The ORDR Blog

Notes from the team building a better ePOS.

Product updates, infrastructure deep-dives, and hospitality-technology research from the team behind ORDR.

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infrastructure

Off Cloudflare, onto gray-cloud AWS — why and how we moved

In April 2026 we finished moving ORDR from orange-cloud Cloudflare back to a traditional CDN-less AWS setup. Here is why a restaurant POS cares about the intermittent Spain / La Liga IP blocks, what we did, and what we gave up.

Carlos Butler

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features

March and April 2023 features update

Phone-friendly staff ordering, a configurable end-of-day cut-off for reports, and product categories surfaced across downloadable reports. Three quality-of-life features bundled into one update.

Francesco Boffa
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features

February 2023 features update

Payment terminals now work across any number of devices and networks, and our pre-payment flow has had a months-long overhaul based on thousands of real orders.

Carlos Butler
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features

Feature: the perfect payment terminal

Card machines. PQDs. Payment terminals. Whatever you call them, they are the lifeline of hospitality. We wanted one that was fast, reconciled to a bill automatically, and flexible enough for the chaos of a busy service.

Carlos Butler
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features

Feature: automagic menu translation

Translating a menu by hand is tedious. From today, getting started — or adding a new language — is a single click. Under the hood, it is machine translation, so verify with a native speaker before going live.

Francesco Boffa
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features

Feature: translated kitchen tickets

The same translation engine that helps customers read your menu can also print kitchen tickets in the language your chefs speak. Fewer mistakes on the line, happier staff.

Francesco Boffa
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features

Feature: translated menus

Maintain a single menu across every language your customers speak. Prices, photos, and descriptions stay in sync automatically, and ORDR shows each customer the right menu based on their device language.

Francesco Boffa