When you're logged in with your PIN on a shared device, sign-offs don't ask for your PIN again, so you only enter your current PIN when you change it.

The account menu now shows a countdown to when a shared device locks.

Home cards now show a short summary, two across on a computer or tablet and one on a phone, and you can add as many cards as you like.

Every Home card shows its summary and progress bar even when nothing has happened yet, and cards that still need setup tell you what to add, like tills for cash counts or items for food waste.

When you open a card and come back, Home stays where you left it.

After you pick a profile photo, you can crop and zoom it before you save.

People shows your whole team in one list, with each person's role, PIN, and email login on the same row.

When you add a person, you can set their role, give them a PIN, and send an email invite all at once.

Filter People to see whose invite is still out and who has no PIN or email login, and resend or cancel an invite from the row.

Each role now has one level for each feature: off, lead, or admin.

Each role can pick which cards show on Home for the people in it.

Switches on each role control who can manage people, roles, locations, billing, and standards across your organization.

You can give someone access that's different from their role, and the differences are outlined so they're easy to spot.

Inbox, compliance, and the activity log show the work you lead, and the people list shows the team at your locations.

A locked tablet can be unlocked by a Shift plans lead with their own PIN.

New organizations start with six roles: Operator, Director, Manager, Shift Leader with Training, Trainer, and Team Member.

The organization menu is split into three groups (across locations, company, and standards), and organization pages and standards each have their own dropdown.

The separate organization settings page is gone, and old links still take you to the right spot.

The PIN keypad is bigger and shows your location's photo and name, so the team knows they're on the right device.

New locations choose between Starter and Complete, and locations already on Essentials keep their plan.

Buttons you don't have permission for stay visible but turned off, and hovering shows which permission you'd need.

Import a schedule right from a shift plan, for one area on a day or every area for the whole week.

If the file doesn't match the import you picked, Huddle tells you and offers a button to switch.

A position rating that's due now shows up on the group in Shift plans.

The menu on a person's card groups infractions, evaluations, and coaching together, and start early, end early, and mark absent together.

Each location has a review and approvals page in settings, with items your organization sets clearly marked.

You can set how review works for each checklist on its own.

See every shared device in one list where you can search, sort, filter to locked devices, see when each was last used, and unlock or remove one.

Logging in with a PIN keeps you at that device's location, and locking one shared device no longer logs you out everywhere.

A locked or logged-out shared device goes right to the PIN screen.

Setting up a shared device now tells you when the password is wrong instead of showing a general error.

You can show or hide your password when you log in, sign up, or reset it.

Sign up asks whether you own or manage a restaurant or are joining a team, and team members are told to ask their manager for an invite.

Problems with a field now show right under that field.

Food waste totals use each item's current cost and show wasted and donated together.

Entries you counted stay visible after an item switches to being logged by the pound.

Vendor contacts can now have a photo.

Type how many and tap plus to log several of an item at once.

Each item has a wasted or donated switch, with today's totals right there.

A new Cash counts card on Home walks you through counting tills and the change fund, with a card for each coin and bill.

When a count doesn't match, you add a reason, and you can add an odd coin or bill when you need to.

Reports cover day sheets, discrepancies, totals by till, and money in and out, with sortable columns and CSV export.

Log food waste from Home or Team mode and track it against a daily dollar goal for each location.

Set up or import your food waste items, and your organization can set standard items for every location.

Keep your vendors' contact details in one directory, add them yourself or import them, and see them on Home.

A daily checklist can run more than once a day, each run with its own window and its own late and missed rules.

Responses show each run side by side, and you get one emailed report for the whole day.

Each location can choose which cards show in Team mode, including Food waste and Vendors.

The profile panel in Shift plans has a Training tab showing evaluations, reviews, and position ratings that are due or overdue.

You can import your rewards list instead of entering each one.

A reward request can be rejected when the team member doesn't have the tickets for it.

The activity log shows cash counts and recounts with totals and discrepancies, cash moves, and food waste and donations, with a food waste filter.

Changes to the daily food waste goal and to Team mode cards show in the activity log.

A What's new window shows you the latest changes in Huddle.

On a phone, you can open Home and your account to keep your tasks close by, and other pages ask you to switch to a computer or tablet.

Multiple choice tasks can allow more than one answer.

A checklist's schedule shows a plain summary of when it runs.

Responses now include columns for temperature and count tasks.

Pick a color and icon for your profile.

Longer checklists stay open from the day they open through the day they're due, and tags show when they're running late.

Inventory counts below their target are flagged.

Home cards share one simpler layout, and actions like Send recognition and Redeem rewards now live on the cards they belong to.

Shift plans, Checklists, Training, and Accountability show a simple Get started screen until you've set them up.

Password reset emails link to their own reset page.

On a shared device's log in page, you can switch between remembered accounts.

Inventory tasks have plus and minus buttons for quick counting.

When you tap a task more than once, the last tap is the one that sticks.

Your location's photo shows as the browser tab icon.

If you open a Huddle link while logged out, you go to log in and then on to the page.

Also in October: scrolling with touch and trackpads works better in menus and pickers, the iPad keyboard no longer closes pickers, there's no blank screen after a PIN log in, and dragging cards in Customize home is steadier.

ChatGPT, Claude, and other assistants you connect can now suggest changes to rewards, accountability, training, and shift plans, and you can change what a connection is allowed to do without reconnecting.

Training skills can include a link that trainees and trainers can open.

The Shift plans board shows a strength score out of 5 based on the position ratings of everyone on it.

Coach someone right from the Shift plans board or their profile, they're notified, and they can see it in My training.

Verify, Approve, and Mark awarded in the Inbox ask you to confirm first.

Zoom in on shifts in the timeline, search from the toolbar, and open the timeline guide to learn what the colors and ticks mean.

The My training card is simpler to read.

Each location sets its own training period, and pathways can have an hours budget.

Choose a date to see that day's checklists.

Clearing schedules now resets everything so you can start over.

Each multiple choice option can have its own follow-up.

Reviewers can step through submitted tasks one at a time.

Each location chooses whether team members confirm evaluations, reviews, and actions with their PIN or with both people signing on screen.

Team mode has an Actions panel, and actions can be assigned to a position.

The log in page remembers accounts used on that device, so you tap your name and enter your password.

The Inbox collects reward requests, break violations, skill and task submissions, proposed actions, and disciplinary actions, with an organization Inbox and a list of recently handled items.

A Needs your action card on Home shows what's waiting on you.

Leads can assign work in Team mode with their PIN.

The Shift plans roster shows each person's task status.

Import your team and their PINs from your HR system's PIN report, and Huddle flags possible matches, PIN conflicts, and duplicates for you to review.

Invite someone with their role and access on one screen.

Switching locations takes you back to the last area you used, and location managers can edit their locations.

After someone makes the team, they stay in a team development stage with repeat evaluations on a schedule you set.

Trainees are grouped by what needs attention, like decisions due, overdue evaluations, or stalled progress, and progress comes from the skills they've shown.

Training is organized around pathways, each with its own plans, training period, and check-ins.

Evaluations are split into training evaluations, position evaluations, and reviews, and leaders can preview upcoming reviews.

Trainees who are falling behind are marked Behind pace.

Accountability has a queue of cases, and you can defer a case until a date or the next infraction, or decide no action is needed.

Team members acknowledge disciplinary actions with their PIN instead of a signature pad, on the leader's device or later from their own.

Break settings read like plain sentences.

Mark someone absent with a reason to take them off the board, and mark them present to put them back.

A finished checklist can email its report as a PDF or Excel file to the people you choose, automatically or when you send it.

A yes or no question can open an action or start another checklist based on the answer.

Build multiple choice tasks from your own list of options.

Photo tasks can include an example of what done looks like, and locations can choose to send back photos that clearly don't match.

Task details show the task's status and which checklist it came from.

You can import checklists from Word and Excel files.

Your organization can manage checklists, training, accountability, rewards, breaks, and shift plans as standards, preview how a change affects each location, and send them to the locations you choose.

Organization compliance ranks individual tasks, worst first, with a breakdown by location and each task's history.

New locations start a free trial without a card and come with front of house and back of house areas.

Connect Huddle to ChatGPT, Claude, or another assistant from Connected apps in your account, then have it suggest checklist changes that you preview, apply, or undo.

Log temperatures with a Bluetooth probe or by hand, in Fahrenheit or Celsius, and see when a reading is outside the holding range.

You can submit a checklist with tasks left undone, and compliance can tell it apart from a complete close.

Scheduled checklists open automatically when their window starts, so the team just completes them.

Inventory tasks have their own report, and responses export to Excel or PDF.

Tasks you import default to checkboxes.

Profiles is a sortable table with search, filters, and bulk actions, and you edit a profile in a dialog.

Search while you review a schedule import.

Trainee day counts follow your location's time zone.

Also in September: search boxes have a clear button.

Auto-assign rules for positions can be set on a checklist, a page, or a section, and they add up.

Team mode has a sidebar with Home and Checklists.

A team member can complete a task on a locked tablet with a one-time PIN.

Training evaluations can include signatures if you want them.

Task cards take up less space so you can see more at once.

Photos on photo tasks are checked against what the task asks for, so reviewers can spot ones that don't match.

Open a checklist before it starts to look over the tasks.

Reviewers can send a task back for a redo or decline a proposal, with a reason the team member can see.

Save a note on a task while you review it.

Overdue checklists have actions you can take right from the list.

Lists have search and filter chips.

Team mode cards reset for each PIN session.

Organization compliance includes break and required window history.

Group training plans into pathways that take a trainee from start to finish, and mark the outcome as Made the team.

Keep notes and coaching on the people you lead.

Assign an entire checklist to someone at once.

Choose the shortcuts that show on Home.

If you run more than one location, the Organization view brings together your locations, compliance, profiles, and schedules.

Accountability uses "infraction" throughout.

Send tickets explains how team members can earn them.

The activity log covers more of what admins change.

Checklists lead with what's overdue and show whether each one is early, on time, or late.

Skipping or deferring a task asks for a reason.

If you've scheduled a plan to cancel, you can undo it before it ends.

Get notified about assigned tasks, tasks to review, infractions, training, and evaluations, and choose what you get in your account.

The sidebar shows how long your free trial has left, with a button to add a card.

Duplicate a plan or copy its times to another one.

Shifts open in a dialog for editing.

Choose how many columns the board shows on each device.

Import schedules from PDF files.

The setup builder starts with the day you're planning.

Create a new position right from the picker.

Filter break history by date range.

Turning on Team mode requires the owner's PIN.

Recognitions can still be reviewed after the month rolls over.

Select several profiles to activate, deactivate, or delete them together.

Imports show their progress as they run.

Also in August: pages that sat on a loading screen after logging in now open as they should.

Checklist rows are simpler to scan.

Managers can mark a break flag as compliant or as a violation.

Shifts kept off the board and split shifts work more reliably.

Every invite now includes a role, and the person's name is set by whoever invites them.

Break math works for split and double shifts.

Use "Count hours, hide from board" for time someone works off the board.

Add schedules manually when you don't have a file to import.

Shifts that don't line up with your setups are flagged in red.

Each count on the organization schedule import confirmation opens to show the shifts behind it, with who, when, and why.

Build setups for each day and copy them to other days, and hide days your location doesn't open.

Pin the items you use most in the sidebar, and find the rest under More.

The invite screen tells you if you're already part of another organization, and you can switch with a clear confirmation.

Signing up from an invite no longer asks for a phone number.

Menus and popovers scroll by touch and stay in place when the tablet keyboard opens.

The Shift plans board shows all seven days of the week.

Accountability has a case queue with each person's history.

The activity feed describes what happened in plain language.

Roles are ranked with defaults to start from, and you can drag to reorder them or delete one and move its people to another role.

The roster has its own Shift ended section.

Planned break forecasts are accurate again.

Tasks from previous days show in Assigned to me.

Undo a break you started by mistake.

Add My training and My accountability cards to Home and Team mode.

Add an optional note when you issue an infraction.