WowRestro – Restaurant Ordering & Operations for WooCommerce

Change Log

2.0

• Major Release: Complete architectural modernization for high-performance restaurant operations.
• Added: WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) and Cart & Checkout Blocks compatibility.
• Added: Live Kitchen Order Board with real-time Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM HTTP v1) push notifications and audio alerts.
• Added: Operational order statuses (New, Accepted, Preparing, Ready, Out for Delivery, Completed, Cancelled) decoupled from payment statuses.
• Added: Atomic shared-kitchen capacity and slot reservations ledger with InnoDB transactional safety.
• Added: Single-page ordering storefront app powered by WooCommerce Store API, including 36 modern menu templates.
• Added: Store pages. An ordering page whose menu shortcode sets a product category, [wowrestro_menu category="bakery"], runs as its own store: it gets its own checkout and confirmation under its page (/bakery/checkout/, /bakery/confirmation/), and orders, receipts and email links remember the store. The shortcode can also set the store’s name, switcher label, tagline, hero (two lines split by |), menu heading, note, colours (accent, ink, paper), corner radius in pixels, type="shop" (the receipt talks about the store, not the kitchen) and header="store" (a store header with a live cart pill and a store footer in place of the theme’s). All store pages share one WooCommerce cart: a store’s menu drops dishes added in another store, and /checkout/ or another store’s checkout sends the cart to its own store.
• Added: [wowrestro_store_switcher label="" brand="" brand_url="" cta="" cta_url=""], a bar linking the store pages. On a store page with header="store" it sits above the store header.
• Added: Modern Gutenberg menu block and Elementor widget for flexible menu embedding.
• Added: Reusable Modifier Groups custom post type (wowrestro_mod_group) with min/max selection bounds, single/multi choices, default options, and immutable order snapshots.
• Added: Table reservations management system ([wowrestro_reservations]) with slot capacity, guest limits, and deposit support.
• Added: Dine-in QR code table ordering ([wowrestro_staff_panel]) with automatic table session tracking.
• Added: Multi-location / branch restaurant support ([wowrestro_location_selector]).
• Added: Least-privilege restaurant staff roles (wowrestro_manager, wowrestro_staff, wowrestro_waiter).
• Added: In-board manual / phone order entry with item selection, custom delivery/pickup timing, and payment collection.
• Added: Tip calculation support (percentage presets and custom flat amounts) on cart and checkout.
• Added: Live customer order tracking page and shortcode ([wowrestro_tracking]) with progress updates on Thank You page and emails.
• Added: The wowrestro_design_config filter. Through it a menu page can keep to one product category (category, its sub-categories become the tabs), and change the hero line (hero, “First line|second line”), the menu heading (heading) and the line under the menu (note).
• Added: The order flow fires a wowrestro:cart event on the document with the item count and the formatted total whenever the cart changes, for a header cart badge outside the menu.
• Added: Comprehensive REST API under wowrestro/v1 namespace for menu, availability, operations, devices, and tracking.
• Added: Resumable, non-destructive legacy data migration tool for seamless upgrades from WOWRestro 1.x and WooRestro.
• Added: Guided 4-step onboarding wizard for first-time restaurant setup.
• Added: Built-in HPOS-safe restaurant sales analytics and operational reporting.
• Added: Site Health diagnostic checks for checkout compatibility, configuration, and capacity ledger health.
• Changed: After checkout the confirmation opens at /confirmation/ (or a site’s own /…/confirmation/), with no order number or key in the address. A keyed link, after checkout or from an email, is remembered in that browser’s session and redirects to the clean address, which shows that order and survives a refresh. Keyed links still work everywhere, so emails open on any device; links a payment gateway added its own parameters to are left alone so it can finish the payment. With no order in the session, /confirmation/ goes back to the menu.
• Changed: Restaurant orders confirm at clean confirmation routes instead of /checkout/order-received/{order}/?key=…, while maintaining gateway thank-you hooks, conversion tracking, and guest email check behavior. Old links keep working. Sites on plain permalinks keep WooCommerce’s address.
• Changed: The QR table card photo is recompressed (same size and look), which brings the plugin zip under the common 2 MB upload limit.
• Changed: The order flow’s text (menu, item dialog, cart, checkout and confirmation) uses Poppins on every template, in place of each template’s own fonts.
• Changed: The WooRestro 0.3 demo’s old design files are no longer loaded if a site still enqueues them.
• Fixed: Every order into a part-booked kitchen slot wrote one “WordPress database error Duplicate entry” line to the PHP error log for each position already taken. Those collisions are how a slot is claimed safely, so they are no longer logged; a real database fault while reserving still is.
• Fixed: After activating the plugin (a new install, or switching over from WooRestro), /confirmation/ pages returned “not found” until Settings > Permalinks was opened. Activation now adds the route before WordPress rebuilds its rules.
• Fixed: Switching over from WooRestro by activation left a migration stopped by the settings check stopped; activation now restarts it, as updating already did.
• Fixed: The data migration stopped with “settings could not be saved during migration” whenever it ran in an admin request (Retry migration, or the background runner on admin-ajax). It compared the saved settings with the unsanitized value, and the settings sanitizer always reshapes it. A migration stopped by this runs again after the update.
• Fixed: Template 1 tinted every button in the order panel alike, so Checkout, Place order and the options dialog’s Add looked disabled. They are solid in the template’s colour again.
• Fixed: Selected times, the chosen payment method, step numbers, quantity steppers and card hovers used a fixed orange instead of the template’s colour.
• Removed: Legacy jQuery dependencies (jquery.timepicker, jquery.toast, jquery.tipTip) and outdated template files in favor of lightweight vanilla scripts and Phosphor icon fonts.

1.3.1 – 13th April 2022

• Compatibility check with latest WordPress & WooCommerce version.
• Minor bugs fixed.
• Code cleanup.

1.3 – 20th Jan 2022

• Fixed: Frontend AJAX issue fixed for admin.
• Added: Show product price in the food item page.
• Added: Product price showing in popup.
• Added: Show description in the food item page.
• Added: New hook for modal popup.
• Fixed: Frontend item text override issue fixed.
• Fixed: Timeslot issue fixed on the checkout page.
• Fixed: Presize the food item title in the frontend.
• Fixed: Style issue fixed for description and small image.
• Code optimized.

1.2 – 18th Nov 2021

• Fixed: Issue with add-on click.
• Fixed: Styling and general settings problems.
• Fixed: Issue with default service type.
• Updated: Thank you page to show all data.

1.1 – 16th Jun 2021

• Fixed security issues.
• Code cleanup.

1.0 – 8th Feb 2021

• Initial public release.