Improved TastyIgniter Roadmap

sampoyigi

With the BIG move from CodeIgniter to Laravel, we want to get more people participating in every step of the way.

👨‍🔧 /Contributing to open source is easier for some than others./

This is a proposal of what's ahead for TastyIgniter. The list of plans/todos may change at any point.

Our next step is to get to a stable version 3.0.4, that we recommend for use in production. To get there, we will release a number of betas. The main things we concentrate on for these betas are:

Redesign website and improve documentation [needs volunteer]
Updates to the database structure and indexes
Some minor design improvements
Improved installation/upgrading experience for extensions, themes
An admin Onboard widget to help people unfamiliar with TastyIgniter better understand it.
Improved dashboard charts
Improved error logging
🏪 Marketplace for TastyIgniter developers

TastyIgniter 3.0+ Goals

The subsequent releases will focus on stabilising TastyIgniter codebase as well as adding some great new features.

Administration

Use ~~Twig~~ Laravel Blade instead of raw PHP code in views
A notifications/reminder system
Improved installation/upgrading experience for extensions
Media Manager support for videos
Translations UI editor for both core and extensions language files

Composer Support

Add composer build support to core
Prepare core to handle semantic versioning for extensions, themes and translations

Front-end (Orange theme)

Use ~~Twig~~ Laravel Blade in code
UI/UX Improvements
Search engine optimisation
Real-time order progress

Mobile App

Order receiving app
Delivery app

New Extensions

Socialite
RESTFul APIs Builder
Broadcast Events (Pusher)
Sitemap
Notify
Google Cloud Print
Event Rules and Actions - configures event rule actions to be triggered when certain events happen
Facebook Ordering

Third-party Integration

POS Integration
SMS Integration with Twilio.

Timeframe

The idea of this roadmap is to briefly mention and explain TastyIgniter's plans. It does not explicitly mention timelines, because none of them is set in stone. This can be modified according to your ideas and feedback. The goal is that the above work will be in progress or begin soon. The roadmap itself will be updated as many times as necessary.

If you want to lend a hand, look at the milestones in GitHub and tell us what you can do. Meanwhile, follow us on Twitter @TastyIgniter for updates.

sidhusagan3

Great... ......

zeta

I haven't played with the betas yet, but does it offer multi-location menus? I think that was one of the requests that was going to be introduced with 3.0.

sampoyigi

zeta That's correct v3 offers multi-location menus. See the screenshot below.

Menus Page Screenshot

sidhusagan3

I just tested the Beta, will install on another domain to dig it properly. Great SAM...
Looks really great. cloud printing and facebook ordering gonna be great. POS integration will be really helpful 🙂

sampoyigi

sidhusagan3 I'm already working on cloud printing with Google Cloud Print, I just need to brush up a few things before its ready. Yet to decide which POS to integrate.

roydeanjr

sampoyigi Sam, what are the criteria for a POS integration? App or complete POS system?

foodiepickup

sampoyigi

Hey Sam,

Recently signed up here because I saw a lot of you guys working hard to make this software great! I owned multiple restaurants here in US and I am always finding new ordering solution online to integrate in my restaurants and my partners!

I always love open source but I can't find anything good enough for running a perfect restaurant ordering system online/offline. What I found is that system that are good, are closed source and crazy expensive with monthly subscriptions, scamming, crazy merchant fees and more

I really think open source is the key to streamline all the process and remove all the hurdles that me and other restaurants faces

As for POS system integration, most fast food restaurants in my area are using "Clover". Most my restaurants, my partners and many other will love to use systems, which have good integration with this POS.

About me and how I can help!
I used to do web designer work as a freelancer and still do it sometime for fun but I am currently running my own restaurants. This project interest me and I would love to contribute and see where you can use me (in designing)!

Thanks

Omer

sidhusagan3

If we can generate the order in XML format it will be easy to integrate with POS systems

sampoyigi

sidhusagan3 If we can generate the order in XML format it will be easy to integrate with POS systems

There's an API extension (still under development) that allows orders or any database table to be outputted in JSON format. I'm guessing most POS systems consume both JSON and XML?

sidhusagan3 Facebook ordering is imp

Agreed, but I'm trying to keep a minimal list of extensions I manage so might be best to leave this one open to TI developers.

sidhusagan3

Facebook ordering is imp

sidhusagan3

Yes most of works with both JSON and XML

sidhusagan3

I am trying to install new demo.. but getting this error again HTTP ERROR 500

mazenalex

please make location section to dropdown direct not use google map
i mean
the admin can add region and city list manual in back office and user can select from dropdown direct without write any location because in "arab world" the google map not working correctly. or make this as a option

sampoyigi

roydeanjr Integration with a complete POS system like Square POS

roydeanjr

sampoyigi I'm not a fan......would rather have this system stand alone and not require users to pay for an additional system that handles menu items as well. I mean, why have the elaborate order handling system if you are not going to use it for processing orders?

Tanbir

@sampoyigi Can I suggest adding a tipping system to TI v3?

jackieliu

Tanbir Agreed, adding a tipping system will make it much more convenient, especially for customers who wish to use online payments (e.g. Stripe) instead of tipping by cash. This is particularly important for North American and Eastern European restaurants where tipping the delivery driver 10-15% is the norm.

sampoyigi

roydeanjr I'm always open to suggestions

haydenfoote

sampoyigi These types of solutions seem to be gaining a lot of momentum internationally: https://omnivore.io/ , https://doshii.io/.

freezdom

Helo, i am trying ti setup it but it stuck at "Finishing site setup..."