New on Shopfront: September & October 2026

Welcome to what’s new on Shopfront for September & October 2026. These two months bring a new visual ticket builder, a smoother ticket queue, plus a long list of improvements and fixes.

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.

Major Features

Visual Ticket Template Builder

We’ve made designing your own shelf tickets a lot easier. The new visual, no-code template builder lets you drag and drop elements onto a canvas, instead of writing CSS and HTML by hand. It’s built into the ticket template editor, with an Advanced tab still there if you want full control.

• Build tickets visually — a canvas, a palette of fields and a properties panel to lay out your ticket exactly how you want it

• Function elements — add calculated elements with typed inputs, so tickets can show more than just raw product fields

• QR codes — convert a barcode on your ticket to a QR code

Smoother Ticket Queue

We’ve been hard at work improving the new ticketing experience in Shopfront. It’s now easier to get up and running with new tickets and we’ve added several usability improvements for working with the queue.

What’s new:

• Guided first-run setup — if the queue needs setting up, we now walk you through it instead of leaving you at a dead end

• Paper size presets — pick your sheet size from a list of presets instead of working out CSS margins

• Choose where printing starts — pick which spot on the sheet your tickets start from, handy for partially used sheets

• Assign to outlets — attach templates and layouts to specific outlets

• Thumbnails — see a preview of every template and layout on the list screens

Minor Features

• Faster POS start-up, logging in now happens in parallel and unneeded start-up work is skipped,

• Reduced the amount of code loaded in your browser by roughly 8 MB,

• Fonts are now served in a more efficient format so pages load quicker,

• Replaced how multiple open tabs coordinate with each other, using modern browser features built for the job,

• Price points on products can no longer be duplicated through the API or integrations,

• Applying a family future price now also updates the product price, and removing one removes it,

• Added a show deleted barcodes only option to barcode utilities,

• The payment screen on the sell screen now uses the new touch numbers, and the old touch numbers have been removed,

• Redesigned the View Stocktake page to use our new UI,

• Charts now swap axis and label colours correctly in dark mode,

• The webhook notification option for applications is now readable in dark mode,

• [Developers] Added a way to retrieve deleted product data through GraphQL,

• [Developers] GraphQL errors now keep their error codes so they’re easier to handle in your front-end code,

• [Developers] Embedded API tokens are now signed with a dedicated key,

• [Developers] The Fulfilment modules are now exported through the Fulfilment namespace in the Embedded API,

• [Developers] CreateSale no longer lets trashed tax rates be chosen for matching,

• [Developers] Sale IDs provided to GraphQL no longer have a default startDate applied,

• [Developers] The home page’s Get Started link in the developer portal now takes you to the right place when you’re already logged in,

• [Metcash Host] Updating a product’s tax rate now syncs the change across the whole product family,

• [Metcash Host] Large Host File updates now load and match products with far fewer lookups, so they finish quicker,

• [IBA eCommerce] Non-numeric barcodes are no longer sent

Bug Fixes

• Syncing a device that fails part-way through is no longer recorded as complete, so the remaining pages are now downloaded,

• Items saved at the same moment are no longer skipped between sync pages,

• Voiding a sale that is retried due to a transaction lock no longer skips restoring the stock,

• Removing a product from the sell screen after adding an integrated partial payment and an integrated product no longer causes a flood of errors,

• Tags in product information on the sell screen are now removed from products that have no tags,

• A register closure upload is no longer duplicated if the browser is closed before the register closure has been uploaded,

• Adjusting a product’s retail tax rate no longer changes its cost,

• Aligning a family on a tax rate change no longer creates incorrect price revisions,

• Modifying a product’s description through the stock list no longer adds it to future prices,

• Gift card status checks now show an icon when an error occurs,

• The Price List field in customer groups now shows the selected price list,

• Increased the customer email field size to match the other fields,

• Dynamic fields no longer wrongly show on statement emails,

• The Below Minimum Order Quantity label now displays when an order is generated,

• Adding or removing a supplier on an All Suppliers order no longer clips into other rows,

• Sale quantity in the Advanced Stocktake events side panel no longer displays three decimal places,

• Scrolling repeatedly in View Stocktake no longer duplicates an item in the table,

• Larger blocks reports now load correctly after viewing a smaller report in Advanced Reporting,

• Product search is no longer overridden once the products list finishes loading,

• Products in a deleted family no longer prompt to align with the family in the stock list,

• Selecting return items in Sales History no longer fails when the sell screen is open in another tab,

• The price editor in Product Edit no longer scrolls to the wrong place when the relevant set of prices changes,

• Opening multiple collapsible menus and selecting an option no longer leaves the menus open,

• UI elements no longer overlap when multiple pages of products are in the print queue,

• Pressing Continue on the unable to detect tracked fields warning in the ticket template editor now closes the dialog,

• Marketing-linked ticket templates attached to tags now add automatically when product changes are detected,

• The host deletion filter in Product Utilities now works,

• The LMG product export no longer times out for some vendors, and the LMG export no longer fails when a barcode quantity is invalid,

• Applications that aren’t ready (for example, one that has crashed) no longer cause sends to stall for 5 to 30 seconds,

• A network cache issue no longer crashes the authentication flow for integrations,

• Denying an application during OAuth now correctly returns to the vendor,

• Tables with a sticky footer now load more data as you scroll instead of loading everything at once,

• [Developers] The documentation in the developer portal now shows optional permissions, and generated GraphQL docs no longer link to a missing UUID page,

• [Developers] The History page graph in the developer portal no longer re-renders with animation on every page,

• [Developers] The GraphQL InventoryType reorderLevelSingles field now correctly allows null,

• [Developers] The CreateSale mutation no longer misbehaves when using taxAmount and a product’s total price is zero,

• [Metcash Host] Updating an existing supplier cost now updates it instead of adding a duplicate,

• [Metcash Host] Changes that don’t need to be applied are no longer reported as unknown errors