We’re excited to announce two new features: improved inventory logging and automatic inventory checkin for purchase orders (POs) and transfers.
How Automatic Inventory Checkins Work
When you sell inventory and you have none in stock, our system will now check if you have any inventory on your PO or transfers. If you do, the system will automatically add enough units from the PO or transfer to cover the sale. You can still check in the remaining inventory and complete your POs and transfers when you are ready. All inventory that has been automatically added from your POs and transfers can be seen in the new sales tab within the PO or transfer. For this feature to work, the PO needs to be in the status ordered or check-in. Transfers need to be in status sent.
Why is improved inventory logging important?
Every single change to your inventory is now recorded in a log. We’ve also made it easy for you to see these logs and filter them into sets of changes (for example all changes made because of sales) or by individual changes (eg. inventory automatically added for a sale).
With the new logging functionality, you’ll always know how your inventory has been affected. Also our support will be able to know exactly what’s going on with your inventory and give you more informed answers to your questions.
What has changed because of inventory logging?
Some reports have been replaced with the inventory logs report. The Inventory Adjustments, Sales, and Purchases reports have been removed. The new Inventory logs report can quickly generate the same information for you.
In the item view you’ll notice the history tab is different. There used to be four listings for the ways the item’s inventory has been affected in the past. This tab now shows only the item’s inventory log which is all the same information but will be more detailed and easy to filter for all future inventory changes.
Wording Change On Special Orders
We have made no changes to the functionality of special orders but you will notice that we have changed the wording of a special order that is ready for pickup from “complete” to “ready” or “ready for pickup”. The term complete was causing some confusion about the entire special order being complete and given to the customer when really it just meant the order process was completed and the customer could now come by and grab their order.
Development Progress
We’ve been working hard to speed up our development cycle and I’m happy to say we are at a much more acceptable pace. Expect to see some more awesome enhancements and more of your feedback in our system soon.
What do you think?
Please share your thoughts and ideas in the comments section after you’ve had a chance to check out the changes.