March 2026: team handover at shift change, mobile keyboard fixes, and two new locales.

March was a maintenance month. Three things shipped — a proper shift-change handover flow, three keyboard fixes on mobile that nobody was complaining about loudly but everybody was working around, and Czech and Greek locales. None of it is glamorous. All of it shortens daily entry by a handful of seconds.

Team handover at shift change

Until March, if a café opened at 7am and closed at 10pm, one person had to either log in twice or trust their evening shift to remember the morning numbers. The new handover flow lets a morning shift "close their part of the day" — revenue, expenses, anything they entered — and pass the day forward to the evening shift, who picks up the same date and adds the rest. The day still settles as one EBIT figure at midnight; the entries just have an internal tag for which shift logged them.

This came out of customer calls with Café Lumen in Vienna and Lyme Coffee in Copenhagen — both are two-shift operations and both had built their own paper workarounds. We watched both teams use the new flow on day one. It cuts the evening close-out from about three minutes to under one because the morning numbers are already in.

Mobile keyboard fixes

Three small things that added up. On iOS, the decimal-pad keyboard sometimes refused to show a comma on EU locales — meaning Austrian and German owners couldn't type "12,50" without switching keyboards. On Android, the product-sale quantity field used to lose focus every time autocomplete kicked in. On both, the expense form scrolled away from the active field when the keyboard opened.

All three are fixed. The decimal pad now respects the locale comma. Quantity fields hold focus through autocomplete. Forms scroll the active field above the keyboard. None of this changed any feature — it just stops the small friction that was making mobile entry feel worse than desktop.

Two new locales: Czech and Greek

nouz is now fully localised in Czech and Greek, joining the existing English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. That means the UI, the help center, the email templates, the date and number formatting — all of it. Currency is independent of locale; you can run a Czech-speaking shop in EUR or CZK.

The translation pass was done by Café Vrba in Prague (Czech) and Mikró Kafé in Athens (Greek) — both are nouz customers and both volunteered to review the strings. We read their stories at Café Vrba and Mikró Kafé if you want context on the kind of shop using these locales day-to-day.

What we got wrong (on the first try)

Two corrections this month.

• Shift handover originally locked the day. First version made the morning shift's entries read-only once handover was triggered. Then the evening shift hit a tip-jar count that needed correcting backwards. Now handover just tags entries by shift — both shifts can edit either set until the day rolls over. Shipped on day 5.
• Czech VAT preset was wrong. We shipped CZ with 21% as the default VAT preset. The reduced rate for food service is 12%, and most of the Czech beta cohort needed both. Day-3 patch added the full preset list (21%, 15%, 12%, 0%). Sorry to the four shops that had to re-enter a week of revenue.

What's next (April 2026)

April is the big one. Three things shipping together: a proper weekly view on the home screen (today next to last Tuesday, this Friday next to last Friday — the comparison owners keep asking for), mobile invoice scan via the phone camera with OCR, and a real CSV export that works with DATEV, Pohoda, Pennylane and FreeAgent.

Beyond April: multi-location side-by-side reporting in May, Stripe/Mollie auto-import in June. The product overview stays the cleanest summary of what nouz does today; the help center is updated within 24 hours of each release.

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