New on Shopfront: May & June 2026

Welcome to what’s new on Shopfront for May & June 2026. We’ve been busy improving the speed of reports, improving usability and preparing for a couple of major releases!

Note: Some of these changes are gradually rolling out to stores, some of these changes may not be received in your store for a couple of weeks.

Minor Features

• Redesigned the general settings page,

• Added a visual indicator to the fulfilment screen when a new order is received,

• Can now specify a surcharge as “all day” instead of needing to specify the start and end time,

• All customer group edit dropdowns are sorted alphabetically,

• Future prices contain links to the product view page,

• Future prices now contain the current price for comparison,

• Improved the speed of purchase reports when the type or group by is set to supplier,

• Improved the speed of the cancelled sales report,

• Improved the speed of the inventory movement report when filtering by only items that have movements,

• Improved the speed of the last stocktaked report,

• Subscription renewal emails are now sent directly from Shopfront instead of through our payment provider,

• Prevented multiple people from updating the account and billing at the same time,

• Tax rates are now forced to be aligned for family items,

• Prevented duplicate items from saving within promotions,

• Old tickets (more than 6 months since being added) are now automatically removed,

• Promotions that require activation (e.g. loyalty promotions) now appear in the promotion list on the sell screen when a product is added,

• Additional supplier details are now shown when printing an order,

• Added inline documentation for the recalculate quantity setting on the barcode templates page,

• Create a new general automatic logout setting which controls all pages other than the sell screen,

• [ALM] Missing invoices due to ALM server issues during the invoice download phase now automatically redownload due to a new verification function that runs daily,

• [Vii] Selling and redeeming gift cards now prevent the sale from completing if there are any issues when activating the cards / payments,

• [Vii] Gift card information is now displayed on receipts,

• [Developers] Added opt-in field-level validation for inputs

Bug Fixes

• Adding multiple different negative barcode templates that belong to the same product now maintain their individual prices instead of merging the prices to the highest price,

• Bound the size of the new UI design when it only contains raw text,

• Modifying additional information during the product merge process no longer clears other additional information fields,

• Prevented very long classification names from overflowing the classification view page,

• Prevented very long classification names from overflowing the assign classification page,

• Prevented very long category names from overflowing the product index page,

• Prevented very long product names from overflowing the product index page,

• Prevented multiple fields from overflowing the product merge page when data is exceptionally long,

• Bulk price edit prevent editing products that have a future price set for the family,

• Customer display toggles for the total component now can be enabled / disabled as expected,

• Temporary products are now visible in the promotion view page as part of the not matched list,

• Scanning the barcode of an inactive or not purchasing product on the order edit page no longer asks if you wish to associate but instead warns you the product isn’t valid for the order,

• Stock list export now contains the correct costs instead of just the single costs,

• Creating products with a required number field no longer fails to save if you specify the value as 0,

• Fixed notifications for outlets when no register is selected no longer go missing when refreshing the page,

• Attempting to update a tax rate to have a blank tax amount no longer crashes the page,

• Manually adding a product in a family to the future prices now updates the family price when the price is activated,

• Supplier order notes now send in the email generated when performing an All Suppliers order,

• Prevented the promotions index page from crashing when more than four characters are used for the year,

• Fixed various spelling & grammar mistakes,

• [Hump Club] Redemptions for multiple of the same offer now send to Thirsty Camel separately instead of in one request,

• [LMG] Promotions for timezones other than those equal with Melbourne are now sent correctly to the LMG eCommerce store,

• [Developer] Documentation links for several enum types are no longer broken