Built in the open,
shipped in order.

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