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There's no external account holding your customer list, and no vendor that can freeze your funds or your data.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"how%20do%20i%20get%20support%3F\"><h3>How do I get support?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Right from your dashboard: DineKit \u2192 Support messages our team directly and replies land back in the same screen (and your inbox). Prefer not to? The wordpress.org support forum works too \u2014 we watch both.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>1.2.12<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>New: Take Order now opens on your live floor plan \u2014 the exact room layout you built in Floor Plan, colour-coded live (green just seated, amber nearing your table-turn time, red over it) with a timer on every occupied table, so you can see who's in, how long they've been sat and which tables are free to seat next. It scales to fit a phone, a tablet or a big screen.<\/li>\n<li>New: Know which tables need clearing \u2014 once a bill is settled the table shows \"needs bussing\" on the floor; tap it when it's wiped down to mark it ready to seat again.<\/li>\n<li>New: Tapping a table opens the order pad as a pop-up over the floor and closes straight back to it \u2014 a fast, till-like flow instead of jumping to a separate screen and back.<\/li>\n<li>New: Live table timers on the open tab \u2014 how long it's been open, when it opened, how many rounds have gone to the kitchen and how long the current one's been cooking (or how long service took).<\/li>\n<li>New: A table's order history \u2014 a history button shows that table's previous settled bills (date, items, how they paid, total; tap one to see the items), so you can answer \"what did they have last time?\" on the spot.<\/li>\n<li>New: Live on-table timers in the booking diary too \u2014 a seated party's timer turns amber as it nears your turn time and red once it's over, so tables that need turning stand out at a glance.<\/li>\n<li>Improved: The order pad's course tabs now filter the menu to that section (Starters, Mains, Desserts\u2026), and a tab's timeline (opened \/ fired \/ served \/ time-to-serve) shows right on the order screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.11<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>New: Install DineKit as an app on any phone or tablet \u2014 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).<\/li>\n<li>New: Kitchen Display now handles coursing properly \u2014 each round you fire is its own ticket that moves through New \u2192 Preparing \u2192 Ready on its own, so firing mains later never disturbs the starters that are already cooking, and only the new items show.<\/li>\n<li>New: Dish costs, margins &amp; calories \u2014 record a dish's cost to see its gross-profit margin (kept private), and show calories on the public menu for UK calorie labelling.<\/li>\n<li>New: Allergen sub-sources (Natasha's Law) \u2014 pick \"cereals containing gluten\" then choose wheat\/barley\/rye\u2026, or \"tree nuts\" \u2192 almond\/hazelnut\/walnut\u2026; the menu then reads \"cereals containing gluten (wheat, barley)\". Add your own custom allergens too; the 14 legal allergens stay protected.<\/li>\n<li>New: Partial refunds \u2014 refund a whole order or tick just the items that were sent back; card via Stripe, cash recorded.<\/li>\n<li>New: Set your own service charge % right on the bill (saved as your default), and when you split, each person tips their own share.<\/li>\n<li>New: Set-menu events \u2014 edit a guest's pre-order (name, course, company) after they've submitted.<\/li>\n<li>Improved: One booking panel \u2014 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.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: taking a Card, Voucher or Comp payment no longer opens a stray print tab or crashes the till.<\/li>\n<li>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).<\/li>\n<li>Fixed: the event pre-order link no longer auto-picks a dish \u2014 each guest actively chooses per course.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.10<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>New: Kitchen Display. A live kitchen board that shows incoming orders as they move through New \u2192 Preparing \u2192 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.9<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>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 \u2014 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.8<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>New: set your country and restaurant address in Settings. DineKit now speaks your local language for addresses \u2014 \"ZIP code\" and \"State\" in the US, \"Postcode\" and \"County\" in the UK, \"Postal code\" elsewhere \u2014 across the dashboard and your delivery form.<\/li>\n<li>Better local SEO worldwide: your address now feeds Google-friendly LocalBusiness structured data (street, town\/city, postal code, region and country).<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.7<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>New: a notification bell in the top bar, on every screen, shows what needs your attention right now \u2014 orders to accept, bookings to confirm, your waitlist and pending holiday requests \u2014 and each one is a single click straight to where you deal with it. It only shows things you have permission to action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.6<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Support conversations now open at the newest message, so you don't have to scroll to see the latest reply.<\/li>\n<li>Long support threads stay light \u2014 only the most recent messages load, with a \"Show earlier messages\" button for the rest.<\/li>\n<li>Emoji in support messages now display correctly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.5<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>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 \u2014 support replies are now always fetched fresh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.4<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>New: Support \u2014 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 \u2014 the wordpress.org forum works too, and nothing is ever sent in the background.<\/li>\n<li>New: a \"Common fixes\" panel on the Support screen answers the most frequent questions (QR 404s, missing emails, Stripe test mode\u2026) in under a minute, before you even need to ask.<\/li>\n<li>New: after your first accepted order or confirmed booking, DineKit asks (once, politely) whether you'd leave a review \u2014 fully dismissible, and \"no thanks\" means never again.<\/li>\n<li>Housekeeping: the review-request schedule is now cleaned up when the plugin is deactivated or uninstalled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.3<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Floor plan: deleting a zone now asks first and lets you move its tables to another zone (or remove them) \u2014 and if any of those tables have upcoming bookings, you can reassign each one to a free table before it goes.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing is lost: deleted zones and tables now live in a new \"History\" tab on the floor plan, restorable with one click.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Tables show a small orientation marker, so you can tell which way one faces after rotating it.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.2<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Menu, ordering and booking pages are created as drafts for you to review and publish \u2014 with a clear \"review &amp; publish\" prompt, and a checklist that only ticks a page off once it's actually live.<\/li>\n<li>Dishes are never lost: removing a dish now archives it (kept for your past orders and reports) and you can restore it any time \u2014 with a heads-up if it's on an order the kitchen is cooking right now.<\/li>\n<li>Online ordering follows your opening hours: orders are only taken while you're open, with an optional \"last orders\" cut-off before closing time.<\/li>\n<li>Table bookings read your opening hours directly, so your service times live in one place.<\/li>\n<li>Polish: tidier fields inside pop-out panels, your cursor stays put while typing, and assorted small performance improvements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.1<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Release-pipeline fix only \u2014 no plugin changes. Superseded by 1.2.2, which carries this line's content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Release-pipeline fix only \u2014 no plugin changes. 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