Retailer 3.4.2.X Update Notes
New Features
Scales CAS – PDii / PDN Support (single & multistore)
- Seamlessly connect CAS PDii and PDN scales in both standalone and multistore setups, broadening your hardware compatibility and reducing rollout complexity.
Secure FTP File Transfer
- Internal FTP client has been upgraded to accommodate SFTP servers
AI - Invoicing
- Jump straight from an AI-captured supplier invoice into a streamlined stock-item edit screen, trimming clicks and keeping data perfectly in sync.
- The AI engine now resolves suppliers by ABN/GST first, then by name, and only requests user intervention when both fail.
- Invoice Retail will be uses on first population on grid
- Users need a quick way to preserve current retail (sell) prices for items already listed in the invoice grid. A new Item Tools action—Keep Existing Sell Prices—should copy each item’s current stock retail to the grid’s Sell Price column.
- Once this action has been applied, the same menu item should toggle to Re-calculate Based on Mark-ups, allowing users to restore normal markup calculations if needed.
Invoice Arrivals
Order Matching after Invoice Arrival
- Link incoming invoices to purchase orders even after the invoice is saved, fixing mismatches/ prompting backorders without manual reversals.
- Linked-Order Visualisation
- Order number will now highlight if the invoice is linked to a retailer order “Green”
Transparency Enhancements for Backorders
- Stock-order grids expose status and corresponding backorder on the original order with deep links to all forms & supporting data.
Transparency Enhancements in Reorder Tab
- New customer-order and stock-order grids expose status, fulfilment progress at a glance, with deep links to all forms & supporting data.
Linked-Order Visualisation
- See every order tied to an invoice in a tidy expandable grid, complete with clickable hyperlinks to the sourced item.
Advanced Stock Search - Non preferred supplier search
- Can now Include All Suppliers When Searching by Supplier regardless if they are preferred or not
Automated Supplier Orders
- Let Retailer raise supplier orders automatically using live reorder levels and demand forecasts. In-app notifications keep you on top of every generated order.
Other Changes
- Invoice Arrivals – Discount-price column now supports higher decimal precision.
- Invoice Arrivals – You can no longer enter an inc-GST discount price above the ex-GST cost price.
Customer
- Customer Screen – Linked-account settings now display correctly in the Customer screen.
Email Queue
- Email Queue - No longer blocks the “Exit Point of Sale / Exit Retailer Now” pop-up.
Invoice Arrivals
- EDI arrivals now correctly update the associated order status.
- Combining multiple orders during an arrival no longer causes mismatched quantities.
Marketing
- Customer Last Visit date now appears in marketing exports and reports.
- Department / Category filters now exclude stock with no category.
Orders Maintenance
- Orders report will display stores ABN
Quote & Invoice Management
- Adding stock beyond the sale-maximum quantity now shows a clear validation message instead of an error.
Repairs
- Job-card images now print at the correctly on A4 internal templates.
Reports
- Detailed Performance report - now assigns discounted items to the correct category.
- Stock Performance report - Multi-Store now honours the “Exclude Inter-store Transfers” rule.
- Stock Item report - Printing a Stock Item report no longer causes a crash.
- Detailed Takings report - Now calculates GP correctly for $0-cost items.
- Orders at Store report - (MultiStore) now displays the store name instead of the order code.
Stock
- Advanced Search - Price-point searches in multi-store setups now use location-specific pricing.
- Advanced Search - Include All Suppliers option when searching by supplier.
- Stock Screen - Arrivals & Sales grid refreshes immediately when switching items after the tab was hidden.
Utilities
- Importing Tags now populates types correctly.
- Importing tag matching is now case-insensitive, preventing duplicate tags.
3.4.2.1
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