much faster — orders now appear in a couple of seconds instead of up to 30.
KDS Setup page
A new KDS Setup page lets you pick the ticket colour for each order type, with a live preview so you can see exactly how it will look on the kitchen screen.
Two new reports
Hourly Sales shows your busy times of day so you can staff to match, and Tender / Media breaks down every payment by type — card type, cash or gift — with a filter to focus on one.
More powerful Checkout Report & tips on payroll
Managers can now run the Checkout Report for any server, shift, date range, or the whole restaurant. And Payroll and Attendance now show tips — Tipped Sales, Charge Tips, Tip Pool and Gratuity.
Receipts, floor plan & iPhone touches
Gratuity now shows on receipts, a wrong-table press-and-hold on Send & Stay takes you back to the floor plan, and you can now take tableside orders on an iPhone.
Card payments, tips & cash-on-pickup for online ordering, a kitchen display that now shows online orders and has a bright new look, Start-a-Tab-with-a-Card & matching receipts – builds 671–720
Online orders now show on the kitchen display
Accepted online orders now appear on the KDS, not just the printer — each as a π order ticket with the guest’s name, the cook-time timer, allergens and mods, routed to the right station tabs. It pops up when you accept it and clears when it’s ready.
A bright new kitchen-display look
The KDS now has a bright, high-contrast theme with bold colored status bands — easier to read across a busy kitchen. Tap π / βοΈ in the corner to switch between the light and dark screen; each display remembers its choice.
Cash on pickup for online orders
Let guests pay in cash at pickup instead of by card — turn it on in Back Office → Online Ordering → Payment. Checkout then offers a Pay by card / Cash at pickup choice, and cash orders land in your queue with a π΅ cash at pickup badge.
Pay by card & tip when ordering online
Guests can now pay by card at online checkout — card entry is on the processor’s own secure form (Datacap), so card details never touch our servers — and they can add a tip (15% / 18% / 20% / Custom), which flows into your sales & tip reports.
A major kitchen-display upgrade
The KDS got a big redesign: colored status bands (green ON TIME → red LATE), station tabs across the top (Expo + each prep station with a live count), an all-day roll-up of item quantities for prep, a bump bar along the bottom (navigate / bump / recall), and a target-vs-actual timer. Every screen now always shows which station it is, and Bump all clears the board in one tap. Each menu item can carry a prep time that powers those timers.
Filter the online order queue
Filter incoming orders by status (Active / In progress / Complete) and by date (defaults to today), with the newest on top.
Start a Tab with a Card
Now working on the terminals — dip the card to open the tab (the cardholder’s name becomes the tab name when the card provides it), and the full amount is charged to that card at close.
Receipts that match everywhere
Your restaurant’s real name, address, tax rate and rewards link now show consistently across the on-screen, texted and emailed receipts. And the Check Viewer shows the day’s closed checks from every station, not just the one you’re on.
Behind the scenes
Fixed a time-clock glitch that could make staff clock in repeatedly; clock-ins now stick and sync across stations. Plus a “for the table” option when ringing shared items by seat.
A reservations calendar, a rebuilt Tabs screen with bartender sharing, clearer split checks & a big PAX terminal display fix – builds 653–670
Reservations, everywhere
A new π month Calendar shows the reservations coming up — every day tile shows the reservation count and head count at a glance; tap a day to open it. Reservations now also appear on the handheld (More → π
Reservations) and as a card on the mobile dashboard (tap it for the upcoming list).
Tabs, rebuilt for a busy bar
Filter/search open tabs by name or number; a bold new ＋ Start Tab flow (name the tab and pick the server who owns it, with “Start Tab with Card” on the way); and bartender tab-sharing — pick the other bartenders on the clock and you can all see and work each other’s tabs, while whoever opened a check still owns the money at close.
Split checks that read clearly
On Tabs and the Check Viewer, a check’s splits fold into one card you tap to fan open — and each split’s items are tagged 1/2/3 all the way onto the register and the printed receipt.
Handheld touches
Tap any line on the order to change its options, course or seat; and pinch-to-zoom the floor plan.
Reliability on PAX terminals
Fixed screen rendering on PAX card terminals (an older-browser CSS issue) so the lock screen and every overlay always display correctly.
A hard cap on card sales, a manager-only audit log, floor-plan shape fixes, permanent menu IDs & per-item online controls – builds 609–610
Max Sale Amount — a hard cap on card sales
Credit Card Settings has a new Max Sale Amount. If a check is over it, card tender is blocked — “Sale amount exceeds the maximum allowed card transaction” — with no manager override. Leave it 0/blank to switch off.
BOH Log — a manager-only audit trail
Reports now has a BOH Log, managers/office only. It shows back-of-house activity — timekeeping, staff edits, manager approvals — newest first (Time · Terminal · Employee · Event · Detail). Regular staff see only register activity; the BOH side is hidden from them.
Floor plan: diamonds & connected tables
Setting a shape to Diamond now shows a real diamond right in the editor (it used to look like a square), and the shape list is tidied to Rectangle · Diamond · Round. A connected secondary table now shows muted/greyed — claimed, but clearly not the primary check.
Permanent menu-item IDs & faster category editing
Every menu item now has a read-only Internal ID (Edit Menu Item → Other Options) that never changes, even if you rename it — integrations use it to identify items reliably. And the Edit Category popup now has a search box to filter the modifier-group list live.
Turn items & modifier groups on/off for online
Menu items and modifier groups now have Available Online / Available for QR Ordering toggles (default on). Turn Available Online off and the item drops off the online menu. (QR is ready for when self-order ordering is added.)
“Station” is now “Terminal” everywhere
Finished the rename across every screen, dialog, report column and status message.
A redesigned reservations list, multi-store groups with a shared menu & regional pricing, and FOH/BOH audit logging – builds 577–584
Reservations list, redesigned into columns
Every booking is now one structured row with a clear header: Time Β· Guest Β· Pax Β· Phone Β· Table Β· Loyalty Β· actions. A new Loyalty column shows β
Member for a known/loyalty customer or Guest. Allergy and notes sit under the guest name, and the seated timer under the time. Works in both the single-day and All upcoming views.
Cloud Office: Group β Region β Site
The tree now reads as Group β Region β Site. A top node shows π’ the group with a rolled-up location count; nested nodes show π the region. Open βΈ drills into a group (with a breadcrumb to climb back), and οΌ region opens the group/dealers manager.
Multi-store groups: one menu, regional prices
A new π’ Groups tab (next to Tree and Tiles) shows the real chain: distributor β dealer β corporate (HQ) β stores. Open a corporate and tap Manage menu & prices to see its shared menu (every store inherits it), grouped by category. Edit a master price or tap 86 to apply to every store, and use the region selector to set a price that differs for one region (blank inherits the base). Saved to the cloud, no setup needed.
Audit logging (FOH / BOH)
The activity log now tags every event FOH (register) or BOH (back-office, config, database, timekeeping). Manager approvals record the approving manager's name, and the BOH side captures timecard, employee/job, menu-item, terminal/area, revenue-center and settings changes. The Activity Log viewer (Back Office β Reports β Activity Log) has a new Register / Config-BOH toggle, each stream with its own filters and CSV export.
Marketing site: working nav & demo videos
Real navigation on /history and /whats-new (β Home / Features / cross-links and a clickable logo), two embedded demo videos on /features (Point-of-sale and Reservations), and a cache fix so the videos play.
Reservations that seat onto a table, smarter modifiers, a colour-coded KDS & the online-ordering redesign — builds 540–575
Reservations seat straight onto a table
From the day’s book, Seat drops the party onto a table and opens that check — big parties across combined tables in one step. Smart seating suggests the best-fitting tables and paces seatings so the kitchen isn’t slammed. A dedicated Reservations setup page holds the rules (turn times, hours, accept-online, slot, max party).
Floor plan: long-press a table
Press and hold a table to Combine, Move or Transfer a check (Transfer needs manager approval). Plus on-table info toggles and a new diamond table shape.
Smarter modifiers
Modifiers default to the Mod price and the order line reads the kitchen’s way — No / Add / Extra / Sub wording, colour-coded, with a tap-to-override live pill. An item’s Built-with components are now an orderable row in the Modifier Groups list.
Allergen alerts & a colour-coded KDS
Allergens stand out on the chit and the Kitchen Display. KDS headers are coloured by order type and show the station number; the Expo screen now shows all stations; bumping a ticket can text the customer “order ready.” Online-order chits print a clear guest header, and managers can get text alerts.
Online ordering, redesigned
A menu-first flow — browse and build first, enter details at checkout, and the loyalty ask rides along in the order-accepted text. Fewer hurdles, more completed orders.
Now “Tabwright POS” everywhere
The last of the old FTR branding on customer-facing screens is gone — one consistent name across the app, receipts and public pages.
Online ordering, your own restaurant website, & more — builds 516–530
Online ordering for pickup (early)
Customers order at app.tabwright.com/order — enter cell (returning guests greeted by name + Repeat order), pick items & modifiers, pay by card (test mode until Datacap). Orders land in a 🍴 Online queue in the register with an alert & chime; Accept fires to the kitchen, Mark ready, or Reject. Manager ⚡ Auto-fire + a live wait-time quote (base prep + kitchen load, with a “+10 busy” bump). Customers get “accepted & being prepared” and “ready for pickup” texts.
Your own restaurant website
Every restaurant gets a clean public homepage at app.tabwright.com/r — logo, address, phone, menu preview, and Order Online buttons, all from your existing menu.
Customers & tools
Customer list now shows an Online column and recognizes returning guests by phone. Quick Set can bulk-set item options (Follow Item, Available Online…) and Quick Edit has a Print Group column. Demo Mode is now light orange. Fixed: the Modifier Groups Save button on small screens.
Reservations, online booking, table detect & credit/gift settings — builds 516–539
Reservations build 539
A new 📅 Reservations tab: book by date, time and party size and it auto-assigns the smallest table that fits, using turn times (2-top 90 min, 4-top 120, 6-top 180) so you never double-book. Seat, no-show or cancel from the day’s book, and the guest gets a confirmation text.
Online booking page — app.tabwright.com/book
Turn on “Accept online reservations,” set your hours, and share the booking link. Guests pick from genuinely-available times and book themselves — it drops straight into your reservation book with a 🌐 online badge and texts them a confirmation.
Online ordering with photos & descriptions
Two one-tap buttons in Inventory — 📷 Stock Photos and ✍️ Descriptions — fill in a photo and a short blurb for every online item, or set them yourself per item. The ordering page now looks like a real menu on phone and desktop.
Floor plan: Detect Tables
Import your floor-plan image, tap 🔍 Detect Tables, and your whole dining room drops in (tables, bar, labels) ready to drag and fine-tune. Tables joined on one check show a dashed highlight.
Credit / Gift settings
Back Office → Miscellaneous → Credit/Gift is now a real home for card-processor / pin-pad setup and gift-card options (Local, Cloud or GiftiPay). Card processing goes live with the native app.
Pay screen: remove gratuity, unvoid, remove a discount build 537
Waive an auto-gratuity (and put it back), restore an item you voided by mistake, or take a single item’s discount back off — right from the check.
Demo Mode, menu drill-down, steering modifiers & automatic updates — builds 484–515
Demo Mode — for showrooms & sales demos build 515
Back Office → Misc → General → 🎬 Demo Mode tints the whole system purple with a “DEMO MODE” banner so nobody mistakes it for a live till, and turns every printer (kitchen chits, receipts, reports) into an on-screen print preview — double-tap to dismiss. Turn it off for a real restaurant.
Smarter menu screens with drill-down builds 500–503
Big bar menus no longer dump everything onto one screen. A screen can show category tiles first (Liquor, Wine by Glass/Bottle, Cocktails by section) — tap a category to see its bottles, tap the screen button again to reset. Each screen now shows only what belongs on it.
Steering & extra-printer modifiers builds 496–497, 499
A modifier can now send its item to another prep station too — add “chicken” to a salad and the line also fires to the grill; or give a modifier an Additional Print Group to route it to extra printers/KDS. A 🍸 Bar mixers button builds a forced “Mixers” group (& Coke, & Cran…) for spirits in one tap, and Quick Set can now add/remove modifier groups in bulk.
Modifier quick-options editor & clock-in fixes builds 505–506, 514
Restored the inline option list in the modifier editor, made clock-in stick reliably across terminals, and added a “☁︎ synced” badge that shows when the till last talked to the cloud.
Automatic updates behind the scenes
Tabwright now publishes itself automatically — new versions reach every terminal without anyone dragging files around.
A Kitchen Display, a phone dashboard, a live station list, courses & handheld polish — builds 462–483
Kitchen Display System (KDS) builds 480–481
Turn any tablet into a kitchen screen. Set a station’s type to KDS, pick which prep stations it shows (or leave blank for an Expo screen), set when tickets turn amber/red, and send the link — no sign-in. Fired orders appear instantly with live timers; tap Bump to clear a ticket, Recall to undo. New rounds reappear on their own.
Live dashboard on your phone — no sign-in builds 467–479
Text or email yourself a link, then Add to Home Screen to use it like an app. Tap any card — Open Checks, Discounts & Voids, On-the-clock, Labor — for a full-screen detail. Sales now include checks that are rung but not yet closed, so the numbers match the floor.
Live station list build 474
Areas → Stations shows which stations are online right now, a live count, and when each was last seen — so you always pick a free number for a new device.
Courses with shortcut codes builds 464–465
Name your courses under Misc → General → Courses and give each a short code (C1, C2…) for the buttons and order line, while the full name still prints on the chit and check.
Handheld stays handheld + Tables view builds 462–463
A device set to Mobile now stays in handheld mode every launch. Each job can pick its Tables view: a pannable floor plan with a mini-map, or a simple tiles grid.
Screen builder: copy, paste & space evenly build 466
Copy buttons and paste them — even onto another screen — and select several to distribute them with equal spacing.
Phone & handheld ordering, fire-after-payment, and screen organization β builds 442β453
Order on a phone builds 451β452
On a phone the order panel tucks away so the menu fills the screen β a “View order” bar at the bottom shows the live count and total and slides the cart up when you need it. The whole menu now scrolls as one, so the command and category bars get out of the way and the items get the room.
Send to the kitchen only after payment build 444
A new per-job choice (Back Office → Jobs → Send items to kitchen). Servers keep firing food on Send; a cashier/counter job can hold the order and fire it only once the sale is fully paid — so a declined card never sends food.
Smoother customer lookup builds 442 Β· 443 Β· 445
The phone number field shows just the number pad (no double keyboard), the Look up / Attach buttons are big and easy to tap, and points are pulled fresh from the cloud the moment you look a customer up.
Organize your screens under headings build 448
Give each screen a group (Food, Liquor, Coffee…) and the Screens list groups them under those headings, which you can reorder — just like organizing canvases by category.
Build screens faster build 446
The screen builder’s item picker now has a search box and an “Add entire category” option that drops a whole category onto the canvas at once.
Cloud Office on a phone build 450
Assigning a terminal from a phone now works: the picker goes full-screen, restaurants stack in a scrollable list, and the “Assign to this terminal” button is full-width.
Modifier Groups moved to Menu, and a per-topic manual builds 447 Β· 453
Modifier Groups now lives under Back Office → Menu. And in the manual, tapping a topic opens that section on its own page instead of scrolling the whole document.
Delivery, dispatch, day-over-day reporting
π Delivery orders, start to finish
Pick the Delivery order type and a window opens: type the customer’s cell number, tap Find, and their name and full address fill themselves in. Quote fee works out the delivery charge from the zones you drew — and if it can’t, you just type the fee. An order is never held up by a map lookup.
π A Dispatch screen
See every delivery in one place: time, status, total, address, customer and driver. Highlight an order and a driver, then Assign. Return marks a driver back from their run. Map and Directions open straight into Google Maps. The Dispatch button carries a badge showing how many orders are still waiting to go out.
Customers now have addresses
Street, apartment, city, state and zip, saved against the customer. Take a repeat delivery order and it fills in from the last one. You can search customers by address or city too.
π Compare one day against another
Reports → Sales Comparison. Pick a day, then compare it to the same weekday last week, four weeks ago, or last year — each option shows you the exact date it means. You get every category with the change in dollars, the change as a percentage, and the shift in its share of the check. Sales can rise while a category quietly falls away.
Servers only see what they need
Reservations, Dispatch and Online can now be switched off per job. Untick them on the Server or Bartender job and those buttons disappear. A hostess who can’t ring orders sees exactly the Floor, Reservations and Dispatch.
Two billing fixes worth knowing about
When a manager removed an auto-gratuity, the check showed the lower total but the card was still charged the gratuity. Fixed. And an order rung after 8pm was being filed under tomorrow’s date — which also reset check numbers in the middle of dinner service. Both corrected.
Menu Item Filters + smart discounts builds 386–388
Build reusable filters (category, printer group, report group, course, meal stage, status, variable price…), then Find & bulk-edit matching items with Quick Set. Discounts can now target a filter to auto-apply to qualifying items — including Buy/Get (BOGO) promos with a buy requirement and a get target.
Name your courses build 385
Order Entry → Courses lets you name each course (e.g. Course 1 = “Straight Fire”). The names flow onto the kitchen tickets and the course buttons.
Print Log in the Cloud Office build 389
Every station’s print attempts now sync to the Cloud Office — view any restaurant’s print log remotely (next to the Heartbeat and Activity log) to diagnose a printer without being on-site.
Staff cards for the blackboard build 389
One tap in Order Entry → Blackboards adds front-of-house how-to cards (start a check, send to kitchen, split, comp vs void, take a payment) to the rotating lock-screen carousel.
Kitchen tickets fire on every send — and print on impact printers builds 375–381
Sending an order now prints a kitchen chit on every path (Send & Stay, Send & Quit), routed by Printer Group. Plus full support for older Epson impact printers (TM-U220) over Raw 9100, with the correct cut command so each ticket cuts and ejects on its own.
Remote Check Formats — design your kitchen ticket builds 378–383
A classic editor (Back Office → Printers → Remote Check Formats): build the header from an 8-line, two-column attribute grid, separate by course or seat, consolidate identical items, and print modifiers and course headers in red — all with a live preview, per Printer Group.
Print Log for instant printer troubleshooting builds 372–373
Back Office → Printers → Print log shows every print attempt and the printer’s exact response, so a jammed or mis-set printer is obvious at a glance.
Quick Set — bulk-edit menu items build 371
Select a batch of items (say, all Appetizers) and set their Printer Group, Report Group, price, taxes and more in one action — with Undo.
Printer Assignments tab in Areas build 368
Back Office → Areas now has a Printer Assignments tab (classic): pick the area, then route each Printer Group (Hot Food, Bar, Expo…) to its printer. Tick more than one to split a busy line across two kitchen printers so neither backs up.
Rewards QR on the printed guest check build 369
With “Print a Join-Rewards QR” on for an area, the printed guest check now carries the scannable code too — not just the customer receipt.
“Canvases” are now “Screens” — under Menu builds 366–367
Plainer language across the whole product, and Screens moved into the Menu section where they belong.
Standard report groups + super-group menu rail builds 355–363
Every database now gets the standard reporting hierarchy (Food / Liquor / Wine / Beer / N-A Bev, broken into Appetizers, Entrees, Vodka, Gin…). And a per-job super-group rail declutters big menus — tap Food or Bar to reveal its screens, perfect on handhelds.
Tabbed Areas editor + safeguards builds 361–365
The Areas editor is now tabbed (General · Floor & Display · Guests & Gratuity · Guest Check & Loyalty · Taxes · Printer Assignments). Plus: only Station 1 can close the day, the dashboard shows the business date vs today, and you can delete a restaurant from the Cloud Office.
Printing, hardware auto-detect & menu building β builds 330β348
Receipts & checks print for real build 338
Each station prints guest checks and customer receipts to its own assigned printer through the Hub (Back Office β Stations). Dual-pricing checks print Cash & Credit columns.
Loyalty QR on the receipt build 343
Turn on "Print a Join-Rewards QR" per area and the receipt prints a scannable code so guests join rewards in one tap. The Hub now prints QR codes natively.
Find printers automatically builds 335 Β· 343
Back Office β Printers β π Scan network finds your ethernet printers and adds them in one tap. A live status chip shows whether the printing helper is running, with a one-click installer if it isn't.
Customer display just works builds 333 Β· 334
Plug in a rear screen and the register detects it automatically β the tip-at-sale screen routes there with no setting to tick. On a desktop, one tap opens it full-screen on the second monitor.
Stations, tidied up build 332
One clean list with a live status dot per station, default "Station N" names, a π§Ή Tidy button, and number recycling β tills idle 2+ weeks free up their number, and a new till auto-claims the next free one.
Faster menu building builds 344β347
A "Save & New" button for rattling off similar items, Copy clears just the names, multi-select + bulk delete in Inventory, and new items default to Unlimited stock (no more accidental 86).
Choose what prints on the check build 342
Per area, show or hide the store header and server/table/guests, and add a custom footer line on the printed guest check.
Clearer 86, login rules & polish builds 347 Β· 348
Sold-out items show a bold no-ghost badge; "Login Multiple Stations" now blocks a second login for every job (managers included); plus a brighter Edit Tips screen, clearer borders, a boxed numpad, and a scrollable Screen editor.
Cloud Office & cashier stage banner β builds 313β314
Cloud Office: full-page, super-admins & βcreated byβ build 313
The Cloud Office opens full-screen now, super-admins can see every restaurant across all accounts, and each site shows who created it β so you can find and help with sites other people built.
Cashier sees the guestβs payment stage build 314
During a card payment the register shows a banner β βCustomer is choosing a tipβ¦β, βinserting their cardβ¦β, βPayment completeβ β so the cashier always knows where the guest is on the rear display.
Payments, rear display & a searchable manual β builds 311β312
Tap-to-pay card brands on the rear display build 311
On the "Please insert your credit card" screen, the Visa / Mastercard / Amex / Discover images are now tappable β tapping one simulates inserting the card, closes the sale (with the guest's tip), and both screens roll to Thank you. Handy for running the whole flow while testing.
The rear display updates itself build 312
The customer display now reloads itself when a new build ships β just like the registers do, and only while it's idle β so the rear screen never runs a stale page again. (One last manual refresh gets you onto this version.)
Searchable manual + screen illustrations build 312
The manual is now a searchable page β type to filter the sections and highlight matches β with clean illustrations of the lock screen, register, payment, and customer display. At app.tabwright.com/manual.html.
Customer display β branding + payment flow β build 309
Logo branding + insert-card flow build 309
Rear screen shows the Tabwright logo full-screen when idle, and beside the order while ringing (carousel ready for real images). After the guest enters a tip it advances to a "Please insert your credit card" screen with the charge (incl. tip) and Visa/Mastercard/Amex card art β placeholder until card processing is wired.
Customer display β now live & offline-ready β builds 303β308
Works on a separate rear screen, fully offline builds 303 Β· 305
The customer display now stays in sync whether the rear screen is the same device or a separate one (e.g. a Sunmi second screen), and works with no internet over the local network β same-device channel, local LAN hub, and cloud fallback, picking whatever's available.
Easy setup β per station, with a copy-paste URL builds 304 Β· 306
Areas β Stations β Customer Display: tick "has a rear display," pick the device/make for tailored setup steps, set a notice line ("$5 min on credit"), and copy the ready-made display URL for that station. Also on Functions β Customer Display.
Stations setup fixes + live fix builds 307 Β· 308
The Stations panel scrolls now (Save always reachable), checked-in stations auto-appear in the list, and a bug where the display stayed on the welcome screen mid-order is fixed β it mirrors the order in real time.
Customer-facing display β build 302
Rear-screen customer display (Square-style) build 302
As the cashier rings, the guest sees the order build live on the rear screen, with a tip prompt at payment and a Thank-you + points screen after. They can tap Join Rewards right on the display. Launch from Functions β Customer Display (set the rear screen to extend, not mirror).
Fix: Card β Run Card build 302
Tapping Card β Complete Sale now opens the Run Card brand picker in front instead of behind the Take Payment box.
Advantage Program (CC surcharge) β build 301
ADV PROG handled the standard way build 301
With the card surcharge on, the checkout inflates the card amount, shows an ADV PROG line, and adds it once into Total Accountable (Total Sales shown without it). Fixed a double-count; verified penny-for-penny vs the reference reports in both tip modes.
Checkout report matched to an industry-standard layout β build 300
Checkout report rebuilt to an industry-standard layout build 300
Verified against reference reports β Net Cash matches to the penny in both Retain and Pay Out modes. Adds the Retained Tips/Grats vs CC Tip Fee + Tips/Grats Paid Out lines into Total Accountable, a CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS subtotal, and a per-card Payment Detail section.
Tip handling on checkout β build 299
Retain Tips vs Pay Out Tips build 299
The Timekeeping βRetain Tipsβ setting now drives the server checkout report. Retain All: card tips go to payroll, server turns in all cash. Pay Out: tips paid in cash at end of shift, cash owed drops. Adds a Tips block (card tips, CC tip fee, net tips) and a Cash to Turn In total.
Server tips & card flow β build 298
Run Card β pick the brand build 298
Card payments open a Run Card screen: choose Visa/Master/Amex/Discover (from your Payments setup), Run Card, check closes. Simulated approval until real processing is wired.
Edit Tips screen build 298
Functions β Edit Tips lists each serverβs card checks that still need a tip. Enter the tip, or type the total the guest wrote and the tip back-calculates. Drops off when entered; View All re-edits; managers can view any server.
Tip Fee % + Tips on the daily report build 298
Each card tender can charge the server a Tip Fee % the house keeps. The Daily Sales Report now shows a Tips section: card tips retained, tip fee, and net to servers.
Loyalty growth tools β build 297
βJoin Rewards?β prompt on new tables build 297
Opening a table pops a quick Join Rewards? prompt β Skip if busy, or Yes β enter the guestβs cell β Tabwright texts the sign-up link. The server is credited for the ask. Toggle in Loyalty settings.
Server Scorecard report build 297
Reports β β Server Scorecard: per server, tables opened vs loyalty invites sent, with an ask-rate %. A fair way to coach the team on growing the list.
Guests: new vs returning build 297
The dashboard Guests tile now splits the day into β¦ new and β© returning (from attached loyalty profiles), so you can see how much of the room you already know.
Owner tools & fixes β builds 294β296
Net vs Gross sales β at a tap build 296
The dashboard's headline sales figure flips between Net (after discounts, before tax) and Gross (including tax), with a β that explains each. It remembers your choice.
Your three sales numbers now match build 296
Dashboard, Check Viewer and the Daily Sales Report now count the day the same way (business day + clean-day start) β so the number agrees everywhere.
Reopen a check β manager-only, same day, logged build 295
Long-press a paid check in the Check Viewer to reopen it. A warning makes clear it deletes the payment and any tip. Manager-only, same business day, and written to the Activity Log.
Start a clean day build 294
Run Close Day a second time for a fresh start β it clears test checks and resets today's dashboard, counts and check numbering to zero, leaving the earlier close untouched.
Payments & tenders setup build 294
A new Payments configuration screen (seeded with the common tenders) β the groundwork for the coming card-processing and tipping system.
The Smart Waitlist β build 291
Live wait estimates
The waitlist now calculates a real wait from your turn times, table occupancy, how long each table's been seated, the meal stage, and who's already in line. The quote auto-fills when you add a guest, and the panel shows a live "suggested wait now" for 2-, 4- and 6-tops.
Smart or Basic, with a setup wizard
First time you open the Waitlist it walks you through setup: a calculated Smart waitlist or a simple Basic list, and your 2-/4-/6-top turn times. All adjustable in Back Office β Settings β Waitlist.
Reads the meal automatically
Menu items now carry a required meal stage, so a table's progress (apps β entrΓ©es β dessert) is read from what's sent to the kitchen and sharpens the estimate. A printed check only counts once a table's already near the end.
Hostess & server control β a new job right
Long-press a table to set its stage, mark it paying, or being cleaned. Grant the "Set Table Meal Stage" right per job in Settings β Jobs β Rights.
QR self-join
Print a QR for the host stand β guests scan it, see the live wait, and add themselves; they're texted when their table's ready, and they land straight on the host's list.
Activity Log β every action, for troubleshooting build 267
Back Office β Reports β Activity Log: a time-stamped journal of logins, clock-ins, items, voids, discounts, sends, payments, combines and Close Day. Filter by day, employee or event type, and Export to CSV. Kept 30 days on the terminal (tell us if you'd want longer) and shared across stations.
Fixed: duplicate access PINs build 267
Two employees could end up with the same PIN. The save now checks first, names the conflicting employee, and blocks the duplicate.
Close Day β choose who clocks out build 264
Running Close Day now asks how to handle timecards: clock out yesterday's staff only (leaves the current crew on the clock β great for a missed or mid-shift close), everyone, or nobody.
Reliable manual Close Day + warnings build 263
The "Run now" button always responds, with an in-app two-step confirmation that shows on installed terminals β and flags any open checks or staff still on the clock before you close.
In-app What's New + cleaner labels build 262
A What's New panel right inside the back office (so every terminal sees what just shipped), plus tidied-up menu labels.
Combine All command build 261
A one-tap way to gather every open check (with items) into a single check β handy for clearing a pile of test tabs and closing them together.
Printing β brand new
The Tabwright Hub + Test Print build 260
A small local "Hub" relays print jobs to the Epson printers over the LAN (works through an internet outage), with a Test Print button on each printer.
Printer setup & routing build 259
New back-office screens: Printer Groups, Printers, and per-area Routing β a standard item-β-group-β-printer model, programmed in the cloud.
Custom order screens
Manual screens build 257
Place item / command / "go-to-screen" buttons anywhere β build your own fast-bar or quick-service layouts, drag-and-drop like the floor plan.
Seven refinements β build 258
City & State fields, screen list scroll + alphabetize, multi-station single-session hardening, long-press tab actions (combine / move / transfer), per-item time-based pricing, $0-check handling, Cloud Office dealer filing, and the full backups/restore layer.