General search bar to search SPC and Barcodes
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Patrick Clapp
General search bars currently search the ILC or description of item, I propose allowing all of the supplier part codes, as well as the barcode to be fields that the general search bar pulls from when providing results. For example, the attached photos show a SRAM GX 10s Rear Derailleur, currently I can only search for that item with whatever the ILC is, regardless of what the primary supplier is. If I am creating a PO based on a different supplier and I want to add that item in, the search bar will not provide me with the item if I put in that supplier's part code for the item.
A primary supplier may be based on a variety of factors, but sometimes reaching free freight on a supplier means adding items outside of what you'd typically order. It is a rarity that shops are exclusively ordering a part from one supplier outside of simple availability. We need to be able to add the prerequisite supplier part number to search bars in POs, especially if performing POs retroactively. Otherwise, having to go source the SPC separately bottlenecks this process significantly.
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Chloe Price
Hello everyone! We're excited to share some fantastic new features in Cloud POS that have been developed based on your valuable feedback. Our Development Team have been hard at work to make it easier for you to find items within Cloud POS. Please bear in mind that we've still got a few changes to make to the layout and wording but we were keen to give you an advance look before we release it in our upcoming July release. You can watch the video here: https://www.loom.com/share/ba8a4d96ee074dc18c743a52955d11c1?sid=189c8167-6cae-4e50-9bed-2dde902f73dd
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Suzy Weightman
We're going to be starting some work on Monday to investigate potential search enhancements to allow for partial matches on Barcodes and Reorder Numbers in several places within the POS & Back Office.
The first step will be to assess any impact on performance and speed on the existing search functionality, we'll update this post once we confirm what changes we have planned!
Thanks,
Suzy
Neil McQuillan
Looking at this further, there is a bug in Purchase Orders which is stopping this working as we would expect, this is being addressed.
We are also looking at the item search in the main POS, to see if we can make the way it searches supplier barcodes more logic. For example if you scan a UPC or EAN barcode, the item is added to the transaction, however if you type it in, you then need to hit return to add it. The user interface indicates its not found, however hitting return would add them item.
We're also looking to see if we can add partial searching of barcodes (alias) and supplier reorder numbers to POS search and Purchase Orders.
For example typing the exact barcode in below and hitting return would add the item but the information we display is confusing. This only applies when typing a barcode (e.g. when the barcode will not scan), scanning it works perfectly.
I think we can make the system quite a bit easier to use when searching barcode text and supplier part codes. We have some balancing to do in terms of search performance, but this post is overall an exciting idea so we're looking at it as a priority.
Neil McQuillan
Pat this was in the last Cloud POS release.