TL;DR

<aside> 💡 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.

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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
2. Pass control of product brands to you (via vendors), and offer new tools to make managing brands and vendors easier.
3. 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.

<aside> ✅ We’ve taken the first big step and consolidated duplicate brands.

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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

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

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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”.