Changelog
What's new in Winstia
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Shipping cadence
v2.9.0
Latest version
8
Total releases
September 30, 2026
Last shipped
v2.9.0
Latest
September 30, 2026Added
- In-person card payments on Square Terminal, alongside Stripe Terminal — the POS sends the amount straight to the reader on your counter
- Device Manager — set up receipt printers and cash drawers once, with per-register overrides for each till
- Paired customer-display tablets — connect a dedicated screen with a one-time code and brand it with your logo, colours and idle picture
- Self-checkout: look up items without a barcode by item number or picture, call for assistance from any customer screen, and staff approval for restricted items
- Kiosk accessibility — audio cues, voice guidance and clear focus outlines, plus six display languages
- "Trust this device" for two-step sign-in, and a "Confirm it's you" check before sensitive changes
- Credit notes are now full documents you can email to your customer as a PDF
- Cancelling a stay reservation now refunds or forfeits the deposit
Improved
- Register close now reconciles card and digital takings, not just cash
- Importing a 10,000-product catalogue now takes seconds instead of half an hour
- A connectivity light in the POS header shows when the till is offline
- Notifications can be dismissed one by one or cleared all at once
- Custom default tax rates from 0% to 30% for every tax system
Fixed
- Quick Sales can now be refunded, with stock and cost of goods reversed correctly
- Store-credit collections and exchanges at the POS are recorded exactly once
- Receiving a purchase order now counts cases × pack size, not just cases
- Long lists that load page by page no longer stop loading in the installed app
- The Billing page shows the plan currently in force
Removed
- 2Checkout is no longer offered as a payment gateway — use Stripe, PayPal, Square or Mollie
v2.8.0
August 31, 2026Added
- Industry profiles — Winstia now adapts to your trade. The sidebar, terminology, product fields and POS layout change to match how your industry actually works, across retail, food & beverage, service, wholesale, manufacturing, professional, hospitality and specialty businesses
- Restaurant dine-in — table plan, open checks, kitchen tickets before payment, and settle-to-sale
- Kitchen display and order intake for takeaway, delivery and online orders, with per-table QR self-ordering
- Stay reservations — rooms, bookings, a guest folio and check-out straight to an invoice, with deposits held as a liability until the stay
- Repair tickets for mobile and electronics shops
- Metal-rate pricing for jewellery — price items from the day's gold and silver rate
- A real size and colour variant matrix, with stock held per variant
- Customer-facing checkout display — a second screen showing the running basket and total
Improved
- Batch and expiry tracking now decides which stock is sold first, so the earliest-expiring stock goes out first
Fixed
- Immediate (non-credit) purchases now record a supplier payment, so supplier balances stay correct
- Recording a supplier payment now lists that supplier's outstanding invoices to pay against
v2.7.0
August 30, 2026Added
- Gift cards — sell and redeem gift cards at the POS, with the outstanding balance tracked as a proper liability in your books
- Store credit — issue, adjust and spend customer credit straight from the customer record
- Promotions and coupons — percent, amount and buy-X-get-Y offers applied automatically at the POS, with tax-correct allocation across lines
- Price lists — per-customer and per-group pricing
- WooCommerce orders now flow into Winstia as invoices, alongside a hardened Shopify sync
- Bank reconciliation auto-match — statement lines matched to your payments and expenses automatically
- Tax filing ledger — one record of every filing period, with a safe period lock so filed months can't be quietly changed
- Restaurant item modifiers — option groups on menu items, picked at the POS and printed on the kitchen ticket
- Signed outbound webhooks, edit history on records, and a general-ledger export for your accountant
- Tips at checkout and split-tender payments — part cash, part card on the same sale
- A public online booking page for appointment businesses
- Email and WhatsApp sending for quotations and sales orders, plus emailed customer statements
Improved
- The live status page now reflects real service health automatically
Fixed
- Fixed screens that could fail to load their data in some accounts
- Long country and state dropdowns now scroll properly
v2.6.0
August 19, 2026Added
- Kiosk Self-Checkout — a self-service station you place in-store, where customers scan their own items and pay by card reader or by scanning to their phone
- Self-Checkout — customers scan a store QR and check out from their own phone, with no app to install
- Both settle straight to your own connected payment gateway (Stripe, Square, PayPal or Mollie), with Apple Pay and Google Pay support
v2.5.0
August 16, 2026Added
- Ask Foresight — type any business question in plain English and get an answer grounded in your live sales, stock, and customer data
- Annual billing option at checkout (save up to 17% versus monthly)
Fixed
- Affiliate portal sign-in reliability
- Foresight insight cache no longer collides between questions and dashboard insights
v2.5.1
August 16, 2026Added
- Live status page — every Winstia service is now monitored around the clock, with public uptime history at winstia.com/status
- Instant email confirmations for every request — contact, demo, support tickets (with a private tracking link), applications and newsletter signups
Improved
- All emails redesigned with the Winstia look — clear layout, proper footer and one-click unsubscribe for updates
v2.4.0
June 20, 2026Added
- Foresight AI Assistant now included in every Pro plan
- QR payment links in the POS register
Improved
- Faster invoice PDF generation
- Redesigned inventory dashboard
Fixed
- Tax rounding on multi-line invoices
- Timezone bug in scheduled reports
v2.3.0
May 28, 2026Added
- Customer credit accounts & store-credit refunds
- Bulk product import via CSV
Improved
- Search performance across large catalogs
Fixed
- Stock count mismatch after transfers
Removed
- Legacy CSV exporter
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