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JUNE 2022
Update
Receive orders of any size
It’s now even easier to keep an accurate record of inventory. Retailers can now receive orders of any size, with no limit on the number of line items (or SKUs). With this change, we’ve also made it easier to process large orders. Layout improvements means it is easier to search for, and navigate to, the exact product they want to receive. |
Update
Multiple Suppliers now supported on reorder points
Reorder points set on products will now work across all suppliers for that product. This makes it even easier and quicker for retailers to order from whichever supplier makes sense at the time of replenishing stock. |
Update
Updates to the new Quotes feature
Last month we introduced the ability to create quotes. We’ve made some further additions to this feature.
Print a quote from the Sell screen
When creating a quote, retailers have the added option of printing the quote from the sell screen.
Open and Completed statuses on quotes
View or search by the status of a quote for added visibility and easier management of quotes.
Quotes now available on iOS
Create and view quotes on the Lightspeed Retail iOS app.
New
Lightspeed Scanner Updates: Android & iOS apps
Product Lookup
Now available on Scanner for Android. The highly requested function allows users to quickly scan and view product details from anywhere on the shop floor with Lightspeed Scanner.
Variant lookup has been improved for both iOS and Android apps, so it’s even easier to look up details about the entire family of variant products.
Add a product
Now available on Scanner for Android. Previously only available on Scanner for iOS, this handy feature allows products to be added to the catalog directly from the Scanner app.
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Update
Manage location-specific variant product prices in the ‘Edit Product’ page
We’ve made managing outlet-specific prices even easier. Retailers can now update product markup or retail price of variant products through the ‘Edit Product’ page. These changes will be reflected in the respective price books, so they no longer need to be updated individually.
We’ve also made it easier to add outlet-specific prices to standard products as they are created.
MAY 2022
New
Label printing updates
Bulk print labels directly from the catalog
You can now print barcode labels in bulk or individually for your products directly from the catalog page.
Add pricing, product names and scannable barcodes to quickly find products when processing your sales and print labels in bulk for greater efficiency.
Rat-tail label printing support for jewelry and small items
Print labels from within Retail POS (X-Series) that will fit on jewelry pieces such as rings, necklaces, pendants and enhancers.
To print these labels you must have the Dymo 450 or 550 label printer and have the Dymo 30373 labels (rat-tail) installed.
Update
Guided pairing of Zebra scanners for iOS
We’ve created a guided tour to help with setting up Zebra scanners. The tour simplifies the process of connecting these popular devices to iOS registers.
Update
Manage location-specific product prices from ‘Edit Product’ page
Update product markup or retail price of standard products, directly through the Edit Product page. This will automatically reflect in the price books, so you don’t have to update them individually.
Update
Scanner Updates
Create new products while receiving (Android & iOS): Retailers using the Lightspeed Scanner application can now add new products to their catalog, when receiving an order. Available on Lightspeed Scanner for Android and iOS.
Create standard products (Android): Android users will soon be able to access this popular feature of the iOS Scanner app. Whether visiting a supplier, in a store room or the back office - retailers can get their products into their catalog fast, with Scanner for Android.
Coming soon: Product look-up (Android): A highly requested feature, our May update will allow users to look-up products from Android devices, so they can view product descriptions and prices, by scanning product barcodes. A great tool for shopkeepers and salespeople alike, retailers will be able to search for a product by name to find stock levels across all of their outlets. ETA: Late June.
Update
Stock order recommendations for unfulfilled orders
You can now see what products need to be ordered, so you can fulfill pickup and delivery sales.
View and add products from unfulfilled sales when placing a supplier order using the new ‘Add products from recommendation’ feature when creating purchase orders.
This allows you to sell products not in stock, while ensuring you have stock for future pick-up and deliveries.
MARCH 2022
Update
Lightspeed eCom updates
Filter Products across multiple channels:
You now have the ability to filter products by sales channel and status on the product catalog page, to see what products you are selling online and in-store.
Bulk activate products on channels:
It is now possible to activate or deactivate your products on different channels, in bulk. To activate products in bulk, select the products in your catalog and select ‘ activate products on channels’
Update
Lightspeed Payments Update
Card Not Present for the iPad register
Integrated Card Not Present payments - the ability to process a payment when the card paying for a transaction is not physically present in store at the time of the sale; is now available. This is for all Retailers using Lightspeed Payments, globally on the iPad register.
Unreferenced Refunds
Previously available for retailers only in the US region, unreferenced refunds is now available to all retailers globally on web. You can now use Lightspeed Payments to refund a payment taken on a previous processor, carry out a blind refund or refund when the original payment was taken with split payment methods.
New
Create quotes for your customers and convert them to sales
Create quotes straight from your sell screen and quickly share it by emailing it to your customer. When the customer wants to complete the sale, or you want to follow up, you can open and view your quotes and convert them to a sale at any time.
Available now for web. Coming soon for iOS.
New
Multiple Suppliers now supported
You can now add multiple suppliers to your products. These can be captured on standard products and products with variants, and each records supplier-specific product codes and supplier prices.
Update
Lightspeed Scanner update: Inventory count improvements (iOS)
Performing large inventory counts with the Lightspeed Scanner app has now been improved. With this update, loading and syncing of your inventory is faster and more reliable. Scan your inventory from multiple devices to speed up large counts and watch it sync to your POS almost instantly.
New
Preventing Duplicate Customer Records
We’ve introduced a new safeguard on the ‘create new customer’ section to prevent duplicate customer records. As you fill out the form to create a new customer profile, you’ll be made aware of other records where the Email and/or Phone Number is an exact match. From there, you can either choose the existing profile or proceed with creating a new one.
APRIL 2022
Update
Improved Receiving on Lightspeed Scanner
When receiving, Lightspeed Scanner now highlights if you’ve counted more or less than what was ordered - giving you a chance to fix errors before you save a count.
Update
Quickly identify inventory levels with 'sort by' Inventory
We’ve added the ability to sort by Inventory level on the Catalog page. Retailers can select Inventory on the top of the catalog table to view their catalog by ascending or descending stock numbers.
Update
Request tips on iOS: Update
You can now easily accept tips on iPad POS app without needing to purchase additional devices, or changing your payment provider.
A tipping prompt will be shown on the iPad whenever a terminal based payment is initiated. The customer can input a dollar amount to tip, or choose between three suggested tip amounts, applied on the sale subtotal, that they would like to add as a tip. The payment terminal charges for the sum of the sale total and added tip, in one transaction.
Update
Total Savings line displays on receipts
We have tweaked where the Total Savings line displays on receipts so it will print before the To Pay line. This means that the To Pay line is always the last line on the receipt, to avoid any confusion for your customers.
FEBRUARY 2022
Update
Lightspeed Payments: Card Not Present now available
The ability to take card payments when a customer's card is not present, such as over the phone, is now available on Lightspeed Payments for retailers using Lightspeed Retail (X-series) on Mac or PC. This feature allows retailers to enter credit card details manually into their POS to lock in a sale, even when a customer isn’t in the store.
Lightspeed Payments is now available in the USA and Canada, and coming soon to Australia and the UK.
Update
Request tips for iOS
Retailers can now enable tipping functionality to request tips on card based payments, via the iPad POS app. Once enabled, cashiers are prompted to turn the iPad towards the customer, so a percentage or dollar value can be added to the transaction.
Update
Ecwid online catalog & inventory sync
With the Ecwid eCommerce platform becoming part of the Lightspeed family, we’re working on a rich integration to help our retailers easily sell their products online. Our latest update automatically syncs catalog & inventory changes with the Ecwid catalog, so retailers can manage their products across both in-store and online channels from within their POS. Available now for new Ecwid store connections.
New
New app connection: Ikeono
Ikeono empowers businesses to connect with their customers on a whole new level:
- Send and receive SMS/MMS text messages without leaving your POS.
- Text quotes, sales recipes, and payment links to your customers
- Automate your customer feedback loop to drive positive experiences to review sites and rectify negative experiences quickly.
Update
Price Book improvements
We’ve added product search functionality to the Edit Price Book page so that you can quickly find and update your prices.
New
Zebra bluetooth scanners now supported
Zebra CS4070 and CS60 wireless scanners for iOS are now supported. The ultra-versatile CS60 Series Companion Scanner adapts to any workflow, easily converting between corded and cordless operation, handheld or hands-free.
Update
Factory reset wizard for Zebra and Socket Mobile scanners
Retailers now have the ability to easily reset their Socket Mobile / Zebra scanners with our reset wizard.
JANUARY 2022
New
Inventory Adjustments Workflow
You can now make adjustments to your inventory levels directly from the product catalog page. Simply expand the products row and click the 'Adjust Inventory’ button. It will guide you through a series of steps to create an inventory adjustment for the selected product or variants and to specify a reason for the change in inventory.
This helps you keep track of your inventory level changes, especially how much stock has been written off due to different reasons.
Update
Paying Customer Balances
We have now added the option to pay customers’ ‘On Account’ balances on the sell screen without having to navigate away to the customers’ page. This also extends to using integrated payments for bulk, on account payments.
DECEMBER 2021
Update
Variant Level Images
Images for your variant products are now available throughout your Vend store to quickly identify products, speed up your workflows and help you save time selecting products.
Update
View Inventory Movements on the Catalog page
You can now quickly access the inventory movements of a product directly from the Catalog Page.
With the Inventory Movements view, you can view all movements (Sales/Inventory Counts/Orders etc) for each individual product as well as its variants, and easily identify potential reasons for discrepancies.
NOVEMBER 2021
New
Product Packaging is now live
Packaging allows you to define a package relationship between multiple products. As an example, you may have a twenty-four case of beer that holds x4 six-packs and if you open a six-pack, you get x6 singles. These are all essentially the same product, just that they come in different packaging.
With packaged products, you have the flexibility to use the different packaging quantities that your products are available in, throughout the many in store workflows; from ordering, all the way through to selling. You can order in the quantity that your supplier sells to you and when you receive the products into your store, you can easily break them down into the products that you'll sell to your customers — optimizing inventory management across your packaged products.
Update
Payment reconciliation made easy for online payment types
You can easily reconcile online payments across channels, all within your Vend by Lightspeed store.
Map your online payment types in the app configuration page, and also set up a default payment type if an online order with an unmapped payment type is pulled across. When an order is imported from BigCommerce or WooCommerce, the payment method for that order will be mapped to the corresponding payment type.
Update
Delete products on Catalog
You can now delete products on the Catalog page - and in bulk too!
Because a product can’t be deleted if it’s in an open sale/consignment/count or composite, we now show a quick link to each item so you can easily close/cancel before deleting the product.
Update
Inventory Report: Search button
The inventory report’s date range picker, report type picker, inactive products toggle, and filters have been updated to stop reloading the report every time one of them has changed. You can now make multiple changes before triggering the report generation by clicking on the search button.
Update
iOS Register: Email sales quotes from Sell Screen
In our most recent version (v 5.1.0) of the iOS register app, you can now email sales quotes directly from the ‘Sell Screen’ instead of going to the sales history page and emailing the quote from there.
Update
Bug smashes
Promotion spreading on sales
In some cases, previously a promotion would spread the discount confusingly across all products. Promotions are now displayed only on products that the discount is applied to.
Fewer rounding errors
We have fixed a case where previously sales were being underpaid due to a rounding issue which was resulting in 0.01 balances for sales and your customers.
New
Receive inventory directly with Android Scanner
In our latest version of the Scanner for Android app, you can now receive inventory, without having to first create a purchase order on the web. If shipments arrive that don't yet have a purchase order, you can now create the order and receive it straight away, all on the app. This improves ease-of-use and helps you keep inventory and stock levels accurate.
New
Add ‘Standard Product’ on Scanner for iOS
We’ve now released an ‘Add standard product’ feature for Scanner on iOS so you can easily add products from your shop-floor. To use the ‘add product’ feature simply open the products tab in Scanner for iOS and choose ‘add product.’ Otherwise, if you search or scan a product that doesn't yet exist you'll be prompted. Please note our team is still working on this feature being available for adding ‘Variant Products’.
OCTOBER 2021
Update
Our sleek new color scheme
We've updated our color scheme to give our POS more of a sleek, modern feel. Although it looks a little different now, the functionality of stores remains unchanged. Retailers can find all features in the same place, doing the same great things.
Update
Markup is now in the Add Product modal
A common request we received about the new Add Product modal, was to add Markup functionality. We’ve taken that feedback onboard, and Markup is now available to view or edit when setting the retail price for products.
Update
Supplier codes added to Stock Control actions
Product supplier codes are now visible when ordering or receiving stock, helping retailers accurately manage stock. The supplier code is displayed next to the SKU code of stock order lists. When ordering or receiving stock, retailers can search by the supplier code, to ensure the correct product is selected.
Update
Verifone Vcloud payment integration
Kiwi retailers can now pair Verifone payment terminals using the new integration developed by Verifone called Vcloud.
Update
Re-order custom rules on the Workflows platform
Retailers using the Workflows development platform can now choose what order specific rules run in, to optimize their in-store workflows.
Update
AfterPay Barcode System decommission (NZ)
AfterPay has advised that the decommission date for the barcode system for New Zealand retailers will be 15th February 2022, superseded by contactless payment via Google Pay or Apple Wallet using the AfterPay Card.
Update
Scanner for Android Update
In our latest version (1.1.0) of the Scanner for Android app, retailers can now receive orders and transfers with Android devices. Also available on the iOS version of Scanner, this function allows retailers to optimise receiving inventory so they can quickly get their goods on the shelf.
Update
Coming soon: Online Payment Type Reporting
We're working on an update for retailers that accept multiple payment types on WooCommerce or BigCommerce online stores. The solution we're building will allow retailers to see their online payments, broken down by payment type, to easily reconcile and report on them, all in one place.
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Coming soon: Add Products Faster
We listened to retailer feedback and will be reverting the ‘Add Product’ button back to show the full Add Product page, enabling retailers to add all product information on one page. The simple ‘quick add window’ will still be available when Ordering or Receiving stock, and will soon be added to the Sell screen, too.
SEPTEMBER 2021
Update
Create count added to Scanner for Android
We’ve added a ‘Create count’ feature to the Scanner Android version so you can create new inventory counts with ease. Simply click the + button in the top right corner of the screen and choose either Count Now or Schedule Count to get started.
Update
Scanner for Android app update: v1.0.0 released
Our first version of Scanner for Android has been released on the play store and we will continue working on adding all the features we have in iOS.
Update
View products linked to an e-Commerce store
You can now see which products in your Product Catalog page are sold on what channels.
Update
Inventory Report Data Representation Fix
We’ve now made a fix for on-hand or low inventory report so it uses the on-hand inventory at the date selected if the report is requested for a historical date range to ensure that the rows in the report match the totals displayed in the store, particularly when the report is exported to CSV.
AUGUST 2021
Update
Add to purchase orders from your product catalog
The bulk action Add products to order has been added to the Products page, so that you can procure products quickly when you see your inventory is running low.
Update
SEO Friendly image names
We’ve made it even easier for products to be found online for retailers with eCommerce integrations. Following best SEO practices, product images added to Vend will now be uploaded to online stores using the image file name (ie ‘red-polka-pants.png’), helping customers discover your wares when searching online.
Update
Realtime Fulfillments
The Fulfillments page will now automatically show new pick lists as they are created, so you don’t have to reload the page to find the latest orders to pick & pack.
Update
Shopify Supply Price Import
For retailers with a Shopify eCommerce integration, the supply price will now be imported when importing products from Shopify.
Update
Klarna now available for NZ retailers
New Zealand retailers can now offer Klarna payments in-store. Klarna’s shop now, pay later app lets your customers pay for goods in 4 payments, paid every 2 weeks, with no interest added. Klarna is also available to UK, US & Australian retailers.
JULY 2021
New
Scanner for Android - Beta access
An android version of the popular Scanner by Vend iOS app is now available for your store to use while it’s in beta development. Scanner helps you perform inventory counts from your mobile device, to ensure your inventory data is accurate and up to date.
You can now download the app and provide us with any feedback you have.
Update
Add New Products When Receiving Stock Orders
You can now quickly and easily create a new product when receiving stock (on the Receive Stock page) so you can seamlessly ‘create and receive’ without navigating to a different page in Vend.
New
Serial Numbers
With Vend’s new Serial Number feature, record serial numbers for your products and track exactly which unit of a product is sold to a customer. Ideal for warranty purposes.
Available on the Enterprise plan only.
Update
Inventory Management Improvements
Scanning to receive now correctly updates received quantity
If you're scanning or just entering a product SKU in the search bar to receive that product, we'll now update the Received quantity, not the Ordered quantity so your inventory remains accurate.
Stock levels for composites are now accurate
When you previously received composite products, a bug was causing stock levels to double. We have now fixed this so that your stock levels for composites are accurate.
New
NEW: DAVO by Avalara
DAVO Sales Tax allows you to automate the sales tax collection, filing, and payments. There are no extra buttons to push or steps to take; simply enter sales like you normally would, and DAVO will do the rest. Available for US retailers only.
Update
Ecwid: eCommerce Integration
Ecwid is an eCommerce platform that allows you to start selling your Vend products online. Vend integrates seamlessly with Ecwid to sync your online and in-store inventory.
You can set up your Ecwid store and pay for your subscription, all from within Vend.
JUNE 2021
Update
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of Product Handles
For retailers with eCommerce stores, SEO friendly product handles are now automatically generated following best practices for search engines. When you’re adding products to your catalog from within the app or CSV, handles will auto-generate based on the product name with hyphens replacing any spaces, so it can be used as the URL ‘slug’ for your products, without upsetting online search engines.
For example: If your Product name is Tigerlilly Summer Dress the handle will be tigerlilly-summer-dress.
Update
CSV upload safeguards
Our recent tweaks to the Product Catalog will make it easier to keep your catalog clean and accurate.
- Variant attributes and values are now checked to ensure no duplicate values or mismatched attributes are created.
- Product ID is now required when uploading a CSV.
These extra safeguards are designed to help your catalog maintain its status as the single source of truth for your store.
Update
AfterPay Card - Contactless Payments
Contactless payment via Google Pay or Apple Wallet with the AfterPay Card has replaced the barcode system, which AfterPay will be decommissioning soon. Customers paying via AfterPay should now be directed to pay via payment terminal.
AfterPay Barcode System decommission dates:
- Australian retailers: 26th July 2021
- New Zealand retailers: August 2021 (date TBA)
Update
Bug fix: Historic inventory reports
Previously inventory reports were displaying line items, even if stock was 0 or negative. And for some retailers, the reports were incorrectly displaying negative average costs. Both these inaccuracies in historic inventory data have now been resolved.