What's New in Acquire - 1.68

27 May 2025

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Orders

Order Attachments

Easily upload attachments to orders, allowing all relevant physical documents to be securely stored in digital format and accessed at any time. This ensures critical paperwork is never misplaced and can be quickly retrieved whenever needed, streamlining your workflow and enhancing organisational efficiency.

View the orders topic for more information on adding attachments.

Other Features & Information

Feature Description
Check Automated Suggested Order Delivery Slot For Existing Orders

When an automated suggested order is due to be created, Acquire will check for any existing orders against the same delivery slot, ensuring that duplicate orders are not created for your sites.
Product Exclusions Switched On By Default Product Exclusions will available without switching on any other configurations of suggested ordering, so you can use this feature without enabling any other settings.

Past Feature Updates

Suppliers

Supplier Managed Delivery Schedules

Save time setting up ordering for your sites by giving suppliers the ability to manage delivery schedules on your behalf.

Orders

Add "Manual Suggested Order" Label To Order Search Page

Filter the order search page by Manual Suggested Orders, making it easier for you to manage these orders and track their progress.

Orders

Configure Returns / Edit Accepted Order By Outlet

Use all features in Acquire that allow editing order quantities of deliveries whilst piloting Aztec+ Stocks, so your sites can immediately gain the benefit of Acquire's full ordering functionality.

Orders

Quick Search Results Reflect Order Visibility Settings

Quick Search results will respect the order state visibility settings setup for your company, so users will only ever see the orders listed that you want them to.

Suppliers

Supplier Catalogue Downloads

Suppliers will be able to view and download the catalogues your company has uploaded, helping both parties to troubleshoot product and pricing issues more easily and reduce the number of reconciliation issues to investigate.

Products

Exclude Products (Preferred Pack Size)

Improve the accuracy of your suggested orders by choosing which pack sizes are included in the calculation for each product.

Invoices

Add Invoice Export Date to Finance Report

The Finance Report will show date invoices were exported in the downloaded CSV file, helping finance teams to more easily find older unreconciled invoices yet be investigated.

Orders

Remove .xml validation on Order Response/Dispatch Advice names

In order to make the experience of invoicing with integrating with suppliers more seamless, Acquire's validation on file names has been relaxed for invoices so that we no longer reject these files when they don't conform to an exact .xml extension.

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Bulk Delete Failed EDI Documents

The Failed EDI Documents page allows bulk deletion of documents, improving the experience of managing the list by giving users a way to remove items that cannot retried.

Orders

Change Departments and Update Deliveries

The Department against an order can now be changed and the associated delivery updated, so that orders sent to Aztec+ Stocks are always against the correct cost centre.

Stock

Buffer Stock Days By Product Per Outlet

Configure suggested ordering buffer stock in days at the product level, so you can use Acquire's calculation to ensure that outlets always order enough of their most important items.

Orders

Automated Suggested Order Creation Email

Trigger an email notification to outlets when an automated suggested order is created for them, so outlets are always reminded to review orders before being sent to suppliers.

Orders

Automated Suggested Order Failure Email

When an automated suggested order fails to be either created or placed, an email will be sent to both outlet and and head office users alerting them so don't miss out on the opportunity to place a stock order.

Technical

NET 8 Upgrade

Acquire has been upgraded to use .NET 8 framework, bringing the solution in line with future state architecture projects.

Stock

Display Stock

Help your outlets order more accurately by allowing them to set the amount of stock on hand intended for display purposes only.

Budgets

Display Budget Spend On Suggested Order Modal

View your budget spend when creating a suggested order, so your outlets always keep to their budget limits.

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Truncate Large Numbers On Order Status Widget

See larger numbers shown on the dashboard in a format that makes it easy to digest, so you can quickly understand the status of your orders.

 

Stock

Buffer Stock Quantity By Product By Outlet

Customers using suggested ordering can now configure buffer stock by a fixed quantity added to individual products in each order. Click here to view the configuration guide.

Budgets

Upload Budgets

Outlet budgets can be configured using a single CSV file upload, reducing the amount of time required to set up all the periods contained within a budget.

Products

Allow Individual Outlets To Manage Product Availability

Customers can select the outlets permitted to manage their own product availability, giving customers more flexibility in how ordering lists are managed across their estate.

Settings

Download Company-Supplier Settings

Admin users can now download all the current company configurations for active suppliers from the Company-Supplier Settings page, allowing further analysis of this information by other teams.

 

Orders

Restriction of Maximum Order Quantity By Product

Customers can now restrict the amount outlets are able to order of individual products for each delivery slot, enforcing more control over products normally ordered or are of higher value.

Orders

Apply Category Template From Basket

Outlet users can now apply Category Templates directly from the basket page, making this template more easily accessible and giving a more unified experience to ordering.

Products

Download Catalogues Display Stock Unit Columns

Downloaded catalogues now also include information about stock units, allowing downloaded catalogues to be used with Par Levels.

Orders

Bulk Progress Orders To Invoiced State

Zonal Admin users now have the ability to bulk progress orders to an Invoiced state without creating invoices. This will enable Zonal to assist customers who do not use Invoicing to request that specific orders are separated from other Accepted orders that may need further action.

 

Templates

Category Templates

When customers want to manage ordering lists to be used for specific departments they can create a Category template, allowing entire product categories to be assigned to that template.

When categories are assigned, the template will automatically add all products within that category and maintain the list if products are added or removed.

For this first iteration, the template can only be applied directly from the template page. In Acquire 1.61, users will be able to also create an order using this template from the basket page.

Templates

Print Category Templates

Outlets using Category Templates will also be able to print a physical structured form, allowing them to write down order quantities when surveying their current stock levels to then create an order within Acquire.

Catalogues

Download Catalogues

To help Zonal and customers troubleshoot catalogue issues, catalogues can now be downloaded as a CSV file, in a format that allows them to be re-uploaded.

Stock

Redesign Buffer Stock Configuration

To help customers more easily configure their buffer stock in future, the suggested order tab in Company Settings has been redesigned to simplify this setup.

 

Budgets

Outlet Budgets

Companies can now create weekly budgets allowing outlets to keep track of their spending against product categories.

Products

Quick Search For Products

All users can now use the Quick Search field to search for products and quickly create orders.

Sites

Bulk Assign Outlet by Reference/Name

When assigning outlets, customers can now enable an optional field to be displayed allowing the list to filtered using a comma-separated list of names or outlet references.

 

Petty Cash

Purchases

Purchases allows customers to create deliveries for orders placed with suppliers outside of Acquire. In addition, the feature can be configured to allow petty cash purchases to be checked into stock.

Emails

Credit Request Email Notification Enhancements

The Credit Requests email notification has been enhanced to add more details about the specific invoice lines.

Stocks

Configure Stock on Hand by Outlet

To facilitate the migration from Aztec stocks to Aztec+ Stocks, Acquire can be configured to choose the system individual outlets receive Stock On Hand from, ensuring that Suggested Ordering and Order To Par can continue to be used.

 

EDI Orders

List Failed EDI Dispatch Advices

Failed Dispatch Advices will now be displayed under the Failed EDI Documents page with a list of the failure reasons, assisting integrated suppliers and customers with to resolve issues with this type of document.

Invoice & Credits

Reset Invoice and Credit Collection Flag

In order to support customers using the Supplier Payment Interface, Zonal admin users emulating head office users can reset invoices and credits for collection via a bulk action to allow these documents to be exported again.

Products

Catalogue Product Search

To help customers troubleshooting product catalogue issues, search and filter fields have been added to the Active catalogues modal.

Orders

Forced Drop Improvements

Users wanting to see a summary of a forced drop can choose an additional email notification with the result of the forced drop and can also filter the list of orders on the Order Search page to show only these order types.

Orders

Add Allocations To Suggested Orders

Allocations has been extended to both manual and automated suggested orders, the calculation including any allocated products when suggesting items and applying the same restrictions around editing and deleting these products.

 

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