Until now, starting a production plan meant filling in a long form and hoping the scope was what you expected. You only found out how big a run was once it had started.

You first see a runs dashboard in Cut long products, and the new New run button takes you through four steps: Scope, Priorities & settings, Preview, and Review & start.

• Preview lists every group with its stock and demand side by side, flags anything short on stock, and lets you untick groups you don't want in the run. Click a group's order count to see exactly which orders and line items are in it.
• Ungraded order lines can now use stock of any grade with the same type, material and size. Choose whether they take the oldest or the cheapest stock first.
• Completed and cancelled line items, and lines on closed orders, are left out automatically.

What you preview is exactly what gets optimised. The runs list now has a Refresh button instead of updating itself.

Sometimes a production planning run runs out of time before it has planned every group of bars. Until now the plan just said "Partial plan ready" and left you to work out what was missing.

You'll now see a clear notice on the Production Plans page and on the plan itself. It says how many groups were planned and which weren't, in plain English (for example "20 mm B500B bar"), and suggests what to do next, such as re-running with a narrower filter. It also names the run it's about, so if you have several you can tell them apart. Open "Show groups" to see the full list.

If every group was planned but the search stopped early, the notice says the plan may not be fully optimised rather than incomplete.

Once you've read a notice you can dismiss it with the close button. It stays hidden for you after a refresh, and the same notice is hidden on both pages. Notices also disappear on their own once a plan is approved or discarded.

Moving stock to a different location used to mean manually editing the item and hoping it was obvious what happened as nothing marked it as a deliberate move.

Now you can Transfer an item to a new location with one click, from the inventory table's Actions menu, the quick-view panel, or the item's own detail page. Pick the destination and you're done — quantity and weight stay exactly as they were, only the location changes.

Next up: tagging transfers with a reason, so it's clear not just where stock moved, but why.

Splitting or reducing inventory used to mean one blunt "Split" or "Use" action, whatever kind of stock you had whether a length of bar or a box of fittings, same dialog.

Now there are two purpose-built actions instead:

• Cut takes a specific length or size off a bar, tube, plate or sheet, and creates a new linked item for the piece you've taken, so you can trace it right back to where it came from.

• Consume reduces quantity or weight in place for stock that's used up rather than physically split like offcuts, fittings, bulk material and the like.

Which one you're offered depends on the type of stock, so you won't see Cut on things that don't make sense to cut, like fasteners. Not quite right for your catalogue? You can reclassify any type in Company Settings.

Until now, only GoSmarter's own Rule Pack tags could stop a review in its tracks — anything you tagged yourself was just a label. Useful for sorting, but nothing stopped a flagged item quietly sailing through Quality Review.

Not anymore. When you create or edit a tag, you can now set it to Block, Flag, or Audit:

• Block tags actually hold up Approve on Order Quality Review and Mill Cert Review — the reviewer has to tick "Override block" and give a reason before it goes through
• Flag and Audit tags show up for awareness without getting in anyone's way
• The severity shows as a coloured symbol wherever the tag appears — on stock, certificates, orders, and in Manage Tags

Every override gets logged, so there's always a record of who let what through and why. Because "I'm sure it's fine" isn't a compliance process.

PS This is scoped to Order Quality Review and Mill Cert Review only i.e. a Block tag on an inventory item or order doesn't stop anything elsewhere in the app yet (e.g. it won't block reserving stock or creating an order).

Sign-in is faster and more secure. You can now sign in with your Google or Microsoft work account instead of managing a separate GoSmarter password so there's one less credential to remember, and it fits straight into however your team already handles SSO. Company membership and roles also now update instantly, so adding or removing a teammate's access takes effect immediately, instead of waiting for their next login like it used to.

You can now start a trial yourself, without waiting on a sales call. New accounts get provisioned the moment you sign up meaning no manual setup on our end, no back-and-forth to get access. When you're ready to move off the trial, checkout and billing now run on Stripe: you'll see a clear breakdown of your plan and usage, get proper invoices and receipts, and can update your payment details or view billing history yourself instead of emailing us for a copy. You'll always know what you're being billed before it happens with no surprise charges, no manual invoice requests.

Nothing changes about the plans, credits, or features you already have. This is purely about making it easier to get in and easier to pay. If you run into any issue signing in with Google/Microsoft, or anything looks off on your billing page, email support@gosmarter.ai and we'll sort it quickly.

We've added an AI-powered assistant to help you set up GoSmarter faster. Hex lives in the bottom right of your screen and can:

📄 Turn your documents into ready-to-review data

Upload a price list, spec sheet, or existing config (PDF or image) and Hex reads it — using document intelligence to extract structured rows for things like Materials, Types, Stock Locations, Order Statuses, and more. No more retyping your reference data by hand.

✅ You review everything before it's saved

Hex never writes anything to your company data on its own. Every proposal lands in a review table where you can see each suggested row, its confidence match, and edit any values inline. Accept the ones you want, uncheck the ones you don't, then hit Apply to confirm. Nothing is saved until you approve it.

🔒 Your documents aren't kept

Anything you upload is used only to generate the proposal and is automatically deleted within 24 hours. Hex is available now for Starter plan and above, you can configure everything with your free trial to get started quickly, and if you ever want to get Hex back, they're a toggle from your user name.

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