Bina

Changelog

What we shipped, when.

Real dates, not roadmap promises. We ship every day during V1 — this page is the receipt.

hotfix
  • Tills on smaller or scaled screens now keep the side-by-side menu and cart instead of dropping the cart underneath the menu with a "View cart" bar. Supported down to a 580px effective width — a 1024x768 panel now works at up to 175% display scaling, where before it needed 146% or less
  • Menu tiles are smaller and denser on those narrower tills, so more of the menu fits on one screen: a typical scaled 1024x768 till goes from 4 visible items to 6, or 9 in fullscreen. Tills at 900px and wider are unchanged
  • The till header, search bar and category strip are more compact on narrower screens, which frees up roughly another row of menu tiles
  • The Recent orders / assistant panel now spans the full width under the menu and cart on medium screens, instead of squeezing into the menu column
  • The hardware check page now shows your till's effective screen size and tells you which layout it is in — quote it if the till ever looks wrong
V1.5
  • Kitchen tickets can now print automatically the moment an order is sent or paid, with a loud on-screen alert and one-tap retry if a printer is offline (opt in per outlet in Settings — off by default)
  • A second till open for a whole shift now picks up a price, availability or menu change from another till within about a minute, instead of only on reload
  • The till now recovers on its own from a rare, brief connection blip instead of showing a "something went wrong" screen — your cart is kept
  • The "offline" indicator is easier to spot, and you now get a clear "back online — synced" confirmation once queued sales catch up
  • Cancelled delivery-platform orders now leave a clear marker on the kitchen screen instead of silently disappearing, and stuck delivery-platform orders show up on the Exceptions report for the owner to review
  • Delivery-platform (Talabat, etc.) prices now warn you when the item's base price has changed since you last set them, with the exact difference shown and a one-tap fix
  • Fixed a bug where the dashboard could show more "today's revenue" than was actually collected on a partially-paid order — it now always matches the Z-report exactly
  • Every report (Z-report, daily summary, daily P&L, item sales, menu engineering) now has a free line-by-line CSV export button
  • Refunds and voids now show a clear on-screen confirmation of what happened, plus a full history (who approved it, when, why) on the order
  • Two new exports added: recipes, and orders broken down by individual item sold
  • Price, availability and category changes on menu items are now recorded in the audit trail
  • Delivery Apps page reorganised: the working "manual channel orders" setup now leads the page, with the not-yet-live automatic-connection section tucked into a "coming soon" section
  • Managers can now see which delivery apps are on and their commission % on the Delivery Apps page (owners still make the changes) — it no longer just disappears for them
  • New: "Today's channel totals" from the till header (⋯ menu) — see today's Talabat/Deliveroo/etc order counts without a trip to the Z-report (totals in AED are for owners/managers; everyone sees the counts)
  • Delivery Apps and Channel pricing pages now link to each other, plus a new setup step for turning on delivery apps
  • New: a Featured-items curation tool (Menu → ★ Featured) — mark/unmark items for the till's Top Sellers page and drag them into the order you want, with an optional "top movers" suggestion
  • The till's payment screen and modifier picker are now available in Arabic (switch language from the nav) — more of the till follows in a later update
  • New: "Till not working?" from the till header (⋯ menu) — a one-tap self-check of your connection, printer/helper status, and a link to full system status
  • Arabic receipts now print with real joined (cursive) letter shapes in far more cases than before, instead of every letter standing alone
V1.5
  • Till redesign: photo tiles for menu items, one-tap add for your best sellers, and a denser layout that fits more of the menu on screen at once
  • New Top Sellers view on the till so cashiers can jump straight to what's moving
  • Menu editor: safer category deletion (warns before removing items out from under you), plus drag-to-reorder and rename for categories
  • Modifier buttons on the till are bigger and easier to tap accurately during a rush
  • Owners can now set the photo shown on the till and the customer QR menu straight from the item editor — no separate upload step
V1.5
  • Aggregator orders (Talabat, Deliveroo, Noon, Careem, Keeta) now flow straight into the till and kitchen automatically instead of manual re-entry
  • Multi-brand menus — run more than one brand (for example a delivery-only virtual brand) from the same kitchen and till
  • Automatic aggregator price markup (30% by default, adjustable per platform) so delivery-platform commissions don't quietly eat into your margin
  • Fast Cash — an exact cash payment now closes the sale in two taps
  • AED note buttons and a bigger change-due display on the payment screen
  • Manual discounts at the till now require a manager PIN
  • Multiple printers now back each other up automatically if one goes offline, a No-Sale button to open the drawer without a sale, and a new Bookkeeper staff role
V1.5
  • Visual refresh across the owner dashboard — warmer look, consistent layout and navigation on every page
  • Faster page loads and faster menu loading throughout
  • Bring-your-own AI — connect your own Claude, OpenAI or Gemini key — plus a proper recipe costing engine (batch prep, yield %, margins, allergens)
  • Dozens of small till and sign-in fixes: camera barcode scanner, refund handling, waitlist screen, login reliability
V1.5
  • Fixes from an independent QA pass: sales charts, supplier archive view, kitchen display screen, and team permission screens
V1.5
  • Owner navigation reorganised — 45 scattered tabs grouped into 7 clear sections, plus a guided tour on first login
  • Retail add-ons: multibuy promotions ("3 for 20"), open-price/misc items, an on-screen quantity keypad, park & recall for busy queues, mixed VAT per item, and a scan-first till layout for grocery and retail outlets
  • Barcode and shelf-label printing
  • A live reliability scoreboard on the till so you can see uptime at a glance
  • Cash-up totals, loyalty points and store-credit balances hardened against edge cases that could over- or under-count
  • Closed a leftover testing shortcut that could have let someone skip sign-in in production
V1.5
  • Dine-in table service: floor plan, table picker, move a tab between tables, kitchen ticket printing
  • Customer database with order history, tags, tiers and favourites
  • Loyalty points, tiers, store credit and gift cards
  • Promotions engine (happy hour, % off, fixed AED off, buy-one-get-one) with a live cart preview
  • Inventory analytics: dead stock, slow movers, margin warnings, and a stock burn-rate forecast
  • Arabic language support across all three apps
  • UAE FTA e-invoicing, ahead of the July 2026 mandate
  • Aggregator and payment-terminal integrations, accounting sync (Xero / Zoho Books / QuickBooks), and marketing campaigns (email / SMS / WhatsApp)
  • Fixed a data-loss bug where the offline queue could silently drop a sale the server had rejected
  • Every sale, payment and stock update now happens as one all-or-nothing step, so a mid-sale glitch can no longer leave stock or takings out of sync
V1.5
  • Barcode scanner at the till — point a camera or handheld scanner at a barcode to add it to the cart
  • AI cost tracking — see what your AI features are costing and set a spending cap
V1
  • /trust page — concrete security & reliability practices, not vague promises
  • Production security headers across both apps (HSTS + X-Frame-Options + X-Content-Type-Options + Referrer-Policy + Permissions-Policy)
  • Onboarding header: replaced no-op Skip link with real Clerk sign-out + Need-help mailto
  • FAQPage + BreadcrumbList structured data on /pricing for Google rich snippets
  • Organization JSON-LD on customer landing for parity with owner
  • Apple touch icons on both apps (dynamic 180×180 PNG) for proper iOS home-screen install
  • CI workflow staged for typecheck + smoke tests on every push
  • Smoke test expanded from 30 to 50 probes (covers all SEO + security surfaces)
  • Custom 404 middleware fix — anonymous visitors now reach our branded 404 once Clerk goes prod
V1
  • Landing feature grid expanded to 9 cards — surfaces split bill, offline queue, loyalty stamps that were silent before
  • Trust signals row on landing: ROAST · Cha Cha Chai · Zad + 5 hard proof points
  • Customer landing "Why Bina is different" expanded from 3 to 6 cards (loyalty, tips, café-branded)
  • OG / Twitter share-card metadata so WhatsApp / LinkedIn shares render proper preview cards
  • Dynamic OG image (1200×630) via edge runtime — hero image now in social previews
  • SEO baseline: robots.txt + sitemap.xml + favicon (were 307-redirecting; search engines couldn't crawl us)
  • PWA manifests on both apps — installable to home screen on iOS / Android
  • JSON-LD structured data on owner landing (SoftwareApplication + Organization + WebSite)
  • Branded 404 pages on both apps instead of bare Next.js default
  • `pnpm deploy:{owner,customer,both}` helper script (until Vercel auto-deploy is reconnected)
  • README rewrite — was on "Pre-build — spec phase" despite full V1 shipping
V1
  • BrandingSection UI for per-tenant loyalty configuration (threshold + reward label)
  • Loyalty stamp card live on customer order-tracking page
  • Bulk menu operations (activate / feature / price-set / price-adjust / delete) with checkbox UI
  • Offline-first POS — IndexedDB queue + idempotency replay when internet drops
  • Right-sized SLO budgets to realistic customer-wait reality (p95 5s on order create)
  • In-process LRU cache + inflight-promise dedup → menu p95 from 7574ms to 284ms (27× speedup)
  • Cache tenant+outlet resolution on the public-order write path
  • Split bill — multi-method payments on the same order
  • Full-page screenshots + competitive matrix doc (17 vendors)
  • POS pain-points doc — 20 global complaints + Bina's defense for each
  • PostHogProvider Suspense fix on both apps — full SSR, no CSR bailout
  • Customer landing real content + clear how-it-works + 5-language ordering

Coming next

V1.5 — in flight

No fixed dates because we don't ship on a calendar — we ship when it's ready. But this is what's in active development.

  • Hardware
    ESC/POS receipt printing via WebUSB
  • Operations
    Tip pooling distribution rules
  • Channels
    Talabat / Deliveroo / Noon aggregator inbox
  • Marketing
    Built-in email + SMS campaigns
  • AI
    Voice input on POS (Whisper)
  • Billing
    Subscription billing UI (after Stripe Connect KYC)
  • Compliance
    ZATCA e-invoicing extension for Saudi rollout
  • Mobile
    Native iOS + Android wrappers (already PWA-installable today)

Need one of these sooner for your café? hello@bina.so — a real human responds.