# PE Companion — Your restaurant, at a glance > Your restaurant, at a glance (iPhone/iPad app by Panda Eats Platform LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pe-companion/id6803215010 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Panda Eats Platform LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6803215012) - Category: Business, Food & Drink - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 6 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), Italian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish - Released: 2026-08-28 - Data updated: 2026-10-09 ## What is PE Companion? PE Companion puts your Panda Eats restaurant in your pocket. It answers the questions an owner or manager actually asks when they are away from the counter, in the order they matter. IS SOMETHING WRONG RIGHT NOW Alerts tell you when the order tablet stops checking in, when orders time out without being accepted, and when the day's report is ready. The problems you would otherwise hear about from an angry phone call. HOW IS TODAY GOING One screen, one number. Sales so far today, orders taken, whether service is open, and which items are actually selling. WHAT HAPPENED WITH THAT ORDER Every order as it settles, with its items, modifiers, the full total breakdown and how the diner paid. On deliveries sent to Uber Direct you also see the courier's progress. CAN I STOP THE BLEEDING Pause pickup, delivery, reservations or catering for thirty minutes, an hour, two hours, or the rest of the day. Add a note your diners will see on your ordering page. Every pause expires on its own, so a pause you forget about is not a closed restaurant. IS THE DAY READY TO CLOSE OUT Sales for today, the last seven days or the last thirty, broken down by service, with your top selling items and the end of day summary. MORE THAN ONE LOCATION Switch between every restaurant your account can see. Each keeps its own alerts, hours and timezone, and every date and total is worked out in the restaurant's own local time rather than your phone's. A COMPANION, NOT A REPLACEMENT This app deliberately does very little. It reads a lot and changes almost nothing: pausing service is the only thing it can alter. Taking orders stays on the kitchen tablet where it belongs, and menus, promotions, printing and refunds stay on the Panda Eats merchant dashboard. You will need a Panda Eats merchant account to sign in. Panda Eats is an online ordering platform for independent restaurants. ## Is PE Companion safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess PE Companion. ## Is PE Companion legit? PE Companion has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PE Companion is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.6.0 — 2026-10-07 Order notifications: get a notification on your phone for every order your tablet accepts, and tap it to open the order. Choose with sound, without sound or off on the Account screen; the choice is for this phone only, and alerts about problems still arrive either way. Catering orders now show how they're served. On-site catering shows when the event ends and where it is. When a newer version is out, a banner lets you know. ### 1.5.0 — 2026-09-26 Refunds, right from your phone: open a paid order and refund the items that went wrong, the delivery fee, the tip, the entire order or a custom amount, never more than was paid. Every refund stays on the order's record, and the customer gets an email. You can also find any order from the last 90 days by its number. Both are rolling out to restaurants over the next few days. ### 1.4.1 — 2026-09-24 “Dine in” is now called “On premise”, to match the Panda Eats dashboard. It is the same service with a new name, so your orders, reports and settings are exactly as they were. ### 1.4 — 2026-09-16 PE Companion now speaks your language. The app is available in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Simplified Chinese, and follows the language your iPhone is set to. To pick a different language just for this app, open Settings, then Apps, then PE Companion, then Language. Everything is translated: today's sales, orders, the end-of-day report, pausing service, the menu and your notifications. Times and amounts are written the way that language writes them. Item names and messages you typed on the dashboard stay exactly as you wrote them. ### 1.3 — 2026-09-14 Notifications are here. PE Companion can now alert you when something needs you, even with the app closed. Turn them on when the app asks, and you will hear about: - Orders timing out: an order or table booking was not accepted in time. - Order tablet offline: the kitchen tablet stopped checking in while you are open. - Day report ready: the end-of-day numbers are in. - Service paused and service resumed: anyone on your team pauses or restarts ordering. The first two make a sound because orders are being lost. The rest arrive quietly. 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