Announcements

  1. Manual Tag Management

    Improvement

    Manage tags directly from your inventory table. You can now manually apply and remove tags on any inventory item without leaving the inventory view. The new "Manage tags" modal replaces the old per-row "Apply tag rules" button, giving you a clearer, more powerful interface for organising your stock.

    What's new:

    • Open Manage tags from any inventory row to see all available tags for your company in one place. Check or uncheck tags to apply or remove them instantly.
    • Tags controlled by active auto-apply rules are shown with a lock icon and marked read-only so you always know which tags are being managed automatically and which are yours to control.
    • A "View Tag Rules" link inside the modal takes you directly to the Tag Rules page if you want to change how rules  behave.
    • Long tag names no longer overflow, they truncate cleanly with a tooltip showing the full name on hover.
    • Rule-governed tags are clearly indicated via tooltip on hover or keyboard focus, making the interface fully accessible without a mouse.

    Why it matters: Previously, manual tag assignment required working around auto-apply rules, with no visibility into which tags were rule-controlled. Now you get a single, honest view of every tag on an item - what's automatic, what's manual, and how to change either.

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  2. Send cleaner order packs with certificate PDFs

    New Feature

    Chasing order context and matching mill certificates usually meant hopping between screens, exports, and individual records. Now you can generate a proper certificate pack PDF for an order, ready to share without the extra faff.

    Use Generate Certificate Pack from the Actions menu in the Orders list, or from Bulk actions on the Order Details page in Line Items.

    The pack includes:

    • a cover page with the order details, including Customer PO Reference
    • one page per linked inventory item (no associated stock, no page)
    • mill certificate details where a certificate is matched
    • a clear notice where no mill certification is on record

    This works with minimal effort on your part. Data only ever gets entered once.

    1. Mill certs come in, you upload them with AI
    2. You log the inventory, including the heat code
    3. You reserve the stock against the order, when you're planning production
    4. You export the PDF when you're shipping the order (or parts of it)
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  3. Add certs by hand and edit any cert in place

    New Feature

    Not every mill certificate arrives ready for the AI. Sometimes it's a photo, a handwritten form, or data from a supplier who sent it in a different format altogether. Until now, there was no way to get that data into GoSmarter without going through the upload pipeline.

    Head to Mill Certs and use the new Create Manual option. Upload the PDF, fill in the supplier and certificate details, and add as many heats and test results as you need.

    Editing is easier too. Open any certificate's detail page, click Edit in the actions menu, and everything becomes editable right there alongside the PDF. You can correct a value, add a heat that was missed, or remove one that shouldn't be there and nothing is sent until you click Save Changes.

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    PS Tutorial mode can make tabbed editing require a few too many presses as the tooltips are in order for top accessibility. You can turn off tutorial mode at any time by clicking the x on the info sections or by clicking on your name and toggling tutorial mode there.

  4. Generate branded material test certificates from your mill certs

    New Feature

    When a customer asks for a material test certificate, you need it to look like it came from you including your logo, your contact details, your registration number, not from the original mill. Until now, that meant exporting the raw mill cert and reformatting it manually.

    You can now generate a branded Material Test Certificate PDF directly from any ingested mill cert. Set up your branding once in Company Settings → Certificate Branding (logo, contact details, registration number, footer text), then download a branded PDF from the export menu on any mill certificate.

    • Certificates not yet marked as Approved automatically carry a DRAFT watermark, so there's no risk of sending out an unapproved document by accident
    • On the mill cert details page, each heat code row now has Download Own Brand (This Heat) and Download Original Page (This Heat) actions, so you can pull just the heats you need
    • In the Inventory table, clicking a heat code link now gives you three options: navigate to the cert, download the original page, or download your branded version
    • Every generated PDF includes a QR code linking back to the certificate on GoSmarter (for third-party verification soon)

    What's next for this?

    1. We're going to ensure these can meet your EN 10204 3.1 and other standards reporting requirements for certificates.
    2. Making the certificate viewable read-only for unauthenticated users or users outside your company when provided with the link.
    3. Full traceability packs for orders that are own branded or supplier branded to reduce the compilation time for providing provenance to customers

    We are actively seeking beta test customers who are keen to solve traceability problems with their metals. Reach out to us on talktous@gosmarter.ai if you're looking to test out improved processes for material test report handling.

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  5. More ways to describe what you actually stock and supply

    Improvement

    Different metal products need different ways to describe themselves. A round bar needs a diameter, a pipe needs a nominal size and wall thickness, a column section needs a designation like 203UC60. Until now, you had to cram that into notes or leave it blank.

    We've added Wall Thickness, Nominal Size, and Section Designation to inventory items and order line items. They show up in the create/edit dialogs, the detail panels, CSV upload/download, and filtering so you can search and sort by them just like any other field. Tag rules can use them too, meaning you can auto-tag your structural sections or pipes by geometry without any manual work.

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    A few tidy-ups came along for the ride: Heat Code is gone from the order form (it's almost never known at order time but you can still import it via CSV), the customer name now shows correctly on the order details page, and on medium-width screens the dimension columns collapse into the expandable row so the action buttons stay visible without scrolling sideways.

  6. Improved non-ferrous metal coverage

    Improvement

    We have improved the support for non-ferrous metals on the app. This includes more detailed materials and types in our default starter lists for copper, nickel, and brass. We have also added more support in our free tools, including our metal weight calculator and our emissions calculator. This update also helps with copper pipes by increasing the available range of calculation methods for different international standards/

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  7. Starting localisation

    Announcement

    We're going to be moving from an English and metric only application to one that will be more comfortable to use by different users around the world. One of our first small steps today is currency - you can set the default for your organisation and this will be used in free tools and other places where currency shows up for the organisation.

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  8. More features extracted from material test reports

    Improvement

    As we work with more mills and fabricators, we see increasing numbers of mill certificates and the information people need from them. We've increased the amount of information being extracted today to include more around chemical composition and the quality tests materials have been assessed with.

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  9. Approve mill certificates

    New Feature

    Depending on your processes, you may need someone to review every mill certificate / material test report to ensure the materials meet the quality your expect. From the mill certificate detail page, or in the bulk edit view, you can now mark mill certificates as having issues or as approved.

    1. Once something is approved you can no longer edit the values we store about the certificate (important for audit purposes)
    2. If something was approved in error, you can unapprove it
    3. You can see the approval status in the mill certificate list page and the detail page

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  10. AI doesn't get everything right - edit it's outputs

    New Feature

    With our mill certificate AI, we do our best to extract information accurately but the low-resolution scan, the signature in Sharpie over a value, and more can make the results incorrect some times. As a result we now give you the ability to make tracked amendments once AI has imported as much as it can from the mill certificates uploaded. This is the first in a line of small features to ensure you have immutable traceability of results.

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