Libre Bite – Restaurant POS, Kitchen Display (KDS) & QR Ordering for WooCommerce

Registro de cambios

2.2.1

• Fix: Product availability hint no longer breaks the shop grid layout in themes that lay out product loop items as a horizontal flex row (e.g. Astra’s «List Style»), where it previously appeared as an unwanted extra column instead of below the product content.
• Fix: Availability popup can no longer be clipped by product cards with hidden overflow (e.g. hover-zoom image effects) and now sizes itself correctly to its content.
• Fix: Low-contrast «Opens on …» location status badge and text overflowing its box on mobile in the location selector.
• New: Availability hint (category & product page) and availability filter (shop page) can now be independently enabled/disabled in Settings → Products (Pro).
• New: Three display styles for the availability hint — popup (default), always-visible list, or plain text — for better compatibility with different themes.

2.2.0

• New: Locations can now have an optional activity window (active from / until date) for future or temporary locations. Until the opening date, the location stays visible but locked with an «Opens on …» notice; pre-orders for the opening date or later are already possible.
• New: Product-location assignment switched from an opt-in whitelist to an opt-out blacklist — products are now available at all locations by default, and only need to be disabled for specific locations. New locations automatically get all existing products. Existing assignments are migrated automatically.
• New: Product availability indicator on the shop grid and single product page, showing at a glance how many (and which) locations carry the product.
• New: Availability filter on shop and category pages lets customers pick a location to see what is available there — including before any location has been selected elsewhere, and without needing to commit to an order time.
• Fix: Holiday «All locations» checkbox selection was reset to nothing after saving.
• Fix: Availability filter and its styling/scripts now load correctly on product category pages (previously only loaded on the main shop page).
• Fix: POS variant selection now respects the WooCommerce default variation instead of always preselecting the first one.
• Fix: Missing German translations for the availability filter notice in some locale variants.
• Removed: Decorative title above the location selector tiles.
• Maintenance: Updated Freemius SDK to version 2.13.4.
• Maintenance: Changelog section trimmed to stay within WordPress.org’s word limit; full history available on GitHub.

2.1.5

• Update: Lowered minimum required PHP version to 7.4 (no 8.0+ language features are used)
• Fix: License field now uses the consistent SPDX identifier GPL-2.0-or-later

2.1.4

• Maintenance: Updated Freemius SDK to version 2.13.3.

2.1.3

• Performance: POS product query now uses WordPress term cache instead of individual database queries per product, significantly reducing DB load on cache miss with large product catalogs.

2.1.2

• Fix: Correct translation loading order to ensure bundled translations are always applied, even when WordPress.org language packs are present.
• Fix: Missing German translations for several recently added strings (POS-only product label, product order settings).
• Maintenance: Updated translation files for de_CH, de_DE, de_AT.

2.1.1

• New: Drag & drop product ordering in POS settings — products can now be reordered directly via a sortable list under Settings > POS System. The order is saved as WordPress menu_order and applies to both the POS and the WooCommerce store catalog.

2.1.0

• New: Location-based product filtering on shop pages — products not available at the selected location are visually dimmed, with a filter toggle to hide them entirely.
• New: POS-only products — products can now be marked as visible exclusively in the POS system, hidden from the frontend shop and all customer-facing URLs.
• New: Swiss French (fr_CH) and Swiss Italian (it_CH) translations added.
• Security: IP-based rate limiting added to the reservation form (max. 5 submissions per 60 seconds per IP), supplementing the existing honeypot protection.

2.0.24

• Improvement: Translations updated for all German locales (de_CH, de_DE, de_AT) — all new strings translated and .pot file regenerated.
• Code: Duplicate transient-delete queries replaced with shared method; SQL query now uses prepare() and esc_like() consistently.
• Code: PHPDoc added to all remaining undocumented public methods.

2.0.23

• Fix: Statistics page «Today» filter no longer includes orders from the previous day.

2.0.22

• Fix: Order creation time in the WooCommerce orders list now correctly shows the site’s local time. Previously the time was shifted by the UTC offset due to a mismatch between WooCommerce’s datetime attribute encoding and the timezone conversion logic.

2.0.21

• Update: Freemius SDK updated to version 2.13.2.

2.0.20

• Fix: Order creation time in the orders list now always displays in the WordPress site timezone, regardless of the browser’s timezone setting.

2.0.19

• Fix: 5-cent rounding now applies to the final cart total after coupon discounts, not to the pre-discount subtotal.
• Fix: Statistics page now correctly shows orders for the current day instead of always showing zero.
• Improvement: Order creation time is now displayed below the date in the WooCommerce orders list.

2.0.18

• Fix: Sound notification settings — Free users no longer see the media library picker, which is a Pro-only feature. Free users see a preview of the default sound instead. The built-in notification sound is now always used for Free installations, regardless of any previously saved empty value.

2.0.17

• Fix: Duplicate AJAX handler for lbite_pos_get_products removed from the admin class. The admin handler was registered first and took precedence over the POS module handler, causing location-based product filtering to be bypassed entirely.
• Security: Added a honeypot field to the public reservation form to block automated spam submissions.

2.0.16

• Improvement: Sound Notifications is now a free feature — no Pro subscription required to hear new order alerts in the Order Overview.
• Improvement: Roles & Menus settings — added a tip to assign a location to each Libre Bite Staff user so they only see orders relevant to their location.

2.0.15

• Fix: Fatal error on every admin page in the free version caused by an unguarded premium-only method registration on the admin_init hook. The backend was completely inaccessible after installing the free version.

2.0.14

• Fix: Cart total now stays the same for the customer regardless of which tax class is applied (takeaway vs. dine-in). WooCommerce’s internal ‘unfiltered’ tax class lookup was bypassing the rate switch and recalculating a different gross price.
• Fix: Email field in optimized checkout now correctly appears and stays visible after WooCommerce refreshes the payment section.

2.0.13

• Fix: Product pages no longer show a recalculated price when Multiple Tax Rates is active — the tax class filter now only applies in cart/checkout/AJAX contexts.
• Improvement: Optimized checkout — email field now appears after the payment method selection, not before. Customers only see it when their chosen payment method requires an email.
• Improvement: Optimized checkout — which payment methods require an email address is now configurable in Settings → Checkout (instead of being hardcoded).
• Fix: Location selector — location image is now correctly shown after selecting a location (tiles layout).
• Improvement: Thank-you page — detail boxes are now white with a colored left border instead of gray fill.
• Improvement: Thank-you page — for dine-in orders the pickup box is replaced by a service/table box showing the table name.

2.0.12

• Improvement: Order dashboard — table badge now shows actual table name (e.g. «Tisch 3») instead of generic «Tisch».
• Improvement: Order dashboard — card footer now shows order creation time alongside order number and customer name.
• Fix: When a table QR code is scanned, the session service type is now explicitly set to «dine_in» so VAT and checkout defaults are correct from the start.
• Fix: Table QR code box moved to the sidebar in the table edit screen for better overview.

2.0.11

• Fix: Optimized checkout — order type (takeaway / eat here) no longer pre-selected; customer must make an explicit choice. JS and server-side validation added.
• Fix: Optimized checkout — radio buttons now have proper spacing and separator from the location block above.
• Fix: Optimized checkout — table dropdown now fully visible and correctly styled.
• Improvement: Table dropdown in checkout now uses natural number sorting by default (Tisch 1, 2, 10, 11 instead of 1, 10, 11, 2).
• Improvement: New setting in Tables tab: control table sort order (natural or menu order).
• Improvement: «Please select a location and pickup time» replaced with more neutral wording.
• Translations: All 5 locales updated (1399 strings).

2.0.10

• Fix: Optimized checkout — Order Type selector is now rendered inside the «Location & Pickup Time» box instead of a separate second box below it.
• Improvement: «Swiss VAT Switching» feature renamed to «Multiple Tax Rates» for better clarity and international applicability; tax class descriptions no longer reference Swiss-specific rates.
• Translations: All 5 locales updated.

2.0.9

• Improvement: Optimized checkout — Order Type selector («To take away» / «Eat here») is now integrated into the location info box at the top of the form.
• Improvement: Optimized checkout — Table field replaced by a dropdown of configured tables; falls back to text input if no tables are set up for the location.
• Improvement: Pickup time in info box is hidden for dine-in orders (not applicable).
• Improvement: POS settings — «Default Order Type» is now visible when Table Management is active, not only when Swiss VAT Switching is enabled. Added link to Prices & Taxes settings when relevant.
• Translations: All 5 locales updated to 1395 translated strings (0 untranslated).

2.0.8

• Security: Removed developer override constant that bypassed license verification for premium features.
• Fix: Settings — premium feature toggles can now be saved without erroneously being reset; license enforcement happens exclusively at runtime.

2.0.7

• Fix: Settings — premium features (e.g. Order Type Selection) can now be saved correctly when using the developer override constant.
• Fix: POS — Table selector is now hidden for Takeaway orders and only appears when Dine-in is selected; automatically resets to «No table» after each order.
• Improvement: POS — Order Type selector (Takeaway / Dine-in) now appears whenever Table Management or Swiss VAT Switching is active, not only when Swiss VAT is enabled.

2.0.6

• Fix: Statistics — CSV export no longer contains HTML; output buffers are now cleared before headers are sent.
• Fix: Statistics — translation strings for new columns (Top Products, By Quantity, By Revenue, etc.) now correctly loaded in all locales.
• Fix: Optimized checkout — Order Type selector (Takeaway / Dine-in) is now visible; rendered directly in the checkout form with a summary in the info box.

2.0.5

• Feature: Statistics — extended reporting with top products by quantity and revenue, add-on breakdown with product combos, payment method share bars, and CSV export.
• UI: Table Plan and Reservations pages now show a Beta badge in the page title.
• Roadmap: fr_CH and it_CH translation entries added; Barcode-Scanning removed.

2.0.4

• Feature: Order Type Selection — customers can now choose Takeaway or Dine-in directly in the checkout form (Pro). When Swiss VAT Switching is active, the selection also controls which tax rate applies. With the Table module enabled, Dine-in reveals an optional table number field.
• Feature: POS — order type indicator (Takeaway / Dine-in) is now shown in the cart box below the total.
• Feature: POS settings — new option to configure the default order type (Takeaway or Dine-in) pre-selected on page load; selection persists across automatic page refreshes via localStorage.
• Fix: GitHub README — logo path corrected.

2.0.3

• Fix: Swiss VAT — tax class is now explicitly set on the order line item during checkout, ensuring calculate_totals() uses the correct rate (e.g. 2.6%) and the order tax breakdown displays the right rate instead of the original standard rate.
• Fix: Swiss VAT now also applies to product variations (woocommerce_product_variation_get_tax_class hook added).
• Fix: Statistics tile on the overview page now links to the correct URL (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=lbite-statistics).
• Fix: Completed orders loaded via «Load more» now remain visible during automatic dashboard refresh instead of disappearing.
• Feature: Statistics page — added location selector dropdown; admin can filter by location; default period changed from «Today» to «Last 7 Days».
• Feature: Order cards in the Kanban board now show a «Takeaway» badge for non-table orders alongside the existing «Sofort/Vorbestellung» and payment method chips.

2.0.2

• Fix: Swiss VAT switching now correctly preserves the gross price for the customer; previously, wc_get_price_excluding_tax() bypassed the tax-class filter and stored the net at the base rate, causing a price discrepancy after calculate_totals() applied the target rate. Affects POS orders, frontend checkout, and add-on fee items.

2.0.1

• Fix: Add-ons now appear as separate line items in WooCommerce orders (POS and frontend); the product price is no longer inflated by the add-on amount.
• Fix: POS orders no longer inherit scheduled pickup times from previous frontend test sessions; the pickup time meta is explicitly cleared on every POS order.
• Fix: Payment method selected in POS is now visible in the Kanban board and in the statistics breakdown.
• Feature: New «Prices & Taxes» settings tab — price rounding and Swiss VAT switching settings moved from the Checkout tab; added a direct link to WooCommerce Tax Settings.

Older versions

• For the full changelog of versions before 2.0.0, see the release history: https://github.com/simurech/libre-bite/releases