This is a list of all new features and updates on the Material Retail POS. If you have any questions about these, email us at hello@materialretail.com.
Feb 11, 2024
- POS Web App: Improved vendor/brand search on product list. Now when you search in the “Vendor” field on the product list page, it searches BOTH Vendor and Brand.
Feb 7, 2024
- POS Web App: When creating Transfer stock orders, you can now enter custom order numbers.
Feb 4, 2024
- 🎉 iPad App: Dual Pricing is here! You can now automatically apply a credit card surcharge or cash discount to all POS transactions. Learn more about Surcharging and Cash Discounting, including important compliance requirements for credit card processing.
Jan 24, 2024
- View summary of all employee timesheets from a single view. It is now possible to view all your employee’s timesheet info on a single screen, and also filter by date and location.
Jan 6, 2024
- We no longer print a list of every single transaction at the bottom of the closing report. If you wish to enable printing of all individual transactions (which can result in a very long report), you can enable it under Settings > General from this new option:
- Price displayed on worldpay terminal screen.
Dec 16, 2024
- Ability to add/remove cash from the register from the register report screen. Using this will allow you to track cash movements throughout the day - for example, if you need to remove cash to pay a contractor or do something that is not part of a regular sale transaction.
Dec 11, 2024
- Improved searching by phone number. Just type in the phone number without any special characters like hyphens or parenthesis and it will find the matching customer.
Dec 6, 2024
- 🌟 You can now add iPad (PIN-only) employees to your store! Adding an iPad-only employee immediately gives the employee a PIN and access to the iPad POS register. They do not have a web login, but you can add one later! iPad-only employees do not require email verification.
- iPad: Ability to add a gift card to the list of gift cards:
Nov 8, 2024
- Web: When printing shipping labels for Shoptiques orders, you now get an option of printing on paper size 8.5x11 or 4x6 (for label printers).
Nov 1st, 2024
- Web: Added “Starting position” to avery label types so that you can specify the row and column to start printing on (for re-using label sheets).
- Web: Added barcode to search field on product list screen
Oct 15, 2024
- iPad: Added ability to disable the “Small business appreciation message” on printed receipts (aka the “Happy Dance” message):
Oct 31st, 2024
- Added barcode to search fields on PO creation / search input box.
Oct 30th, 2024
- Added two new label templates to label printing - Dymo 30347 and Avery 5167
Oct 9th, 2024
- 🐜 Fixed a bug that could cause orphaned SMS conversations after deleting customers.
Oct 7th, 2024
- 🛠️ We added new inventory value stats to the product detail page, including Current Cost Value, Current Retail Value, and Markup Multiple. Read more about how we help you track inventory value in your store here.
Sept 30th, 2024
- 🛠️ We’ve made a couple small changes to how product archiving works. Now, if you archive a product that has available stock, we’ll automatically adjust the stock down to 0 for you (using Adjustment Orders). On top of that, we’ll also detach the SKUs from the product so that they can be reused with future products. And remember, you can always restore archived products if you make a mistake!
Sept 25th, 2024
- 🛠️ We added a little “+” button to the header with shortcuts to add new products, customers, purchaser orders, messages etc! Should save ya some clicks.
- 🛠️ We made it easier to search for customers by their phone number.
Sept 23rd, 2024
- 🛠️ Default sort the Expired Rewards list by expiration date and default sort the Redeemed Rewards list by redemption date. Default sort the Expired Loyalty Points list by expiration date.
August 15th, 2024
- 🌟 An all-new Loyalty Program management experience is out today! Now you easily see everything happening within your loyalty program at a glance. This was a top requested feature since the original launch of our loyalty program tools.
August 1st, 2024
- 🌟 Added a new “Purchased items” list on the customer detail page! Now you can quickly see all the recent products a customer has purchased, right from their profile page.
- 🛠️ Added new column sorting by order count, total spent, and last order date to the customers list.
July 26th, 2024
- 🌟 All-new customers list is here! We’ve brought the same improvements we made to the products page now to the customers page, including new filters like Order Count, Total Spent, Last Order Date and Purchased from Vendor! Check it out!
July 5th, 2024
- 🛠️ Add a prompt to double-check you want to leave the Add/Edit Product page if you’ve made changes but haven’t saved them yet. Should help prevent lost changes.
July 2nd, 2024
- 🛠️ Added inline price editing to the product list table! Imagine how fast you can update prices now! 🏎️. Watch this 1-minute video on how you can quickly find and mark down products with low stock.
June 20th, 2024
- 🛠️ Added two new fields to the products CSV export: Description and Material.
June 18th, 2024
- 🐜 Fixed issue where certain customer SMS conversations could not be opened after merging customer records.
June 17th, 2024
- 🌟 All-new products page experience is here! Sticky pages and filters, improved table layout, new filters, faster loading and more!
May 6th, 2024
- 🛠️ Here’s one for Shopify AND Quickbooks integration users–your Shopify sales are now included in the Quickbooks sync, yay!
May 2nd, 2024
- 🛠️ For Shopify integration users, we made some improvements to how Shopify returns/refunds/restocks come over.
April 29th, 2024
- 🐜 Fix an issue preventing users from re-assigning the customer associated with a layaway sale. Now it works!
- 🐜 Fix an issue preventing some employee records that have been in the system a long time from being edited.
April 19th, 2024
- 🛠️ For those using the Shopify integration, your Shopify sales and returns data will now be included in your reporting under the Online Website channel.
April 14th, 2024
- 🛠️ You can now delete product variants that you’ve previously bought or sold. What a concept! And deleting a variant will not impact previous sales or reports.
March 29th, 2024
- 🌟 You can now bulk edit your products’ vendors! Simply check the products off in your products list you want to edit, then click “Bulk Actions → Edit Vendor”. Woo!
March 14th, 2024
- 🐜 Fixes for the QuickBooks integration. No more pesky connection errors.
March 1st, 2024
- 🛠️ Small improvement to searching vendors on the Vendors page. The search results should be more accurate.
January 29th, 2024
- 🌟 Brand new Product Stock report! See your stock levels by vendor or department, across any period. We think you’re going to love it. Try it out.
January 9th, 2024
- 🛠️ You can now edit an order’s assigned customer from the web. Open the sale detail page and look for the “Edit” button next to the customer field. Assign or reassign customers with ease!
January 5th, 2024
- 🌟 Redesigned product detail page! We added new product stats like starting stock count, net stock added, net items sold, and ending stock count. Improved the design of the variants table. There’s also a whole new set of actions you can take from the page, including starting a purchase order or adjustment, transferring stock, or archiving the product. Learn more here!
December 11th, 2023
- 🌟 You can now export a product’s stock history as a CSV file! Just click the “Export history” button when viewing a product detail page.
November 24th, 2023
- ⚒️ Speed up loading the sales and orders pages. Order pages should feel noticeably more snappy!
November 2nd, 2023
- 🛠️ Added support for printing a combo of retail price AND sale price on barcode labels, for those that want their product’s sale price on their labels. Yay!
- 🛠️ Added two more shipping package options (a small box and a medium box) to the shipping label purchase flow.
October 25th, 2023
- 🛠️ Support asynchronous CSV file exports for sales and sale line items. Just like the product and variant exports. Less timeouts. Leave the page while your export is being generated. We’ll email the file to you.
October 23rd, 2023
- 🛠️ Send sleeve length and dress length product attributes to Shopify. This update will allow additional filters (for sleeve and dress length) to be used on Shopify storefronts.
October 11th, 2023
- 🛠️ Support asynchronous CSV file exports for products and variants. Less timeouts. Leave the page while your export is being generated. We’ll email it to ya!
August 25th, 2023
- 🛠️ Small improvement to the Shopify integration, we’re now sending additional product and variant metafields to support even better filtering options on your Shopify site.
August 9th, 2023
- 🛠️ Print barcode labels using the new label printing feature directly from your Purchase Orders. Small improvement that helps speed up your PO workflow.
June 16th, 2023
- 🛠️ We added the ability to archive vendors you’re no longer using. Hooray.
June 15th, 2023
- 🌟 We’ve migrated the old “brands” list to your own vendors list. Now you’ll have complete control over the brands and vendors you use in your shop. No more duplicates! Read more about this upgrade → Goodbye brands, hello vendors
May 16th, 2023
- 🌟 New bulk product archiving feature! Get rid of those old products fast! Learn more here → How to archive products
May 12th, 2023
- 🛠️ Improve SKU and barcode generation to prevent duplicates. For those of you with lots of products, this one’s for you. No more duplicate SKU errors when adding new products. Phew.
April 20th, 2023
- 🛠️ Updates to the Stock Event history list on the product detail page. Less (fewer?) timeouts, better performance!
March 16th, 2023
- 🌟 A big, huge SHOPIFY INTEGRATION! Sync your products, inventory and sales to your Shopify store. Talk to us if you want it enabled in your shop!