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The bill is made where the session ends End on Live Ops stops the clock and opens the bill: add the last food or a charge, give a discount and take the money right there. There are no open tabs, and an unpaid bill waits under Invoices in Billing.

Combine bills, or wait for a friend's End can put sessions on one bill, and a bill can wait for a friend's session and join its bill when that ends.

The customer's name, number and chat While a bill is a draft, add a walk-in's name and number and the name comes on the invoice. Once it is paid, Send via WhatsApp opens their chat with the message drafted.

Start and End answer as you tap Starting a session and ending one respond straight away at the counter.

Rules for a session ended early Inside the free cancel time you set, a session with nothing else on it ends with no invoice. For each game type, you choose whether a package stopped early charges the time played or the full package.

Discount limits, and a manager on long sessions You set how much each role may take off a bill, and a discount at End needs a reason. A long session's bill waits for a manager to confirm it.

Void and credit notes Void asks why, and the bill keeps its number. A credit note takes the place of a refund, and comes off the takings on the day it is issued.

Prices live in Settings Shop Setup is now Settings, with prices under Pricing. Each game type's card shows its day price, when it last changed and who changed it, and a type with no prices can start from another's.

Special days Set a date like Diwali or a match night on the game types you choose, as a percentage on that weekday's prices.

The owner confirms every price The owner sees every price the café sells and confirms them, and sessions start once they have.

Members is now Customers Customers holds Members, Walk-ins and WhatsApp Marketing. Your top spenders of the last 90 days come first, and filters pick out who is playing, who is on a plan and who has wallet credit.

Every seat can be its own member Raise Players at Start and each seat can be a different member on their own plan, and the station's card shows a plan's hours running down.

A new look, your choice Choose Warm, Crystal frost or Off for each device. Settings → Branding also keeps the café's brand and the PCs' lock screen in one place.

More on the invoice Add your legal name, address, FSSAI number and authorised signatory in Settings → Business and they print on your invoices. A composition café's bills are titled bills of supply, and a bill can be made out to a business with its name, GSTIN and address.

The Calendar follows the floor A booking offers the lengths your price list sells, a running package holds its station until its paid time ends, and Deposit: None at the counter books with nothing held.

Birthdays A member gives their birthday when they sign up. The counter sees it on the member's sheet, with how near it is, and can correct it.

A new café is walked through Setup is a short set of cards, with a slider that shows what a customer pays, and the first session is walked through on Live Ops.

A top-up reaches the counter A top-up a member declares from their phone lands on the bell as a card with the member, the amount and the bank reference, to confirm or mark not received. The Members row in the sidebar counts the ones waiting.

A prize for each place An event's prize pool can split into 1st, 2nd and 3rd, shown with the pool as their total. Both semi-finalists place 3rd and each gets the 3rd prize.

Any logo uploads A logo is shrunk in the browser as it goes up, whatever its size.

Bug fixes Smaller fixes to how snacks settle on a member's own session.

A wallet that falls short leaves the rest at the counter When a member's own session ends and the wallet can't cover the time and snacks, the wallet pays what it holds and the bill waits in Billing as pending for the rest. The day's income and loyalty points are booked once the bill is paid in full.

Wallet warnings count your orders Members are warned at 30, 10 and 5 minutes of wallet left, counting what they have ordered at the seat, not only when the session's end is near. Walk-ins now hear a 10-minute warning as well as the 5 and 1.

A top-up or a plan bought mid-session takes effect at once A UPI top-up confirmed at the counter, a plan sold to a member who is playing, or a plan chosen at the PC now extends their running session straight away, with no need to log out and back in. A counter top-up already did.

The price grid says what a blank level does A level with no price between two that have one is flagged on the grid, with what open play past the level below will be billed. Under Custom Time Slot the billing interval now says what it does there: it prices time past your longest level.

Hours deducted at the end of the session A member's plan hours come off as soon as the session ends: when you press End, at time-up, or when a PC goes offline.

The bill still waits for you The session still sits in Billing as an open tab, so you can add a snack first. If you choose Charge money there, or discard the tab, the hours go back on the plan.

Start, then finish On the member's Book screen and in Calendar → New booking, tap when the session starts and then when it ends. The times in between light up and each says how long that would be, so there is no duration to choose first. Tap an earlier time to start again, or Clear.

Longer than your longest level A booking used to be one of the durations on your price list, so most cafés stopped at three hours. It can now run to closing time, or up to 12 hours at a café open 24 hours. The shortest is still your smallest level.

Each system books in its own blocks The times on offer now follow the system's own price list: its shortest level is the block. VR priced from 10 minutes books 4:00, 4:10, 4:20; a PC priced from 30 minutes books 4:00, 4:30. This replaces the café-wide Slots start setting, so there is nothing to set. To book a system by the hour, make its shortest level an hour.

Priced the way the counter prices it A length your price list names is booked and billed as that level, exactly as before. Any other length is quoted the way open play of that length is charged at the counter, and when the member is seated the session counts down the time they booked.

Calendar and booking move with you Paging the calendar slides the next day, week or month in from the side you moved towards, and switching view zooms in or out. The booking row does the same when you change day. Reduced-motion settings are respected.

By the level, when a plan is nearly empty On Plan hours: By the level, a member with less than a level left gives up what they have and pays money only for minutes played past it, and can sign in at a PC on those hours alone.

Hours or money, from the bell Generate invoice in the bell now shows what a member's plan would pay and offers Use plan hours or Charge money, the same choice Billing gives. A walk-in's bill is still one tap.

Bug fixes Smaller fixes to free cancel and plan-included snacks.

The assistant books after midnight too Ask AI now accepts the late slots a café trading past midnight offers, and its slot list says which date each of those falls on.

Free-cancel lines in Activity The line for a free cancel names the member and the window that applied.

Plan hours by the level Shop Setup → Pricing → a system's levels → Plan hours: choose whether a membership gives up the minutes played or the whole level, the way money pays. On By the level, two minutes on a 30-minute level takes 30 minutes of hours.

Free cancel Beside it, Free cancel: a session your counter ends within the minutes you pick is not charged and takes no plan hours. Snacks already on the tab still are.

Open 24 hours Shop Setup → Calendar → Open 24 hours: slots are offered round the clock and a booking can run past midnight into the next day, so ten at night for three hours is bookable.

A session's bill in your notifications When a session ends, its bill waits in the bell with Generate invoice, so you can make it from any screen. Each session's invoice is then listed with who it is for and whether it is paid or still to collect. Tap one to open it; the Bills filter shows only these.

Bookings in the small hours A café that trades past midnight takes bookings for its slots after twelve, from members and from the counter.

Several plans per member Buying a second plan no longer replaces the first. It waits behind the plan they're on and its days start when it is first used or chosen. Members pick the plan that pays first in their app or on the PC, and the app suggests the one that ends first.

Plan hours hand over to the wallet A member who signs in at a PC plays their plan hours and then carries on on their wallet in the same session, instead of being locked out when the hours run out.

Three minutes before a PC locks When the paid time runs out the PC stays open for three minutes, counting down, so the player can top up or ask for more time. The three minutes are never charged, and a top-up at the counter carries the session on.

Warnings on the PC With agent 0.18.15 the PC tells the player before their plan hours end, when the wallet takes over, when the money is running low, and when it is about to lock.

Add time from Live Ops Every timed session has + Time on its card: +15 min, +30 min, +1 hour, +2 hours or any amount. Each is priced from your rate card (+1 hour costs your 1-hour price) and goes on the bill as its own line. It lights up when ten minutes are left. On a member's own session the counter collects the difference into their wallet.

Players can ask for more time With agent 0.18.15 a player asks for more time from the Respawna icon on the PC. The ask shows on that PC's card with Add and Decline, and the PC is told either way.

Search when you pick a member Starting a session, the member list opens with a search box at the top: type a name or the last digits of a number and press Enter.

Shop Setup → Stations, redone PC locking and the counter PC come first, then your stations; player rules and the staff override fold away until you need them.

Bug fixes Smaller fixes to how plan hours pay for very short sessions.

Every ended session waits in Billing A session the member's plan covers waits as an open tab like any other, so you can add a snack or charge money instead of hours before you generate the bill.

A cleaner New booking form Name and phone are plain fields that light up as you type, with no placeholder text in the way, and Phone says it is optional.

A retired PC leaves Live Ops Retiring a PC takes it off the floor, out of the station count and out of booking. Shop Setup keeps it greyed out with Restore beside it.

Loyalty rewards Shop Setup → Loyalty → Rewards: give each reward a name, a picture and a price in points. Members redeem from their app and Live Ops shows who redeemed what, with a Handed over button.

Book with membership hours A member whose plan covers the slot chooses to hold it with their hours or their wallet, with the hours left shown · nothing leaves the wallet when the hours pay.

Plan hours at the counter An open bill shows the member's hours left and what their plan pays, with a switch to charge money instead; a walk-in's bill can be put on a member before it is cut.

Every member can be picked for a booking Command Center → Calendar → New booking lists the member even when the café has just one.

Bug fixes Smaller fixes to plan hours and booked seats.

A new agent on every PC Agent 0.18.13 has native windows, an instant Pause and a Games tab that finds the games installed on the PC. Update your PCs from Shop Setup → Stations: only a free PC is asked, and an update waits if somebody sits down to play.

Order from the seat Players order from the Order tab on the PC and the order reaches the counter at once. Nothing is charged until staff accept it: then it goes on the session's bill, or comes from the member's wallet when they are playing on it. Ordering from the seat is on Ultra · on Starter and Pro the menu holds up to 20 items, and a café already past 20 keeps every one.

Chat with the counter A player can message the counter from the PC, and staff answer from Live Ops. Each session starts a fresh conversation, so the next player never reads the last one's. On Ultra.

Sign in with a QR code The lock screen shows a QR code. A member scans it with their phone and their session starts, with nothing typed at the PC.

The member's card on the PC A session the counter starts for a member opens on the PC with that member's card, and a walk-in's opens straight away without asking who it is.

Sleep, restart, shut down and wake Each PC's ⋯ menu in Live Ops can put it to sleep, restart it or shut it down, and wake it again. A running session is paused first, and Live Ops warns you before sleeping a PC on Wi-Fi that may not wake again.

The counter PC holds the floor Install the agent on your counter PC and choose Counter PC. If the café's internet drops, it answers the gaming PCs itself so sessions carry on instead of locking, and it can wake PCs even when every gaming PC is off.

New PCs find their own way in A PC set up without a pairing code shows up under Needs you once the counter PC hears it. The owner picks its station and adds it in a tap, and each card says whether a PC reaches you over the café network or the cloud.

Player rules start by watching Download blocking and the program allowlist begin in watch mode: the PCs report what your rules would have closed, you set each program to Allowed or Not allowed, and nothing is closed until you press Start enforcing.

A staff override password Set one in Shop Setup → Stations and staff can open a locked PC with no internet and no counter PC to reach. Once the PC is back online it shows as unlocked in Live Ops, where it can be locked again.

Your colours on the PCs With Change connected PCs too ticked, your café's colours reach the agent's windows on every PC the moment you save them, with no restart. On Ultra.

Needs you, on every page The bell opens a side panel. What is waiting on the counter sits at the top with its own buttons, such as a PC asking for USB, and the last day of floor alerts sits below. Pin it as a sidebar, fold it to a slim rail, or let it float.

Alerts arrive as they happen Floor alerts reach the bell, the panel and your desktop notifications the moment they land, not on the next check.

Live Ops cards, simpler Each card has one status in one colour, one main button in words (Start, Pause, Resume, End), and everything else in a single ⋯ menu with Discard kept apart in red. Active Sessions now sit above the floor map.

Your café's colours Shop Setup → Your brand → Colours: seven ready-made palettes or your own, and the console works out every shade for the dark and the light theme. On Ultra.

A quicker console Switching tabs, opening an invoice and loading Members or Events all take less waiting, and an open Live Ops screen does less work while nothing on the floor is changing.

Priced by the unit A game type can be billed by the unit instead of by time: overs, games or tries, on the same day, head-count and happy-hour grid. Ten new types join the catalogue, off until you switch one on. Membership hours and plan discounts are not spent on a unit sale.

Take a plan off sale Each plan in Shop Setup has an On sale switch. Off takes it out of the member app, the counter and your public page, and everybody already on it keeps it to the end of their term.

Lock every tier of PC you sell A Windows PCs switch in each game type's editor means a café that sells a standard PC and a Pro rig at different prices can lock both.

Luna, in the corner. The Ask AI pill is now Luna: her face and her name. She waves when she first offers help, stands up when the panel opens, and gives a thumbs up once a change you approved has gone through. In Hindi she is still Luna.

Same rules, same switches. Shop Setup's IQ tab and each staff card say Luna where they said Ask AI. Switch her off and she sleeps for the whole café; switch her back and she returns. Owners always have her while she is on.

Ask AI in Hindi. A switch at the top of the panel, EN or हिंदी. In Hindi it answers in plain Devanagari, keeps words like invoice and UPI as they are said at the counter, and remembers the choice on that till. In English it follows you into Hindi or Hinglish if that is how you type.

Answers you can act on. Anything with more than one step arrives as numbered steps in a card, and a bold screen name such as Billing or Shop Setup is a link to that screen, in either language.

A panel that behaves like the rest of the console. Dark or light with your theme, Enter sends and Shift+Enter breaks a line, Stop halts an answer mid-sentence and keeps what arrived, and New chat clears the transcript.

Screens keep themselves current. Live Ops, Billing, Members, Events, Food & Drinks, Shop Setup and the member's own app all update as things happen rather than when somebody reloads. Changes that land together arrive as one update, so a busy evening does not flicker.

It keeps working when the connection does not. A slower check runs underneath the live feed, so a counter screen left open all evening stays current even if the café wifi drops the connection for a while.

A rig you can move a booking to says which. Every candidate is a row now, marked free in green, in session in red, or here now in blue for the rig the booking already holds. Busy rigs stay on the list, because the counter often knows a session is about to end.

Booking on a phone. The member's booking screen is rebuilt for the screen it is actually used on, and the rig a booking already sits on is no longer dimmed as though something were wrong with it.

A lock agent that goes quiet is noticed. A paired PC that stops reporting now turns red on its own, and one that comes back turns green again, without waiting for the page to be reopened.

Members book a rig from their phone. They pick a day, a time and a game type, and the board only offers seats that are genuinely free. Booking is on the Pro plan.

The terms are yours to set. Opening and closing hours, separate weekend hours if you keep them, how many days ahead people may book, how late they may arrive before the seat goes back, and how long before a slot a booking can still be cancelled free.

A deposit that comes back. Take a percentage of the quoted session to hold a seat, or take nothing at all and hold it free. A cancellation inside your own window returns the deposit to the member's wallet.

The floor knows who is coming. Live Ops shows the bookings due, so the counter can seat somebody without looking anything up, and a finished booking hands its rig straight back to the floor.

A rig somebody is playing on is never offered as free. Availability counts the sessions running right now as well as the bookings already taken, so a floor that is full reads as full.

Changing the date is instant. The booking board loads the whole week at once, so moving between days is immediate instead of a wait on every tap.

A café that changes plan keeps its promises. Dropping off Pro stops new bookings being taken. Every booking already paid for can still be seated, cancelled and refunded.

Every section can be switched off, per person. Each member of staff gets their own switches for the nine console sections and the assistant. Turning one off removes it from their sidebar and closes the screens underneath it, bookmarks included. It applies the moment you press it, and an owner can never be restricted.

The assistant can be switched off for the whole café. One switch removes the Ask AI capsule for everybody, and it takes effect on the press rather than waiting for a save.

Photograph your price board. Point a camera at the card already on your wall and it reads the grid back · durations down, head counts across. You check every number before anything is saved, and it declines to invent a price it could not read.

Analytics is five views, not one crowded screen. Overview, Profit & Loss, Revenue Trends, Traffic and an Activity Log, each on its own, with one date range across all of them and an All Time setting when you want the whole story.

Switching a section no longer reloads the page. The strips across Analytics and Shop Setup change instantly, and the address bar still keeps your place so a link to a particular view works.

Setting a café up on a phone. First-run setup is built for the screen it is usually done on, rather than a desktop page shrunk to fit.

Your team, on cards. Invite by email and the person sets their own password. Revoking access is reversible and says so, and removing somebody permanently shows what they handled before it asks you to confirm.

A cleaner light theme. Every console page now renders edge to edge in the light theme.

A plan nobody is on can be removed. Deleting a membership plan says why when it cannot go through.

Shop Health, in plain language. Analytics answers what came in, what went out and what is left. The profit line stays locked until you have actually logged some costs, because revenue with no costs against it is not profit however it is labelled.

One bill, two payment methods. Take half in cash and half by UPI on the same invoice. The split re-tallies as you type and the invoice records both amounts rather than rounding them into one line.

Expenses that repeat themselves. Mark rent or any other monthly cost as recurring once and it appears in the ledger each month on its own, instead of being re-entered from memory.

An assistant that knows the product. Ask a question about the software and get an answer on the spot, both on the site and inside the console.

Invoices and the ledger fold into months. Both group by month, and the date filter now works at three levels of detail rather than one.

Every payment method has its own colour. Cash, UPI and card are told apart at a glance in the billing list.

Bug fixes. Smaller fixes across billing.

Members sign themselves up. Put the code on the counter. A player scans it, lands on your café's own page and creates their account there, with no one at the till taking their details down.

The plan you are on is visible in the console. Every page carries it, so what you are paying for is never something you have to go and look up.

Plan limits hold where nothing can go around them. The station count on each pricing card is now enforced by the database itself rather than by one screen. It refuses the next station and never removes one you already run, so a café that grew past its limit during a trial keeps every station it built.

Analytics shows what your plan includes. What you can see in the console now matches the line the pricing page draws, rather than showing everything and stopping at the last step.

Memberships you have already sold keep working. Plan limits apply to new memberships only, and never reach back into the ones your members are already holding.

Players can message the café on WhatsApp. A contact button on your café's page. It is off until you publish a number, so nothing appears until you decide it should.

Sheets follow your finger. Drawers and sheets move with the drag, can be flicked shut, and leave the way they arrived. Every press answers the moment you touch it rather than after you let go.

The console asks before it deletes. Destructive actions ask you to confirm first.

A 14-day free trial on every plan. Starter and Pro both begin free for fourteen days with no card taken. Nothing renews by itself and nothing is auto-debited afterwards, because there is no card on file to charge.

Upgrade takes the money. Pay for your plan from inside the console by UPI, card or netbanking. The café unlocks as soon as the payment clears, and everything you set up is exactly where you left it.

A café on a plan billed from day one is built ready to pay. Pick a plan that starts paid and your café is created and waiting at its payment screen, rather than opening as a trial it was never on.

The upgrade screen states the price it is about to charge. It reads in the same colours as the pricing page and names the amount, the cycle and what happens next before you press anything.

Tighter permissions across the console and the site. A pass over what each request is allowed to reach, plus stricter limits on how often the public forms can be called.

Green means running, on Live Ops. A station in session reads as green from across the room instead of in the same colour as everything else.

The menu is one line per item. Fewer boxes and less space per row, so more of the menu is on screen at once.

The invoice header fits, and the invoice signs off. A long café name fits the header of the printed invoice.

GST invoices that follow Rule 46. Tax is computed and stored the way the rule requires it shown, so the CGST and SGST split, the HSN and SAC codes and the place of supply all print on the invoice itself.

Your own tax codes. Enter the HSN and SAC codes your café actually uses once, in Shop Setup, and every invoice after that carries them.

The console fits a phone. Floor navigation is a drawer instead of a cramped dock, Shop Setup works one-handed, and analytics tables stopped hiding half their columns on a small screen.

First run sets the café up rather than describing it. The opening walkthrough does the work with you instead of explaining what you will have to go and find for yourself.

Pricing opens at the rig you are standing next to. Tap a station and its price list opens on that station, rather than at the top of the list for you to hunt through.

Expenses read as one list. Every card is the same shape now, with the date sitting beside the amount instead of below it.

Bug fixes. A smoother first sign-in for a new café's owner.

The Upgrade button stays on screen. It fits the trial banner on a narrow phone.

A frosted-glass finish across the product. The console, the member portal and every sign-in screen share one translucent material, so depth tells you what sits above what instead of flat panels stacked on flat panels.

Off-site backups you control. Export a full logical dump of your café's data on your own schedule, to storage you own, so the backup is not only ours to hold.

Pricing as a matrix. Players across, durations down, days collapsed, so a floor charging different rates on different rigs is one readable table instead of a wall of rows.

A tab shows what is on it, not only what it comes to, so a customer questioning the total can be shown the items rather than asked to trust it.

Your café's own page reads its own facts. A café's address on respawna.com serves that café's page with its real details, instead of the sales pitch aimed at owners.

Sign-in says why it failed. A refused login explains the reason.

Billiards and snooker are not video games. Cue sports carry their own icon on the floor now, rather than a gamepad.

Tighter permissions across the console. Staff see what their role allows, and an address that is not a café shows a proper not-found page.

Bug fixes. Smaller fixes to open tabs.

Open tabs. Ending a session parks it as an open tab instead of forcing a bill there and then, and you generate or discard the invoice later from Billing.

Charges onto a parked tab. Add snacks, drinks or a one-off custom charge to a tab after the seat has already been given up.

Merge tabs by dragging one onto another. When a group that arrived separately wants to leave on one bill, drag their tabs together rather than re-entering every item.

The floor is colour-coded by what it is doing. Live Ops cards carry a state-coded game capsule and a player count, so occupied, idle and overrunning read from across the room.

A shorter start card. Starting a session is a compact card with full-width Start and Set pricing, and snacks moved onto the live session card where they are actually wanted.

Everything responds faster. The lag after every action is gone across every screen, and sign-in checks are verified locally instead of costing a round trip.

An empty floor says so. A café with no stations set up yet sees a proper empty state instead of a preview of devices it does not own.

Your trial banner shows the real end date. Counted in calendar days on Indian time, with the date stated outright and Upgrade as a proper button rather than a link you have to go looking for.

Pages load a lot lighter. The icon font went from 3.8 MB to 313 KB, which is felt most on a counter tablet running on café wifi.

Racing games get a steering wheel. Driving and racing setups no longer show a helmet icon that belonged to something else.

Security improvements. Stronger checks when a new café is set up.

Reset your password by email. A forgotten password is a link in your inbox rather than a message to support and a wait.

Show and hide on every password field. Type it, check it, then hide it again, on every screen that asks for one.

Branded emails that work on a phone. The trial confirmation and the note telling you your café is ready are properly designed and readable on a small screen.

A shorter signup. Your email is pre-filled from the trial link and the duplicate WhatsApp field is gone, leaving mobile as the one number we ask for.

The first person to sign up owns the café. Ownership is granted on that first signup instead of waiting on a separate step.

Security improvements. Tighter access controls across the console.

Group checkout. Bill several rigs onto a single invoice, so a group that played across four machines settles once at the counter.

Monthly reports and an invoice register. Export the month as PDF or CSV, invoice register included, so handing figures to an accountant is a download rather than an evening.

Discounts you can actually edit. Change a discount after the fact, apply one at the point of sale, and delete a voided invoice instead of living with it.

Reset a false start. A session started on the wrong rig can be discarded outright, rather than billed and then voided.

Edit and retire stations. Change a station's details, and remove rigs you no longer run without leaving a hole in the floor.

Long sessions keep counting. A session that runs past your longest priced level keeps charging at your rates.

Add-ons recorded line by line. Snacks and extras are stored as their own rows on the session, so an invoice can itemise them.

Self-serve setup. Ask for a trial, click the link in your email, and your café is built automatically with no human in the loop, ready in minutes.

The live floor. Every station on one screen, with sessions you start, pause and end, and a timer per seat that stops when you pause it.

Memberships and prepaid wallets. Balances are an append-only ledger in whole paise, so a refund is recorded as a reversal rather than an edit and the month still ties out.

Food and drink on the session. Snacks go onto the tab attached to the seat, and settle as one itemised bill at the end.

A member portal. Your regulars check their own balance, history and membership from their phone instead of asking at the counter.

A first-run walkthrough. The console opens on a guided setup rather than an empty screen you have to interpret.

A free trial with no card. The trial starts the day your café goes live, not the day you enquired about it.