Retail Express Development Roadmap
Last updated: August 2021
Retail Express is dedicated to continuous product improvement, with new and exciting features being released regularly. Our Product Road Map below details the plans for the future, with information on our current development tasks, as well the features released previously.
In addition to the below features, we frequently release product improvements and resolutions as part of our regular development cycle. Included with each update are Release Notes, covering each feature in detail. Click here to view all previous release notes.
*Please note: This roadmap is under constant review and as such should not be considered an agreed, committed development plan, but rather an indicative guide to the currently planned features to be added to the product. Features may be modified, reprioritised or removed completely from the Roadmap at any time.
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The following features are currently in development. Please note the release ETA is an estimate only and may change.
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| Status | Section | Summary | Description |
| Release underway | Shopify | Priority Shipping | Ability to accept orders with delivery timeframes for customers in specific locations e.g. 3 hours. |
| Release Underway | Back Office | Dashboard | A new Retail Dashboard for a quick overview of your business |
| In Progress | Back Office | Supplier Returns | The ability to process returns to Suppliers |
| in Progress | Back Office | MYOB Cloud Integration | Integration with the MYOB Cloud Accounting software |
| In Progress | Back Office | Offline POS | Improvements to the Offline POS capabilities |
| In Progress | Back Office | Product and Package Upload | Improvements on importing and exporting product data |
| In Progress | Back Office | Shippit Enhancements | Addition of Priority Shipping |
The features listed below are currently planned but a release date has not yet been finalised.
| Section | Summary | Description | Status |
| Purchase Orders | Purchase Orders Stock Receipts | Adding more features & flexibility to how you purchase and receive inventory | Planned |
| Promotional Campaigns | User Discounts | Adding more options to limit unauthorised discounts, plus improvements on reporting on discounts and promotions | Planned |
| Products | Unit of Measure | Specify units for products and sell them in varying different units e.g. Sell as a box or units individually | Planned |
| Orders | Sales Orders | Create Sales Orders for future Fulfilment and Invoicing (you can manage multiple Invoices from a single Sales Order). Sales Orders won't appear in the Sales Report until they have been fulfilled and invoiced. | Planned |
| Products | Department/Category Hierarchy | Sort products into a Department/Category hierarchy for easier maintenance and reporting | Planned |
| Products | Multiple Suppliers per Product | Currently there is one default Supplier per product, although the product can be purchased from any Supplier. This feature enables the ability to have multiple Suppliers nominated for the product | Planned |
| Products | Serial Number Tracking | Tracking Serial Numbers against individual products and sales | Planned |
| General | Time display by Outlet | Display time stamps for transactions in a local timezone based on Outlet | Planned |
| General | Mac OSX | Compatibility with the Mac OSX Operating System | Planned |
| Products | Wholesale Pricing | Store separate prices against products specifically for Wholesale selling | Planned |
| General | Tax | International Tax functionality | Planned |
The features listed below are currently planned for Shopify but a release date has not yet been finalised.
| Summary | Description | Status |
| Shippit Tracking Numbers | Integration of the Shippit Tracking Number to seamlessly integrate Tracking between Shippit, Retail Express and Shopify | Planned |
| Integrated Returns | Ability to process a refund/return within Retail Express and synchronise to Shopify, and vice versa. | Planned |
| Promotional Pricing | Integration of Promotional Pricing within Retail Express | Planned |
| Pricing | Customer-specific pricing - standard and fixed price groups | Planned |
| Product labels | Ability to rename product attributes on Shopify e.g. "Colour" can be renamed to "Flavour" | Planned |
| Shopify-created product compatibility | Compatibility with products created on Shopify e.g. tickets, Shopify Gift Cards | Planned |
| Loyalty Points Visibility & Redemption | Ability to view a customer's current loyalty points balance, and redeem points against a sale. | Planned |
| Product Image Synchronisation | Share product images between Retail Express and Shopify | Planned |
| Synchronisation Status | Ability to check the status of product synchronisations within the Retail Express Back Office | Planned |
| Promotional Campaigns | Compatibility with Retail Express Promotional Campaign functionality (including scheduling and limitations to specific customer groups) | Planned |
| Custom Products "out of stock" threshold | Specify a separate inventory level to display the stock as "out of stock" online e.g. when it reaches 5 in Shopify it will display as out of stock, despite still having products available in Retail Express. | Planned |
| Product-specific source and Fulfilment | Ability to control the Source and Fulfilment rules per product. | Planned |
| Inbound PO ETAs | Display the ETA of an incoming Purchase Order to the customers on the web store | Planned |
The following features and improvements have already been released to Retail Express. Click on the Article link to view the release notes.
| Section | Summary | Description | Link | Date |
| Shopify | Gift Card integration for all plans | Extension of the integrated Gift Voucher to become available for all Shopify plans (previously restricted to Shopify Plus) | Article Link | 2021 - August |
| Xero | Xero Integration enhancements | Adding flexibility in the data synchronised to Xero - including the ability to exclude specific transaction types, and more payment configuration options | Article Link | 2021 - June |
| Shopify | Shopify Split Web Order Fulfilment | Improved fulfilment of customer orders by splitting the order into different fulfilment groups e.g. products with the shortest distance between fulfilment location and customer. | Article Link | 2021 - May |
| Shopify | Shopify Source and Fulfilment Optimisations | Independent Source Group control for Fulfilment Groups for greater flexibility and control of web order fulfilment | Article Link | 2021 - May |
| Promotional Campaigns | Additional Promotional Campaign Rules | Enhancements to include "Buys at least" and "$ unit price" discount rules | Article Link | 2021 - May |
| Integration | David Jones and The Iconic | New Integrations with third-party systems for David Jones and The Iconic | - | 2021 - May |
| Inventory | Multiple Barcodes | The ability to manage multiple barcodes against a single product | Article Link | 2021 - April |
| Integration | Marketplacer | Integration with Marketplacer for unified eCommerce solutions for Franchise & Buying Groups | Article Link | 2021 - April |
| Integration | Ticket-IT | Integration with Ticket-IT for efficient in-store labels with flexible layouts, templates, automation, reporting and more | Article Link | 2021 - March |
| Purchase Orders | Quick Matrix Product Create | Ability to quickly create a matrix style product with multiple variants e.g. sizes and colours; new user interface | Article Link | 2021 - February |
| Purchase Orders | Quick Stock Receipt | Streamlined method to instantly receive a Purchase Order | Article Link | 2021 - January |
| Integration | Shippit Integration | Synchronise orders to Shippit for booking deliveries | Article Link | 2020 - November |
| Inventory | Insufficient Stock Replenishment | Added the ability to create a PO automatically when there's not enough stock to cover a new sale in POS | Article Link | 2020 - July |
| Inventory | Special Orders | Manage orders for out-of-stock items or Special items with workflows for order placement, purchasing and receiving, and order fulfilment. | Article Link | 2020 - June |
| POS | Customer Contacted flag | A new tick box and notes section is available in POS to flag when a customer has been contacted about their order | Article Link | 2020 - June |
| eCommerce API | Loyalty | Ability to retrieve customer Loyalty Transactions and Expiring Points balances through the API | Article Link | 2020 - April |
| POS | New Product Filters for Transfers | Added multiple new filters for the when creating Transfers through POS to make it even easier to find the desired products | Article Link | 2020 - April |
| Inventory | Additional Scheduled Pricing options | Added several new options to extend the Scheduled Pricing Feature including the ability to create a new Promotional Price based on the POS price. | Article Link | 2020 - March |
| Reports | Voucher Creation Report | New Expiration filters to improve the ability to report on Vouchers | Article Link | 2020 - March |
| Reports | Package Details Report | Added an additional column to the Package Details report | Article Link | 2020 - March |
| Transfers | Export to Excel fields | Added additional fields to the Export to Excel feature when picking stock for Transfers | Article Link | 2020 - March |
| POS | Payment Types - The Card Network | Added a new non-integrated Payment Type "The Card Network" to allocate payments to | Article Link | 2020 - March |
| Loyalty | Loyalty Enhancements | New additions to the Loyalty feature, including Points Expiry, Minimum Points and Adjustment Reasons | Article Link | 2020 - January |
| Inventory | Scheduled Pricing | The ability to schedule price changes in advance | Article Link | 2020 - January |
| Purchase Orders | Linked Transfers | Assign a Transfer Stage for Transfers linked to a PO to be automatically updated to when the PO is received | Article Link | 2020 - January |
| Purchase Orders | Consolidating Incomplete Orders | The ability to merge multiple Incomplete Purchase Orders together to the same order (per Supplier/Outlet combination) | Article Link | 2020 - January |
| Payment Methods | Openpay Payment Method | A new Payment Type to assign payments to (non-integrated) | Article Link | 2020 - January |
| Shopify | Third-party fulfilment support | Support for third-party shipping methods (including tracking number synchronisation) e.g. Shipit | Article Link | 2019 - November |
| Customers | Default Price Group | Ability to select a default Price Group for all newly created customers | Article Link | 2019 - November |
| Vouchers | Configurable Voucher Type Settings | Create a custom message and expiry date for each voucher type | Article Link | 2019 - November |
| POS | New POS Themes | Select new backgrounds for POS | Article Link | 2019 - November |
| Reporting | Surcharge reconciliation report | New report to reconcile surcharges with the Financial Summary Report | Article Link | 2019 - November |
| Reporting | Sales Detail Export - Custom Attributes | Custom Attributes are now available in the Sales Detail Export Report, both as a filtering option and as part of the exporting data. | Article Link | 2019 - November |
| Promotions | Coupon Codes (Discount Codes) | Create and redeem Coupon Codes for a Percentage (%) or Fixed Value ($) discount | Article Link | 2019 - September |
| Shopify | Product SEO Title Sync | Product SEO Titles can be configured within Retail Express to synchronise to the product on Shopify | Article Link | 2019 - September |
| Promotions | New Promotional Campaign settings | New Campaign configuration settings, including Minimum Spend, Dynamic Products (to automatically add products to campaigns, both Qualifying and Benefit Products), Custom Campaign Names and the ability to Duplicate campaigns. | Article Link | 2019 - September |
| Loyalty | Minimum Points for Redemption | The ability to set a Minimum Points for Redemption Value. Customers will not be able to redeem points until the minimum value has been reached. This can be configured based on Available Points, or Points to Date | Article Link | 2019 - September |
| Stock Replenishment via Transfers | Depleted Stock formula | The introduction of a new Depleted Stock formula allows you to easily replenish stock based on depleted stock e.g. products transferred to other Outlets, or fulfilled to customers. | Article Link | 2019 - July |
| Accounting | Direct Cost integration with Xero | Support for Direct Cost provisioning with the Xero integration | Article Link | 2019 - July |
| Shopify | Click and Collect | Ability to view stock levels per Outlet, and nominate an Outlet for collection. The Source and Fulfilment Outlets are set automatically in Retail Express based on the nominated Pickup Location selected by the customer. Includes Google Maps integration. | Article Link | 2019 - July |
| API | API Enhancements | Improvements and new features to key APIs: Inventory Planning, Warehouse Management System, and eCommerce | Article Link | 2019 - June |
| Purchase Orders | New Matrix Purchase Order Template | A revised Purchase Order template for printing and emailing to suppliers. Products are grouped by Style and/or Package. | Article Link | 2019 - May |
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POS Web Orders |
Web Order Alerts | Improved Web Order Alert functionality displays alerts for Outstanding Web Orders (i.e. have products to be fulfilled or payment is outstanding) instead of displaying alerts for the current date regardless of status. | Article Link | 2019 - May |
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POS Fulfilment Report Web Store Integration Shopify
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External Reference on Orders |
The field "External Reference" is now displayed in the POS Look Up and Fulfilment Report to easily find orders using external reference numbers. The Shopify Integration uses the External Reference number to store the external Shopify Sales Number. This field can also be updated with the Web Store API integration (developers will need to update the API to use this functionality). |
Article Link | 2019 - May |
| API Enhancements |
Warehouse Management API Inventory Planning API Web Store API |
Various improvements and features added | Article Link | 2019 - May |
| Purchase Orders | Replenishment via Purchase Order | Packages can now be reordered using the Stock Replenishment via Purchase Order feature | Article Link | 2019 - May |
| Transfers | Scheduled Replenishment via Transfer | Users can now schedule a Stock Replenishment via Transfer process to be run on a recurring basis | Article Link | 2019 - Apr |
| Shopify | Fulfilment Locations | Ability to automatically set the Source and Fulfilment Locations for Shopify Orders based on the Customer's location | Article Link | 2019 - Apr |
| API Enhancements |
Inventory Planning Warehouse Management Webstore Integration |
Various improvements and features added | Article Link | 2019 - Apr |
| Shopify | Vouchers | The ability to purchase and redeem Retail Express Gift Vouchers within Shopify | Article Link | 2019 - Mar |
| POS | Surcharges | Surcharges for various payment types to be charged at POS when processing payments | Article Link | 2019 - Feb |
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Transfers |
Stock Replenishment Minimum Quantity | Setting a minimum quantity to control whether the system creates Transfers based on whether the total reorder quantity exceeds the minimum quantity | Article Link | 2019 - Feb |
| General | Afterpay Integration | Integration with the Afterpay merchant facility | Article Link | 2019 - Jan |
| Shopify | Multiple Store Support | Integrate with multiple online Shopify Stores with a single Retail Express database. | Article Link | 2019 - Jan |
| POS | Payment Types | Added a large range of additional Payment Types to POS | Article Link | 2018 - Nov |
| Shopify | Shopify Connection to Existing Stores | Ability to integrate with existing Shopify stores and products using a new Product Mapping Tool | Article Link | 2018 - Oct |
| Accounting | Xero Integration | Integration with the Xero accounting system | Article Link | 2018 - Oct |
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Purchase Orders Transfers |
Package support | Order/Transfer Packages on Purchase Orders and Transfers | Article Link | 2018 - Oct |
| Accounting | MYOB Accounting Data Export | Ability to export files in a MYOB format, ready for direct upload to Desktop or Cloud versions of AccountRight | Article Link | 2018 - Aug |
| Accounting | Accounting Reconciliation Reports | New reports added to Retail Express to assist with summary and detailed reconciliations. | Article Link | 2018 - Aug |
| Inventory | Custom Attributes | Create new custom attributes for Retail Express products beyond the standard default attributes e.g. colour, size | Article Link | 2018 - Jul |
| Shopify | Shopify Integration | Brand new integration with the online Shopify eCommerce platform | Article Link | 2018 - Jul |
| Customers | Home Outlet Account Statements | Print statements with the customer's Home Outlet details displayed instead of the company details in the Global Settings. | Article Link | 2018 - Jul |
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