Dox POS for WooCommerce

Changelog

0.57.0

• New: Varies by. Each category says what its products vary by: up to two of the store’s attributes, whatever they are. Clothes by Size and Color, thermoses by Capacity and Color, phone cases by Model, rings by Size and Material, shoes by Shoe size. The product form in the register keeps its grid: the first option goes in the rows and the second in the columns, and the titles change on their own (Capacity instead of Sizes). An option that is a color keeps its swatches; any other shows text buttons, like sizes. Set it in Settings > Products > Varies by, or from the register: when a product is created, the chosen category shows “Thermoses varies by Capacity and Color · Change it”. From there a new attribute can be created with its values (the register warns when it looks like one the store already has, like Sizes and Size), and Add to Capacity… creates a value that is missing (a 750 ml), already marked.
• New: a store can have several size attributes, for example letters for clothes (Talla) and numbers for shoes (Talla calzado). In Settings > Products > Sizes and colors, mark every attribute that holds sizes. Until you change it they are detected by name, also the ones whose name starts or ends with size (Talla calzado, Shoe size); turning them all off means the store does not use sizes.
• New: a product created without colors (or without its second option) can get them from the register. When the product is edited, its category’s option shows up: the units it already has go to the first value chosen, and the rest are added as new variations. Its SKUs and history stay as they were.
• Change: creating and editing use the product’s own attributes, and the search, the sale, the inventory, the labels and the SKUs read any attribute (“500 ml · Red”). Shared units between sizes and pieces by actual size stay for sizes. A product that varies by three things or more still sells from the register and is edited in WooCommerce.
• Change: nothing to set up when updating. Each category keeps what it used: its size attribute (the one its products use, or the one set by hand) as the first option and the color as the second. A store with only Size and Color works exactly as before.
• Change: color swatches work with any theme, not only XStore. The register reads the shade of each color from XStore or from the most used swatch plugins (Variation Swatches for WooCommerce by GetWooPlugins or by CartFlows, ThemeHigh and VillaTheme), and a color created from the register is saved where the store’s theme or plugin looks for it, so the shop shows its swatch too (a color attribute created from the register is created as a color type when the swatch plugin offers it). The shade set in the swatch plugin wins over an older one, colors with a photo swatch keep their photo and are not asked for a shade, and VillaTheme colors (saved as rgba) are read too. Short size labels are also read from ThemeHigh.
• Change: a color always goes in the columns of the product form, even when it is chosen as the first option in Varies by, because photos and shared units go by color. Choosing above the option that was below swaps them instead of emptying the second one.
• Change: when colors (or the first option) are added to a product that already exists, the first value chosen can be tapped again to remove it until saving, and saving says which value its units go to and asks to confirm. A product that had Color only as information (for the store’s filter) can also get colors.
• Change: on a phone, Settings > Products > Varies by shows each menu across the screen (with Automatic, only one); the bottom bar of the product form hides while typing so the keyboard does not cover the field; the links of the form are easier to tap; Sell shows the whole SKU of each variation; the Counter lists sizes in order; and a value created with one product shows up in the next one without reloading.
• Fix: a subcategory whose products have no sizes (thermoses that vary by Capacity) now takes its parent’s Varies by when the store has several size attributes.
• Fix: the warning about a similar attribute no longer mixes up short different words (Olor and Color, Tela and Talla, Marca and Manga), and using the existing one says which values were added.
• Fix: with the color on Automatic, the attribute called exactly Color keeps being the color even if another one with color in its name (Color de hilo) has more products.
• Fix: a color that already existed keeps its swatch or its image when it is chosen again from the register.
• Fix: with the size attribute on Automatic, a store with an empty “Talla” and its shoes in “Talla calzado” got the empty one, and the product form offered sizes nobody uses. Among several, the one that the most products have now comes first.
• Change: a color without a shade (created with New attribute…, or in a store without swatches) can get one from the register. When a color attribute is created with its values, each value shows a box to pick its shade; and when a color without a shade is chosen in a product, the form offers to pick it (or Not now). A color that already has a shade or an image keeps it.
• Change: changing Varies by from the register says clearly that it affects the next products of the whole category (and of its subcategories without their own), with how many products it has today, which stay as they are. If none of them varies, it offers Make it not vary; after saving it says how many subcategories changed too.
• Change: faster with several size attributes. What the products of each category use is counted once and kept until a product, a variation or a category changes, instead of on every request; and Settings > Products > Varies by works it out once for all the categories instead of once per category.
• Fix: after saving changes to a product, only the Saved window shows. The Create another window of a new product came out on top of it.
• Fix: saving Settings no longer undoes a Varies by changed from the register while the settings page was open: only the categories changed on the page are saved.
• Fix: closing the “looks like an existing attribute” warning no longer creates the attribute; it has Use it, Create anyway and Cancel. Saving Varies by from the register keeps the values already marked if the rows did not change.
• Fix: when colors are added to an existing product, marking a value, typing its units, removing it and marking it again no longer overwrites the units the product already had. Retrying a save that failed halfway does not create the same variations twice.

0.55.0

• New: what is sold without a product (a made-to-order piece, a repair) can carry a photo. In Sell > Without a product, Photo (optional): on a phone it opens the camera or the gallery. It is saved as WebP like product photos and shows in the sale line, in the order detail and in the WooCommerce order, under the line’s name. Deposits to store credit do not carry a photo.

0.54.1

• Fix: in the product form, under Pieces by actual size, a group with a single actual size showed a “?” in that size, as if something were missing. It now shows the units of the group, which are all of that size.

0.54.0

• New: labels to stick on the products, from Products > Labels. Each one carries the name, the SKU, the price, the sizes in stock when it is printed and the barcode of the SKU: scan it at the Counter, with a scanner or the phone camera, and its sizes show up. They print from the browser on the label sheets sold in stationery shops (Letter with 30, 20, 14 or 10 labels, Avery 5160 to 5163; A4 with 24, 21 or 14, Avery L7159, L7160 and L7163), or on a whole adhesive sheet with lines to cut; one per product or one per unit in stock, and a sheet already started can be used from any label.
• New: dark mode. In Settings > Brand, Appearance: Light (as always), Dark, or Like the device (it follows the dark mode of each phone or computer). The dark colors are made from the store’s own: its main color, lightened until it reads, on an almost black background.
• Change: Reports in the Dox design: each figure with the dot of its color, channels and payment methods with their icon, and what is left to collect with its status and a link to the order. The register preview in Settings paints channels and payment methods like the register.
• New: the sign-in screen, redone. The store’s bar color, logo and name on one side and the form on the other (on a phone, a strip with the logo). Password or code by email is now a two-option switch instead of a loose link, the password has an eye to see it while typing, errors and notices come in boxes with their icon, and below it says who to ask for a user.
• Change: the product form, redone on the Dox design system: each part in its own card, what is chosen (category, colors, sizes, package) in the store’s tint instead of solid color, a green profit, and the save bar floating at the bottom with the total and the button side by side on a computer.
• Fix: letter sizes now come in their order (XS, S, M, L, XL) and not alphabetically; and the note “No colors” no longer shows when the product has colors.
• Fix: in Settings > Sales, the sample receipt did not show until saving when Settings was opened on another tab.
• Fix: sizes in the Mexican and Central American style (CH, M, G, EG or XG) and the Brazilian one (PP, P, M, G, GG, XG) also come in their order.
• Fix: after a wrong password, the sign-in keeps the username and puts the cursor on the password.
• Fix: in dark mode, the real-size pill, the “arrived” badge and the colored initials (Orders, the Pro PIN) were hard to read; and the phone’s top bar follows the dark mode.
• Fix: after opening and closing the layaway window, every key typed in the next windows (Labels among them) threw an error in the background, and a new layaway could show the previous one’s summary.
• Change: barcodes with numbers (a SKU like 7701234567890) take about a third less width, so they read better on small labels; a label of a product with nothing in stock lists its sizes instead of saying it is out of stock.

0.53.0

• New: a new look for the register, built on the Dox design system. The top bar has icons and its counters in small bubbles; Sell shows products as cards and each size as a tile with its stock in a colored pill (green, amber when few are left, red when none); channels and payment methods carry their color and icon (also the payment methods a shop creates); Orders shows each status in a colored pill, the customer’s initials and the channel with its icon; the Dashboard, the Assistant, the windows and the login are cleaner. The four colors in Settings (background, bar, primary, text) still dress the whole register.
• New: the order detail, redone. Three figures first (total, how it was paid and where the delivery is), the products on the left and the customer and the profit on the right, each in its card, the history folded at the end and the actions at the bottom. A deposit to store credit opens as a Deposit, with how much, how it was paid and the credit the customer has left. A layaway shows what is left to pay with a bar, its deposits and its deadline.
• Fix: on the iPhone, Safari no longer zooms the register in when a field is tapped (the register stayed bigger, cut off on the left and with the bottom bar under Safari’s own bar), and the search no longer takes the focus on its own on a phone (it hid the bottom bar).
• Fix: right after adding a size of a group that shares units, its tiles counted one piece too many until the next search; and the line proposes the closest piece that is still free.
• Change: the button to take one size off the order sits in the corner of its tile, so the size name no longer wraps.
• Fix: a double tap (or Enter twice) on a window’s main button no longer does it twice: one deposit on a layaway was recorded as two, and a line without a product could go in twice. Returning to store credit, in Orders and at the Counter, can no longer be saved twice while it is saving.
• Fix: if a sale’s answer never arrives (a timeout, a dropped connection) and it is recorded again, the store returns the order it already made instead of making a second one.
• Fix: a cashier who opens an order paid with store credit no longer sees the link to the customer’s movements (it is for managers), and something the user is not allowed to do now says so instead of closing the session and losing the sale in progress.
• Fix: the counter-only user can no longer download the inventory or the history in Excel.
• Change: cancelling an order that was already paid says that the money is not refunded from there; marking an order as delivered asks first; Enter in a window does its main button; missing fields say what is missing; on a phone the order detail has a Close button at the bottom; a layaway deposit reads “Deposit on layaway #72” instead of “Deposit: Deposit on layaway #72”; and in Orders, what was deposited and what is left go to a second line instead of widening the list.

Full changelog: https://help.doxstudio.com/dox-pos-changelog/