Weekly Updates

Weekly Updates

The eStar platform undergoes continuous updates. Automated platform updates take place weekly, including patch management, platform enhancements, and new features

23.04.2024

Improved support for processing click and collect order via the Dispatch API.

  • Two new API methods have been added for Viare to get fulfilment status updates when a click and collect order is ready for customer to collect and when it’s collected by the customer. Support also added for shipping click and collect orders to the collection store.

Added ability to resend order related emails when order email address is updated.

  • Changes made to allow order related emails to be resent when email address related to an order has been updated.

New policy added to allow decrementing in progress stock from web stock.

  • New policy added for Product API methods to allow disabling of decrementing in progress stock from the web stock. Policy is set to on to maintain current behaviour.

Fixes that have been applied this week:

  • Updated Braintree API to support adding/updating vaulted credit cards.
  • Ensure the correct collection person name is included in dispatch collected event when order is collected by someone other than the order person.

16.04.2024

Support added for language locale code and removed non-functioning language links from admin Product Detail page.

  • Changes made to add support for multiple language configurations that doesn’t result in broken language hyperlinks on Product Detail page.

Minor fixes that we have done along the way.

  • Added Auth/Capture support to Braintree Credit Card payment method.
  • Improved Click and Collect store location allocation to prevent cases where multiple orders could incorrectly be assigned to same location.
  • Fixed issue of AfterPay payment logos missing for products.

09.04.2024

Select all option added for display state selection on catalogue creation

  • A Select all option has been added when selecting display states on catalogue creation. This should make the process of creating a catalogue more efficient where there are many display states to select.

Minor fixes that we have done along the way.

  • Added a queue to hold old, incomplete orders eligible for clean-up.
  • Re-added invalid card URL link on admin order detail page for non-Viare clients.
  • Corrected behaviour to auto focus on the search bar for C&C to allow for easier scanning.

03.04.2024

Policy added to disable the auto apply of picklists incrementally

  • A Policy has been added that allows users to disable the auto apply of picklist items as their quantities are fulfilled using digital picking. This supports the workflow to not release items for allocation until the entire picklist has been closed and adjustments have been made.

Performance improvements on click and collect management

  • Changes have been made to the click and collect management page to improve the loading time of large number of orders and improve the paging display

Fixes that have been applied this week.

  • External References structure included in payloads for shipping progress updated events.
  • Updated UI for Order Email Notifications components.
  • Added client name to error message and internal email in Outbound Product Feed generator.

26.03.2024

Fixes that have been applied this week:

  • Modified Virtual writedowns to more accurately reflect why a writedown was released. Also added the ‘Released’ status.
  • Order API now includes the Braintree payment method.
  • Fixed issue with picklist scanning causing a full refresh when not on last item.
  • Improved order for replacement orders where original order was paid for with PayPal in Sale mode.

19.03.2024

Picklists synchronised between users to increase picking efficiency.

  • Enhancements made to improve picking by synchronising picklists between multiple users. Multiple users will now be able to pick off the same picklist with the list of picked items being in sync across all devices, removing risk of double picking and improving efficiency.

Change made to exclude Click and Collect orders from being consigned if fulfilled at collection location.

  • Changes made to ensure that click and collect orders that are being fulfilled from the same collection location is not added to consignment services for delivery.

New insights API available for OMS related metrics.

  • New API is now available to provide OMS related metrics that can be used by Power BI. New API provides insight into Units Picked, Units Dispatched, Picks Status, Orders Voided, Repointed Orders, Time from order date to dispatch date and others.

Fixes that have been applied this week:

  • Fixed issue with orders unassigned to dispatch points to not be included in picklist preview and saved in default dispatch point.
  • Extra layer of security added to prevent credit card number being entered in the Order Collection module.

12.03.2024

Fixes that have been applied this week:

  • Allow non-active catalogues to be selected on product management pages.
  • Braintree PayPal support added to the Consumer API.
  • Added support to APIs to handle orders without a specific currency.
  • Removed redundant logging for Braintree config settings.
  • Added validation for CVV number and passing it to payment provider for stored cards if policy is enabled.
  • Make the group name description editing more efficient so timeouts don’t occur.

05.03.2024

Enhancement done to show catalogues in the correct order on product detail page.

  • Enhancement done to show catalogues in the correct order, the same as the navigation setup when viewing the catalogues on the products detail page. Previously the catalogues would display in a random order making it difficult to find the correct catalogues to add products to. This change resolves the issue making adding products to catalogues easier.

Fixes that we have done along the way:

  • Automatically retry Braintree refunds that are settling (in Braintree).
  • Change made to keep apply button disabled on Picklists when items are not scanned, or short-pick reasons are not set.
  • Adding suffix to initial name when users and roles are created in the Management Console to improve experience when creating multiple users.
  • Prevent the entry of credit card numbers by store staff in the order collection module.
  • Change made to ensure Customer Profile can always be opened from the Order Detail Page.
  • Compatibility fix to ensure folder path in the File Manager can be copied to the clipboard when using Chrome on Mac OS.

27.2.2024

Change made to retrieve multiple courier numbers for orders with more than one package.

  • Change has been made to retrieve additional courier numbers for Starshipit consignment orders that have multiple packages for the one order.

Updated UI for platform pages.

  • UI for Customer/Order/Product Search and Order/Customer detail pages have been updated to keep style and colours consistent with rest of the platform.

Fixes that we have done along the way:

  • Fixed issue with retrieving products from Product API that had identifiers of unsupported length.
  • Changes to CSV file generated from picklists to meet POSIX compliance.
  • Resolved error in pull-based fulfilment caused by incorrect post code field length.