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What we shipped.

Plain-language release notes. We ship constantly — this page lists the meaningful merchant-facing changes.

  1. Platform

    Marketing site launch

    Public marketing site goes live at getcommerceos.com — homepage, 5 industry pages, pricing (live from API), security posture, and the changelog you're reading.

    • Five vertical landing pages (restaurants, retail, grocery, services, online)
    • Live pricing card driven by /api/v1/billing/plans (3 plans live today)
    • Security + accessibility + compliance pages
    • Per-page SEO metadata + OG tags
  2. Platform

    Subscription billing schema + plan catalog

    Foundation for self-serve plan signup — three billing plans seeded (Starter $79, Growth $149, Scale $299) with feature lists, included locations + terminals, and per-tier pricing rationale.

    • `billing.subscription_plans` + `billing.subscriptions` + `billing.signup_tokens` schema
    • Public `/billing/plans` endpoint for the marketing site
    • Three plans seeded with annual = 10× monthly (~17% off)
    • Stripe Checkout wiring deferred to Phase 36b
  3. New feature

    Phase 35 closed — Help Center & Contextual Learning

    Eight-session help center build closes end-to-end. Merchants get an in-app help drawer, 41 launch tooltips across the dashboard, an offline-capable POS help cache, a support inbox with SLA tracking, cross-device "Continue reading" sync, a customer-facing FAQ, and first-run walkthroughs.

    • In-app help center at /help with search + ratings + related articles
    • Sanity-backed CMS for help content with HMAC-signed webhook invalidation
    • Support inbox with 5-state ticket lifecycle + SLA timer + auto-close
    • 41 launch tooltips across the dashboard
    • Offline-cached POS help drawer (WebUSB-friendly)
    • First-run walkthroughs + dedicated release notes channel
  4. New feature

    Multi-vertical AI benchmarking (Phase 31.4)

    Merchants can opt into anonymous cross-vertical benchmarking — see how your daily revenue, average ticket, labor cost %, and food cost % compare against peers in your industry. Privacy floor of 10 merchants per bucket; granular consent per data class.

    • Per-(vertical, metric) percentile bands (p10 / p25 / p50 / p75 / p90)
    • Privacy floor: rankings only render with ≥10 contributing merchants
    • Granular opt-in per data class (revenue / labor / inventory)
    • Approximate rank derivation via piecewise band interpolation
  5. New feature

    AI labor forecasting (Phase 31.3)

    Predict next week's staffing needs based on traffic forecasts and your covers-per-labor-hour ratio. Surfaces overtime risk for currently-active employees so you can adjust before payroll cuts.

    • Daily staffing recommendations driven by predicted traffic
    • Overtime risk badges (FLSA 40h/wk threshold + warning at 35h)
    • Per-org configurable coverage ratio + hourly rate
    • Dashboard /analytics/labor with weekly summary + day-by-day breakdown
  6. New feature

    Demand prediction + ingredient forecasts (Phase 31.2)

    Real ML-driven sales + traffic forecasting. Median-based seasonal-naive model trained on 8 weeks of history. Ingredient demand prediction tells you what to order from your vendor based on predicted menu sales.

    • Daily + hourly sales + traffic forecasts
    • Predicted-vs-actual reconciliation cron + accuracy metrics
    • Ingredient demand prediction (recipes × predicted sales)
    • Dashboard /analytics/forecast + /inventory/ingredient-forecast
  7. New feature

    Recipe costing + menu engineering (Phase 29)

    Build recipes from your inventory, get real food cost per menu item, and run menu engineering analysis (Stars / Puzzles / Plowhorses / Dogs). Auto-update costs when ingredient prices change.

    • Recipe builder with sub-recipes + cycle detection
    • Menu engineering quadrant analysis with per-org target food cost %
    • Auto-update costs when PO receive bumps ingredient prices
    • Heterogeneous-unit auto-conversion at deduction time
  8. New feature

    Inventory management end-to-end (Phase 27)

    Full inventory: stock items, vendors, purchase orders, receiving with cost averaging, manual adjustments, inter-location transfers, waste tracking. Auto-deduction on every order completion.

    • Hybrid stock model (serves restaurants + retail with one schema)
    • Purchase orders with approval workflow + duplicate detection
    • Receiving with weighted-average cost update
    • Waste tracking with per-reason cost rollup into daily-sales reports
  9. New feature

    Phase 26 closed — Online Ordering & Delivery

    Customers can order online, pay via Stripe Checkout, get email + SMS confirmations, see their order on the merchant's KDS with source badges, have DoorDash or Uber Direct dispatch a courier post-payment, and track the delivery live on a branded tracking page.

    • Public storefront with branded subdomain
    • DoorDash Drive + Uber Direct delivery integration
    • Branded order tracking page with live status + courier ETA
    • Online orders route to KDS with source badges
    • Merchant active-deliveries dashboard
  10. Platform

    Phase 25 closed — Production hardening

    Helmet headers, trace-id middleware, JSON logging, /health endpoints, Sentry crash reporting, Docker images, deployment docs, OWASP Top-10 audit, JWT rotation, performance budgets. Production-ready foundation.

    • Helmet + tight CSP + trace-id correlation
    • Sentry on API + dashboard + pos-web with sensitive-field redaction
    • Docker images + docker-compose.production.yml + Render blueprint
    • OWASP Top-10 audit (8/10 fully mitigated, 2 partial with plans)
    • Dual-key JWT rotation for zero-downtime secret rotation

Looking for older entries? Drop us a note — we’re consolidating archive entries from CLAUDE.md as part of our doc audit.

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