Page Comparison

Last month we introduced our new product page. Until now, the old product page has still been available to you during a transition period. With this release we will now archive the old product page.

You can read more about the new product page in out manual: Product

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The masterdata menu for Product and Customer gets a new look, and with this change we have also rearrange the pages, gathering them at one place for easy access.

Notable changes for Product masterdata:

• We have moved all product masterdata into one page with underlying tabs for easy access.
• Product categories & Statistical categories can now be created through a tree structure, making it easier to create categories within categories
• VAT category gets a new name "Excise duty category"
• By pressing the category, you can add products to it in its own page
• Masterdata-settings page for product has been moved and renamed to "Expected values". Here you set the values you expect users to specify when creating a product in the system. Previously this was a combined page with expected values for customers.

Notable changes for Customer masterdata:

• We have moved all customer masterdata into one page with underlying tabs for easy access.
• Customer users page has been moved into this section. Previously it could be found as its own page in the menu.
• By pressing the category, you can now add customers to it in its own page.
• Statistical categories can now be created through a tree structure, making it easier to create categories within categories.
• Masterdata-settings page for customer has been moved and renamed to "Expected values". Here you set the values you expect users to specify when creating a customer in the system. Previously this was a combined page with expected values for products.

Add price incl. VAT in the order booking, order list and return ordern

You can now add price incl. VAT as an option to adding price excl. VAT when booking an order, editing an order in the order list, creating a return order och editing an return order in the return order list.

If amount added in the price incl. VAT field, we will calculate what excl. VAT would be with the use of the VAT. 

Product numbers gets a counter & character restrictions 

You can now with the new product page create products with our new product number counter. This means that when you create a product you can, like with customers, let the system specify the product number for you if you leave the field empty. The system will take the smallest number possible and assign it to the product.

With the new product page we will also limit the amount of characters possible for a product number. If you use use  Extend Warehouse Commerce WMS with your your  Extend Commerce Backend, the limit is 35 characters for products handled in in  Extend WarehouseCommerce WMS. The system will warn you if you exceed this limit when creating a product. If you do not use use  Extend Warehouse Commerce WMS the limit is 100 characters to comply with other warehouse system standards.

Version footer removed, About page introduced

We Previously we have created a new page in the Settings menu where you now can administer scheduled jobs. This means that you can see which jobs are active on your client, see the history of when the job has been run and force the job to be run though this page.

Search by GTIN / EAN in the order booking page

had a footer at the bottom of the screen showcasing the version of  Extend Commerce Backend. As this footer took up important screen real estate on mobile, we have instead moved this information to an About page located at the top of your Settings menu.

Archiving the old product page

When booking an order you can now through the product search feature search for products by GTIN / EAN number. In the table you will now find four different columns displaying the different GTIN / EAN numbers available per unit for the products. You can show or hide these columns by pressing the cog wheel icon in the table.

You add the GTIN / EAN numbers to a product through the product menu.

New webhook page with improved functionality

With this new webhook page you can configure which hook events should be sent to an integrating party, avoiding event flooding of receiving side.

Error log & Process log gets a new look

With this release you will find that the error log as well as the process log has gotten a new, fresh look.

Pre-defined order notes can now be found under General Settings

Pre-defined order notes could previously be found in the Settings menu (cogwheel) under Order settings. The page has now been moved to General settings under Order settings where other order-related settings can be found.

Creating warehouse transfer orders without available balance can now be turned on or off

Last year we added support for creating warehouse transfer orders with no available balance. We have now added a configuration to turn on or off this feature to enable the choice to allow creation of warehouse transfer orders without available balance or not.

Screen responsiveness improvements to better handle bigger screen sizes & utilize more space for new pages

We have made improvements on new pages in regard to screen responsiveness. It is now possible to use bigger and wider screen sizes, such as curved wide screens. With this change, we have also made changes to utilize more of the space available for all screen sizes, which for examples enable thes users with bigger screens to add more columns to tables, creating a better experienceLast month we introduced our new product page. Until now, the old product page has still been available to you during a transition period. With this release we will now archive the old product page.

Integrations / API

When an order originaing from a WooCommerce site fail to process in Extend, the error will now be logged once and the order can be found on the Integration files error page in the Settings menu where you can adjust the order. Previously the order had to be corrected in WooCommerce in order to be processed.

Create customers through the API

It is now possible to create customers through the POST Customers through the API. Through this you can also connect the customer to customer groups customer classes etc.. This functionality makes it possible to book orders against the customer.