Release Notes — Page 9

Your demand-planning forecast has always given you a reorder quantity — but not a way to tell whether that number was built on two years of steady sales or two days of noise. A brand-new SKU with almost no history looked exactly as authoritative as a proven bestseller, and once you exported the results, the reasoning behind each number disappeared. Forecast confidence fixes that: every recommendation now carries a confidence level, a likely range around the quantity, and a plain-English explanation of how it was calculated — right in the results table, in the calculation detail, and in the export you hand to finance.

You tweak a kit's recipe — swap a component, bump a quantity — and suddenly your history and your forecasts look different, as if the previous version never existed. Worse, you can't answer a simple question: what was actually in this bundle back in the spring? Until now, a bundle or kit had exactly one recipe — whatever it happens to be right now. Recipe History changes that. Every bundle and kit now keeps a full, dated history of its recipe, so you can see what it contained on any date, edit it without rewriting the past, schedule a change ahead of time, and correct a past recipe when something was recorded wrong.

Drop-shipping should be the easiest kind of fulfillment — your supplier ships straight to the customer and you never touch the stock. In practice, an out-of-stock order would quietly backorder against your own warehouse instead of routing to the supplier, and when it didn't drop-ship there was no single place to see why. Drop-ship automation brings the whole flow together: a Drop-ship Status panel that shows exactly why an order will (or won't) route to a supplier, automatic routing of eligible out-of-stock orders, a purchase order created and sent on your behalf, and a clear view of whether that PO actually reached the supplier. No more guessing, no more silent backorders.

If you sell regulated, high-value, or warranty-backed goods — electronics, medical devices, cosmetics, anything with a recall or authenticity requirement — "how many do we have" was never enough. You needed to know which one, and where it went. Until now SKU.io tracked quantities but not the individual units behind them. Serial Number Tracking closes that gap — and now follows each unit end to end: opt in per product, capture a serial as stock arrives, choose the exact units when you fulfill, print them on your pick lists and packing slips, and trace any serial's full history.

Adjusting stock used to be a leap of faith. When you removed units — for damage, loss, a recount, or a correction — you couldn't see what that stock was already promised to. Take a few units, and a customer's order could quietly slip into backorder with nobody the wiser. Add stock, and you had no idea which waiting orders it would unblock. Now every inventory adjustment shows its impact before you commit — the exact orders it will fill or backorder — so nothing happens behind your back.

If you buy or sell in more than one currency, keeping exchange rates accurate used to be a manual chore — someone had to remember to update the conversion for each currency, and a rate that quietly went stale skewed your margins, costs, and reports. Automatic Daily Exchange Rates takes that job off your plate: SKU.io now pulls fresh rates every day and keeps every currency current, converted to your base currency automatically — whatever that base currency is.

If you sell on eBay, you know the pain of month-end reconciliation. An eBay Managed Payments payout is a single net deposit that quietly bundles your gross sales, refunds, final value fees, ad fees, shipping-label costs, and adjustments — so the number that lands in your bank is none of your revenue figures. Matching it back to your books by hand takes hours, and coding the whole deposit to one income account quietly misstates your revenue, fees, and tax.

eBay Payout Accounting fixes that. SKU now pulls your eBay Managed Payments payouts, breaks each one into its real components, and posts a single deposit-matched summary to your accounting — one entry that reconciles to your bank deposit to the cent.

You could always see a customer's orders — but never, in one place, how much they owed you, how overdue it was, or how to go about collecting it. Chasing payment meant exporting to a spreadsheet, hand-building a statement, and sending it from your inbox, all outside SKU.io. The customer page is now an accounts-receivable command center — it opens on money owed, breaks the balance down by how overdue it is, produces a real statement of account, and lets you email that statement or a payment request without leaving the page.

When a customer checks out with an offline payment method — a bank transfer, a purchase order, a "pay on delivery" — the order lands in SKU.io unpaid, yet until now it behaved exactly like an order you'd already been paid for: it allocated your stock immediately and could sail straight through to fulfillment. So a wire that might never arrive could quietly tie up inventory for weeks, and there was no way to say "hold this until the money's in." The new Unpaid Orders settings let you decide, per sales channel, exactly how an unpaid order is handled — bring it in as a held reserve with an automatic expiry, park it as a draft for review, or treat it as open and let it ship — with per-payment-method overrides and control over when it reaches your accounting software.

You went to the trouble of entering your marketing spend, 3PL fees, software subscriptions and Amazon storage costs, and allocating them to the right products and brands — but your Profitability Report acted like none of it existed. It stopped at gross profit, so a brand that looked healthy on paper could be underwater once its share of overhead landed. The Profitability Report now includes the cost entries you allocate — every marketing campaign, fee and overhead cost folds into the report as a distinct, auditable cost line, and the bottom line becomes a full margin ladder: Revenue → Gross Profit → Contribution Margin → Operating Profit.