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What's new at MenuCliq

Every meaningful change we ship — features, fixes, performance, security. We update this page on every release. Bookmark it or grab the RSS feed if you want updates without checking.

v1.4.0 5 May 2026 Major

Restaurant Control Center is live

A unified dashboard at app.menucliq.com that brings every tool — orders, analytics, staff, inventory, profile — into one launchpad. Tap any card and the tool opens in a new tab so you never lose context.

New
Control Center with Frequently Used, Orders, Analysis, Restaurant Setup, Staff and Legal sections.
New
Restaurant logo, name and owner name shown live in the dashboard header.
New
Time-of-day greeting, live clock and date in the hero strip.
Improved
All tab links now open in a new tab so the dashboard stays as a stable home base.
v1.3.2 3 May 2026

Login session race fixed

A long-standing “first captcha is always wrong” bug is gone. Cause was a session-cookie race between the captcha image and the CSRF call on the very first visit.

Fixed
Captcha now loads after CSRF settles, so both share the same PHPSESSID. First-attempt logins now succeed reliably.
Fixed
Wrong captcha attempts now auto-refresh the captcha image instead of leaving a stale code on screen.
Security
Sanitised the ?return= parameter to block open-redirect attempts to external domains.
v1.3.1 28 April 2026

Owner-info API for the dashboard header

A new authenticated endpoint that the dashboard uses to populate the restaurant pill from the database, instead of guessing at obfuscated browser-storage keys.

New
POST /api/r/me.php returns the owner name, restaurant name and logo for the current session token.
Security
Endpoint validates token state (active, not revoked, not expired) and returns typed error codes for each failure mode.
v1.3.0 15 April 2026 Major

Depth Analysis: hour-of-day breakdown

The biggest analytics upgrade of the year. Owners can now see exactly which hours, days, and items drive their revenue — no spreadsheet exports needed.

New
Hour-of-day heatmap showing covers and revenue across all 24 hours, by weekday.
New
Top sellers board with item-level revenue, quantity, and margin (when recipe is configured).
New
Captain leaderboard — tables served, average bill size, total covers per captain.
Improved
Date range picker now supports custom ranges up to 18 months.
Improved
Reports export to CSV with one click; Excel-friendly headers.
v1.2.4 2 April 2026

Inventory recipe mapping

Tie raw ingredients to menu items so stock auto-deducts when an order is billed.

New
Recipe builder — define how much of each ingredient each menu item consumes per portion.
New
Low-stock alerts on the dashboard when an ingredient drops below a configurable threshold.
Fixed
Negative stock values are now blocked at billing instead of silently going below zero.
v1.2.0 14 March 2026 Major

Captain ordering on tablets & phones

A redesigned, finger-friendly ordering screen for captains. Larger buttons, faster category switching, fewer taps to confirm a KOT.

New
Captain Page — dedicated workspace optimised for tablets in portrait mode.
New
Item search bar that's prominent and reachable with a thumb.
Improved
KOT confirmation reduced from 4 taps to 2 in the common case.
Improved
Offline mode now buffers up to 30 minutes of orders if Wi-Fi drops; syncs automatically when back online.
v1.1.0 22 February 2026

Seating arrangement editor

A drag-and-drop floor planner for arranging tables across multiple sections (indoor, outdoor, AC, balcony).

New
Floor planner with drag-and-drop tables, custom shapes (round, square, rectangle), and capacity per table.
New
Sections can be marked as smoking / non-smoking / AC for diner preference matching.
Improved
Table-status colour coding is now consistent across the floor map and the captain view.
v1.0.0 5 January 2026 Public

MenuCliq goes public

After 6 months of private testing with a handful of restaurants in Pune, MenuCliq is generally available. Thank you to every owner, captain, and waiter who broke things in beta so we could fix them.

New
Public registration, login, and self-serve onboarding.
New
Order management, KOT & bill generation, table management, menu & staff modules.
Security
bcrypt-hashed passwords, CSRF tokens, rate-limited auth endpoints, 256-bit session tokens.
That's the start of our public history. For older private-beta notes, write to hello@menucliq.com.