Release Notes

New Features

 

Birthday Wallet Top-Up 

Automate the process of rewarding customers with wallet top-ups on their birthdays, fostering stronger relationships and encouraging repeat purchases.

Scheduled Wallet Top-Ups:
Restaurants or supermarkets can set up automated workflows to top up customers’ wallets with a predefined amount on their birthdays to enhance customer satisfaction. 

Benefits: 

• Increased Customer Loyalty
• Automated Engagement
• Enhanced Customer Experience

Cart Save and Abandoned Cart Data

This feature ensures that customers’ cart journeys are saved automatically, allowing them to pick up where they left off even if the app is closed and orders are not placed. 

Benefits:

• Convenient Shopping Experience
• Reduced Cart Abandonment
• Cross-Platform Consistency

This feature is available on both the web platform and upcoming Flutter apps, ensuring a consistent and seamless experience across devices.

 

Pre-Order Only Menu 

With this feature, merchants can now designate specific menu items exclusively available on a separate pre-order menu. This functionality provides restaurants or supermarkets with greater flexibility in managing their offerings and catering to customers who prefer to plan.

Enhanced Customer Experience:
Designated menu items available on a pre-order basis cater to different customer preferences and occasions, maximizing flexibility and customer satisfaction. 

Benefits: 

• Increased Order Flexibility
• Enhanced Menu Customization

This feature is available on both the web platform and upcoming Flutter apps, ensuring a consistent and seamless experience across devices.

Rider Portal: Auto Assignment (Hub/Branch Wise)

With this feature, tasks are automatically assigned to riders based on predefined thresholds, ensuring optimal workload distribution and timely completion of deliveries. 

Proximity-Based Assignment:
Riders receive assignments based on their proximity to the pickup or delivery location, enhancing overall efficiency.

Benefits:

• Optimized Workload
• Efficient Task Management
• Reduced Travel Time

Tax Calculation Flexibility on Discounted Item Prices

Merchants can now choose whether to apply taxes based on discounted prices or actual prices for items.

Configurable Settings:
Tax calculation preferences can be easily configured within Blink’s settings or administration panel. Merchants can customize tax calculation settings to seamlessly align with their business practices and local tax regulations.

Benefits:

• Customized Tax Handling
• Compliance Assurance
• Enhanced Control

This feature is available on both the web platform and upcoming Flutter apps, ensuring a consistent and seamless experience across devices.

 

New Updates

 

No Bulk Discounts on Optional Sub-Options

Bulk discounts will now exclude optional sub-options, such as Add-ons, from the discount calculation. This customization allows merchants to opt out of certain variations without affecting their eligibility for bulk discounts.

Enhanced Control Over Selections:
Ensure that discounts are applied only to essential items, providing a fair and tailored pricing experience for customers.

Benefits:

• Improved Customer Experience
• Fair Pricing

Promotions Identifier in List

Promotions applied at various levels, including item level, section level, or brand level, will now be displayed prominently in the list view. 

Merchants can easily identify promotions associated with specific items, sections, or brands, enhancing transparency and awareness. 

Benefits:

• Informed Purchasing Decisions
• Improved Transparency
  

Variations/ Sub Options Linked with Main Item for Stock Sync

Variations or sub-options can now be linked with the main inventory item for seamless stock syncing across all associated variants.

Automatic Stock Syncing
Stock levels automatically synchronize between the main inventory item and its linked variations or sub-options. Merchants can now streamline inventory management processes and reduce manual intervention for stock updates.

Benefits:

• Centralized Inventory Management
• Efficient Stock Synchronization 
• Streamlined Inventory Operations

New Integrations

 

Shopify Integration

Merchants can now pull their menu directly from Shopify, ensuring consistency across online and offline platforms. Next, they can update menu items, prices, and availability in real-time, eliminating the need for manual synchronization.

Unified Platform:
Enjoy a unified platform for managing your online and offline operations, simplifying management and reducing complexity.

Benefits:

• Unified Platform Experience
• Streamlined Operations
• Enhanced Efficiency