Every month we publish our upgrades, new features and improvements that have been going on behind the scenes at CirclePOS.

2023 Updates, Improvements and New Features

System Updates and Development History

2023 sees the continuation of updates to the next version of our software framework. Regular housekeeping and tidy-ups concentrated on APIs, speed and bug fixes. Gift Cards have been a highlight of 2023.

New Features
Discounts applied to a whole category (perfect for promotions); Integration of book2look service; Purchasing added an inwards goods history; Web checkout supports selling Vii Digital Gift Cards.
A new customer in Switzerland prompted offering an alternative currency display in website cart.

Improvements
Self Onboarding; Updating System core code; New vertical panels in Vue; Gift Cards; CSV Exports, Xero, Purchase Order pop-up, Separate customer ref field in invoices; Two-factor authentication.

System Updates 1 – 31 August 2023

System Updates 1 – 31 August 2023

September 21, 2023

System Updates August 2023 Throughout August, we’ve been focused on making important upgrades in anticipation of the upcoming and traditionally busy Christmas season. We’ve been hard at work transitioning to the next version of our Vue software framework. In addition, our Self Onboarding process is steadily progressing, and we’re happy to share that new sites … Read More

System Updates 1 – 31 July 2023

System Updates 1 – 31 July 2023

August 4, 2023

System Updates July 2023 This month we continued working on updating to the next version of our software framework. We also made an improvement to categories; you can now easily apply discounts to a whole category. This is perfect for offering promotions such as Christmas or Summer reading lists.   New Features Payment Kinds Users … Read More

System Updates 1 – 30 June 2023

System Updates 1 – 30 June 2023

July 17, 2023

System Updates June 2023 This month we completed the integration of book2look service; allowing your online customers to peek inside a book, discover more about the author, the content, watch videos and listen to audio clips. We continued working on updating to the next version of our software framework along with some work on the … Read More

System Updates 1 – 31 May 2023

System Updates 1 – 31 May 2023

June 28, 2023

System Updates May 2023 Self Onboarding saw a lot of improvements this month, along with updating the core code of the system. Users will start to see a visual change from the horizontal menu to the new vertical panels in Vue, one area at a time. Housekeeping and tidy-ups concentrated on APIs among other things.  … Read More

System Updates 1 – 28 February 2023

System Updates 1 – 28 February 2023

March 22, 2023

Circle System Updates for February 2023 February updates include improvements to Gift Cards, CSV Exports, Speed and Purchase Order pop-up among other things.  We’ve also added an option for an alternative currency to display in the website cart. You can see the test video here   New Features Web Payments Add “eDahab Payment Option” under … Read More

System Updates 1 – 31 January 2023

System Updates 1 – 31 January 2023

February 8, 2023

Circle System Updates for January 2023 After the Christmas development freeze the team have been hard at work with many improvements and some new features. Notably, a separate “Customer Ref” field in invoices and two-factor authentication; have a look at the video here. We’ve made improvements to speed, xero and Vii gift cards; the web … Read More

2022 Updates, Improvements and New Features

Work in 2022 focused on Circle Gift Cards and Xero Integration. The team continued with the System R6 upgrade along with bug fixes and general housekeeping.

New Features
Promotions Module; Online discount code for promotions; Association Portal; Printable pick lists; Shareable customer wishlists; Bin fulfilment - added a link to supplier order

Improvements
APIs can now handle product types other than books. Accounts payable consignment invoices synced to Xero; Customisation of delivery time messages; Credit Notes - alterations and or refunds can now be made in the new credit note system, and you can now generate cr notes from the POS to apply to unpaid invoices; “$” currency symbol removed to make the site work better in other currencies; Product Field - we've made it possible to add any selected special fields to the advanced search. Other improvements were made to deals, bin fulfilment, accounts payable and purchasing.

2021 Updates, Improvements and New Features

A substantial amount of time was spent on the R6 upgrade and Web POS this year, along with Circle Gift Cards and Xero integration. We also completed the server move to Sydney.

Speed and SEO improvements were also an important component of work in 2021.

New Features

WebPOS; Self-onboarding, Group/association portal; Bin fulfilment. New checkout system deployed. Customer order fulfilment and Starshipit Integration – starshipit.com is a shipping management system.

Improvements

A number of improvements were made in 2021 including:

  • Improved stock exports, returns and inwards goods. 
  • We continued work on the web POS which will offer a phone/tablet POS option;
  • Improved how costs populate in inwards goods for new items, added options so that you have control over when web orders are invoiced, added links to stock logs
  • Improved threshold report speed and added automatic cost calculation to the deals system
  • Standardised how web orders are handled
  • Added back office interfaces for the new gift card system;
  • Improved the mover’s time stamp system and changed the deal expiry to happen in the shop’s time zone.
  • Increased cart load speed, split out cash accounts in aged receivables and improved deals expiry time
  • Improvements to the pacstream implementation and Titlepage integration
  • A number of improvements were also made to catch and prevent transactions getting stuck in the POS along with customer order picking