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VikRestaurants 1.11 - Major Release
VikRestaurants 1.11 is now available.
This version contains some new features, several enhancements and bug fixes.
What's in 1.11?
Here is a list of what this new version brings.
New Features
- Added an upselling system to suggest food items to customers when ordering.
- The customizer now implements an easy way to change the color scheme of the plugin on the front end.
- It is now possible to specify some instructions for the special days, which will be displayed to the customers during the booking process.
- The food attributes feature is now available in the restaurant section as well.
- It is now also possible to use colored FontAwesome icons for the food attributes.
- Added a special days filter for custom fields, allowing you to collect specific details for certain events only.
- Implemented a minimum orderable quantity for take-away items.
- The table booking process can now be configured to restrict bookings to the configured room.
- Added a restriction that limits the maximum number of guests and reservations for the same date and time.
- Added the ability to configure products that are automatically added when closing a bill (e.g. service charges).
- Payment methods can now be restricted to specific services (e.g. takeaway or delivery).
Improvements
- It is now possible to assign a reservation to an existing customer from the operators area as well.
- The availability feature used to find the optimal cluster now considers also the distance between the tables.
- The system is now able to warn the administrators and operators in case they are erroneously going to overbook a table.
- Several styling enhancements to support the customizable color scheme.
- The menus list page now prefers the short description over the full one (when a READ MORE separator is specified).
- It is now possible to rearrange the ordering of the tables (for dashboard overview widget only).
- The system is now able to send e-mail notifications to the customers whenever the reservations/orders expire.
- The preferred service should now be pre-selected while creating a new take-away order from the back-end.
- Prevented web crawlers from indexing certain pages and following nested links.
- Several accessibility improvements.
Bug Fixes
- The map inspector now fully supports clustered reservations.
- The system now prefers the deposit over the bill amount in case the status of the reservation is PENDING.
- Food sales statistics are now accessible even if the stock system is disabled.
- The datepicker is now able to properly highlight the special days, even if they don't share the same priority.
- Fixed an issue with the stock statistics filters.
- Updated the database collation and charset to support emojis.
- Fixed shifted times that may occur while exporting datasheets.
- All the task links in the notification email now support the URL rewriting.
- Fixed the price per unit while printing an order from the back-end.
- Fixed wrong ACL usage.
- The customizer preview is now able to load all the published menu items.
- The offline credit card payment method is now able to hold the collected details up to one week after the check-out.
- Fixed some language definitions.
- Compatibility improvements for Joomla! 6.
- Compatibility improvements for PHP 8.4.
Got Errors During the Update?
If the update process gave you some errors, then it may be possible that your current installation or account are not allowed to install the new version of VikRestaurants for free. This may be due to 2 different factors:
- the domain from which you are requesting the update is not registered;
- your support license expired.
In case you are sure that your website is properly registered on our system, then you may have to purchase another copy of VikRestaurants in order to extend your support license by another year. Click HERE if you wish to go ahead with the purchase.
Otherwise just contact us if you don't know what you should do.
Enjoy your new VikRestaurants!