Release Notes

🧠 Core Product Enhancements

✅ Substitutions V1.2 – Smarter, Seamless Replacements

We’ve completed a full overhaul of the substitution picking flow. Pickers now see real-time replacement options and quantities in bins, streamlining decisions and reducing errors. The new UI enhances understocking resilience, improves order fulfillment rates, and drives higher customer satisfaction.

❄️ Fridge Replenishment – Cold Chain, Simplified

Now live in Ireland, this feature allows for effortless movement of items into chilled bins. The result: better inventory control, reduced labor costs, and higher profitability for our partners handling temperature-sensitive goods.

📱 Camera Barcode Scanner – Hardware-Free Warehousing & Store Operations

We’ve gone fully mobile. All warehouse flows now support camera-enabled barcode scanning, removing the need for Zebra devices. This dramatically cuts onboarding costs and boosts scalability for growing operations.

⚙️ Express Picking Configuration – Fully Customizable Picking

Clients can now fully tailor the picking process to their unique needs. Whether it's priority-based, zone picking, or high-volume express flows—OrderGrid adapts to you.

📦 Receiving V2: Item Menu Listing Status

Say goodbye to shared barcode confusion. Receiving flow now shows listing status for every item, reducing stock errors to <1% and virtually eliminating waste from incorrect receiving.

⚙️ Platform Product Advances

🔁 Transactions Handling

Our new orchestrator now supports high-throughput order processing—over 200 orders/second, with theoretical capacity of 700K/hour. Already live with our largest customers, with Store API expansion underway.

🧪 A/B Feature Flags

We introduced a robust feature flag system, now in use by all dev teams. It enables controlled rollouts and broader experimentation for faster innovation within our warehouse management flows (ie picking, receiving, cycle counting).

💳 Return & Replacement Orders

This feature handles hardware replacements and returns for technology equipment customers—enhancing client experience and backend flexibility.

🧭 Front-End Telemetry

Launched to accelerate debugging and improve issue resolution across the platform.

🔌 Integration Manager

Now live, this powerful tool enables:

• Order ingestion from third party tools and manual uploads
  
• Daily automated imports
  
• External API access
  
• Upcoming user invites and shared authentication
  

🆕 New Verticals

🛒 Inventory Lite (www.inventory.ordergrid.com)

Targeting brick-and-mortar grocers with a simplified inventory management experience.
Now in general availability, with:

• Smoother reordering flows
  
• Multi-user support
  
• Mobile-optimized UI

Result: faster onboarding (minutes), better collaboration, and reduced operational friction.

🔮 Demand Forecasting (www.demand.ordergrid.ai)

Helping food retailers and wholesalers unlock the power of data.

New capabilities include:

• SKU + Customer-level forecasting
  
• Daily/weekly/monthly views
  
• Accuracy metrics (MAPE, RMSE)
  
• Automated forecast-to-replenishment sync via AWS

🚚 Driver Application

Built to engage drivers with OrderGrid—even without formal user accounts—by providing full visibility and traceability of third-party deliveries from distribution centers to final destinations like restaurants and retail stores.

🔧 Technical Initiatives

🏃 Express Picking Optimization

Backend overhaul improves speed, reliability, and unlocks future feature releases.

📥 Receiving V2 Optimization

Same treatment for Receiving—greater performance, fewer bugs, and cleaner architecture.

🧪 Feature Flag Module

Now available to all teams for safe rollouts and experimentation across clients and regions.

🍽️ Menu Management Upgrades

• 80% Faster Upload Speeds → increased user satisfaction
  
• Category Editing in UI → no more re-uploads
  
• Upload Time Tracking → clearer insights for clients
  
• Promo Category Persistence → less manual cleanup after menu resets
  

What’s Next?

Q2 is all about accelerating the momentum we’ve built in Q1. We’ll be scaling demand forecasting, pushing Inventory Lite deeper into the market, and onboarding more clients into the Integration Manager. Behind the scenes, we’re investing in data pipelines, performance, and tighter client feedback loops to make OrderGrid smarter and more responsive than ever.

🔗 Want to see these features in action?
Contact Us to book a live demo or explore how OrderGrid can streamline your operations.