It’s been a busy year here so far, and it’s easy to miss new features that might be quite valuable to you. As such, we thought we’d go over many of the features and updates that have been released thus far in 2025. These are grouped roughly by the area of the software that they’re available in.
Label Printing
We’ve made several enhancements to label printing so far this year. First, we’ve added the option to use QR codes rather than barcodes on designs created through the label designer. This allows for smaller labels to be used, assuming you have a scanner that can read QR codes.
You can also now share your label designs online, allowing you to easily send it between your stores even if you’re not a cloud user, as well as sharing it with other ThunderPOS users.
Finally, we’ve added options for printing out labels for gift cards, both when they’re purchased and as a reprint. This can allow you to utilize cards that are not pre-printed with numbers, such as business cards or simple generic plastic cards.
Items and Item Searching
Item searching and items have received a few enhancements as well. First, there are three new columns available in items for your grid display. These are maintained by the system, but are quite useful for tracking what’s happening with the items. Date entered and last date sold were previously available; we have added last date traded, last date received, and last date transferred as additional columns.
For searching, we’ve gone from just having the default contains searches to allowing you to do contains, equals, or excluding searches, allowing for a much greater control over your advanced searches. You can also now sort by many more columns than were previously available.
Enterprise Updates
One of the biggest set of changes was for on premise enterprise users, as we released a full overhaul of this product this year. Bringing many features to on premise enterprise that had previously been exclusive to the cloud version, this also improved syncing performance and removed much of the configuration burden.
Beyond that, store transfers and reporting were made far easier and more powerful, with options allowing transfers to happen without even needing someone at the store to acknowledge them.
On premise wasn’t the only enterprise service getting enhancements, however. Watch out upcoming for the option to set a backup web server for your cloud enterprise service, allowing even greater resilience.
Trade Containers
We also recently introduced a new way to do trade ins called Trade Containers, allowing you to complete a trade in for a bulk amount up front, and then fill in the details long after the customer has left.
For more information on this feature, we have a blog post here
eCommerce Enhancements
As ever, we’re updating our eCommerce integrations with both requested features and to keep up with API changes. The biggest of the latter category is still upcoming, with a massive Shopify overhaul in order to utilize the GraphQL API as Shopify is deprecating their prior REST API. While not customer facing, this also increases the efficiency of syncing, allowing faster syncing of large groups of changes.
For BigCommerce, Shopify, and WooCommerce we now offer the option to not automatically restock items that are refunded. This must be set through the thunderpos.net options screen.
WooCommerce also now offers the option to sync costs, for those on WooCommerce version 10.0 and above.
For Shopify, in addition to the API overhaul above we are adding options for syncing a variety of fields as what Shopify calls metafields and for adding the description onto the end of the title field.
Finally, we’ve added the ability for all eCommerce integrations to print packing lists for orders from your windows register through the notifications screen, allowing your staff to easily prepare to ship out online orders without needing to log in to the eCommerce system to see the details of them.
New Vendor Database Features
First and foremost, we’ve added two new vendor databases this year, both related to trading card games. These are the Scryfall database, for Magic: the Gathering cards, and a Yu-Gi-Oh card database.
In addition to this, we’ve made many enhancements to previously existing databases. Many databases, including the new ones plus AEC, AMS, VGPC, and BRE have had the option added to bulk import departments and categories from them, rather than creating them on the fly as items are added.
The VGPC database has also had the option added to use the market online price, drawn from online sources such as eBay and Amazon, rather than the alternate retailer price or the suggested in-store pricing.
Beyond that, we’ve also offered the option to update pricing from a grid, rather than just for one item or for the entire database.
Stripe
We’ve also greatly enhanced our support for Stripe this year, offering a linked and simplified signup process right within the software, as well as support for non-US currencies and even for Canadian Debit!
Purchase Orders
A number of requested enhancements were also made to purchase orders. These include allowing you to show new columns, such as the current price and stock level, as well as offering an option to no longer prompt for the quantity on each item scanned.
Reports
As ever, we are always adding new reports for you! Some of these are related to new features, of course. For example, there are several new reports showing details about your trade container activity. Another new report shows sales by combination of department and category, which many users have expressed appreciation for. There are also new reports for the purchase ordered amount totaled up by vendor, and for rewards redemptions for customers.
Other Changes
There are also a handful of other changes that don’t fall under any of the above categories. We added customer discount level support to receipt printing, enhanced the speed of syncing to the backup offline server for cloud users, and added support for using the high resolution item and customer screens with scrollbars for those wanting to use them on lower resolution monitors. We made security enhancements, including additional employee permissions and tracking quantity changes made to items even when not doing full audit mode.
What’s Next?
As always, we’ll be coming out with previews of upcoming features in our newsletter, and we’re always seeking to make the software better. There are things we will need to update, such as API changes for eCommerce solutions or credit card processing. But as always, what we are most likely to implement is what we think will benefit our users the most, so if there’s some feature or flourish you think is missing in the software, please feel free to use the feedback option in the software. It may well be that the next roundup we do like this will include the feature you’ve always dreamed of.