HotWax Commerce's August update introduces Order Merging, enhanced Pre-Order inventory management, and improved Shopify pre-order integration.
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Order
Retailers can now move items from the brokering queue to the backorder queue, helping them avoid overselling. Read more\
Products
Product type will now be shown on the âProduct Viewâ page helping retailers know whether it's finished goods, digital products, gift cards, etc.
Merchandisers can now choose if they want to see both parent products and their variants, or only product variants while searching on the âfind productâ page. By default, only product variants are shown in search results.
HotWax Commerce will now add the âHC: Pre-orderâ and âHC: Backorderâ tags on Shopify orders, helping CSR to differentiate between regular orders and Pre-Orders/backorders.
HotWax Commerce now allows merchants to add a new item to a Purchase Order directly from the âView Purchase Ordersâ page. Read more\
Added a new link for all items on the Purchase Order view page that shows the associated Sales Orders received for the Purchase Order item, helping merchandisers to get clarity on what Purchase Order items are allocated to which Sales Orders.
Merchants can now see the changes in the arrival date of a Purchase Order item in the âOrder Item Change Historyâ section.
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. Read more
Fulfillment
To ensure that packages can be grouped together and sent as one shipment, HotWax Commerce introduced an âOrder Mergingâ feature in its Fulfillment App to reduce shipping costs and increase profitability. Read more
