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Changelog

What changed in Samplyn 4, newest first. Every client runs the same product, and gets each release as it ships.

  1. Cardi makes changes you confirm, and buyers follow their shipments

    • Your team can ask Cardi to change styles, lists, purchase orders, shipments and comments; each change shows a preview and nothing happens until you confirm.
    • Confirm all of Cardi's changes or only the ones you pick, up to 2,000 records at a time, and every change is tagged via Cardi in the audit log.
    • Ask Cardi what needs you, compare any two periods, or find styles by photo; an opt-in morning brief email arrives at 07:00 your time.
    • Styles shown on a wishlist at a meeting now count as pitches, so Style Pitcher learns from what buyers were shown and what they ordered.
    • Buyers can follow their own shipments once you switch it on for their company, and retailer intelligence now refreshes itself overnight.

  2. Select and act on every list, and order documents by stage

    • Styles, orders, shipments, samples, customers, tasks and the other lists share one Select button and one bar of bulk actions.
    • From the order list, set the category, create a shipment from the selected orders, or print their labels in one go.
    • Each purchase order lists the documents due at its current stage, and a Missing documents filter finds the gaps.
    • Styles and orders carry a category, and reports show sales, profit and margin by category to the roles allowed to see them.
    • The Inbox tabs share one layout, and staff emails now say what happened in the subject line.

  3. Your 3PL warehouse gets its own receiving portal

    • People at your outside warehouse get their own logins and see only the shipments bound for their warehouse, never prices or invoices.
    • They find a shipment by container number and mark it received, or received with issues with a note and photos.
    • Receiving alerts reach the people you choose, and each warehouse gets advance notice of shipments headed its way.
    • Product photos now come from one Make photos flow, with a library of models and a run that fills missing shots in bulk.

  4. Task boards on every record, plus workstreams

    • Tasks gain a board view with Open, In progress, Blocked and Done columns; drag a card to move it along.
    • Styles, orders, sample requests, shipments, customers, factories and sample loans each open their own task board.
    • Workstreams hold work that belongs to no single record, such as a launch, with an owner and a due date.
    • An All boards page lists every board with open work, most urgent first.

  5. Photo brand safety and plus-size pricing

    • Every product photo is checked for tech packs, hangtags, price labels and another retailer's brand, and admins review the flags on one screen.
    • List pricing reads MSRP, margin, cost and landed price, set per list.
    • Set a plus-size upcharge on a style and the plus price follows; buyers see the price, never the percentage.
    • Style Finder's matching was rebuilt, and whiteboard frames now export as a multi-page PDF.

  6. Whiteboards become a design tool, and lists carry their own prices

    • Whiteboards have their own place in the menu, and a board can start blank with the customer chosen later.
    • Your team can ask Cardi from the board to add, arrange or analyse tiles while they watch.
    • Personal boards give each person a private canvas for ideas that are not ready to show.
    • Each list carries its own pricing, so one garment can be quoted two ways for two buyers; buyers see a price only when the list turns it on.

  7. Tasks arrive, attached to the work they are about

    • Create, assign and track tasks on an order, style, sample request, customer or shipment, and see them on that record.
    • Owners are suggested from your workflow stage owners, so a task lands with whoever owns that stage.
    • Blocker chains release a task when the one before it is done, and checklist templates start a whole process in one click.
    • Style Pitcher records a pitch when an order is committed and releases it if the order is cancelled, so win rates reflect real outcomes.

  8. Whiteboards on sample requests, and three ways to start one

    • Every sample request has whiteboards for sketching, pinning and marking up a fit, worked on live by your team.
    • Start a sample request from an existing style, a new design or a moodboard.
    • Buyers can download a wishlist as a line-sheet PDF, with prices always off in their copy.

  9. One guided sample checkout, and division-level buyer access

    • Requesting samples is one guided checkout (review, options, details, confirm) for buyers and your team alike.
    • Pick a color, quantities by size and a note for each style before you submit.
    • Buyers assigned to a division see only that division's styles, wishlists, sample requests, loans and inquiries.
    • Search forgives plurals and small typos, and similar styles show why each one matched.

  10. A buyer home, draft purchase orders and warm-buyer alerts

    • Buyers sign in to a home built for them: your latest line, their wishlists and a one-tap way to reach you.
    • Purchase orders start as a private draft and reach the buyer and your reports only when someone commits them.
    • The Sales Timeline shows which accounts to pitch or meet this week, worked out from their buying windows.
    • Usage analytics show which buyers are warming up and alert their sales rep.
    • A notification bell and one Inbox bring comments, notifications and inquiries together.

  11. Meet Cardi, plus market intelligence on every account

    • Your team can ask Cardi about styles, orders, samples, shipments and lists in plain words and get answers from live data.
    • Drop a photo into a Cardi chat to find lookalike styles in your line.
    • Retailer intelligence reads search trends, retail sales data, news and the retailer's own storefront for each account.
    • Style Pitcher weighs retailer and demand signals and explains every pick.
    • Set a default owner for each workflow stage, from pitching to shipping.

  12. Style Pitcher launches, and sample requests are rebuilt

    • Style Pitcher proposes styles for each account and shows why each one was suggested.
    • Each sample request is one page, updated in place, with a spec sheet, attachments and a print view.
    • A purchase order's status stays in step with its linked shipment, and one map shows every active shipment's route.

  13. Order milestone timelines, factory capacity and compliance

    • Every purchase order shows a time-and-action milestone timeline, and order and sample cards carry a compact progress strip.
    • Record factory capacity, compliance audits and certifications, and see them together on one dashboard.
    • Check samples in and out by scanning, and check many in at once.
    • Labels were rebuilt with bulk printing and a larger, more scannable style number.

  14. Sample tracking, a production dashboard and barcode scanning

    • A stage tracker follows each physical sample (sent, in production, shipped, received, evaluating) apart from its approval status.
    • The production dashboard shows active orders, overdue, ready to ship and on-time delivery, with a stage pipeline and alerts.
    • A time-and-action calendar lays each order's milestones on a Gantt timeline, so delays show early.
    • Print barcode labels for styles, orders and lists, and scan them into search and sample custody.

  15. Sample custody, meeting capture and line sheets

    • Sample custody records who has each sample and when it is due back.
    • Meeting Capture records the styles seen at a meeting and can read a style code from a label photo.
    • Wishlists, line sheets and the current line become separate list types, and line sheets download as a PDF.
    • A model library holds the images the AI photo tools dress your styles on.

  16. Live shipment tracking, one calendar and an Executive dashboard

    • Ocean containers and parcels are tracked live, with a status timeline and a route map of each voyage.
    • One calendar brings purchase order, shipment and sample request dates together.
    • An Executive dashboard shows revenue trends, the order pipeline, top customers and top styles.
    • Style Finder finds the closest styles in your line from a reference photo.

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