Built in the open,
shipped in order.

v1.17.017 July 2026

New

Wine lists that nest & a fourth demo venue

• Wines now carry a category above the region: the presets (Sparkling, White, Rosé, Red, Dessert, Fortified) or any label you type, chosen in the cellar's add wine pop-up
• Published menus nest the wine list two levels deep, category then region, with tap-to-filter chips in the same style as the dietary filters
• The Salt Cellar joins the demo estate: a Weymouth wine bar whose cellar is listed by country, France, Italy and Spain, then region, to show the top level is yours to name
• The /v1 wines endpoint and the booking pre-order list carry the new category field

v1.16.017 July 2026

Improved

Photography, cleaner addresses & a clearer integrations page

• Documentary photography across the site: venue cards on the homepage, photo heroes on the integrations page and interludes on the features page
• Clean web addresses everywhere (cartelier.app/features, not features.php); old links redirect permanently
• The integrations legend now says plainly what a simulated connector does today and what ships later

v1.15.016 July 2026

New

Public documentation & demo discovery

• Public reference pages for every connector and webhook, generated from the same code that runs them
• A demo invitation that appears once you have looked around, plus a permanent route to the demo hub in every footer
• Demo sandboxes hardened: fair eviction under load, rate limits per address and a bot gate on creation

v1.14.016 July 2026

Improved

Honest integration statuses & guided setup

• Every connector card states whether it is live or simulated, derived from the code rather than typed by hand
• Step-by-step setup guides and search across all 28 connectors
• Plain-language descriptions and in-app help on every admin screen

v1.13.016 July 2026

New

Brand kit & the four designers

• One brand kit (colours, type, logo) feeding the public menu, print PDFs, emails and gift vouchers
• Four structured designers with live preview: menu, print, email and voucher
• An Appearance hub that shows every surface your brand touches in one place

v1.12.016 July 2026

Improved

A calmer, more consistent admin

• Consistent selects, date pickers and modals across every screen
• Drag-to-reorder for wines and bookable spaces, with the order finally saved
• Clearer empty states and confirmations throughout

v1.11.016 July 2026

Fixed

Security & bug-fix sweep

• Closed a stored cross-site scripting route on the public menu and hardened session cookies
• Login and registration now throttle repeated attempts
• Fixed the booking widget Continue button, off-centre modals and a calendar date bug at the month edges
• Third-party scripts are pinned with integrity hashes

v1.10.016 July 2026

New

Multi-venue demo, changelog & a redesigned login

• Two new demo venues (The Kittiwake Hotel and The Harbour Bell) alongside The Copper Pot
• A kitchen-sink widget gallery showing every embed with its copy-paste snippet
• This changelog, and a two-column login and registration screen

v1.9.016 July 2026

New

WordPress plugin

• Downloadable WordPress plugin with [carte_menu] and [carte_booking] shortcodes
• A Gutenberg block for the menu and booking widgets, no build step required
• Settings screen for a default venue and API base

v1.8.016 July 2026

New

Gift vouchers

• Sell gift vouchers on a themed public page, with Stripe payments or an honest simulate mode without live keys
• Admin voucher issuing, redemption and balance checks
• Vouchers wired into the public API and the booking flow

v1.7.016 July 2026

Improved

Editable print & email templates

• Branded, editable PDF print templates with live preview
• Booking and voucher emails now use the same editable template system, with send-test built in

v1.6.016 July 2026

New

Public REST API v1

• Bearer-token REST API at /v1.php: venues, menus, wines, spaces and bookings
• Scoped read/write access with per-token rate limiting
• New API docs page with real endpoints and worked examples

v1.5.016 July 2026

New

28 real integrations

• Connector framework v2: every integration is either genuinely live or honestly simulated, never vapourware
• 9 point-of-sale connectors, 6 reservations platforms, 6 website embeds and 4 automation targets
• Signed outbound webhooks for menu publish, stock changes and bookings
• Real CSV upload and Google Sheets pull for menu import
• Integrations page rebuilt from the ground up: the "on the bench" list is gone

v1.4.016 July 2026

New

Venue types & API tokens

• Choose a venue type (restaurant, hotel, pub or bar) at signup and in Settings
• Hashed, reveal-once, scoped API tokens, managed from Settings
• Foundations for the public REST API and the WordPress plugin

v1.3.011 July 2026

New

Editorial photography

• New homepage craft strip with commissioned photography
• A dining-room photography band added to the About page

v1.2.07 July 2026

Improved

Live host split & guided tour

• Per-environment configuration for the live cartelier.app host split (marketing site and app on separate hosts)
• New How it works page: a guided tour built from real product screenshots
• Brand refresh: logo wordmark updated from carte to cartelier

v1.1.06 July 2026

New

EPOS connectors & technical SEO

• EPOS connector framework, with a working Square sandbox connector
• Integrations admin page for managing connections
• Menu schema.org markup, robots handling and honest, accurate metadata across the site

v1.0.06 July 2026

New

Booking is live

• SQLite-backed booking engine: rooms, apartments, venue hire and table service, with a transactional double-booking guard
• Spaces, Bookings and Calendar admin pages, plus booking KPIs on the dashboard
• A bookable popup widget (book.js) that drops onto any website in two lines
• Booking confirmation emails, with demo accounts automatically suppressed
• A full theming system and themed public menu + booking pages
• Ephemeral demo sandboxes: every "Try the demo" visitor gets a private, disposable copy

v0.10.016 June 2026

New

QR menus & website embeds

• Per-table QR codes that open the live menu, never a stale PDF
• A drop-in embed that puts the published menu on any website
• Publish once and the web page, embed and QR menu update together

v0.9.02 June 2026

New

PDF Print Studio

• Print-ready menus in A4, A5, DL and tasting-card formats
• Crop marks and bleed for professional print runs
• The dotted-leader house style, poured from the live menu in minutes

v0.8.019 May 2026

New

Allergen matrix & dietary tags

• All 14 UK allergens tracked per dish, once, at the source
• A print-ready allergen matrix generated from dish tags
• Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free filters on the public menu

v0.7.05 May 2026

New

The wine cellar

• Bins with producer, vintage, region, style and pairing notes
• Stock counts that hide a bin from every list when it runs out
• Glass, carafe and bottle pricing on every wine

v0.6.021 April 2026

New

Carte launches with the menu editor

• Menus, sections and dishes with drag-to-reorder
• Prices, descriptions and availability edited in place
• One publish button behind everything that followed