Notes for Release 11.0.00

hpCommerce Orion Release Notes

Build 11.0.00

Released June 5, 2025

New Features and Functionality

• New Payment Request Feature
  WOW!  Via Orion's Xcharge Payment Processing integration you can now Request a Payment.  Via this feature you also have access to ACH and Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL).  This is an amazing new upgrade to Orion and gives you access to business tools to accelerate your accounts receivable and via BNPL you and tap into a market of customers that use this form of credit to make major purchases.  The Payment Request system comes equipped with an online payment portal that you customize for your business.  It is branded and logoed to match you marketing and gives your customers confidence and ease of access to make payments to you online.  Because you now have access to 24/7 payments and can offer your customers BNPL you now have a business edge that others cannot offer.  To get started with these new tools see our Request for Payment webinar HERE.  To get signed up for Request for Payment, ACH and BNPL contact hpCommerce Support.
  
  
• Sales Order History
  Super Power at your fingertips!  This new Orion feature is a listing of Sales Orders with a dashboard PACKED with features.  You open the Order History via [M-G-O].  By default it will display last XX days of order history.  You can set the number of days to show by default using [S-F7] Sales Order History Days.  You can enter and execute new search criteria by using [X] and [F5].  You can work with any order shown on the grid by using the options in the dashboard.  This is truly a swiss army knife for Sales Orders.  Summary totals are shown for all of the orders that are currently displayed.
  
  
• Customer Savings Report
  This new report shows the amount a customer saved during a specified period of time.  The savings are calculated based on the product price they paid verses the list price for the product.  The report can be accesses via Customer Management [S] and [9] Reports and [D] Customer Savings Report.
  
  
• Twelve Month Salesperson Sales Analysis Report
  This new report is located at [M-L-F5-J].  The report provides a twelve month summary based on a specified ending month and year.  The report has a separate page for each salesperson.  For each month summarized sales information is given along with gross profit.
  
  

Improvements to existing Features

• Messaging on Closed Sales Order has been updated
  You can open a closed sales order via the sales order form [A].  You do this by entering the Sales Order Number followed by the letters SO.  The messaging for closed order has been changed.  The "Status" field has been updated to reflect if the order is "Invoiced", "Credit Invoice", "Deleted", "Voided".  The Deposit Total field has been relabel to "Payments" and will display the total of payments made on the order.  And the Total Due field now reflects the total due on the Invoice.
  
  
• You can now edit some information for a Closed Sales Order via the Sales Order form
  You can open a closed sales order via the sales order form [A].  You do this by entering the Sales Order Number followed by the letters SO.  You can now add shipping tracking numbers and edit the Order Notes when the order is opened in the Sales Order Items form.