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Goodbye brands, hello vendors

TL;DR

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Vendors are the future, and the brands list is taking a back seat to your own vendors list. Products will be assigned to one of your vendors, and we’ve helped migrate your data to this new system.
 

We’ve made some long overdue updates to how brands work in POS and we’re excited to share them with you. Our goals for this project were:

  1. Clean up the existing mess of duplicate brand names
  1. Pass control of product brands to you (via vendors), and offer new tools to make managing brands and vendors easier.
  1. Continue to improve the fundamental relationship between your vendors, brands, purchase orders and products

Deduplicated brands

First, let’s talk about the existing brands list. It’s messy, full of duplicates and is not yours to control. This list needs some serious TLC.

This was a common sight in our old brand list.
This was a common sight in our old brand list.
 
We’ve taken the first big step and consolidated duplicate brands.

This is just a first pass though, and there will still be some instances of duplicate brands that we will continue to review and consolidate over time to keep improving the list. The deduplication was done using a cleaned up version of the brand name. Here’s an example:

 

👉 “Do & Be” will be consolidated to the correct spelling “Do + Be”

👉 ”Do and Be” has not been consolidated yet, but will be soon!

Migrated brands to your own vendors list

We’ve created vendors in your account for all the brands you currently use.

If you’ve used a brand for any of your products, we’ve gone ahead and created a vendor for the brand in your account, unless you already had a vendor with the same name.

Instead of seeing your product assigned to the brand “Nike”, it will be assigned instead to your own vendor “Nike”.

Added new “Vendor” field to the product page

You will now assign products to vendors, which will be their default brand.

You will now select a vendor on the Add/Edit Product page. We will default the product’s brand to the vendor you select. In the uncommon event where you want to assign a different brand to your product than the vendor, you can still do this.

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When you search for a vendor to add to your product, you will see “Brand suggestions”. If you use one of these “Brand Suggestions”, we’ll prompt you to create your own vendor for the brand.

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✨Your vendors are yours to manage ✨

You can add/edit/delete them as you wish, unlike the prior brands list, which you had no control over.

You can create new vendors on the Vendors List page, or directly from the Add Product page. But importantly, only users with full vendor permission will be able to create new vendors.

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