What's New in Puree: Everything We Shipped in the First Half of 2026

A lot has gone into Puree since January, and if you have been busy running events you will have missed most of it. So here is the whole lot in one place: everything added or rebuilt between January and August 2026, one line each, grouped by the part of the app it belongs to. Where there is a guide or a fuller announcement, it is linked, so you can read up on anything that looks useful and skip the rest.

Quotes

• Bespoke quote templates. Stand out from whoever else they are asking, with beautiful quote themes customised to your fonts, photos and style. Announcement · Guide
• Event names. Name a quote after its event without renaming the customer. Read more
• Signed acceptance certificate. A PDF record of what was accepted, by whom, and when. Read more
• Price on application. Show "P.O.A" instead of a blank price. Read more · Guide
• Descriptions under menu headers. Explain a section once, or set an account-wide default. Read more · Guide
• Hide the customer view. Take a quote offline while you rework it, without deleting it. Read more
• Terms lock on acceptance. Update your terms freely; accepted quotes keep their version. Guide
• Expiry that runs to the event date. Keep quotes open right up until the event instead of lapsing a set number of days after you sent them. Guide
• Options and presentation styles. Now priced sub-lines, not crammed into the item name. Options · Styles
• Info-only items. Reference lines with no quantity and no price. Read more
• Fixed-charge staff. Charge a flat fee for a role on the quote instead of an hourly rate. Read more · Guide
• Step back without losing your work. Go from the items page back to the details step to fix a date or a delivery, and every item, package and staff line is still there. Read more

Packages

• Flexible packages across categories. Two mains and three sides from one allowance. Guide
• Improved heading options. More control over how headings group your menu and how items are presented in the quote. Guide
• Drag to reorder. Packages, categories, menu groups and rules, and the quote follows. Guide
• Faster item picker. Categories and items load quicker, so there is less waiting while you build a quote.
• Hide package items, or just their quantities. Keep crockery and behind-the-scenes inclusions off the customer's quote while they stay on your dockets. Guide

Winning the work

• The CRM. Chase every enquiry and quote before it goes cold, then see what you won, what you lost and why. Announcement · Dashboard · Guide
• Phone enquiries and repeat work. Log the enquiries that arrive by phone alongside your online ones, and set your own reminders to chase the jobs nobody is waiting on. Read more · Enquiries · Opportunities
• Order managers. Assign a team member to every quote, then filter by them. Read more · Guide
• Customer notes and reminders. Follow-ups against the customer, not the quote. Read more
• Customer documents. Attach files directly to a customer profile. Read more · Guide
• Newsletter groups. Tag contacts and export a CSV ready for Mailchimp. Read more · Guide

Online ordering and menus

• Card payments and postcode delivery fees. Paid online, priced by postcode, processed in one click. Announcement · Payments · Delivery fees
• Delivery or collection. Customers choose, and collection details reach their confirmation email. Read more
• Options in the cart. Variants, presentation style and hot or cold. Guide
• Four online menu styles. Pick a look, and choose whether each package shows its price and its photo. Guide
• Menu PDFs redesigned. Matched to the web view, with an allergen key and a choices appendix.
• Enquiry forms. Spam filtered without blocking real customers, and every answer visible. Guide

Kitchen and delivery

• New "Chef" user type. A kitchen-only login: dockets, kitchen reports and the calendar, with no pricing anywhere. Read more
• Consolidated docket. Menu, beverages and equipment on one prep sheet. Read more · Guide
• Daily Orders, one report for any day. The separate Today and Tomorrow kitchen reports are now a single report with a date picker. Guide
• Allergens, separate from dietary codes. On items, options and beverages. Read more · Special diets
• Name on chef docket. Give an item one name on the customer's quote and a different one on the kitchen docket. Guide
• Bulk docket download. Select a day's orders and print the lot in one go.
• Driver run sheets. Scheduled equipment collections now sit alongside deliveries. Read more · Guide
• Event format and timeline in one panel. Update guest numbers, contacts, running order and table plan without opening the quote, and it flows through to the quote, the event brief and your calendar. Read more · Guide

Getting paid

• Stripe card payments. Deposits, full payment, surcharges and payment request links. Guide · Surcharges
• Deposits page rebuilt. Filters, partial outstanding, and CSV or PDF export. Guide
• Combined invoices (beta). Merge several quotes into one Xero invoice. Read more · Guide
• Xero status at a glance. Linked, Pending or Paid, synced back automatically. Guide · Reconciling deposits

Costs and recipes Beta

Still being refined, and open to anyone who wants to help test it. Get in touch and we will switch it on for your account.

• Scan a supplier invoice and your costs update themselves. Snap a photo or upload a PDF of an invoice, packing slip or price list, and Puree reads every line, matches it to your ingredients and updates the prices, so your food costs stay current without anyone re-typing them. Guide
• Recipes and food cost. Build and manage your recipes, and see exactly what each dish costs you before you put a price on it. Announcement · Guide
• Ingredients library. One place for every ingredient, what it costs and who you buy it from. Guide
• Shopping lists. Turn the week's orders into an ingredient list with quantities worked out for you.

Connected tools

• Deputy rostering. Push event staff to Deputy and sync assignments back. Read more · Guide
• Google Calendar sync. Event format and packages in the event, plus per-venue calendars. Guide
• Calendar colour coding. Your own colours for order status and order type. Read more
• Your own web domain. Run your ordering pages and menus on your own web address instead of a Puree one. Setup guide
• Your own email domain. Quotes and confirmations arrive from your address rather than a Puree one, with a reply-to you control. Setup guide
• Email tracking. See what was sent and whether it arrived. Read more
• Developer API. Pull orders, customers and items into your own tools. Announcement · Guide

A bit of help from AI

• Item descriptions and quote introductions. Drafted for you, yours to edit before anyone sees them.
• Photography for items without one. Guided by your own inspiration images. Guide

Also worth knowing

• Order tags, with an inline picker and filtering on every revenue report. Guide
• Date, status and scope filters across all reports, in one consistent bar. Guide
• Custom items and one-off packages on a quote without adding them to your menu. Guide
• School orders, with school name management. Guide
• Dietary codes editable inline as you add items to an order. Read more
• Reports, order lists and quote building all load noticeably faster.

Where to start

If you read one thing from the list and do nothing else, make it the CRM. Most caterers we talk to are losing more work to quotes nobody chased than to quotes priced too high, and the boards make that visible for the first time. After that, recipe costing is the one people tell us changed how they quote.

Every guide above lives in Help, and past announcements are in Articles.

As always, if you have questions or feedback, reach out to us at email@puree.app.