February 2026: full multi-currency support and a redesigned Statistics tab.
Two big features this month — one we'd been ducking for a year, one we kept rewriting until it stopped feeling like a dashboard and started feeling like a story.
February shipped two things: nouz finally supports every European currency a small shop is likely to bill in, and the Statistics tab got rebuilt around the question owners were actually trying to answer.
Full multi-currency support
Until this release, nouz only stored amounts in EUR — fine for the Eurozone, awkward for everyone else. As of v2.2, you set a base currency per location and every amount is stored in that currency. Supported today: EUR, CHF, GBP, DKK, NOK, SEK, PLN, CZK, HUF. That covers the shops we knew were waiting (Wollwerk in Zurich on CHF, Saltire Soap in Edinburgh on GBP, Lyme Coffee in Copenhagen on DKK) plus the ones we expect to onboard next.
A note on multi-currency businesses: if you run two locations in two countries (say one in Vienna in EUR and one in Copenhagen in DKK), each location stays in its own currency. The roll-up monthly P&L — shipping in May — will convert to a single "reporting currency" you pick. For now, multi-currency businesses get separate per-location reports. We'd rather ship per-location working than roll-ups broken.
For the why-this-took-a-year backstory: every cell in the database that holds money had to grow a currency code, and the COGS snapshot logic in products had to be rewritten to capture the currency at snapshot time. Currency conversion never happens silently — every reported figure is either in the original currency or explicitly converted at a rate you can see.
Redesigned Statistics tab
The old Statistics tab was a wall of charts. Owners would open it, look at it for fifteen seconds, and close it. We watched this on session recordings for two months before accepting that "a dashboard of metrics" was not what people wanted from this screen.
The new tab is built around five questions owners actually asked us, in this order:
- How am I trending versus last month? A single sparkline at the top with the headline number — EBIT to date vs same days last month.
- Which days pay and which don't? A heat-map of the calendar with day-level EBIT shaded green to red.
- Which products are doing the work? The product performance card, now sorted by gross-profit contribution, not unit count.
- When does the runway run out if nothing changes? The runway card — fixed-cost burn against trailing-30-day cash inflow.
- What's drifting that I should know about? Insight tags — automatic flags when food cost, refund rate or fee ratio moves more than your rolling baseline.
Time-on-tab in the first two weeks of beta jumped from 22 seconds (old layout) to 1m 40s (new layout). Not because we made it more sticky — because owners actually started reading it instead of bouncing off.
What we got wrong (on the first try)
Three rework rounds inside the month.
- Currency code on every screen looked noisy. First version of multi-currency showed the ISO code (€ EUR, £ GBP, kr DKK) on every amount everywhere. Beta testers said it made the home screen feel like an airport board. We now only show the code on amounts displayed outside the location's base currency context. Inside the location's native context, just the symbol.
- Heat-map colour scale was too aggressive. First version mapped the worst day red and the best day green, scaled to the range of the visible period. Made a single bad day in an otherwise OK month look catastrophic. We re-anchored it to your trailing-90-day median, with a neutral mid-zone, so colour means "above/below your normal" — not "above/below this month's worst".
- Insight tags fired on too small a sample. Tag thresholds were tuned on three months of data. Two-week-old shops triggered "margin drift" alerts on three days of normal variance. We added a 14-day quiet period before the first tag fires. When insights are quiet covers the rule.
What's next (March 2026)
March is a smaller maintenance release. The headline item is a proper team handover flow for two-shift operations — café-style morning open and evening close passed cleanly between people. Plus mobile keyboard fixes that have been on the backlog too long, and Czech and Greek locales joining the existing eight.
Beyond March: April brings the weekly view, mobile invoice scan, and CSV export. May the multi-location reporting. The roadmap stays inside the help center and the in-app banner for now.
FAQ
Can I switch my location's currency after I've been using nouz for months?
You can, but past entries don't get converted — they stay in the original currency. New entries land in the new currency. Most owners find it cleaner to create a new location if they're actually moving the business to a new country.
Is multi-currency on Starter?
Yes. The currency choice is per-location, and Starter includes one location, so you pick your one currency at setup. Growth (3 locations) and Pro (5+) can mix currencies across locations.
What FX rates does nouz use for the cross-currency roll-up?
The roll-up ships in May. It will use ECB reference rates from the date of each entry — published, auditable, the same source most European accountants use. No silent overnight rate.
Are HRK, RON, BGN coming?
Yes — those three are the next batch, likely in Q3. Customers in Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria can email support@nouz.co to get added to the early-access list.
Where can I read the previous release notes?
The full changelog category on the blog. We post on the last working day of each month.