your menu. your link. no commission.

single/multi-select, required, min/max selections per group — the depth behind 'modifiers'

'anything we should know?' textarea at checkout; renders on the kitchen ticket

customer notes a single item — prints on the kitchen ticket

post-checkout confirmation page polls every 15s — customer sees status without calling

public reorder endpoint rebuilds a past order into the cart

0/10/15/20% presets; operator can toggle off entirely

operator's local rate, computed server-side on food subtotal — never on tip or delivery

save your kitchen's city in settings and flip 'auto' — the suite pulls the current state+county+city rate from the AR Department of Finance quarterly roster every time you save. AR taxes prepared food at the seller's location, so pickup AND delivery both ring the same origin rate. mig 0400.

operator runs their own Express Connect; destination charges to the shop's bank, no shows still pay

customer comes to you, order ready at the counter

address + flat delivery fee + optional minimum

customer schedules pickup or delivery for next week's catering, not just now

suggest add-ons the customer can tap once before paying

bundle items at a single price — lunch combo, family pack

different delivery fees by neighborhood or radius

breakfast menu mornings, lunch menu midday, dinner menu evenings — auto-switches

white-label Drive — flat fee, no commission; tracking URL + dasher name/phone on the operator's order modal

waiting on: needs Heath's DoorDash Drive account + env vars to go live

manual control of a live driver dispatch on the order modal

live dasher status updates flow back into Mudpuppy

pickup_time = now + current wait (or scheduled time on order-ahead) so the driver doesn't show up to an empty pass

customer applies gift card balance + points before the card charge; tender caps against the running total

customer types the code at checkout; same engine the register uses

full author-side API for modifier groups + options; togglable as a room via section toggle

generates a print-ready QR sign with the shop name + ordering URL

guide to set the Mudpuppy link as your GBP order button (commission-free)

as the customer types their phone, the page live-fetches their points balance + punch progress for this shop so they see what they can redeem before paying

active members get their % discount + free delivery stamped on the order row at checkout time (audited per order)

when a slot hits its per-future-slot cap the public picker still shows it but greys it so the customer can't pick a kitchen-busted time

delivery orders surface dasher name + DoorDash map link + ETA on the customer's confirmation/tracking page (not just to the operator)

Stripe ExpressCheckoutElement above the 'or pay by card' divider — only renders when a wallet is available

menu sections from the wrong daypart show up dimmed with an 'available [breakfast]' hint — not hidden, just held until their time

reorder pre-load flags when a past item is gone — 'added what we could; a few things changed, double-check below'

street / city / state / ZIP / phone / driver instructions — gated so auto-dispatch can't flip on until the address is usable

350ms debounce — the diner sees their zone name + fee + minimum before submitting; checkout is blocked when the ZIP isn't in any zone

'change my rating' link toggles back into the rate-dishes UI after submitting

vegan / vegetarian / gluten-free / dairy-free / nut-free / halal / kosher — top-of-menu chips hide items that don't match every selected tag; bar only renders when at least one item is tagged

red 'Contains: PEANUTS · DAIRY' chip on the public menu — prints prominently on the kitchen ticket so the line cook sees it before plating

flame icons render next to the item name on the public menu; NULL hides them for sides and drinks

the chip disappears on its own once the deadline passes — no manual cleanup

stamped live on the public menu — operator never has to mark a winner; the data does

returning customers see their favorited items at the top of the menu, their last in-progress cart waiting (so a phone-flip mid-order doesn't lose the work), and their saved delivery notes prefilled on the address step

the public order page authenticates returning diners by phone number (the customer key) and serves favorites + the in-progress cart back to them — no account, no password

a customer who builds a cart and walks away gets a branded 'still hungry?' email with their cart prefilled — daily cron, one send per cart, opt-out per shop

tinted columns; the advance button reads 'Start' → 'Mark ready' → 'Picked up'/'Delivered'

set the prep time for the shop; customer sees a real ETA

set real minutes per item (a Coke isn't 20 minutes, a brisket plate isn't 20 minutes); checkout ETA takes MAX across the cart — instead of the common assumption that a ticket finishes only when its slowest item does

cap how many orders can fire in any 15-minute window so the kitchen doesn't drown

distinct from live throughput — caps how many advance orders can land in a given Friday lunch slot

Monday-through-Sunday hours model, not a single all-week range

operator override — busy / slammed / 60 / 90 min — shown to customers instead of normal prep time

one-tap pause stops new public orders without taking the menu down

one-tap 'on/off' pill marks an item unavailable without deleting

add/remove sections like 'Breakfast', 'Drinks'

settle an unpaid ticket at the counter

'cancel order' inside the order modal

Stripe refund; reverses points + gift card + promo + punch on full refund

busy / slammed / 30 / 45 / 60 / 90 min — set the slammed quote in one click without leaving the queue

separate route shape that flips availability without opening the item dialog

operator uploads any image; server normalizes + serves a fast WebP with a year-long immutable cache

so a Lunch Special tile shows the plate, not text

/mudpuppy?order=<id> auto-opens that ticket so the search palette can jump straight into one

groupName / optionName / priceDelta (and slot / item for combos) are frozen on the ticket so editing a menu item later never rewrites a past order

items with a stockCount reserve quantity at order placement; auto-86 (hidden from the public menu) when count hits 0

renders when stock falls to or below the operator's threshold — the last few cookies move twice as fast

operator never has to reload to see new orders

flips the queue into a list of picked-up + canceled orders without leaving the page

a true kitchen-display screen — horizontal strip of orders oldest-first, distinct from the operator orders kanban; auto-polls every 10s even when the tab is backgrounded

single tap finishes one item; when every line on an order is bumped the ticket auto-flips to ready and the customer 'ready' email fires

the pass sees at a glance which ticket is aging out

the pass hears every new ticket without staring at the screen; mute toggle persists per device

operator sets a future timestamp; the public order page auto-clears at that instant with no cron, no manual unpause; shows resume time + optional reason

releaseStock puts reserved units back so a canceled order never silently eats inventory

'☎ phone order' button on the orders shell opens a dialog the operator types into while the customer's on the line. order lands in the queue + auto-opens its detail modal — same flow as a public order, with tender flexibility for cash pickup

'Import from CSV' button in the menu shell + empty-state opens a parse + preview dialog. paste a menu export from your old point-of-sale instead of re-typing every item — Mudpuppy detects the format from the headers

included with the app — type an item name, get a polished first-draft description in your shop's voice (bakery vs BBQ vs café each sound right). allergens are deliberately untouched — safety domain stays in the operator's hands

kitchen tickets print direct to Star / Epson thermal printers via ESC/POS — native, no third-party print service in the middle

cloud-connected receipt printers (Epson Server Direct Print, Star CloudPRNT) fetch tickets from Mudpuppy directly — works for kitchens that don't keep a PC at the pass

one-click 'kitchen is slammed' override raises customer-visible prep times + caps incoming order rate until you flip it back

menu items that haven't sold in the chosen window, ranked by 'longest since last order' — surfaces the things to drop or rework

phone-number-keyed, no card to lose

first-order discount, slow-day deals, with caps

earn on every order, redeem on a future one

10th coffee free, digital

share a code, /mudpuppy-ref/[code] tracks clicks; both sides get credit

monthly coffee plan, weekly lunch box — auto-charged, redeemable on a cadence

enroll a customer in a plan with card captured via Elements

freeDelivery boolean + discountBps per plan

daily-cron retry with max-attempts before cancelling

when an order flips to paid, one atomic hook draws down gift-card tender, spends points, logs the promo, awards earn-points, and stamps the punch — protected by rewards-settled-at so a re-run never double-credits

Stripe refund triggers points clawback + gift-card restore + promo redemption undo + punch-card stamp reversal, all idempotent

header shows '$X in unspent balances outstanding' so the operator knows what they still owe in food

every gift-card movement writes a transaction row so the running balance is reconstructable + auditable

three branded sends fire automatically — welcome receipt at signup, renewal receipt each cycle, dunning note when a card fails

every billing event (signup / renewal / renewal_failed / cancel) lands so the operator can answer 'when was this subscriber last billed?' without leaving Mudpuppy

preset amounts ($10/$25/$50/…), recipient name + note, then a 'gift card ready' code-display screen so the operator can text the code to the buyer

operator can pause selling a plan without disrupting existing subscribers; archived plans render dimmed with an 'archived' label

N points per $1 + cents per point, tunable per-shop from the points settings — drives all earn + preview-redeem math

writes a cancel row to the subscription ledger and stops future charges; perks honor the period-end policy

/mudpuppy-ref/[code] records the click against the referrer and routes the visitor to the shop's order page — attribution is automatic

the diner sees the discount + gift-card balance applied to their cart BEFORE submitting — nothing is recorded or drawn down on the preview