Product Updates

The days of waiting on the old Purchase Orders page are coming to an end. A rebuilt Purchase Orders page is starting to roll out as a beta. We focused on moving fast while keeping disruption to a minimum, so the page mirrors the experience you already know as closely as possible. You'll notice a few small visual differences, but the workflow and behavior should feel very familiar — no retraining required. It's also a foundational step toward a more stable, faster-moving application, which means quicker improvements down the road. The rollout starts with shops that don't currently use integrations; we'll keep wrapping up the integrations work and monitoring feedback, and expect to reach the broader customer base within the month.

New to Archie? There's now a guided way in. First-time users are greeted with a Meet Archie panel that explains what Archie is, what it's great at, the data it can pull, and where the current gaps are — all tailored to your permissions and role (Sales, Jobs, Purchasing, and so on). You'll find Tips & Tricks on getting the most out of it, an On the Roadmap section for what's coming, and sample prompts curated to your role to help you get started: the first is always an advice-style question, followed by data-pulling examples, and they fade away once you've gotten the hang of things. You can revisit the panel anytime from the Explore Archie dropdown or the Meet Archie button in the chat. The What's New / Changelog also got a refresh with search, filtering, cleaner styling, and clearer callouts when a new version of Archie ships.

Operators clocked into work order operations now stay visible when filtering by department or work center — no more disappearing workers.

A round of paperwork cleanup on Purchase Order documents and invoices: PO docs now correctly show "DUE" instead of "RECEIVE" since they're vendor-facing, and paid invoices now display a clear paid status rather than a "Total Due" amount that no longer applies.

• Nesting and DXF flexibility. Nestimation and "Download Nest Package" now work whether you upload the DXF to the specific operation or directly on the item page.
• Auto-associate materials to nestable operations. Drop a material on a routing with a nestable operation → automatically associated. Add a nestable operation to a BOM that already has the material → same thing. Fewer mistakes, fewer clicks.

• ‍Bulk actions on Previous Receipts. New checkboxes let you change the receipt date, print labels, or revert across multiple lines at once. Saves a ton of clicking — and importantly, keeps the lines on a single receipt so it still matches the vendor's bill.‍
• PO date tooltips clarified. Expected Receive Date (when material should arrive — feeds the scheduler) and Promise Date (vendor's committed delivery date — drives the quality score for late deliveries). Quality Score tooltip on the Vendors page also rewritten for clarity. (Angular PO pages only.)
• ‍Auto-created Outside Processing POs now pull vendor custom fields. Manual OP POs already did this; the auto-create path was missing.

• Raw Material Catalog expansion. ~23,000 new materials across Bar, Tube, and Structural. Use the "Recently Added" filter on the materials grid to see what's new. Pipe is up next.
• Item grid sorts by recently created / edited at the top by default — no more hunting alphabetically for the part you just made.
• Reactive Save button on the Item page. Save is disabled until you've actually changed something, and turns blue when there are changes to save.
• True Revision Support for Solid Works imports. When you import a SolidWorks BOM and an item already exists in Fulcrum, you can now create it as a proper new revision of that item instead of a brand-new orphan. Works for both the top-level assembly and child BOM components. (Three-dot menu on the parent → Add a Revision.)
• Previous orders: primary and document currency toggle. Useful when you're based in one currency but sold the item in another — toggle between primary and document currency on the item page's Sales tab.

• Expand / collapse all windows. Operators often just want to see the drawing. New eyeball button collapses all panels — bottom-left on desktop, top-right on iPad / mobile.
• Larger thumbnail sizes on operation cards — no more pixelated images.‍
• Smarter default image hierarchy. Starring an image on the JT now drives the operation page background. Switching to a quality tab swaps in the associated PDF. WO attachments load over job-level attachments. Star indicator now shows when the job is also scheduled.‍
• "Picked" column on Work Orders updates after auto-pick. Previously the picked quantities on the work order didn't refresh when auto-pick ran during job and operation completion. Now they update right away.‍
• Add button in the picklist works again. Clicking Add right after using the search bar wasn't registering — fixed.

• ‍Pack by Box. Click the box icon on a shipment and enter a box number. Anything you pack while a box number is filled gets attributed to that box. New label variables {{ boxQty }}, {{ boxNumber }}, and {{ totalBoxes }} split labels per box automatically — e.g. {{ boxQty }} in Box {{ boxNumber }} of {{ totalBoxes }} produces 3 in Box 1 of 2 and 7 in Box 2 of 2.‍
• Improved packing error messaging. Hit "Pack All" on a 100-line shipment and you used to get a generic header. Now you get the first 5 items that failed, so you know what to fix.‍
• Item link on Packlist now links to the item, not the sales order. This bugged us too.‍
• Company name toggle on labels. Per-template toggle to hide your own company name on the labels you print — keep it on some, off on others.
• ‍Shipping Backlog Report. Two new optional fields nested under Item Name: Default Location and (Item) Class. Excel users — hit the + above Item Name to expand.

A long-overdue UI cleanup for operators that turned into a much bigger update once we started gathering customer feedback. The new design surfaces communication between the shop floor and management that used to be hidden — next routing step on each job, full routing per item, tag indications when there are job notes or instructions to read, item tags below item descriptions, visibility into inventory transactions made on the job, and search across the WO job list.

Active beta with a handful of shops; broader rollout coming.

Trigger a manual inventory resync for any item directly from Fulcrum. It's a diagnostic tool for the rare cases where Shopify inventory falls out of sync.

Shopify retired our previous auth method at the beginning of 2026; existing integrations kept working, but new connections were blocked until we implemented OAuth. Connecting now uses a "Connect" button → Shopify Install App → permissions prompt → redirect back. Disconnect is a button + save.

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• Job ran 12 units against a 10-unit Job? You can now record IPT responses for those extra 2 pieces on the overproducing operation.
• Pre/post operation checkpoints now highlight red when responses are out of tolerance.
• Bubble Number now exports on IPT "Inspection Results" downloads.

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If we can't detect a grid on a drawing, you no longer get blocked — the grid (and per-annotation grid locations) are now optional.

You can now edit bubble annotations on in-progress / completed / cancelled operations whether or not responses exist. Editing target values or tolerances can retroactively flag responses as out-of-tolerance. We still block edits that would categorically invalidate existing responses (e.g. changing a numerical checkpoint to a checkbox).

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