Turbine Release Notes
Here is a summary of what shipped in Turbine over the past several weeks.
MAJOR UPDATES
• Storefront Enhancements: Improved storefront onboarding and product creation with a simplified, step-by-step setup experience. Added support for custom domains with guided configuration instructions and state-based sales tax calculations using location preferences.
• Etsy Integration: Introduced Etsy connectivity to support product integration and expand available sales channels.
• Shopify Integration Improvements: Migrated Shopify connectivity to the official Shopify app services, improving the reliability of order synchronization and fulfillment updates.
• Receiving Dashboard: Launched a new dashboard providing greater visibility into incoming inventory. The JIT receiving view now displays daily incoming job and print counts, with additional performance optimizations for faster reporting.
• Mobile Production Bin Management: Brought production bin workflows to Turbine Mobile, allowing operators to manage production bins directly from the production floor with functionality aligned to web-based match bin workflows.
• Purchase Order Cancellation Management: Introduced configurable cancellation codes for purchase orders and individual PO items. Added support for customer notifications and automatic cancellation of associated jobs and items, along with a new configuration guide.
• Vendor Batch Management: Expanded vendor batch workflows to support individual job receiving and removal, automatic batch and PO completion, job label printing, personalization visibility, and detailed activity tracking.
• Print Batch Prioritization: Added advanced prioritization for JIT and gangsheet print batches. Batch configurations now support customer, rush status, and shipping method filters, along with printer-specific line assignments for improved production scheduling.
• DTF Dashboard Enhancements: Updated the DTF dashboard with requested improvements to support more efficient production monitoring and daily operations.
MINOR UPDATES
• Quote & Pricing Enhancements: Expanded quote functionality with customizable pricing lines, puff and outsourced embroidery pricing, stitch and artwork costs, and DTG pricing matrices based on print locations and quantities. Margin calculations now account for decoration cost per print, with configurable shrinkage percentages.
• Quote & Customer Communication Improvements: Quote notes now transfer directly to order notes, quote emails include account logos, and customers can receive notifications when orders are complete or ready for pickup. Added account-level API pricing options.
• Bulk Order Workflow Enhancements: Extended bulk order functionality with more detailed production labels that include mockups, decoration locations, custom handling requirements, tags, notes, and order descriptors.
• Gangsheet Production Improvements: Enhanced gangsheet chunking to handle smaller images accurately and record chunk details on production batches. Added shipping verification for chunk counts, accurate printed-length tracking, and order ID visibility on the gangsheet dashboard.
• Order Aggregation & Shipping Optimization: Introduced the ability to hold and combine orders until a daily cutoff, allowing unbatched orders to be consolidated and reducing unnecessary shipments.
• Order Notes & Issue Management: API-submitted order notes now populate order notes automatically, and the client-facing order issue interface has been refined for better visibility.
• Pressing Screen Improvements: Made decoration locations significantly more prominent on the pressing screen to reduce placement errors and restored job ID visibility for operators.
• Inventory & SKU Management: Improved SKU alias visibility across the web interface, purchasing workflows, and reports. Enhanced stock searching and filtering, including greater-than-or-equal comparisons, and added GTIN fallback support for SKU lookups.
• Supplier Catalog Updates: Supplier catalog information now refreshes monthly to help maintain accurate and current product data.
SUMMARY
This release focuses on streamlining storefront management, expanding sales integrations, improving production efficiency, and strengthening inventory and order workflows. With new mobile capabilities, smarter batch prioritization, enhanced vendor management, and expanded pricing tools, Turbine continues to simplify complex decoration and fulfillment operations.st-in-time purchasing by style.
Reports and Notifications: A new report shows what is arriving from more distant warehouses and what was not delivered by the carrier that day. Shortage and not-delivered notifications are sent internally, batching emails are tied to a distribution list with history available in a report, and the shift risk report now includes capacity calculations. The Force Complete report has moved to Purchasing.
Labels and Batches: Batch labels include the order ID, stock labels and the jobs table can show the sales channel, batches have a new ripped state, and production bins list jobs regardless of pick or box batch. Shipped jobs now automatically complete their batches when appropriate.
Guides: New help articles cover label descriptions, cancel codes, and will call pickup orders.
Other Improvements: The customer service overview SLA hover now shows both just-in-time and standard day counts. Embroidery file re-use has been re-enabled, a design width task is created for designs wider than 22 inches, pick batches surface additional bin errors, and Force Complete permissions have been updated.
