Changelog
Updates, improvements and bug fixes for the Roux app.
v3.0 · OCTOBER 26, 2026
WHAT’S NEW
- The Table: a community space for food makers to share extra ingredients, buy in bulk together, sell equipment, and ask or share. Now piloting with Roux members in the Detroit metro area
- Four post types with a guided start: Have extra, Buy together, Selling, and Ask or share
- Private messages with the poster on any post
- Email notifications for new messages, which you can turn off in your profile settings
v2.4 · OCTOBER 2026
IMPROVEMENTS
- Pantry redesigned: browse ingredients by category, and see when you last checked each price
- Discount Modeling renamed to Discount Pricing [confirm the month]
- Recipe Costing suggests matching Pantry items for each ingredient and lets you pick when there’s more than one match [confirm]
v2.3.1 · SEPTEMBER 2026
BUG FIXES
- Recipes using grams were being converted to ounces in some weight calculations
- Recipe Scaling now carries over weights for “not listed” ingredients
- Discount Modeling break-even now uses your latest recipe costs
- Event Planning now uses your latest ingredient costs
- Printed and PDF recipes now show the correct weights
- Duplicating a recipe now keeps its saved costs and sell price
- Your packaging upcharge now saves with the recipe
v2.3 · SEPTEMBER 2026
WHAT’S NEW
- “Not listed” unit with weight estimates: describe an ingredient that has no standard weight and Roux estimates it for you
- View any saved recipe with its full cost breakdown, and print it
- New units: liters, milliliters, pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces
IMPROVEMENTS
- Packaging upcharge is now entered as a simple percentage
- Removed units that gave unreliable costs: stick, can and pinch
v2.2.1 · SEPTEMBER 2026
BUG FIXES
- Event Planning wasn’t scaling labor with batch size, so net profit came out too high on scaled recipes
- Canceled subscriptions now show the correct status and end date
v2.2 · SEPTEMBER 2026
WHAT’S NEW
- Event Planning dashboard: upcoming events, a calendar color-coded by event type, and past events
- Log your results after an event and compare what you sold to what you projected
- Discount Modeling now covers buy one get one, bundles and tiered volume pricing, along with percentage off
- Bundle pricing help: set a target discount or margin and Roux suggests a bundle price
- Include your operating costs in Recipe Scaling and Discount Modeling to see your true profit
IMPROVEMENTS
- Event Planning is now a 3-step flow (event details, products, event costs) with itemized costs like booth fees, permits and travel
- Recipe Scaling and Discount Modeling show results side by side with your inputs
- Packaging items now have a quantity needed per portion, and it carries through to Recipe Scaling and Event Planning
- 5 new glossary terms: batch cost, net profit, revenue, MOQ and case pack pricing
- Saved scenarios removed from Recipe Scaling and Discount Modeling
v2.1 · AUGUST 2026
WHAT’S NEW
- Recipe import: paste a recipe, upload a document or take a photo, and Roux fills in your ingredients for you to review
- Profile photos
- A short welcome for new members to set up their name, business and photo
v2.0 · JULY 2026
WHAT’S NEW
- Operating Costs: add your monthly fixed costs, like rent, insurance and subscriptions, and Roux works out your overhead rate per hour
v1.1 · JULY 2026
WHAT’S NEW
- Know your dough: a help button on every screen with plain-language explanations of food business terms
- Glossary with 20 terms, from food cost percentage to break-even
- Packaging & Supplies tab in your Pantry, so bags, boxes, labels and jars are saved like ingredients
IMPROVEMENTS
- Recipe Costing redesigned: fewer screens between steps, labor and packaging can be turned on or off, and a live food cost slider in the final step shows your sell price change as you adjust it
- Recipes and Pantry now sit together under Library in the menu
v1.0.1 · JULY 2026
BUG FIXES
- Fixed an issue that kept some subscription payments from processing
- Fixed a step navigation issue in Recipe Costing
- Signing up with an email that already has an account now shows an error
- Fixed several mobile layout issues
v1.0 · JULY 1, 2026
Public launch.
WHAT’S NEW
- Roux opens to everyone with a 3-day free trial, then $15/month or $160/year
- Recipe Costing, Recipes & Pantry, and Test Kitchen (Recipe Scaling, Discount Modeling, Event Planning) available to all members
