2022 | Yearly Updates
April | Product Release
HotWax Commerce April updates include two new app launches: Shopify Admin Helper and Reroute Fulfillment. Additionally, the Inventory Cycle Count App and Picking App are enhanced to streamline store inventory management and order fulfillment. To learn more, checkout the latest release notes.
April | Order Management
Added a new job to only sync inventory numbers for products from HotWax Commerce to Shopify whose inventory numbers are not in sync with HotWax Commerce, offering improved system performance.
April | Apps
Store associates can now promptly remind customers to pick-up their orders by re-sending the ready-for-pickup notification from the Packed Orders tab.
Stock teams can now track when a Purchase Order is fully received by verifying whether the Purchase Order status is “Completed” or not from the Find and Detail PO screen.
Pickers can now organize their picklists by sorting order items based on the Product Name, Bin ID, or Location Sequence ID.
Stock associates can now log damaged or found inventory directly from the Product Detail page to maintain accurate inventory count levels outside of scheduled cycle counts.
April | Shopify Apps
The new Shopify Admin Helper App simplifies the process of labeling order items as backorder, pre-order, or store pick-up for CSRs while creating draft orders in Shopify.
The new Reroute Fulfillment App allows customers to choose an alternative pick-up store location or have their pick-up item delivered to them if their preferred store is unable to fulfill their order.
March | Product Release
Hotwax Commerce’s March update includes improved service flow to save edited shipping addresses. Merchandisers can also now view detailed purchase order item changes and schedule automatic adjustments for Early-dated Purchase order ATP allocations.
March | Apps
Merchandisers can now schedule a job to automatically adjust Purchase Order ATP allocations upon uploading an early-dated Purchase Order, enabling them to initiate pre-order deliveries ahead of schedule.
March | Pre-Order Management
Merchandisers now have the ability to access in-depth descriptions of Purchase Order Item changes, allowing them to thoroughly audit modifications made to Purchase Order items.
March | Order Management
Improved a service flow to ensure that an order’s edited shipping address is saved in HotWax Commerce even if an error occurs on Shopify while updating customers’ shipping addresses.
February | Product Release
HotWax Commerce has released February 2023 updates featuring enhancements such as user app permissions and timezone configuration across all Enterprise User Apps. Additionally, the Import App has been refined to facilitate seamless purchase orders and inventory uploads. For more details, please refer to the release notes.
February | Apps
Merchants can now control and restrict employees' access to functions within Enterprise User Apps. The new security framework automatically enables or disables functions based on the designated roles, ensuring that only qualified employees perform actions that demand higher authorization.
Time zones can now be configured from the apps’ settings page to view rendered information in the preferred time.
Merchandisers can now correct facility and SKU discrepancies while uploading Purchase Orders from the Purchase Order Review page.
Merchandisers can now reset product inventory using custom CSV formats from the newly added inventory page.
Merchandisers can now easily change the order of threshold jobs using drag-and-drop functionality to prioritize job operations and automatically update job run times in bulk.
January | Product Release
HotWax Commerce January update includes new store configurations to offer merchandisers flexibility over online inventory computation and store fulfillment with added Shopify webhook support for real-time updates on Shopify events. To learn more, checkout the release notes.
January | Order Management
Store Operation Heads can now use store configurations to decide which stores are participating in Store Pick-Up and Store Fulfillment, as well as if the store is pushing its inventory to online channels.
Shopify retailers can now configure inventory computation to not make physical inventory available online for products with orders in the Pre-Order parking.
Merchandisers can now review what purchase order item inventory is allocated to which sales order from the newly added Review Allocations Page.
January | Apps
Merchandisers can now view and select their preferred date format in the Import App
System Administrators can now subscribe to Shopify webhooks and get real-time updates on multiple Shopify events
Added a new job to list/delist Pre-Order and Backorder products in a single API call, ensuring that a product is delisted from Pre-Order and Backorder only if it is ineligible for both.
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December | Product Release
HotWax Commerce has released updates for December that include a redesigned Product Store page and additional settings to manage fulfillment at the facility level, allowing for better customization as per the specific business rules.
December | Order Management
Revamped the user interface of the Product Store settings page.
Primary and secondary product identifiers are now configurable for HotWax Commerce application interfaces.
December | Apps
Merchants can now save, update, and delete their frequently used Purchase Order (PO) CSV mappings within the Import App, allowing merchants to quickly upload a PO.
November | Product Release
HotWax Commerce’s November updates include improved categorization of Jobs in the Job Manager app and an ability to easily connect new Shopify configs to HotWax Commerce OMS.
November | Shopify Integration
Retailers can now connect new Shopify websites to HotWax Commerce OMS without contacting the HotWax Customer Support team.
October | Product Release
HotWax Commerce's October update added new Receiving App features as well as a Launchpad for quick access to all applications.
October | Apps
Returns can now be received and also looked up by sales order ID or tracking code in the returns tab.
Jobs can now be run on multiple Shopify stores associated with a single product catalogue.
SEPTEMBER | Product Release
HotWax Commerce's September update added enhanced BOPIS features and Job Manager capabilities for connecting multiple Shopify stores that sell the same product catalog.
SEPTEMBER | Order Management
If a BOPIS order is handed over to the customer but order status is not updated in HotWax Commerce, it can be marked completed on the Order View page.
september | Shopify Integration
Retailers can now have one reference product catalog in HotWax Commerce for multiple Shopify stores instead of managing multiple product catalogs for multiple Shopify stores.
September | Shopify Integration
Retailers can now manage a store's unique operating hours and lead time for each day of the week, helping them set the right expectations on eCommerce's Product Detail Page for same-day pick-ups of BOPIS orders.
september | Apps
Picklists now include external product IDs to facilitate efficient order picking.
september | Shopify Apps
Customers can now save their preferred pickup location to their Shopify profile.
September | Shopify Apps
Pick-up locations on Shopify PDP will now be sorted in ascending proximity from the customer’s location.
Pick-up locations where the single-brand retailers sell products from other partner brands will be displayed as “Brand 1 ft. Brand 2” on the Product Detail Page.
AUGUST | Product Release
HotWax Commerce’s August update includes a newly launched Order Merging feature, improved functionalities for Pre-Order inventory management, and enhanced Shopify pre-order integration capabilities. To learn more, check out release notes:
August | Order Management
Retailers can now move items from the brokering queue to the backorder queue, helping them avoid overselling.
August | Apps
To ensure that packages can be grouped together and sent as one shipment, HotWax Commerce introduced an “Order Merging” feature to reduce shipping costs and increase profitability.
august | Pre-Order Management
Merchants can now add a new item to a purchase order directly from the “View Purchase Orders” page.
August | Pre-Order Management
Retailers now have control over reserving in-stock inventory only if order splitting is disabled and there is a mixed cart order that contains an in-stock item and a Pre-Order item.
JULY | Product Release
HotWax Commerce's July update includes new features in the Job Manager app to help users quickly access critical scheduled jobs and improved capabilities to help CSRs quickly fix shipping issues. To learn more, check out latest Release Notes:
JULY | Order Management
To speed up error resolution and order fulfillment, CSRs will now be able to see shipping errors on the “Sales Order View” page and the fulfillment app. Error messages will disappear once fixed.
HotWax Commerce added a feature to mark individual PO items as “Complete,” allowing merchants to have more control over items eligible for pre-orders and avoid overselling.
To avoid shipping delays due to invalid addresses, HotWax Commerce will now validate shipping addresses with non-ISO standard geo codes for Shopify.
JULY | Apps
To drive a smoother omnichannel customer experience, HotWax Commerce now allows store associates to generate packing slips from the BOPIS Fulfillment App. This update helps them better serve customers who demand additional verification of items while their BOPIS order is picked.
JUNE | Product Release
The June update for HotWax Commerce has introduced a ‘Product Store’ menu to streamline the client onboarding process and also added improved functionalities for capturing and processing customer’s orders from eCommerce. To learn more, checkout the release notes.
JUNE | Order Management
Customer service representatives can now mark items as “Shipped” right from the sales order view page and bypass the brokering and fulfillment process.
JUNE | Shopify Integration
To increase real-time visibility and improve the customer experience, customer service Representatives can now refresh canceled orders in HotWax Commerce to retrieve newly added or removed items from Shopify.
April-May | Release Notes
The April-May update for HotWax Commerce includes a newly launched Threshold App, improved functionalities for capturing and processing customer’s orders and a lot more. To learn more, checkout the release notes.
April-May | Order Management
Customer Service Representatives can now release individual orders to stores or warehouses on an as-needed basis.
Retailers can now decide if they want to restock returns immediately after customers return them at the store.
April-May | Shopify Integration
Retailers can now easily keep track of missed orders and ensure that missed orders’ statuses are synchronized from HotWax to Shopify with HotWax’s latest update, a scheduled job that respects Shopify’s API limit and syncs missed order data in subsequent API calls.
Avoid lost orders and ensure all Shopify order data is downloaded with HotWax’s latest update, a job that reconciles order counts in Shopify and HotWax Commerce.
To help retailers further minimize the risk of overselling and underselling, Shopify will now automatically re-sync with the HotWax pre-order catalog.
