What’s new for your business from inriver? Summary: September 2024

It’s time for our monthly review of the most recent inriver product releases, where we delve into the more practical benefits behind the technical details.

This month’s update includes enhancements to Brand Store email functionality, the user experience for Syndicate Plus and the performance of Print 2.0. There have also been some changes to Control Center to enable more efficient administration of your PIM environment. Let’s dive in!

Introducing customizable email invitations for Brand Store

Users of inriver Brand Store can now fully customize the storefront invitation emails that they send out to retailers, distributors and wholesalers, as well as to users within their own organization. This new feature enhances your ability to provide a fully branded experience throughout the user journey. This is a highly requested feature, and you can find out more about how it works in our Community article and how-to guide.

Other changes made in Brand Store this month include enhancements to the user experience when downloading resources from storefronts. Users are now asked to specify a language when requesting a PDF download. This streamlines the download process and ensures only the required data is included within the resulting PDF. When downloading CSV, Excel, or JSON files from a Brand Store, users now see a convenient status indicator as the download is progressing.

UX enhancements for Enrich

This month has also seen updates to the UX in Enrich to help PIM users successfully navigate even the most complex data models. Clickable tooltips have been added to the “Includes” section header, enabling users to quickly identify the parent and child relationships between entities.

Expanding visibility of Evaluate’s DSA insights

Enhanced Content is proven to boost conversions and sales on retailer sites. With the latest update to Enrich, users of our Evaluate solution can now easily identify which product pages feature Enhanced Content. The Enrich Insights tab now displays a new data point highlighting Evaluate’s findings on Enhanced Content presence on each retailer’s product detail pages (PDPs), helping you prioritize updates to maximize your sales potential.

New features in Syndication Plus

We've made data mapping in Syndicate Plus even easier with a new interface! You can now edit, add, and delete value mappings with more flexibility and control—your changes are only saved when you click "Save."

As more retailers and marketplaces adopt API-based syndication, we're continuously improving efficiency for our customers. Now, with our new scheduling feature for API-based content distribution, you can automate and streamline your workflows. Check out the scheduler in the image below:

You now have the flexibility to choose whether a scheduled syndication should send all product information or only the updates since the last syndication, optimizing your data management.

A new error page within the Syndicate Plus UI provides early warnings of API distribution task issues, allowing you to resolve issues quickly. Each successful connection to the Amazon API is also clearly confirmed, ensuring transparency and peace of mind.

Issue handling has also been improved at the start of the syndication process to help customers share content in the right format every time. New error messages help Syndicate Plus users to identify issues that need to be addressed when previewing templates for Amazon A+ content modules.

API and Control Center Updates

Several updates have been made for technical users and those implementing extensions to the inriver platform.

Customers and partners can now stay informed on their own schedule with on-demand access to metrics about their data model from within Control Center. New buttons enable users to trigger an immediate collection of the latest data, rather than waiting for the next scheduled update.

The Control Center now features a "pause" button next to active extensions, allowing users to halt specific extension activity. An inactive extension shows a "play" icon, which users can press to restart it. Disabled extensions have greyed-out icons.

If you’re using external monitoring tools, you can now check on the status of your scheduled extensions via API with the introduction of a new endpoint that exposes whether an extension is running.

That’s it for this month’s summary. If you’d like to know more about the details behind these enhancements, you can read our technical release notes at any time.