
<p>Welcome to what&#8217;s new on Shopfront for August 2021! It&#8217;s a light-on month for features and fixes with a large amount of development going towards large features coming out shortly.</p>



<p>Some of these features are still rolling out to stores and should become available within the next couple of weeks.</p>



<p></p>



<h2>Minor Features</h2>



<ul><li>Added integration to Thirsty Camel&#8217;s Hump Club,</li><li>Added copy criteria button to the promotion edit page,</li><li>Rearranged a few tables in the security centre to look nicer on mobile devices</li></ul>



<h2>Bug Fixes</h2>



<ul><li>Prevented a gift card from being redeemed multiple times within the same sale,</li><li>When using the select all checkbox on the promotions page, we now validate that the promotions selected are for the current search, not a previous search (previously searching for &#8220;aug&#8221; would generate a search for &#8220;a&#8221;, &#8220;au&#8221; and then &#8220;aug&#8221; and could result in &#8220;aug&#8221; finishing before &#8220;a&#8221;),</li><li>Saving the register closure tags for a register will no longer remove the tags from other registers,</li><li>Importing customers via CSV now works as expected when specifying the <code>customer_group_id</code> column,</li><li>Reordered the promotional category dropdown on the promotion edit page to be alphabetical,</li><li>Revision history for price lists no longer show the fallback rule as an &#8220;unknown item&#8221;,</li><li>Prevented a race condition resulting in the customer display occasionally showing the previous sale when the cash drawer had to open to to a payment method requiring it,</li><li>Inventory for a previous date report can no longer be run for today&#8217;s date</li></ul>


New on Shopfront: August 2021


<p>Shopfront version 2 has had all stores on it for 18 months now and since then we&#8217;ve added a huge number of features, brand new and reimagined integrations, consistently improved the speed and improved reliability and now we&#8217;re ready to show you the next plans for Shopfront until the end of the year.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>This should be used as a guide only, some features may end up with different functionality, be developed at a different time or completely dropped.</p></blockquote>



<p>More information on each feature will be released closer to the individual feature&#8217;s release date.</p>



<p></p>



<h2>eCommerce Store</h2>



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<p>Looking for another channel of sales? Shopfront&#8217;s currently building an eCommerce platform due for beta release shortly.</p>



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<h2>Fulfilment Interface</h2>



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<p>Alongside the eCommerce store, Shopfront is developing a new fulfilment interface which will allow any eCommerce store to easily send sales to Shopfront with the intention of them being fulfilled through the POS system (without having to develop their own user interface).</p>
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<h2>New Data Merges</h2>



<p>Shopfront currently supports merging customers but will shortly be adding the highly requested functionality of merging suppliers and products.</p>



<p></p>



<h2>Shopview &amp; Enterprise Management</h2>



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<p>Managing stores on different domains? Want to run reports across multiple unconnected stores? Need a centralised source of truth for all of your stores?</p>



<p>That&#8217;s where Shopview comes in, Shopview is an external application that allows you to connect and manage multiple stores through a simple user interface. </p>



<p>Create advanced promotions to run across all of your stores, manage each stores product file in a centralised location, enforce policies across all stores and run reports on raw data fed from Shopfront.</p>
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<p></p>



<h2>New Integrations</h2>



<p>We&#8217;re also constantly adding a number of new integrations into Shopfront (developed by both us and development partners). Recently we&#8217;ve added integrations to Thirsty Camel&#8217;s Hump Club and Milie ordering system, Myfoodlink has developed an integration to connect your Shopfront store through to their eCommerce platform and we&#8217;ve got a couple more new integrations coming this year including integrating with Zen Global&#8217;s loyalty system and upcoming integration with some delivery services.</p>



<p></p>


Coming to Shopfront: 2021 (2nd Half)


<p>Welcome to what&#8217;s new on Shopfront for July 2021! We&#8217;ve got a number of new features coming up in the next six months and a lot of our current development is going towards implementing those (thus why the last couple of months have been a bit lean for features). <a href="https://shopfront.com.au/blog/post/669" title="Coming to Shopfront: 2021 (2nd Half)">Check out what&#8217;s coming soon to Shopfront in our new blog post!</a></p>



<p></p>



<h2>Minor Features</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://shopfront.com.au/blog/post/639">Xero can now have a different company file per Outlet</a>,</li><li>Adjusted total sale discount price distribution to be simpler to include discounting based off the current sell price (previously we distributed using a percentage of the everyday price),</li><li>Added a filter in advanced stocktakes for Outlet,</li><li>Added integration to Thirsty Camel&#8217;s Milie ordering system</li></ul>



<h2>Bug Fixes</h2>



<ul><li>Prevented an error when updating a user dashboard with a report that contains more than 26 lines then viewing that report,</li><li>Stopped deleted favourite reports crashing the user dashboard page,</li><li>Cashout and refund dialog no longer shows only payments which have been approved,</li><li>Stocktake variance reports now use the most recently edited cost if running on mixed mode and the product&#8217;s inventory is negative,</li><li>Prevented a rounding issue for products which require more than two decimal places to calculate the correct price and using match price points family price distribution,</li><li>Fixed banner group promotions sending in AEST timezone for stores located in other timezones if the store was created after the 26th of February 2021,</li><li>Stopped receipts automatically printing when auto print receipt is turned off for a customer group but auto print payment receipts is turned on,</li><li>Prevented price calculation calculating prices as a positive for returned products when quantity is a decimal and family price distribution is set to match price points,</li><li>Removing the primary image (the first image) on the product edit page no longer hides the additional images,</li><li>Fixed numerous colour issues when in dark mode</li></ul>



<p></p>


New on Shopfront: July 2021


<p><strong>Update 17th of August 2021:</strong> These changes have been rolled out to all Vendors, if you&#8217;re experiencing any issues, please get in touch with us.</p>



<p>We&#8217;re making some adjustments to the way Shopfront interacts with Xero, for most people using the integration you should not notice any changes. </p>



<p></p>



<h2>What Changes are Being Made</h2>



<p>Currently, the Shopfront to Xero integration works by connecting one Shopfront Vendor (which could have multiple Outlets) to a single Xero account (and through that account to a single Xero tenant).</p>



<p>This change will allow you to connect each Shopfront Outlet to a different Xero tenant (which can be across different Xero accounts).</p>



<p>Through this change, you won&#8217;t be required to have the same settings for each Outlet (although, we do recommend it if they are connected to the same Xero tenant).</p>



<p>Alongside this, we&#8217;re also bringing a new coat of paint to the settings page, with built in help and a cleaner interface to make configuring and mapping the integration easier.</p>



<p></p>



<h2>Why We&#8217;re Making the Change</h2>



<p>Throughout the years, we&#8217;ve had a number of store owners request the ability to connect a different Xero tenant to each Outlet, however we&#8217;ve always had the same principle as Xero where one business should be one Shopfront Vendor. However, more and more stores are coming onto Shopfront that wish to share product files, see inventory across locations and more but also have multiple owners and account for each location separately.</p>



<p></p>



<h2>When the Changes Will Happen</h2>



<p>This change is currently being rolled out to all stores and should be completed by early next week.</p>



<p></p>



<h2>What you Need to do</h2>



<p>If you&#8217;re a Vendor with only a single Outlet, no changes will be required and your integration will continue to work as per-normal.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re a Vendor with multiple Outlets, you might want to change to using our new multi-tenant support. If you do, all that you need to do is go to your Xero integration settings once the changes have been rolled out and change the configuration of each Outlet like you would currently do with all Outlets.</p>



<p></p>



<h2>What About the MYOB Integration</h2>



<p>Currently this change is exclusive to the Xero integration as there are significantly more uses of the Xero integration and the multi-tenant model of Xero makes it simple to connect multiple Outlets whereas MYOB&#8217;s company-file model is a bit more complex.</p>



<p>Whilst there are no current plans to make a similar change, we will consider doing so in the future.</p>


Upcoming Changes to the Xero Integration


<p>Welcome to what&#8217;s new on Shopfront for June 2021! The end of the financial year brings a number of fixes and minor features.</p>



<p></p>



<h2>Minor Features</h2>



<ul><li>Emailed customer statements now show as &#8220;from&#8221; as the Outlet name that you&#8217;re currently in,</li><li>First barcode is exported to the shelf tickets,</li><li>Updating a products case quantity on the edit page now edits the inventory once you leave the case quantity box rather than instantly</li></ul>



<p></p>



<h2>Bug Fixes</h2>



<ul><li>Reporting dashboard hover information is correctly coloured when in dark mode,</li><li>Removing the main (first) product image no longer removes all alternate images,</li><li>Pressing back after adding a customer when &#8220;Display All Products in Classification&#8221; sale key is open now correctly returns you to the sell screen,</li><li>Prevented promotions from activating / deactivating incorrectly due to the incorrect timezone being used when saved locally,</li><li>Removing the grouping from everyday tickets now correctly reverts to the no grouping order,</li><li>Price list revisions show percentage pricing rules as percentages rather than currency,</li><li>Exporting all products via the stock list when a large number of products exist in the store no longer hits the rate limiter </li></ul>



<p></p>


New on Shopfront: June 2021


<p>Welcome to what&#8217;s new on Shopfront for May 2021! We&#8217;ve got a few bug fixes for you, some minor features and a new product importer.</p>



<p>Note, some of these features are currently rolling out and may not be available for your store until the end of next week.</p>



<p></p>



<h2>Major Features</h2>



<p><strong>Advanced CSV Product Importer</strong></p>



<p>We&#8217;ve just released a brand-new CSV product importer for creating a large amount of products from a CSV file, whilst we&#8217;ve support a basic CSV import for quite some time now, the advanced importer comes with a number of features, such as:</p>



<ul><li>Multiple price points,</li><li>Multiple barcodes,</li><li>Reorder points and amounts,</li><li>Importing data for multiple outlets</li></ul>



<p>To get started, <a href="https://support.onshopfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061958992-Importing-an-Advanced-Product-CSV-File-Into-Shopfront">check out our support article</a>.</p>



<p></p>



<h2>Minor Features</h2>



<ul><li>Cleaned up a number of revision history fields,</li><li>Added notification when a PDF fails to generate throughout the POS system (e.g. exported report, customer statement),</li><li>The customer index page can now be filtered to show customers without a customer group</li></ul>



<p></p>



<h2>Bug Fixes</h2>



<ul><li>Fixed monetary formatting of user dashboard graphs,</li><li>Merging the current sale with a parked sale which contains a modified component on both no longer results in the original product being discounted differently,</li><li>Multi-select lists no longer suffer from a disappearing check box,</li><li>Prevented focus from being stolen by the username field when logging in after a sale and attempting to change the receipt template,</li><li>Refreshing the external stocktake page no longer results in styling going missing,</li><li>Total transactions in a register closure correctly take into account on-account sales,</li><li>Fixed false positive cash mishandling trigger for the security centre,</li><li>Prevented a rare occurrence where two payment methods could be added at the same time on slow hardware,</li><li>Opening the second line in the classification page in a new tab now works as expected,</li><li>Historical receipts now correctly print when the user who performed the sale has been deleted,</li><li>Printing a previous date inventory report correctly shows all values instead of just &#8220;0&#8221;</li></ul>


New on Shopfront: May 2021


<p>Welcome to what&#8217;s new on Shopfront for April 2021! Our Security Centre is live, new reordering features and a few bug fixes made it into the changes for this month.</p>



<h2>Major Features</h2>



<p><strong>Security Centre</strong></p>



<p>The Security Centre is now here!</p>



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<p>Whilst still in beta, the security centre is a useful tool to assist with tracking and identifying user behaviour. Currently we&#8217;re only tracking a couple of patterns but we&#8217;re planning on adding a lot more. We&#8217;re also tracking a number of raw events including all logins, the cash drawer opening, user modifications and more. Eventually the security centre will replace the action reports.</p>



<p>While the Security Centre is in beta, it&#8217;s available for all customers, but once it has finished the beta period, it&#8217;ll only be available to users with a premium subscription.</p>



<p><strong>Reorder Rounding</strong></p>



<p>If you reorder stock using either our sales or reorder point generation we&#8217;ve added the ability to round the calculation to individual products.</p>



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<p>This is designed to assist with prevent Shopfront from recommending you order items if the supplier only accepts cases. There are four different rounding options which can be applied:</p>



<ul><li>No Rounding (default, how Shopfront was previously working),</li><li>Round Up to Case,</li><li>Round Down to Case,</li><li>Round Naturally to Case (if it&#8217;s closer to zero it&#8217;ll round down, if it&#8217;s closer to the case quantity it&#8217;ll round up)</li></ul>



<p>So if you&#8217;ve got the setting set as Round Down to Case and Shopfront was previously going to suggest 2 cases and 3 items, it&#8217;ll now only suggest 2 cases.</p>



<h2>Minor Features</h2>



<ul><li>Automatically cleared old already synchronised sales from the local computer to free up disk space,</li><li>You can now search for all customers not in a group on the customers page,</li><li>[Linkly / Tyro] Integrated EFTPOS receipts are now stored and are able to be reprinted,</li><li>[Linkly] Added support for application hub,</li></ul>



<h2>Bug Fixes</h2>



<ul><li>Automatic capped pricing tags now appear in the classification page,</li><li>Applying a negative discount to a package which contains a discounted component calculates the price on in a more understandable way,</li><li>Parked nested products (e.g. packages within packages) no longer lose their discount when retrieved,</li><li>Updating a deleted customer&#8217;s email address (through the sales history) no longer results in a failed upload,</li><li>Price sets no longer reset to default during a full synchronisation,</li><li>Complex promotions involving family pricing with part of the family being within multiple promotions correctly distribute the remaining family price,</li><li>Integrated users no longer appear in the general settings page</li></ul>


New on Shopfront: April 2021


<p>Welcome to what&#8217;s new on Shopfront for March 2021! A new integration marketplace, a number of visual fixes and a collection of bugs squashed round out this month.</p>



<h2>Upcoming Changes</h2>



<p>Next month, we&#8217;re implementing limits for how long actions and revisions are stored, currently both are stored indefinitely but as of next month actions will be stored for one year and revisions will be stored for two years. After the time period has expired the action or revision will be inaccessible and permanently deleted.</p>



<p>We don&#8217;t foresee this causing any issues as that data is rarely accessed. If you do have a use for that information, please get in touch with us.</p>



<p>We&#8217;re also looking at launching the beta version of our Security Centre next month, more details will be available soon, but it&#8217;ll be available for all customers while it&#8217;s in beta, once out of beta it&#8217;ll be only available to customers on our premium plan.</p>



<h2>Major Features</h2>



<p><strong>Integration Marketplace</strong></p>



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<p>Our new integration marketplace is live! It&#8217;s a redesigned integration page that will feature not only officially made integrations from Shopfront but also integrations made by other companies that have been approved by Shopfront. </p>



<p>We&#8217;re currently in the process of reviewing a number of applications, so expect to see more integrations appearing shortly!</p>



<p>Once an integration has been approved, you&#8217;ll be able to find more details about it on the login news and our website.</p>



<p><strong>Mobile Ordering</strong></p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" width="339" height="605" src="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-22-at-3.20.37-pm.png" alt="" class="wp-image-595" srcset="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-22-at-3.20.37-pm.png 339w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-22-at-3.20.37-pm-168x300.png 168w" sizes="(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px" /></figure></div>



<p>We&#8217;re progressively working through the way a number of pages work on mobile devices to ensure they&#8217;re easy to use and suit the screen of mobile devices. This month we&#8217;ve improved the display of the order edit screen.</p>



<p>All of the functionality of the desktop version is available and we&#8217;ll keep tweaking the design to make it easier to use.</p>



<p><strong>Scales</strong></p>



<p>As mentioned late last year in our coming soon post, as of this month, we&#8217;ve added beta support for serial weight scales. Not only are the scales easy to setup and use, but they don&#8217;t require any third-party or installed dependencies and support all desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS and Linux).</p>



<p>Whilst this feature is in beta, you&#8217;ll need to get in touch with us to begin using it.</p>



<h2>Minor Features</h2>



<ul><li>Changed email providers (more details can be found in last month&#8217;s <a href="https://shopfront.com.au/blog/post/577">New on Shopfront</a>),</li><li>The subject of the email is now included in the mail log,</li><li>Deleted items (e.g. products, payment methods) that are on a sale key are now prepended with <em>NOT FOUND</em> when editing the sale keys,</li><li>Products that don&#8217;t track inventory can no longer be stocktaked,</li><li>Added additional price fields into the shelf ticket export for the fifth, sixth and seventh prices as well as specifying a specific case price field,</li><li>Sales which are parked with a price list price no longer appear as discounted when the price matches the price list,</li><li>Added a column to the price lists page to show the number of customers using a price list,</li><li>When a select list contains an item which is wider than the list, the full label is shown on multiple lines instead of being cut off,</li><li>Added ability to add a price set to the stock list page which displays only prices within that price set,</li><li>Added an option to turn off the promotion calculation running in a dedicated thread to reduce the memory and CPU usage on slower devices,</li><li>[PC-EFTPOS / Linkly] Replaced all references to the name PC-EFTPOS with the name Linkly</li></ul>



<h2>Bug Fixes</h2>



<ul><li>Automatically retried emails will only notify you once when the email bounces,</li><li>Multiple dark mode display fixes,</li><li>Adjusting a family price with a default price no longer resets other prices to the default price set,</li><li>Fixed invalid payment method rounding when some products have more than two decimal places and the sale has been completed,</li><li>Parking a sale and then adding a note to the parked sale with a different user with different permissions no longer results in the note failing to apply,</li><li>Returning and reloading a historical sale correctly shows the price lock,</li><li>Automatically scrolling to a product after adding it to an order is now correctly positioned when using DPI scaling above 100%,</li><li>Adding an image to a product&#8217;s description resizes the page&#8217;s fields as expected,</li><li>Prevented setting a promotion&#8217;s end date before the start date,</li><li>Small mobile devices no longer drop the icons below the header,</li><li>After sale refund dialog box is no longer shown when refunding a EFTPOS refund item,</li><li>Tabbing out of a select list correctly closes the select list,</li><li>Prevented scrolling past the end of the page when editing an order on iOS,</li><li>[Developer] Authentication scopes now automatically request dependent permissions</li></ul>


New on Shopfront: March 2021


<p>Welcome to what&#8217;s new on Shopfront for February 2021! We&#8217;ve got new ways to test promotions, a whole bunch of accounting integration improvements and more!</p>



<h2>Upcoming Changes</h2>



<p>Before getting on to the normal programming, we&#8217;re just giving you a heads up with a couple of upcoming changes.</p>



<p>During March we&#8217;re moving to a new mail provider to improve delivery time and reduce failed emails, because of this, we&#8217;re changing where emails come from that are sent from within Shopfront. Currently when you&#8217;re sending receipts to customers they&#8217;re from <em>receipts@[your-subdomain].onshopfront.com</em> and statements are from <em>statements@[your-subdomain].onshopfront.com</em>. </p>



<p>This will now change to instead all come from <em>[your-subdomain]@onshopfront.com</em>. You&#8217;ll also receive more emails from this email address which were previously coming from <em>noreply@onshopfront.com</em>. Nothing is required on your side with these changes, however we thought we&#8217;d give you a heads-up in case you have any email rules setup for Shopfront emails.</p>



<p>The second major upcoming feature which is already rolling out is our new authentication for integrations. Previously when you approved an integration they essentially acted as you and received all of the same permissions as you. This worked fairly well, however it lead to not knowing exactly what each integration would be doing and meant that integrations would be affected when your permissions were changed.</p>



<p>Instead, integrations will now specify which permissions they require and when authenticated they&#8217;ll be created as an internal user within your POS system (which will automatically be removed if you revoke the integration). This leads to more transparency with what integrations are doing and prevents integrations from losing access to some features due to permission changes. When authenticating the integration, you&#8217;ll now be required to use a user who has the <code>modify_integrations</code> permission (same as before), but also all of the permissions the integration is requiring.</p>



<h2>Major Features</h2>



<p><strong>Promotion Simulator</strong></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="622" src="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-02-at-8.52.18-am-1024x622.png" alt="" class="wp-image-579" srcset="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-02-at-8.52.18-am-1024x622.png 1024w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-02-at-8.52.18-am-300x182.png 300w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-02-at-8.52.18-am-768x466.png 768w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-02-at-8.52.18-am.png 1472w" sizes="(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px" /></figure>



<p>Want to test out a promotion before it has started or need to test it out on a non-register? Now you can with the promotion simulator. Simply edit a promotion, enable the promotion simulator in the bottom right-hand corner and add the products you want to test.</p>



<p><strong>Dark Mode</strong></p>



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<p>Currently in beta, dark mode is now available for all stores. You can enable the dark mode by going to the Menu &gt; Setup &gt; General &gt; Registers, select the register you want to enable the setting for and then change the dark mode setting to one of <em>Force Light Mode</em> (default), <em>Force Dark Mode</em> or <em>Auto</em> (this will use your operating system setting to determine whether to display Shopfront in dark or light mode).</p>



<p>We&#8217;re still improving how it looks on each page, but it should be ready to use in the vast majority of places.</p>



<p><strong>Import Gift Cards</strong></p>



<p>Have some gift cards to create without selling them? Now you can import gift cards directly from a CSV file. Head over to the Menu &gt; Customer Management &gt; Gift Cards &gt; Functions &gt; Import Gift Cards to get started, you&#8217;ll need a CSV ready with the following columns:</p>



<ul><li><code>code</code>,</li><li><code>balance</code>,</li><li><code>original</code> (optional),</li><li><code>outlet</code> (for multi-store vendors)</li></ul>



<p>Alongside importing gift cards, we&#8217;ve also added the ability to see where the gift card was created from with the new creation source column on the gift card page, this will specify whether it came from a sale, a file import or from an integration.</p>



<h2>Minor Features</h2>



<ul><li>Sales order references now appear on customer statements in the &#8220;reference&#8221; column,</li><li>Added default statement template when creating a new statement,</li><li>The products contained within a basket and the parents of products have been added to the product view page,</li><li>Added a filter box to the trashed items page,</li><li>Refund amount is now displayed in a dialog after the refund is completed to ensure the refund is provided to customers,</li><li>Price calculation has been moved to a dedicated worker thread to prevent the price calculation from freezing the UI on complex long-running calculations,</li><li>Cross promotion count will now automatically turn on when a promotion takes longer than 400ms to calculate with cross promotion count disabled,</li><li>Added a new option to customer groups to automatically print parked sales receipts,</li><li>Added a new action report type, modified sales,</li><li>Added a new permission, &#8220;See Only Recent Register Closures&#8221; which allows users with the permission to see register closures which have been closed within the last 12 hours and by that user,</li><li>[MYOB / Xero] Transfers between stores can now be sent to the accounting integrations,</li><li>[MYOB / Xero] Transfers to transferees can now be sent to the accounting integrations,</li><li>[MYOB / Xero] Vendor connection orders are now sent to accounting integrations,</li><li>[MYOB / Xero] Added a toggle to specify whether COGS should be sent as inclusive or exclusive of tax,</li><li>[MYOB / Xero] Can now clear the supplier and customer mappings from the account integration setting pages,</li><li>[MYOB] Forced all register closures to work through a queue to prevent duplicates due to MYOB&#8217;s API timing out but still succeeding,</li><li>[Shop MyLocal] Barcode files are no longer directly downloaded, but instead emailed directly to Metcash from Shopfront,</li><li>[OnTap Data] Added new integration with OnTap Data,</li><li>[Developer] <code>searchSale</code> GraphQL route has been removed as per deprecation policy,</li><li>[Developer] <code>getIntegration</code> GraphQL route has been removed as per deprecation policy,</li><li>[Developer] <code>product.usePriceLabel</code> GraphQL field has been removed as per deprecation policy,</li><li>[Developer] <code>product.active</code> GraphQL field has been removed as per deprecation policy,</li><li>[Developer] <code>paymentMethod.denominations</code> GraphQL field has been removed as per deprecation policy,</li><li>[Developer] Scopes can now be requested when authenticating an integration, allowing you to specify which permissions your integration will require (and prevent your application from losing the permissions)</li></ul>



<h2>Bug Fixes</h2>



<ul><li>Printing a parked sale receipt from the parked sale sell screen options while another sale receipt is visible on the screen no longer results in two receipts being printed,</li><li>Import products from CSV is no longer missing the first row in the preview,</li><li>Merging customers without specifying their birthday no longer results in their birthday being the current date,</li><li>Adding and removing shortcuts to the user&#8217;s quick menu is now more reliable,</li><li>Customer price lists are now correctly updated when only the product details are modified,</li><li>The current classification no longer displays in the assign classification page search box,</li><li>The customer payment screen now correctly displays the customer&#8217;s credit terms when using a date format that is not <code>YYYY-MM-DD</code>,</li><li>Fixed drag-and-drop importers from now accepting CSV files on Windows due to Windows providing an incorrect MIME type,</li><li>Prevented refund reason from appearing multiple times for a single transaction,</li><li>Changing a price list from <em>cost + %</em> to last <em>cost + %</em> when the percentage amount is zero no longer results in an error appearing,</li><li>Prevented banner group promotions from reactivating deleted promotions when resent from the banner group source,</li><li>Prevented numbers with commas in them from being pasted into the currency text boxes,</li><li>[Shop MyLocal] Promotions that have concluded / started now correctly send product updates to prevent incorrect price from appearing on Shop MyLocal</li></ul>


New on Shopfront: February 2021


<p>Welcome to what&#8217;s new on Shopfront for January 2021! We&#8217;ve got a whole heap of changes that have been released this month due to holding the feature releases from last month.</p>



<p><em>Note: Some of these features are gradually rolling out to stores, all stores are expected to have received them by the end of next week.</em></p>



<h2>Major Features</h2>



<p><strong>Clone Promotions</strong></p>



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<p>If you want to create a similar promotion to an already existing promotion without having to enter all the details back in, we&#8217;ve now made it simple by adding the ability to clone a promotion. Simply tick a single promotion on the promotions page and then press the <em>Clone Promotion</em> button which appears at the bottom. This will create an exact copy of the promotion with the name having <em>(Copy)</em> appended to it.</p>



<p>The ability to clone promotional criteria within a promotion will be coming later this year.</p>



<p><strong>Exclude Promotional Categories From Sending Promotions to Integrations</strong></p>



<p>If you&#8217;re integrated with an eCommerce store, whether it be your own custom store, the LMG eCommerce stores or Shop MyLocal you can now prevent some promotions from sending to it by excluding a promotional category from sending to the API.</p>



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<p>To enable or disable sending promotions to integrations, you&#8217;ll need to go to the promotion categories page (Menu &gt; Setup &gt; Promotion Categories), from here you can either create a new promotion and enable or disable the <em>Send promotions within this category to integrations</em> toggle or if you want to edit an existing category, select <em>Edit</em> next to the category and then enable / disable the <em>Include in Integrations</em> toggle.</p>



<p><em>Note, custom API integrations can access and apply promotions directly so disabling this setting may not affect promotions appearing on your site &#8211; if you have any questions, contact your web developer. For web developers, this toggle directly affects the results of ProductType &gt; barcodes &gt; promotionPrice and outletPromotionPrice in the GraphQL API.</em></p>



<p><strong>Filtering by Additional Information</strong></p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="408" src="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-9.39.24-am-1024x408.png" alt="" class="wp-image-560" srcset="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-9.39.24-am-1024x408.png 1024w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-9.39.24-am-300x119.png 300w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-9.39.24-am-768x306.png 768w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-9.39.24-am-1536x611.png 1536w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-9.39.24-am.png 1573w" sizes="(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px" /></figure></div>



<p>Shopfront has always had the ability to add additional information to products which has previously been used to add information to your integrated website or to display on shelf tickets, however it didn&#8217;t have much use within Shopfront itself, now you&#8217;re able to use your additional information to help your staff find product through a combination of filters.</p>



<p>Firstly, you&#8217;re going to need to <a href="https://support.onshopfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001656532-Setting-up-Additional-Ticket-Information">setup some additional information</a>, and then add it to some products (which can be done at the bottom of the product edit page).</p>



<p>Once you&#8217;ve setup your additional information there are two places you can filter by it, the products page and the sell screen through a sales key.</p>



<p>To filter on the products page, simply open the page (Menu &gt; Stock &gt; Products), press <em>Show Filters</em> and then type or select which value you&#8217;d like to filter by and the products will be automatically filtered.</p>



<p>To filter on the sell screen via a sales key, you&#8217;ll first need to <a href="https://support.onshopfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000003211-Sales-Keys">add the <em>Search by additional information</em> sale key</a>, then on the sell screen tap the new key, select the field and then enter a value.</p>



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<p><strong>Customer Merge</strong></p>



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<p>Introducing the much requested feature, customer merging, this is the first is a series of releases we&#8217;ll be doing this year to allow merging between multiple objects (merging products will come out later this year). Performing a customer merge allows you to combine multiple customer&#8217;s details, sales, payments and more into a single customer.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s a slightly complex feature, so we&#8217;d suggest <a href="https://support.onshopfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055634631-Customer-Merge">checking out our help article</a> to learn how to use it.</p>



<p><strong>Minimum / Maximum Order Values</strong></p>



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<p>If you want to prevent ordering from a supplier if the order doesn&#8217;t meet a minimum value or exceeds a maximum value, you can now set these values directly on the supplier edit page.</p>



<p>This doesn&#8217;t affect order generation in any way, but it will prevent orders from being sent if they&#8217;re outside the range specified (you can leave the value blank to ignore it).</p>



<p><strong>Limit Reorder Quantity</strong></p>



<p>Alongside minimum and maximum order values, we&#8217;ve also added the ability to limit the reorder quantity when generating orders from sales or reorder points (or both). This doesn&#8217;t prevent orders from sending with higher quantities, but it prevents Shopfront from suggesting higher quantities.</p>



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<h2>Minor Features</h2>



<ul><li>Basket products have been reworked to be consistent throughout Shopfront, now inventory changes through stocktakes, invoices and transfers all affect the stock within the basket,</li><li>Deleting a family via the classifications page now removes the classification instantly on the local device instead of waiting for a sync,</li><li>Recovering a family from the trash now instantly restores the family on the local device instead of waiting for a sync,</li><li>Inventory reports can now be grouped by Outlet,</li><li>We&#8217;ve limited the sales history to the last 30 days by default to improve initial load time,</li><li>The gift card code used to pay for a sale is now displayed in the sales history,</li><li>Receipts can now display the base price per-line before discounts and savings are applied,</li><li>Prevented blur on focus loss from appearing when an integrated payment method is used to prevent the focus loss screen from appearing when Linkly is used,</li><li>Automatically received promotions from a banner group are now automatically deleted 14 days after the promotion ends,</li><li>Unallocated customer payments now appear in sales payment reports,</li><li>All routes are now lazy loaded to improve performance,</li><li>Adding a classification to the everyday tickets now requests whether all products should be added or only products in stock should be added,</li><li>You&#8217;ll now receive a notification when an email fails to send,</li><li>Order references can now be added as a column to the sales reports when they&#8217;re unconsolidated,</li><li>Large index buttons (Stock &gt; More, Shelf Tickets, Miscellaneous Reports) can now be opened in new tabs,</li><li>Purchase and transfer reports can now be filtered by vendor connections,</li><li>Opened mail now appears in the mail log (presuming the receiver has images enabled),</li><li>We&#8217;ve extended the number of supported decimal places when receiving invoices to five,</li><li>[Shop MyLocal] Promotional prices are now sent on a per-outlet basis instead of the best promotional price for the Vendor,</li><li>[Developer] Reports from the Reporting API can now be cached, this has also been applied to numerous pages in the POS</li></ul>



<h2>Bug Fixes</h2>



<ul><li>Reloading an EFTPOS gift card product from a parked or cancelled sale now correctly goes through the EFTPOS refund flow,</li><li>Failed payment methods with open cash drawer no longer open the cash drawer when the sale is completed,</li><li>Applying a force sync from the server (e.g. when the settings are updated) and having an outstanding upload no longer causes a race condition resulting in the register closure being incorrect for the current register period,</li><li>Numerous display issues have been fixed in multiple screens such as the product edit screen and the sales history screen,</li><li>Tethered objects (like the calendar) no longer appear above the login screen,</li><li>Large PDFs (8mb+) now correctly email and download,</li><li>Shelf tickets added to the everyday tickets while in global mode now correctly save on the server,</li><li>Shelf tickets exported with an additional information field of type date no longer fail to export,</li><li>The touch numbers no longer appear over the discount reason box,</li><li>Dropdown lists correctly close when clicking between them in the reports,</li><li>Prevented promotions having mix criteria enabled and a criteria being set to more than,</li><li>Products bulk created from the master database now create an initial inventory log entry,</li><li>Invalid gTLD emails now appear as failed in the mail log instead of resulting in a failed upload,</li><li>Reloading a parked sale which contains a nested component (package &gt; package &gt; component) no longer results in the sell screen showing an error,</li><li>[Linkly] ANZ terminals no longer show transaction not allowed for cashout without a sale,</li><li>[Linkly] Performing a sale while a settlement is currently performing no longer locks the integration dialog box,</li><li>[Linkly] Sending a cancel request when an OK response is expected now correctly sends the cancel request,</li><li>[Tyro] Going through the cancel sale multiple times over multiple payment attempts no longer causes Shopfront to cancel the payment without cancelling the payment on the terminal,</li><li>[Linkly / Tyro] Integrated EFTPOS transactions now apply to the sale with the value returned from the terminal instead of the amount sent to the terminal,</li><li>[ALM] Sending products with a variable case quantity (10-packs, cubes, etc) and have eight digit codes now correctly send to the ALM portal with the corrected quantities,</li><li>[Developer] Sell screen options no longer flicker when swapping between tabs</li></ul>



<p></p>
