News, dated.
Press releases, announcements, our biggest product releases and customer stories, newest first, each linked to the full story.
2026
Product release
Ask the menu in a sentence
Guests can search the menu with a sentence such as two kids and someone vegan, and get a shortlist with a reason for each dish. If a menu carries no allergen information, it says so and asks the guest to speak to staff.
Product release
Provisional holds
Hold a table for an enquiry before it is confirmed. Holds show in amber everywhere, and confirming one emails the guest their confirmation.
Product release
Referrals
Share a referral code or link from Connect. The venue you refer gets a free trial, and you are rewarded when it becomes a customer.
Customer story
How ART Hospitality hit 0.3% no-shows across eight venues
ART Hospitality runs eight chef-led venues on Stampede: 24,604 covers in a single month and a 0.3% no-show rate, with Square kept on the tills.
Product release
Enquiries workspace
A full-page workspace for enquiries, with a board, task centre, calendar and reports, and a Coordinator that can draft summaries, replies and tasks for you to approve. It is in early access.
Product release
Import a menu from a PDF or photos
Point the importer at a menu PDF or upload photos of the pages. It reads the dishes, prices and allergens, matches them to your catalogue, and you check each row before it becomes a menu.
Product release
A profile page for guests
Guests can sign in with an email code to see and edit their profile, choose email and SMS marketing for each business they are opted in with, or delete their account.
Product release
One QR code for every table
A single venue-wide QR code sends guests to a table picker before they order. It never needs reprinting when tables change.
Product release
Import loyalty members
Bring members and points across from another system with a CSV. Check the rows, run the import and watch the counts, with the option to add points to existing balances and to hold emails until launch.
Customer story
How Sankey's lifted its Google rating from 4.59 to 4.80
Sankey's put bookings, Square payments, reviews and marketing on one guest record in Tunbridge Wells, and its Google rating rose from 4.59 to 4.80.
Product release
New booking page for every venue
Every booking link now opens the new booking page. Older links redirect instantly and keep the date, booking type and campaign tags they carried.
Product release
Take full payment for bookings
Venues can charge the full amount for a booking, not just a deposit, on booking types, events and special dates. Guests pay now or settle the balance later, and staff can see balances and request payment.
Product release
Set menus
A menu item can be a set menu whose choices are the dishes, across ordering, booking pre-orders and the booking page. Guests pick a dish for each course and staff see every course listed.
Product release
Build a menu from Square
Generate from Square turns a venue's Square catalogue into a draft menu, with categories as sections and their hours carried over. Name it, then create it as an inactive menu ready to edit.
Product release
Multi-account ordering
One menu can span several venues, and several Square accounts. Guests see one menu and pay once. You pick which venue takes the money, so the whole payment settles to that Square location and its bank account, and every other venue’s part of the order is marked paid.
Product release
Marketplace, API keys and webhooks
Marketplace in the sidebar now has three pages: Apps, API keys and webhooks, and a link to the developer documentation.
Product release
Square invoices on bookings and enquiries
Venues with Square invoicing can view, send, publish and cancel invoices from a booking's details and from a new Invoices tab on an enquiry. The Charges page can filter to invoice payments.
Product release
What your marketing is worth
The report now leads with bookings from campaigns and the revenue credited to them. The Marketing section shows value per email sent, value per campaign and a sends against bookings chart.
Announcement
Phone bookings answered by AI, now built into stampede
Stampede's voice AI answers your venue's calls, takes bookings with notes onto your live day planner and confirms by email, in seven languages.
Product release
Phone bookings
Your venue gets its own phone number, answered every time by a voice assistant that knows your live availability. It takes the booking during the call, confirms it like any online booking, and saves a full transcript against the record. Guests who prefer to phone get an answer even mid-service, and your team never leaves the floor. Choose the voice and accent that fits your venue; no new hardware or phone line needed.
Announcement
One system, three surfaces in the stampede redesign
We rebuilt our website, operator dashboard and guest booking flow on one design system. The research behind it, what changed, and what's still to come.
Product release
Control venue music
Venues with Sonos speakers on SNAPguard get a music button on the planner, so staff can see what is playing, change volume and group rooms without leaving the bookings screen.
Product release
Quick campaigns
Send a campaign straight off a simple segment in a couple of clicks.
Product release
Bring your own hardware
Add your own device through a guided setup wizard, with your current kit listed per venue.
Product release
Inbox, everywhere
The inbox becomes its own fast app, with public thread views for handing a conversation outside the team.
Product release
See everything on your network
The box scans the venue network and names every device on it by manufacturer.
Product release
Waitlist, end to end
The full waitlist flow ships across the booking widget and the planner.
Product release
One login everywhere
Every product signs in through one rebuilt identity layer: 2FA, magic links and Google included.
Product release
Pre-orders with modifiers
Guests build a pre-order with full modifier choices, and hosts see it itemised on every order view, including the live till order.
Announcement
Why stampede is backing #VATsTheProblem
Stampede's position on the #VATsTheProblem campaign, and why the company backed the call to cut UK hospitality VAT to 10 percent.
Product release
UTM attribution on bookings
See which campaigns and sources actually produced bookings, with Google Reserve counted separately.
Announcement
Control guest Wi-Fi bandwidth by audience
Stampede guest Wi-Fi allocates bandwidth by CRM audience, with SNAPguard applying each guest's policy at the moment they connect, across every site.
Press release
stampede launches SNAPguard for hospitality guest Wi-Fi
Announced at the opening of Hospitality Tech360: SNAPguard pairs a pre-provisioned on-site network gateway with a virtual cloud network, as managed guest Wi-Fi built for hospitality.
Product release
Loyalty on the profile, live
Points balances and scheme activity land on the guest profile the moment they change, ready for segments and automations.
2025
Product release
The tunnel layer lands
The secure venue tunnel ships: certificates, authentication and emergency access handled centrally.
Product release
Booking-driven journeys
Workflows trigger off bookings created, completed or cancelled.
Press release
stampede wins Best Tech Product at the Boutique Hotelier Awards 2025
Stampede won Best Tech Product (under 100 employees) at the Boutique Hotelier Awards 2025, announced at the ceremony in London in October.
Product release
Workflow templates
Ready-made workflow templates to start from instead of a blank canvas.
Announcement
Introducing Reviews+
Reviews+ is Stampede's review management add-on: automated requests tied to real visits, replies drafted in your brand's voice and a competitive dashboard.
Press release
stampede at Hospitality Tech Expo, ExCeL London
Stampede exhibited at Hospitality Tech Expo, ExCeL London, on 30 September and 1 October 2025 (stand HT 112), with a talk demystifying AI for hospitality.
Announcement
How workflows turn guest behaviour into automatic marketing
Most marketing tools trigger on a click. Workflows triggers on a booking, a Wi-Fi sign-in, a cancellation or a review, and runs the follow-up for you.
Announcement
Coming soon: the Enquiry Pipeline
The Enquiry Pipeline brings large, high-value booking enquiries into one trackable workspace, from first enquiry to confirmed table.
2023
Announcement
A new kind of marketplace for hospitality apps
The November 2023 launch of the Stampede app marketplace and developer portal: connect booking, ordering and marketing apps so guest data lands in one place.
Press release
The hospitality industry is leaving money in their inbox
We mystery-shopped hospitality venues with one question: can we bring a birthday cake? A third of the emails got no reply, and fewer than 15% tried to sell.
Announcement
Never miss another message with stampede Inbox
Stampede Inbox brings every customer message into one shared inbox, linked to guest profiles, so any team member can reply with full context.
Every release, not just the headlines, is on the feature log.
About stampede.
Stampede turns every booking, Wi-Fi login, payment and review into one guest profile you own, so you can bring them back. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Edinburgh, Stampede is used by 2,500+ UK venues. It works with Square through PayOS, its two-way Square integration, so every order, payment and walk-in lands on one guest profile.
Stampede AI Ltd, company number SC503985, 84 Commercial Street, Commercial Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6LX.
- Eamonn KellyPerformance Marketing Manager, eamonn.kelly@stampede.ai