The sidebar had 22 items in 5 accordion groups, all defaulting closed:
first visit showed five vague headers and zero destinations, there was
no Dashboard/Home link at all, and rare pages (taxes, subscription) had
equal weight with POS. Restructured around usage frequency:
- Flat primary (always visible, no header): Dashboard, POS, Tables,
Kitchen, Queue, Reservations, Menu, Reports
- Two collapsible groups: Customers & marketing (crm, coupons, sms,
reviews, discover) and Café management (inventory, expenses, shifts,
taxes, hr, branches)
- Footer utility icons: settings, subscription, support
- Removed "notifications" from the nav (duplicate of the topbar bell)
Other fixes folded in:
- Deleted [locale]/page.tsx which redirected "/" to /pos — it made the
POS exit button a no-op loop and left OverviewScreen unreachable.
"/" now renders the overview home; login still lands on /pos.
- Branch gating moved from group-level to an item whitelist
(BRANCH_ALLOWED_NAV_KEYS) — also closes the hole where branch
accounts could deep-link to /reports etc. past the RouteGuard.
- RouteGuard now checks footer items too (subscription stays gated).
- revalidate=300 on the locale layout: Next emitted s-maxage=31536000
and the WCDN edge kept serving year-old HTML shells after deploys.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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