Get ready for Tradeshift’s Spring 2024 Release!
Do you want to know what goes live on March 18th? Check out the release notes!
Tailored alerts for time-sensitive Marketplace deals
This feature will:
Provide you with a user friendly way of handling expiring offers
Facilitate prompt re-negotiation, if required, by alerting you about offers that are nearing expiration
Provide a better understanding of the implications of an offer expiring
Tradeshift App: Notifications Service
Audience:Sellers, Buyers, Marketplace Operators End Users: Content Managers (Individual Buyer and Marketplace Operator, Seller) Availability: Available by default, no configuration required
Define Marketplace fee discounts
Marketplace fees can play a significant role in a seller’s adoption of the marketplace. As a marketplace operator, you are now able to define discounting rules for your sellers, where they could pay lesser fees for a negotiated period.
With the Marketplace Manager app, you can now: Create and schedule fee discount rules for a given seller member of your marketplace or for the sellers transacting with a specific buyer Delete and disable an existing fee discount rule The marketplace fee service determines the applicable discounting rule and applies it when the transaction fee amount is calculated. The transactions table in the marketplace fee dashboard displays the applied fee discounts. Sellers are also able to see the fee discounts rules in their specific app. Tradeshift App: Marketplace Manager Audience: Sellers, Marketplace Operators End Users: Marketplace operators, Sellers Availability: Available now, configuration required. Please reach out to your Customer Success Manager to have this feature enabled and configured for you. As a Requester, with the PR approval preview and log you can: See a list of potential approvers of your Purchase Request, even before its submission See who the current approver is, if your PR is still awaiting approval See who has approved or verified your PR so far and when they did it, by accessing the approval log entries Easily interact and collaborate with the assigned approver or cancel the PR approval flow if you no longer need it. Tradeshift App: Purchase request Audience: Buyers End Users: Requesters, Approvers Availability: Available by default starting with March 18th, no configuration required To optimize receipt of deliveries, as a Requester you now have the possibility of providing a specific delivery date and time when placing a purchase request. This feature is particularly useful for customers using Tradeshift Marketplace for direct material procurement. By providing the Expected Delivery Time at the Purchase Request line level: You specify the earliest time slot you expect the delivery to happen for a given item The specified time slot is transported to the Purchase Order document and to the seller Please note that the time segment is not yet displayed in the PDF representation of the PO This feature can be deactivated on request. Please reach out to your Customer Success Manager if you wish to have it disabled. Tradeshift App: Purchase Request Audience: Buyers, Sellers End Users: Requester Availability: Available by default starting with March 18th, no configuration required
Purchase Request approval preview and log
Expected Delivery Time
Enable cost split feature per line item type
If your order documents are supposed to be integrated into your backend system, the requisitioning flow may need to be restricted depending on the capability of this system.
For the following, the cost split feature may be enabled and disabled at line item type level: Shop, Written Request, Blanket Purchase Order or Quote. This way you can granularly disable the cost split feature for the line types which are not supported in your backend system.
By enabling the cost split feature per line type, the branch admin:
Ensures the feature is visible to the requesters for the line types which are supported by the backend system. This way you avoid document integration failures
Can independently enable or disable the cost split feature for Shop, Written Request, Blanket Purchase Order and Quote item types.
Tradeshift App: Purchase Request
Audience: Buyers, Marketplace Operators End Users: Branch admin, Requesters Availability: Available now, configuration required. Please reach out to your Customer Success Manager to have this feature enabled and configured for you. Invoice Tax validation service now includes header level allowances and charges: Tax discrepancies are easily identified, being displayed next to the allowance/charge line The tax discrepancy task is generated and assigned to the responsible tax team. Tradeshift App: Tax Service Audience: Buyers, Marketplace Operators End Users: Buyers, MoR Marketplace Operators Availability: Available through Tax Service integration The following enhancements have been delivered to Shop : The Commodity Tree filter has been enhanced to provide a more refined browsing experience in our Shop section by displaying only 5 entries You now have the ability to expand and collapse Shop facet (filter) sections within the platform You can now effortlessly spot products containing Variants or featuring Tiered/Volume Pricing right within your Basket Selecting different variations of the same product is more intuitive and accessible directly from the Variant Section on the Product Details Page by using a drop down instead of an aside. The redesigned Shop Home Page will: Deliver a more intuitive and informative user experience Offer a clearer overview of its distinct sections Ensure that the home page presents relevant information in a format that is effortlessly consumable by users Tradeshift App: Shop Audience: Buyers End Users: Requesters/Shoppers (Individual Buyer) Availability: Available by default, no configuration required
Tax Validation for Invoice Header Level Allowance/Charge
Revamped layout: intuitive & informative shopping experience
UX improvements for custom addresses in Purchase Request
As a requester, you can now easily work with your custom delivery addresses:
Correct or update your already defined addresses
Search for the country when defining or changing a custom address
Tradeshift App: Purchase Request
Audience: Buyers, Marketplace Operators
End Users: Requesters
Availability: Available by default, no configuration required
UX improvements for email notifications when shopping on behalf of others “OBO”
As an “OBO” user, you receive clearer email notifications:
Email notifications are now displayed in your preferred language
You can now see the Purchase Request number the notification relates to
Tradeshift App: Notifications
Audience: Buyers, Marketplace Operators
End Users: Requesters
Availability: Available by default, no configuration required
UX improvements for the Goods Receipt app
When working in the Goods Receipt app, you can now:
Book the received quantities or amounts directly in the app main page
Choose which lines have been received without touching the quantity or amount fields
See the automatically calculated outstanding quantity and amount
View the outstanding budget for BPOs
Tradeshift App: Goods Receipt
Audience: Buyers, Marketplace Operators
End Users: Requesters/Recipients
Availability: Available on demand. Please reach out to your Customer Success Manager to have these changes enabled for you.
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