In the previous changelog, we made it easier to create batches using presets. We're building on that: you can now fine-tune your batches even further, with new filters and options. In this changelog, you can read everything that's changed.

Fine-tune your batches

The more varied your orders, the more control you want over which picklists end up in a batch. That's why you now put your batches together more precisely, with new filters, like delivery country and shipping profile, and new options per filter. That means you no longer need to set up your own rules and tags to get to the same selection.

A few of the new possibilities:

• Filter by delivery country, handy for prioritising domestic orders so you meet your delivery promise: order today, delivered tomorrow.
• Filter by shipping profile, handy for meeting a carrier's cut-off time.
• Exclude products or locations, handy for handling unusual items or bulk locations separately.
• Exclude tags, handy for keeping picklists with, say, gift wrapping out of the batch.

Other improvements

• Updates about Picqer, like this changelog, now live under Help & feedback in the sidebar.
• The container page now shows the products you recently moved out of it, at the bottom, so a quick mistake is easy to undo.
• Linking a location from the product page is now easier.
• In the fulfilment portal, the 'Stock at a specific moment' report now also shows cost price, price, and type. That lets your fulfilment customers work out their stock and sales value themselves, without extra exports.
• The order export now also includes the preferred delivery date.
• On manual shipping labels, the sender address now sits on one line and the sender country is shown, as carriers recommend.

Fixed

• Shipments to Madeira, the Azores, the Canary Islands, and Ireland now include the required customs information, so they're created correctly.
• Bundle products from Shopware 6 are now ignored, so you only ship the individual components.
• Emojis in (customer) remarks no longer cut off your text. The emoji itself is dropped, but the rest stays intact.

We drive past fields and farmyards on our way to HappyFarmer in Oirschot. A fitting route for a visit to a company that serves the agricultural sector. Their warehouse and office are housed in a former pig barn, converted into a pleasant place to work.

Thomas meets us in the warehouse. It's packed with parts for milking parlours and milking robots — from small clips to large machine components. Around 2,000 products are in stock across the 500m² space, out of 5,000 listed in the webshop. Together, they help farmers around the world keep their operations running.

Lars and Lennart are new to our team, both part of the product team. They'd love to introduce themselves!

Lars – Developer

"As a software developer, it's easy to spend the entire day at your desk: MacBook open, just building away from your own perspective. But that's almost never how software gets used in practice. I appreciate that at Picqer we consciously do things differently. You regularly visit customers and experience firsthand how features are actually used. Those learning moments make a big difference: you build for the real world, not for theory."

"On top of that, there's a lot of interaction between teams, so you always know what's going on and pick up on things beyond your own work."

Outside work: strength training, detailing (car polishing), bread baking, music, software development.

Lennart – Chief Technology Officer

"I'm responsible for the product team and involved in Picqer's architecture and the technical decisions we make. Beyond that, everything that ensures the product team can work independently each development cycle. And occasionally I dive into the code myself."

"At Picqer I see a great combination of a talented, autonomous team with a strong focus on quality. We take the time to think through the details, and you can see that in everything we do. Everyone takes ownership and is proud of what they deliver. The result is a product that people in the warehouse genuinely enjoy working with."

Outside work: houseboat, wife and son, Australian Shepherd and cat, sailing, diving, cycling, padel, Big Green Egg, pizza oven.

In your warehouse, every small step counts. That’s why we’ve made it easier to create batches with presets, and backorders can now be processed automatically when stock becomes available. In this changelog, you’ll read what has changed.

Create batches faster with presets

Batches save a lot of time when picking. With a batch preset, you set the right filters once, so you don't have to think about them every time. We've made that even easier: instead of starting in the form, you now pick the preset you want right away, just like you're already used to in the Picqer app. So you create a batch in one click and can start picking immediately.

Got a lot of presets? Then you'll want to find the right one quickly. That's why you can now group and sort presets, and hide them when you don't need them for a while. So your list stays organised.

The batch overview is also clearer now. Previously, open, completed, and cancelled batches were mixed together. Now you see at a glance which ones are still open, and you can filter to find what you need. You can also give a batch its own name, and see which preset was used.

Process backorders automatically

When an order is in backorder, you want it to ship as soon as possible. That's why backorders can now be processed automatically: as soon as the order is partially or fully in stock, Picqer creates a picklist. That way, backorders need less manual attention, and orders ship out faster.

Prefer to stay in control? We’ve improved manual processing too. You can now filter by warehouse, supplier, or fulfilment customer, see in advance how many picklists that will create, and set a limit.

Other improvements

• When pausing a picklist, you can now choose whether to pause just the picklist or the entire order. Useful when the issue needs to be resolved by customer service or your fulfilment customer.
• In the portal, your fulfilment customers can now set up a notification for paused orders.
• New orders from Bol now appear in Picqer sooner.
• VVB orders with Ampère are now automatically snoozed until 3:00 PM the day before handover, just like DHL Same Day.

Fixed

• Pickup points on MyParcel shipments from WooCommerce are imported into Picqer again.
• Sendcloud shipments to Northern Cyprus are created correctly again.
• Bundle products are displayed correctly on a picklist again.
• You can again type an email address in a comment without any issues.

The first thing you notice when you arrive is the truck with large lettering: "Never clean again". A bold statement for a webshop selling cleaning products. But once we sit down with the team at the kitchen table, it makes perfect sense.

The idea behind ZO: cleaning should be a routine, not a chore. It's about staying clean rather than getting clean. No buckets, no soapy water, no scrubbing. All you need is a sprayer within reach, so you can tackle things the moment they need it.

The colorful sprayers, cloths, and refill pouches stand in neat rows throughout the warehouse. At the front, orders are picked and starter kits are packed. At the back, refill pouches are filled. The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly. And the place is spotless.

We sit down with co-founder Bert Groen, right in the middle of the warehouse. He talks passionately about ZO, the move to the new space, and how they work today.