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
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
September 21, 2023System 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
August 4, 2023System 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
July 17, 2023System 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
June 28, 2023System 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
March 22, 2023Circle 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
February 8, 2023Circle 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.
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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
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Development 2020
- System Updates 1 Nov 2020 to 1 Dec 2020
- System Updates 1 Oct 2020 to 1 Nov 2020
- System Updates 1 Sep 2020 to 30 Sep 2020
- System Updates 1 Aug 2020 to 1 Sept 2020
- System Updates 1 July 2020 to 1 Aug 2020
- System Updates 1 June 2020 to 1 July 2020
- System Updates 1 May 2020 to 1 June 2020
- System Updates 1 Apr 2020 to 1 May 2020
- System Updates 1 Mar 2020 to 1 Apr 2020
- System Updates 1 Feb 2020 to 1 March 2020
Development 2017
- System Updates December 1 – December 31 2017
- System Updates November 6 – November 30 2017
- System Updates October 12 – November 6 2017
- System Updates September 18 – October 12 2017
- System updates 30 July – September 18 2017
- System updates 30 June to 30 July 2017
- System updates 30 May to 30 June 2017
- System updates 31 May 2017
- System updates 17 March – 30 April 2017
- System updates Dec 16 – Mar 17
Development 2019
- System Updates 1 Nov to 1 Dec 2019
- System Updates 1 Oct to 1 Nov 2019
- System Updates 1 Sep to 1 Oct 2019
- System Updates 1 Aug to 1 Sep 2019
- System Updates 1 July to 1 Aug 2019
- System Updates 1 June to 1 July 2019
- System Updates 1 April – 1 June 2019
- System Updates 31 January – 31 March 2019
- System Updates 1 January – 31 January 2019
- System Updates 1 July – 31 July 2018
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Development 2018
- System Updates 1 December – 31 December 2018
- System Updates 1 November – 30 November 2018
- System Updates 1 October – 31 October 2018
- System Updates 1 September – 30 September 2018
- System Updates 1 August – 31 August 2018
- System Updates 1 July – 31 July 2018
- System Updates 1 June – 30 June 2018
- System Updates 1 May – 31 May 2018
- System Updates 1 April – 30 April 2018
- System Updates March 1 – March 31 2018