DineKit

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1.2.11

• New: Install DineKit as an app on any phone or tablet — it runs from a home-screen icon, separate from wp-admin, keeps loading through a dropped connection, and many tablets stay in sync automatically (an order or booking made on one appears on the others within seconds).
• New: Kitchen Display now handles coursing properly — each round you fire is its own ticket that moves through New → Preparing → Ready on its own, so firing mains later never disturbs the starters that are already cooking, and only the new items show.
• New: Dish costs, margins & calories — record a dish’s cost to see its gross-profit margin (kept private), and show calories on the public menu for UK calorie labelling.
• New: Allergen sub-sources (Natasha’s Law) — pick “cereals containing gluten” then choose wheat/barley/rye…, or “tree nuts” → almond/hazelnut/walnut…; the menu then reads “cereals containing gluten (wheat, barley)”. Add your own custom allergens too; the 14 legal allergens stay protected.
• New: Partial refunds — refund a whole order or tick just the items that were sent back; card via Stripe, cash recorded.
• New: Set your own service charge % right on the bill (saved as your default), and when you split, each person tips their own share.
• New: Set-menu events — edit a guest’s pre-order (name, course, company) after they’ve submitted.
• Improved: One booking panel — click a reservation to mark arrived/seated, no-show or completed, move the table/time, add notes or cancel, all in one place; manage several bookings at once; walk-ins auto-seat at the best free table.
• Improved: Mark a dish unavailable (86) from the dish editor, prices show your currency symbol as you type, the dish editor is grouped into tidy collapsible sections, and editors open as large centered pop-ups.
• Fixed: taking a Card, Voucher or Comp payment no longer opens a stray print tab or crashes the till.
• Fixed: orders fired from Take Order now appear on the Kitchen Display, and a table’s bill stays open and payable at the till until you actually settle it (the kitchen marking it done no longer closes it).
• Fixed: the event pre-order link no longer auto-picks a dish — each guest actively chooses per course.
• Fixed: walk-ins respect your covers-per-hour cap, staff are archived (restorable) instead of hard-deleted, and various confirmations are now proper on-screen dialogs.

1.2.10

• New: Kitchen Display. A live kitchen board that shows incoming orders as they move through New → Preparing → Ready, with a timer on every ticket, clear item lists and kitchen notes, and one tap to move an order along. It auto-refreshes and has a full-screen mode, so you can run it on any tablet or a kitchen TV.

1.2.9

• New: attach screenshots to your support messages. Paste an image straight into the Support screen (or pick a file) and it’s added to your request — so you can show us the problem, not just describe it. Images are saved to your own site’s media library; we only receive the link.

1.2.8

• New: set your country and restaurant address in Settings. DineKit now speaks your local language for addresses — “ZIP code” and “State” in the US, “Postcode” and “County” in the UK, “Postal code” elsewhere — across the dashboard and your delivery form.
• Better local SEO worldwide: your address now feeds Google-friendly LocalBusiness structured data (street, town/city, postal code, region and country).
• Fix: menu prices now report your real currency to search engines. Previously the menu’s structured data always said GBP, even for non-UK restaurants.

1.2.7

• New: a notification bell in the top bar, on every screen, shows what needs your attention right now — orders to accept, bookings to confirm, your waitlist and pending holiday requests — and each one is a single click straight to where you deal with it. It only shows things you have permission to action.

1.2.6

• Support conversations now open at the newest message, so you don’t have to scroll to see the latest reply.
• Long support threads stay light — only the most recent messages load, with a “Show earlier messages” button for the rest.
• Emoji in support messages now display correctly.

1.2.5

• Fix: replies from the support team now appear in your Support screen straight away. On some hosts a cache could hold an older copy of the conversation, so a reply looked like it hadn’t arrived — support replies are now always fetched fresh.

1.2.4

• New: Support — message the DineKit team straight from your dashboard. No account or key needed: type your name, email and question; replies land back in the same screen (and your inbox). Track all your requests, reply, and mark them solved without leaving WordPress. Optional — the wordpress.org forum works too, and nothing is ever sent in the background.
• New: a “Common fixes” panel on the Support screen answers the most frequent questions (QR 404s, missing emails, Stripe test mode…) in under a minute, before you even need to ask.
• New: after your first accepted order or confirmed booking, DineKit asks (once, politely) whether you’d leave a review — fully dismissible, and “no thanks” means never again.
• Housekeeping: the review-request schedule is now cleaned up when the plugin is deactivated or uninstalled.

1.2.3

• Floor plan: deleting a zone now asks first and lets you move its tables to another zone (or remove them) — and if any of those tables have upcoming bookings, you can reassign each one to a free table before it goes.
• Nothing is lost: deleted zones and tables now live in a new “History” tab on the floor plan, restorable with one click.
• Joined tables are colour-matched on the plan so you can see your table groupings at a glance; a table shared by two joins blends both colours.
• Tables show a small orientation marker, so you can tell which way one faces after rotating it.
• Fixes: the “Out of service” toggle now responds wherever you click it; moving a table to another zone updates the plan straight away; the rotate button lines up with the zone selector; and the min/max party boxes are tidier.

1.2.2

• Smoother onboarding: the setup wizard now walks you through your opening hours, and you can skip ahead and pick up the rest from your dashboard whenever you like.
• Menu, ordering and booking pages are created as drafts for you to review and publish — with a clear “review & publish” prompt, and a checklist that only ticks a page off once it’s actually live.
• Dishes are never lost: removing a dish now archives it (kept for your past orders and reports) and you can restore it any time — with a heads-up if it’s on an order the kitchen is cooking right now.
• Online ordering follows your opening hours: orders are only taken while you’re open, with an optional “last orders” cut-off before closing time.
• Table bookings read your opening hours directly, so your service times live in one place.
• Polish: tidier fields inside pop-out panels, your cursor stays put while typing, and assorted small performance improvements.

1.2.1

• Release-pipeline fix only — no plugin changes. Superseded by 1.2.2, which carries this line’s content.

1.2.0

• Release-pipeline fix only — no plugin changes. Superseded by 1.2.2, which carries this line’s content.

1.1.0

• Commission-free online ordering — takeaway, collection and delivery, with a diner-facing menu, dish customizations, and printable kitchen/bar tickets.
• Contactless QR “order at the table”.
• Commission-free table bookings: drag-and-drop floor plan with joinable tables, a public booking form (block + [dinekit_booking] shortcode) with live availability, waitlist, covers-per-hour pacing and deposits.
• Booking diary with statuses, email notifications, and printable reservation slips.
• Set-menu events with per-guest pre-orders via a share link — guests choose their courses and flag allergens; the kitchen gets a consolidated prep sheet you can print.
• Card payments with your own Stripe keys (encrypted at rest) — booking deposits and order payments, Apple Pay and Google Pay. You keep 100%.
• Guest CRM: repeat diners with the allergies they’ve told you about, carried across every visit.
• Staff logins with a role-to-permission matrix and an activity/audit log; review-request emails to win diners back.
• Dynamic dish customizations (removable ingredients + choose-your-options with prices), six menu templates and colour theming.

1.0.0

• First public release.
• Menu builder with menus, sections and items — photos, badges and multiple prices per item, drag-and-drop ordering, inline editing with autosave.
• UK-14 regulated allergens pre-loaded with icons, tooltips and a printable allergen matrix (Natasha’s Law friendly).
• Dietary labels (vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, halal, spicy — and your own).
• DineKit Menu block and [dinekit_menu] shortcode with three layouts (list, card grid, chalkboard) and 1–4 column options.
• Design & Preview screen to choose a style and copy the shortcode.
• Print-ready QR table cards and A4 posters that open your menu on a phone.
• Opening hours with holiday overrides and a live open/closed status.
• Menu, MenuItem and LocalBusiness schema.org output for SEO.
• Works with block and classic themes. No dependencies.