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Remove the 128 character limit on the Details field of products
Please remove the 128 character limit on the Details field of products. It is quite limiting, as when we generate quotes we would like to be able to provide more detail to clients. We have played around with using custom fields, as they have a larger limit (255 characters), but the problem is that they are immutable for a specific order (the only way to change them is to change them for the product in general).
Thanks for your help.
1 votecompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
responded
Hi Marcus – if you type “enter” into the field on the order, you will be able to add more information – perhaps put it into the product description, which you can access quickly for copy/paste by clicking the SKU of the item once added to the order.
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A stock list at retail value
To beable to see the retail value of your current stock holding
1 votecompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
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Hi Anonymous – the best way to do this is filter your product list by a warehouse, set the selected price list and export ALL rows. You can then easily use Excel to filter those items where stock level > 0.
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filter product by warehouse with relevant info (retail price in my case)
have a reporting of products in a specific warehouse with retail price, or other price list.
=> enable filter by warehouse in the panel "list stock item"1 votecompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
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Hi Henri,
Use the filter on the product list, and select to show retail prices from the tickboxes available.
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Allow returns in epos screen
We need store sale reps to be able to process returns and exchanges from the EPOS.
1 votecompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
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Hi Ryan – when you are in EPOS, click “new credit” and it will create a return rather than a sale. Chris
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supplier sku
Be able to record supplier SKU's and description/name against products to be used in PO's.
1 votecompleted ·
AdminJustin Press
(Admin, Brightpearl)
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Hi Rico,
Happy to say you can already do this. You can even import such info via CSV. Read about it below.
http://www.brightpearl.com/support/documentation/products/setting-up-products-inventory/prices-and-price-lists
ThanksJustin
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Choose Which Contact to Keep
It would be better if you could choose which contact to keep when merging to records.
3 votescompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
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Hi San – the second record is merged into the first, so just ensure that you sort the contact list so that the “keep” record is at the top before you merge.
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EDI Compliance
Would like to have Electronic Data Interchange capability in Brightpearl to receive orders, send confirmations, advance ship notices, invoicing, etc for Customers requiring EDI compliance.
1 votecompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
responded
Hi Dan – whilst we’re not specifically going to support an EDI module, you can already access all this data electronically via our API. If you’d like to see what it can do for you, contact a developer such as Leon at http://brightpearlapi.com/
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should be able to create your own purchase order number sequencing especially when you are transferring over from previous PO system
It would be really great to be able to have your PO numbers in sequence from your old PO system instead of starting at 1 in BP.
1 votecompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
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Hi Una – you can change the next order ID (which is shared between sales and purchases in Brightpearl) on the sales settings screen :)
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Potential Bug, problem, representing figures:
Hey Ladies and Gents,
Just thought of something:
If I buy a shoe from supplier 1 for £10 then the cost price will be £10.Okay so now I have 10 shoes in stock at £10
I then decide to go and buy another pack of shoes from another supplier for £9 again buy 10 of them. this would make the cost price £9
how does this reflect on accounting and current prices set on inventory?
Its just a theory that I thought about havent actually tested!
Adam
3 votescompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
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Hi Adam – thanks for getting in touch! The principle is called First In First Out inventory valuation; there is more info on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFO_and_LIFO_accounting, also search our documentation for “cost of sales”. Hope that helps!
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get rid of the annoying commas in excel reports
Values over 1,000 have a comma which excel treats as text in your excel export (e.g. a P&L or Balance sheet report). This buggers up sort, and any formula applied to it. This CANNOT be difficult to sort, your tech support team have been aware for months (multiple version upgrades). Since you don't provide customisable reports you need to provide usable xls files so we can create our own.
9 votescompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
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Hi folks – release 4.19 should now export numbers as numbers rather than text – let me know if we’ve missed anywhere but we think we have it covered.
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Batch move items out of "stock in transit"
If I have a lot of items in the "stock in transit" report (either from a warehouse transfer or a sales credit) that all go to the same location, it would be handy to be able to tick them all and batch-move to a location
2 votescompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
responded
Full release notes here : http://www.brightpearl.com/node/1988
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Allow us to see stock allocation / on hand stock per warehouse more clearly
We use multiple warehouses a lot.
Right now there is now way of seeing what stock we have on hand per warehouse - we can only see it by clicking into each product's stock figures. The information in there is very useful - orders allocated, stock on hand per warehouse - but it takes a long time to gather an overall availability picture per warehouse, information which we need on a daily basis.
Adding a "warehouse" filter that allowed us to see what product was allocated and available in each warehouse would save us a lot of time and allow… more
3 votescompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
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You can now see full detail per warehouse using a) filters on the product list and, b) extra columns on the inventory summary and inventory detail screens. Full release information is here: http://www.brightpearl.com/node/1988
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Filter inventory reports by category / product type
Right now we are able to see the different stocks at different warehouse locations in the "Inventory detail" but we won't be able to filter out a certain category there.
We can filter out categories in the "product list" report but we cannot tell which warehouse they are located at.
It will be important for us to know (for example) all the long boards we have in the Hawaii warehouse and be able to generate a report on that basis.
3 votescompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
responded
Hi Michael – release 4.19 (full info at http://www.brightpearl.com/node/1988) now lets you filter the inventory reports by a couple of extra values. More coming soon.
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Show line breaks on templates with sales order "textarea" custom fields
Currently custom fields don't allow for any paragraph breaks or text editing which makes it difficult to use them for commercial proposals. Half of A4 page with no bullet points and break doesn't look appealing to our customers and we would like to be able to use a Word-style custom field.
3 votescompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
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Hi Michal – the latest release (full info at http://www.brightpearl.com/node/1988) maintains the line breaks on the custom fields printout. Hope that’s what you were after!
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add colour / size matrix grid to stock transfer screens
The colour size matrix is used throughout our business. So when one of our shops order stock from our main warehouse, we process a stock transfer for the stock movement. However the stock transfer screen would really benefit the clothing industry by having a colour size matrix grid in this screen also. i.e. use the same product add functionality that is available on sales order and purchase orders
7 votescompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
responded
You can now use “batch add” on the stock transfer screen. Yippee!
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'sales by product' report filtered by customer
I need to get a report out of BP. This is so when a REP visits a customer, then can get out a list of products history - i.e. sales by product.
This would be resolved if i could filter the 'sales by product' report filtered to a customer (and date range)
7 votescompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
responded
Completed in 4.19; http://www.brightpearl.com/node/1988 … from the customer “mini tabs”, choose orders then sales by product.
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Speed up processing of large orders
We currently deal with Large purchase at the moment, after speaking with the brightpearl team, I was notified you can only add a maximum of 150 lines before it become really slow.
I was currently on line 300 out of 700. The search for a product worked fine, it was only when you click 'batch update' to update the database, it would take up to a minute to add.
I have found a solution to this in the mean time but heres my thoughts:
- Update processing power, to cater for bigger companies who deal with a lot of stock.
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13 votescompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
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Hey everyone – hopefully you’ll have noticed this release that the order edit screen is a lot faster with larger orders; we’ve made the default view show “input boxes” for the item name rather than “autogrow textareas” – you can still have multiple lines on the description if you hit [enter] in the details box. We’re rolling more speed enhancements out continuously; but this has made a big step forwards. This is definitely one area of the system where a faster computer will help.
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Inventory value at a specific date
We would love to get the "inventory value" report at a specific date in the past, for instance, every last day in the month.
(i.e. what was my detailed inventory value on Dec 31st 2010?)
32 votescompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
responded
Release 4.19 now lets you do historical inventory reporting! Full release notes are here: http://www.brightpearl.com/node/1988
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Font On All Our Templates Have Changed
For some strange reason all the fonts on our templates have changed to a font that looks like Times New Roman. Please change this back to Arial as the Times New Roman font looks terrible and all our templates with tables are all misaligned as a result of this.
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AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
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Hi Mark – this should be resolved now.
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Payments against multiple orders
Had a situation today where a customer had called up following chase up for payment against Feb invoices. The customer wanted to make one payment against two orders.
Unless I am mistaken, the best way to currently process this is to log into card processing vitual terminal (in our case SecureTrading) and manually add all the customers details, take the payment, make a note of the reference and then allocate the payment in brightpearl manually.
This process is time consuming and we had a customer waiting on the telephone whilst this was happening.
Is there a better way to implement… more
2 votescompleted ·
AdminChris Tanner
(Product manager, Brightpearl)
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Hi Liz – from the customer payment allocation screen, just take a “payment on account” – which you can then allocate against the invoices when they are posted to accounts.