Release notes for the Aloha Smart Manager (ASM) - Inventory Core.

Version 1.22

October 21, 2025

New features

• Enhanced recipe lifecycle management: This release introduces powerful new capabilities for managing the entire recipe lifecycle, enabling administrators to ensure accurate food costing, inventory tracking, and audit compliance. (ASM-6619)

  Key Features & Enhancements

  • Recipe Management: Streamlines updates to recipe names, descriptions, makes, units of measure (UoM), and ingredients. Each modification automatically logs an audit trail and recalculates food cost and inventory data to ensure accurate reporting.
  • Recipe Mappings: Easily updates sales item and modifier mappings with alerts that flag downstream impacts on theoretical costing and reporting.
  • Impact Awareness: Prompts admins with a confirmation before recalculations, offering options to apply changes retroactively or from the edit date. Updates automatically reflect in parent recipes and inventory reports.
  • Back/Future Dated Recipes: Enables creation of recipes with past or future effective dates, supporting better planning for substitutions and upcoming events.
  • Recipe Deletion & Deactivation: Allows deletion of recipes only if they are unused and unmapped. Supports deactivation of unmapped recipes, retaining them for reporting and audit purposes.
  • Retention & Audit Logging: Tracks all recipe changes with user details, timestamps, and before/after data. Retains deactivated recipes for up to three years to support audit and reporting needs.

• Manage recipes as ingredients: This release introduces enhanced functionality for managing recipes as ingredients, enabling more accurate costing, planning, and operational visibility within the ASM Core Inventory system. (ASM-4035)

  • Admin controls: Allows admins to define recipes as ingredients, assign default units, and set inventory counting units for accurate tracking.
  • Nested Recipes Support: Supports nesting of recipes up to 5 levels with safeguards against circular references.
  • Recipe Yield & Costing: Enables yield definitions and unit-based costing for precise theoretical calculations.
  • Manager Visibility: Allows managers to view ingredient recipes at the site level for improved operational insight.
  • Visual Indicators: Visually marks recipes used as ingredients to help users identify in-house prepared items and validate nested structures.

• Global filters for recipe search: This release introduces Global filters on the recipe screen to improve discoverability and streamline the management of large recipe volumes. These filters empower admin users and managers to quickly locate and manage recipes based on key attributes. (ASM-3427)

  Users can now filter recipes using key attributes:

  • Recipe Name
  • Recipe ID
  • Yield Amount
  • Recipe Type (Prep or Main)
  • Ingredients
  • Status
  • Contains Prep Item
  • Yield Units

  The filters appear in a unified interface, enabling quick and precise recipe management.

  Key Benefits:

  • Improved Search Efficiency: Enables quick narrowing of results from large datasets with precision.
  • User Experience: Allows intuitive filtering through options tailored to specific needs.
  • Operational Productivity: Minimizes time spent locating and managing recipes.

Version 1.21.2

October 01, 2025

Resolved issues

• ASM-7588: Resolved latency observed when navigating between core ASM functions.

Version 1.21.1

September 25, 2025

New features

• Introducing Cost of Goods Sold report: Users with ASM Inventory Core can now access the Cost of Goods Sold Report. This report shows the cost and usage of raw items between two inventory counts, helping users track inventory value more effectively. (ASM-6892)

• Tracking non-sales cash movements with 'Cash Paid In' and 'Paid Out' invoices: Aloha Smart Manager now tracks non-sales cash movements with 'Cash Paid In' and 'Cash Paid Out' invoices. To keep records clear and organized, you assign a specific vendor to your daily entries. This makes tracking easier and improves visibility. (ASM-4040)

• Setting order and delivery day pairings: Vendors can now set order and delivery day pairings to define expected delivery timelines, based on order days. (ASM-3359)

• Configuring inventory lists for timeframes and organize raw item locations: Administrators using ASM Inventory Core can now configure inventory lists for specific timeframes and organize raw item locations in a logical structure, such as a “shelf-to-sheet” sequence. Managers can configure inventory locations but they do not have access to the inventory list setup. The system provides a default set of inventory lists and locations to get you started. Administrators can assign raw items that contain one or more inventory units to one or more lists and locations. Managers can also choose to show or hide specific inventory units during raw item inventory counting. (ASM-2789)

• Taking inventory using a smartphone or desktop application: Managers using ASM Inventory Core can now take inventory, using either a smartphone or a desktop application. They can quickly enter the actual inventory counts at raw ingredient storage locations, move seamlessly between locations, skip out-of-stock items, and save their progress to resume counting later. (ASM-2619)

Version 1.20

August 21, 2025

ASM v1.20.0 focuses primarily on stability enhancements, with no new features added. This release includes various minor bug fixes aimed at improving the overall user experience.

Version 1.19

July 29, 2025

New features

• Creating single-level recipes: Inventory Core users can now create single-level recipes directly in the Inventory > Menu > Recipes function. This enhancement streamlines the recipe creation process and ensures accurate cost management for users. (ASM-1611) Using recipes, you can:

  • Add all required ingredients in a sequential order.
  • Rearrange ingredients easily using the drag-and-drop feature.
  • Automatically calculate ingredient costs based on quantities, helping users determine the total recipe cost and set a goal price.