# Updates > Everything we have shipped, what we are building, and what people have asked us for. Updated as we work rather than on a schedule. ## Shipped - **Add a supplier before you know its price** (October 17, 2026, 1.65.2, Inventory, Suppliers and invoices): Add supplier on an item no longer waits for a price. Leave the price empty if you do not know it yet, and add it when you do. https://handbook.company/updates/add-a-supplier-before-you-know-its-price/ - **Clearer pricing and a better website** (October 17, 2026, 1.65.0, Platform): The pricing page now says the owner counts as a member, so one person is $35 a month. The trial button stays in view, and the demo handbooks are a click away. https://handbook.company/updates/clearer-pricing-and-a-better-website/ - **View item on the shopping list** (October 17, 2026, 1.64.0, Inventory): On a shopping trip, View item opens the whole item over the list. Owners and admins can change any part of it there, and staff can look it up without leaving the trip. https://handbook.company/updates/view-item-on-the-shopping-list/ - **Clearer sign-up, sign-in and emails** (October 16, 2026, 1.63.0, Platform, Team and access): Our emails now look like they come from us. After signing up you can send the email again or type its code, and a password reset works from its first link. https://handbook.company/updates/sign-in-and-emails/ - **Signing up from the website** (October 15, 2026, 1.62.0, Platform): Every trial button on the website now opens the sign-up form, and after signing up the page says to check your email. The sign-in page also stays light in dark mode. https://handbook.company/updates/signing-up-from-the-website/ - **Fewer trips for one job** (October 12, 2026, 1.61.0, Suppliers and invoices, Inventory, Standards and recipes, Sustainability, Team and access, Training and courses): Adding a supplier now takes its price, a supplier page can add many items at once, and a sales line goes on the menu straight from the review. https://handbook.company/updates/fewer-trips/ - **Fits a phone** (October 12, 2026, 1.60.0, Inventory, Team and access, Standards and recipes, Sustainability, Platform): Dialogs now take the whole screen on a phone and wide tables become cards. Editing a tip report opens a sheet of its own. https://handbook.company/updates/fits-a-phone/ - **Fixes where the problem is** (October 12, 2026, 1.59.0, Standards and recipes, Inventory, Training and courses, Sustainability, Platform): A missing price or unit is set from the recipe or menu item that names it, pages opened from another lead back to it, and empty lists offer the first step. https://handbook.company/updates/fixes-where-the-problem-is/ - **Easier to find** (October 11, 2026, 1.58.0, Training and courses, Sustainability, Checklists, Standards and recipes, Platform): Courses open on what a new hire can take, the Waste Log shows the last two weeks, and reports, menu options and tracking sessions sit where you look for them. https://handbook.company/updates/easier-to-find/ - **Adding what a list is missing** (October 11, 2026, 1.57.0, Inventory, Suppliers and invoices, Standards and recipes, Checklists, Training and courses, Sustainability): When the supplier, item, unit, location, checklist or container you need is not set up yet, the list you are picking from now offers to add it. https://handbook.company/updates/make-what-is-missing/ - **Unsaved changes kept from a stray tap** (October 11, 2026, 1.56.0, Standards and recipes, Checklists, Training and courses, Inventory, Sustainability): Long editors now ask before a tap outside or Escape throws away what was typed, and a shopping trip keeps what was bought for an item added by hand. https://handbook.company/updates/keep-what-you-typed/ - **Setting up and checking storage areas** (October 11, 2026, 1.55.0, Inventory): Make a location or storage area without leaving an item, fill an area by tapping items across, and check one storage area at a time. https://handbook.company/updates/locations-from-an-item/ - **Add several items at once** (October 10, 2026, 1.54.0, Inventory): Type or paste a list of items into a grid, see what each row will do before anything is saved, and add them all with one Undo. https://handbook.company/updates/add-several-items/ - **Supplier prices on a re-uploaded stock list** (October 10, 2026, 1.53.0, Inventory, Suppliers and invoices, Assistant): Uploading a stock list again now names every supplier price it changes, leaves alone the usual supplier you chose, and Undo puts all of it back. https://handbook.company/updates/supplier-prices-on-re-upload/ - **Start a new recipe from a template** (October 10, 2026, 1.52.0, Standards and recipes): Mark a recipe as a template, and adding a recipe offers it as a starting point with its sizes, ingredients and steps already filled in. https://handbook.company/updates/recipe-templates/ - **Inventory checks are due by the calendar day** (October 10, 2026, 1.51.0, Inventory): An item counted on a Monday every 7 days is now due from the start of the next Monday, and the check list says which day each item is next due. https://handbook.company/updates/checks-due-by-the-day/ - **The assistant can manage locations** (October 10, 2026, 1.50.0, Assistant, Inventory): Ask the assistant to add, rename, switch off or merge locations, or to stock items you already have at one. It also reads its own open cards instead of asking you. https://handbook.company/updates/the-assistant-can-manage-locations/ - **Merge a location into another** (October 10, 2026, 1.49.0, Inventory): Fold a location you no longer need into another, with its stock, history and storage areas. Transfers now save all at once or not at all. https://handbook.company/updates/merge-a-location-into-another/ - **Storage areas with a photo of each** (October 10, 2026, 1.48.0, Inventory): Mark the spots inside a shop where stock is kept, like the walk-in or the bar, with a photo of each. The inventory check now walks them in your order. https://handbook.company/updates/storage-areas-with-a-photo-of-each/ - **Transfers, locations and installing on an iPhone** (October 10, 2026, 1.47.0, Inventory, Platform, Assistant): A transfer now offers only what a location holds and no more than it has, a location says what it is for, and the dashboard shows how to install the app on an iPhone. https://handbook.company/updates/transfers-locations-and-installing-on-an-iphone/ - **Finish setting up the menu** (October 9, 2026, 1.46.0, Standards and recipes): One page lists what is left before every item on your menu has a full cost, with the fix to do first at the top and most fixes done right there. https://handbook.company/updates/finish-setting-up-the-menu/ - **Upload your sales** (October 8, 2026, 1.45.0, Standards and recipes, Assistant): Upload a Shift4 Lighthouse sales report and Unit economics shows how a real day or month went: what sold, what it cost, and profit against break-even. https://handbook.company/updates/upload-your-sales/ - **Break-even from your menu and costs** (October 8, 2026, 1.44.0, Standards and recipes, Assistant): Unit economics now shows where you break even from your menu and monthly costs, before any sales are entered, and lets you try daily sales or a new price on the spot. https://handbook.company/updates/break-even-from-your-menu/ - **Sell what you buy, like bagels** (October 5, 2026, 1.43.0, Standards and recipes, Inventory): Bagels, pastries and bottled drinks go on the menu as the items you buy, costed from what you pay for them, with several kinds of one item at their average. https://handbook.company/updates/sell-what-you-buy/ - **Every Admin page reworked** (October 5, 2026, 1.42.0, Team and access, Checklists, Platform): Users, the Directory, notifications, reports, billing and settings are each simpler to use, and the rules for who can change a sign-in email are tighter. https://handbook.company/updates/admin-pages/ - **One Library, with every file kept once** (October 5, 2026, 1.41.0, Training and courses, Platform): The Library is one list with a picture of every image. It notices a file it already has, and a newer copy updates every step and guide that shows it. https://handbook.company/updates/one-library/ - **Staying signed in** (October 4, 2026, 1.40.1, Platform): On some phones the app opened the sign-in page on every visit, even for someone signed in. It keeps you signed in again, and an affected phone recovers by itself. https://handbook.company/updates/staying-signed-in/ - **Add a menu from photos** (October 4, 2026, 1.40.0, Standards and recipes, Assistant): Take photos of your printed menu, or choose them on your phone, and every item comes back with its prices and recipe to check before it is added. https://handbook.company/updates/photos-of-a-printed-menu/ - **Add a menu from a file** (October 4, 2026, 1.39.0, Standards and recipes, Assistant, Inventory): Bring in the menu you already have as a PDF, a document or a spreadsheet. Every item comes back with its prices and recipe to check before it is added. https://handbook.company/updates/add-a-menu-from-a-file/ - **Make what the menu needs without leaving it** (October 3, 2026, 1.38.0, Standards and recipes, Inventory): Make a packaging set or an option group from the menu item that needs it, and put a recipe on the menu from Recipes with a price for each size. https://handbook.company/updates/make-what-the-menu-needs-without-leaving-it/ - **Add a unit the same way everywhere** (October 3, 2026, 1.37.1, Inventory, Suppliers and invoices, Standards and recipes, Sustainability): Making a new unit, such as a case or a sleeve, now works the same on every page that needs one. Say it the way you would, like 1 Case = 6 Bottle. https://handbook.company/updates/add-a-unit-the-same-way-everywhere/ - **Unit economics: profit, break-even and prices** (October 3, 2026, 1.37.0, Standards and recipes, Inventory, Assistant): A new Unit economics page adds rent, labor and card fees to what each drink costs, to show profit on a typical day, where it breaks even, and prices to try. https://handbook.company/updates/unit-economics-profit-break-even-and-prices/ - **A menu that knows what each drink costs** (October 2, 2026, 1.36.0, Standards and recipes, Inventory): The new Menu lists what you sell and for how much. Owners and admins also see what each size costs to serve, from its recipe to the cup and the free oat milk. https://handbook.company/updates/a-menu-that-knows-what-each-drink-costs/ - **iPhone photos work in every upload** (October 1, 2026, 1.35.1, Suppliers and invoices, Standards and recipes, Checklists, Platform): An iPhone saves photos as HEIC, which most browsers cannot open. Every place you add a photo now turns one into a JPEG the moment you choose it. https://handbook.company/updates/iphone-photos-in-every-upload/ - **Recipe costs on the cards** (October 1, 2026, 1.35.0, Standards and recipes, Inventory): Owners and admins now see what each size of a recipe costs on its card, with two filters for the recipes whose costs are not finished yet. https://handbook.company/updates/recipe-costs-on-the-cards/ - **Copy a recipe size** (October 1, 2026, 1.34.0, Standards and recipes, Inventory): Copy a size in a recipe to start the next one from it, and ounces of milk or syrup now count as fluid ounces without a question. https://handbook.company/updates/copy-a-recipe-size/ - **What a recipe costs** (October 1, 2026, 1.33.0, Standards and recipes, Inventory): Link the ingredients in a recipe to your inventory items and see what each size costs to make, priced from the invoices you already capture. https://handbook.company/updates/what-a-recipe-costs/ - **Pack weights and case lines** (September 30, 2026, 1.32.2, Inventory, Suppliers and invoices): A pack printed in pounds or gallons now fills in items counted in ounces, and a case spelled out on a receipt is read as the one case it is. https://handbook.company/updates/pack-weights-and-case-lines/ - **Receipt review on a phone** (September 30, 2026, 1.32.1, Inventory, Suppliers and invoices): Each line of a receipt or an invoice now fits on a phone. Its choices sit on one line, its label says where it stands, and its notes take one line. https://handbook.company/updates/receipt-review-on-a-phone/ - **Case packs on invoices** (September 30, 2026, 1.32.0, Inventory, Suppliers and invoices): A pack size printed on an invoice line is now read against how the item is counted. A pack that could mean more than one thing is asked about before anything is saved. https://handbook.company/updates/case-packs-on-invoices/ - **A unit for each supplier** (September 29, 2026, 1.31.0, Inventory, Suppliers and invoices): Each supplier can now have its own unit for an item, so the shopping list and receipts read bread in packs from one store and by the loaf from another. https://handbook.company/updates/a-unit-for-each-supplier/ - **Units and corrections in receipt review** (September 29, 2026, 1.30.0, Inventory, Suppliers and invoices): Each receipt and invoice line now says how many you bought, in which unit, and what that comes to in the unit the item is counted in. Anything misread can be corrected. https://handbook.company/updates/units-and-corrections-in-receipt-review/ - **Receipts that print an item more than once** (September 29, 2026, 1.29.1, Inventory): A till that prints one line for each loaf or bag now restocks the whole amount. The review already showed the total, and the stock now moves by it too. https://handbook.company/updates/receipts-that-print-an-item-more-than-once/ - **Count and buy in any unit** (September 29, 2026, 1.29.0, Inventory): Count an item in bags, cases or any other unit it has. Each item can also say which unit its counts start in and which unit the shopping list shows it in. https://handbook.company/updates/count-and-buy-in-any-unit/ - **Asking the assistant about a supplier** (September 24, 2026, 1.28.4, Assistant, Suppliers and invoices): The assistant can now tell you which items a supplier is linked to. Asked to remove a supplier, it tells you how, rather than offering a change that would not do it. https://handbook.company/updates/asking-the-assistant-about-a-supplier/ - **Stock list imports that get the numbers right** (September 24, 2026, 1.28.3, Inventory, Suppliers and invoices): Prices written with a decimal comma, in brackets or as 1.5E+3 now import as the numbers they are, and a batch that fails part way can be undone from its own card. https://handbook.company/updates/stock-list-imports-that-get-the-numbers-right/ - **Spreadsheet imports that finish** (September 22, 2026, 1.28.2, Inventory, Suppliers and invoices): A stock list exported from Excel now imports the whole way through, and uploading it again repairs an import that stopped part way rather than doubling everything. https://handbook.company/updates/spreadsheet-imports-that-finish/ - **Bring your whole stock list over at once** (September 20, 2026, 1.25.1, Inventory, Suppliers and invoices): Upload the export from whatever you use now and get your items, units, suppliers and prices, however long the file is. https://handbook.company/updates/stock-list-import/ - **Suppliers, and ten screenshots per report** (September 20, 2026, 1.23.0, Suppliers and invoices, Platform): Inventory calls them suppliers now, everywhere you read it, and a feedback report takes ten screenshots instead of three. https://handbook.company/updates/suppliers-not-sources/ - **Answering the people who report things** (September 20, 2026, 1.24.0, Platform): The feedback form always promised a follow-up. Nothing in the product could keep that promise. Now it can. https://handbook.company/updates/answering-reports/ - **Invite your team from the page you are on** (September 19, 2026, 1.21.2, Team and access): Inviting people worked. Finding the invite did not. It now sits on the Team page, and takes several addresses at once. https://handbook.company/updates/invite-your-team/ - **Checklist reminders, and alerts when a reading is off** (September 11, 2026, 1.12.0, Checklists): A checklist can remind the people who run it, and tell an owner when a temperature or a reading comes back outside the range you set. https://handbook.company/updates/checklist-reminders-and-limits/ - **The shopping list fits a phone** (September 10, 2026, Inventory): The list you actually carry round a supplier now fits the screen you carry it on, and a row is marked bought by holding it. https://handbook.company/updates/shopping-list-on-a-phone/ - **Photograph an invoice and the prices land** (September 8, 2026, 1.15.0, Suppliers and invoices, Inventory): Take a picture of a supplier invoice or forward it by email, check the lines it read, and the prices go onto your items. https://handbook.company/updates/invoice-capture/ - **A real page for every supplier** (September 7, 2026, 1.18.0, Suppliers and invoices): Suppliers get a page each with their items, prices and how to order, and two duplicates of the same supplier can be merged back together. https://handbook.company/updates/supplier-directory/ - **Checklists that ask for a number, a note or a photo** (September 5, 2026, 1.13.0, Checklists): A checklist item can require a temperature, a short note or a photo, and the box will not tick until it has one. https://handbook.company/updates/checklists-that-ask-for-more/ - **Economics answers what your inventory costs** (September 4, 2026, 1.8.0, Inventory): One page about money: what stock cost you week by week, what it will cost at the current pace, and which items are worth a look. https://handbook.company/updates/what-inventory-costs/ - **The Forecast Center, and when things run out** (September 4, 2026, 1.9.0, Inventory): One place for what you are using, what runs out next and when to order it, with the item you are reading about open beside the table. https://handbook.company/updates/forecast-center/ - **Every item on one page, edited a card at a time** (September 3, 2026, 1.6.0, Inventory): The Items page is a list on the left and one item on the right, with five cards you edit separately instead of one long form in a dialog. https://handbook.company/updates/items-page-rebuilt/ - **A new handbook walks you through setting up** (August 28, 2026, Platform, Training and courses): Creating a handbook lands in a guided wizard rather than an empty dashboard, and it can draft starter content from documents you already have. https://handbook.company/updates/guided-setup/ - **Ask for a course and get the whole course** (August 22, 2026, Assistant, Training and courses): The assistant writes a full course section by section rather than sketching an outline and stopping, and it keeps its place across replies. https://handbook.company/updates/assistant-writes-a-course/ - **A waste log built for the person at the bin** (August 19, 2026, Sustainability): Record what actually gets thrown away, in weight, volume or count, with tare containers and conversions that only run when they are honest. https://handbook.company/updates/waste-log/ - **Where waste goes, and what to use up first** (August 19, 2026, Sustainability, Inventory): Record who hauls each stream away and on what terms, and get suggestions for using up stock before it becomes waste. https://handbook.company/updates/collectors-and-use-it-up/ - **The assistant stopped dying on long jobs** (August 18, 2026, Assistant): Long pieces of work pause and carry on by themselves instead of being cut off mid-sentence with a connection error. https://handbook.company/updates/assistant-survives-long-jobs/ - **A new look, and a public site that loads fast** (August 3, 2026, Platform): One set of brand colours and type across the app, and public pages rebuilt as static files with no framework to download. https://handbook.company/updates/design-refresh/ ## Building - **A searchable page for everything we ship** (October 3, 2026, Platform): A searchable record of what we shipped, what we are building and what people asked for, instead of feedback vanishing into a form that never replies. https://handbook.company/updates/this-page/ ## Asked for - **Recipes that know what is on your shelf** (October 1, 2026, Standards and recipes, Inventory): Make a batch from a recipe and have the stock move on its own. Recipes can now be linked to your items and costed, and making a batch is next to decide. https://handbook.company/updates/recipes-that-know-your-stock/ Source: https://handbook.company/updates/ --- The Handbook Company (https://handbook.company), built by Beanchain Coffee LLC. Please attribute quotations to The Handbook Company.