Changelog

1. Vendor profile field selection

   We have updated how the seller profile field selection works for relevant information to show up on your collections page. Visit the profile page under settings to update your selection. Update your Seller profile

2. Support for global deductions

   

   You can now set up fees to be deducted for all vendors before commissions are calculated. you may also choose whether this deduction adds to or overwrites the existing vendor deduction. This setting will apply to all vendors.

   You will find this setting under Settings → Calculations - Global deductions

2. Bulk print packing slips, invoices and customer invoices

For the longest time, printing packing slips and invoices has not been the easiest process. That changes today. We have rolled out the ability for you to select order(s) and print the documents you need with ease. You still have full control over what documents can be printed by your vendors. You will be able to find printing capabilities on the order listings page, a specific order page, as well as fulfillment page.

Setting options for each of them is still under Settings → Documents.

🚀 New Features

1. Ability to auto-generate SKU generation

   Added the ability to automatically generate SKU values for products. Users can now define custom prefixes and specify the desired length for SKUs. This ensures consistency and saves time when adding new products to the system along with the ability to easily identify 3rd party listings.

   The SKU settings can be found under Settings → Permissions

2. Cancel payouts

   Introduced the ability to cancel historically made payouts. This feature allows users to correct payouts that were previously processed in error or need adjustments. The cancellation automatically updates the payout history and reflects the corrected balances across the system.

3. Vendor selector with search capabilities on Payouts

   Introducing search selector. You can now filter through 1000s of vendors by simply typing their initials allowing you to get to your vendor with ease.

4. Significant improvements to vendor duplication logic

   There should be no more vendor duplication issue if a vendor name matches exactly with what your you have suggested on your Shopify store and PuppetVendors.

🚀 New Features

1. Mobile Push Notifications (BETA)

We've identified a challenge with real-time order notifications being blocked or delayed by certain email providers, such as Hotmail and Gmail. To address this, we've introduced mobile push notifications. This new feature ensures that your vendors receive order updates instantly, bypassing email restrictions for seamless and uninterrupted communication.

Reach out to support for early access

2. Shipping Label Improvements

Generating shipping labels was not as straightforward previously. We have made it extremely easy to generate a generic shipping label or one that is generated via Shippo.

🛠️ Improvements

• Support for dimensions meta field data type. This will also tie into shipping labels as we can pre-populate the product dimensions for you to streamline operations.

• Vendor approval workflow - now defaults to creating a new one and not assigning a user to a vendor. The capability continues to exist the same.

🚀 New Features

1. Merchant Dashboard V2 - A complete overhaul

   Reach out to support for early access

   

• Enhanced Visual Overview: A fresh, modern interface that provides a clear and comprehensive view of your business performance.

• Net Sales, Orders, and Refunds: Track your financial performance with real-time data on net sales, orders, and refunds displayed prominently at the top of the dashboard.

• Commissions and Pending Payouts: Easily monitor commissions earned and payouts pending, keeping you informed about your earnings.

• Revenue Chart: A dynamic bar chart displaying sales, refunds, and cancellations over time, helping you quickly identify trends and patterns.

• Top Vendors by Sales: Identify your top-performing vendors.

• Top Products by Units Sold: Track the best-selling products with a breakdown of items sold, units, and sales amounts, complete with product images for easy identification.

2. Easily link vendor profiles on Puppet Vendors to a Shopify collection

🛠️ Improvements

• New date selectors: You now have built-in support for Year to date and quarterly selectors.

Share media files with your vendors even for physical products

We often see you wanting your vendors or sellers to upload high-resolution photo or video files so you can send them for printing when an order comes in. You can now do that.

No more scrambling between tools like Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer, or anything else or writing how-to instructions. Vendors can upload files right when creating a product.

Support for True/False type meta-field

We have now added support for the true and false product metafields type. If enabled, you will find this at the bottom of any product create or update page.

Streamlined communication between you and your vendors

Introducing the Order Timeline. This intuitive feature allows you and your vendors to exchange messages and track progress every step of the way. No more getting lost in endless email threads or missing crucial updates!

The order streamlines

• Topic-based discussions with the help of event-types

• Sharing sharing for enhanced understanding

• Email notifications for updated timelines so both you and your vendors are instantly looped in on all updates

Default product permission checkbox fields respected only during product creation

Default values for Charge tax on variants, Track Inventory, and Continue selling when out of stock are now respected only during product creation and do not overwrite existing values set by the store or vendor.