In e-commerce, selling products is not enough; smooth and efficient reordering is crucial to maintaining a steady flow of goods and ensuring you're always ready to fulfil orders. The ability to quickly and easily restock inventory is a key factor in driving business success. This is where the improved reordering UI in plentymarkets comes into play. Built on the foundation of the new Order UI, it helps merchants streamline their reordering processes, making them clearer, more efficient, and easier to manage. This way, you can focus on what matters most while keeping your inventory in check and under control.

We listened to your feedback and implemented some exciting new features:

• We've introduced a new Create process for reorders that mirrors the familiar workflow of the order creation process. This means, as a merchant, you won’t need to learn a new system for reorders – everything will have the same look and feel as what you're used to in the order module.

• We've also made the reorder process client-specific. Now, when you create a reorder, you can select a client, ensuring that the correct email or document template is automatically applied. This adds more flexibility and ensures accuracy in communication and documentation.

• To enhance your workflow, we implemented the editing mode, allowing you and your team to customise your views for maximum efficiency. Whether you need a streamlined overview or more detailed insights, you can set it up in a way that works best for your needs.

• Our new lock logic gives you more control. If you need to make changes to a reorder after ordering from your supplier, you can now unlock the reorder (with the appropriate user rights), make adjustments, and lock it again. Even the warehouse can be updated until the first transaction is processed, offering much more flexibility.

• You can now create a redistribution directly from the reorder. If your items arrive at one warehouse but need to be transferred to another, this feature allows you to easily initiate that redistribution directly from the reorder, streamlining the process.

• Additionally, we’ve added the ability to split a reorder into multiple reorders if you have the user rights. This is especially helpful when your supplier has varying delivery times. Splitting the reorder allows you to manage and track each delivery more effectively.

• For even greater flexibility, you can now add items to a reorder that are not yet in your product portfolio. Simply add a blank item with a small amount of data and assign the correct item later after you’ve created it in the item view. 

• We’ve also retained two views – a compact view with more visual options like colour coding, and a list view for data-driven users.

• To further simplify the process, you can now assign a single storage location for all items in a transaction if you prefer not to select one for each item individually. You can also set a delivery note number for all items at once if it hasn’t been entered already, and search for the delivery note number from the overview for quick access.

• We added more fields you can add to the tables, like incoming items (warehouse), incoming items (global), and many more, so you have easier access to important information.

• The reorder will be one of the first UIs with the new inline table editing feature, meaning you can change fields directly in the table without always needing to switch to the edit view. (This feature is still in development and will undergo some more changes in the near future.)

As we are near the completion of this project and have received positive feedback from our presentations, we have started a short closed beta phase to gather more insights. After that, we’ll transition to an open beta to collect feedback from a wider range of merchants and users.

This means we’ll release the new reorder system in an open beta alongside the current version. The impact on your daily operations will be minimal, allowing you to choose between the new or old reorder system and provide feedback on any features you need.

With the move to open beta, we will also update the manual so if questions arise, you can find your solution in the manual.

We plan to keep this open beta phase running through the busy Christmas season, with the end-of-life (EOL) for the old reorder system scheduled for mid-February 2025.