May 2026 Product Release: Speeding Your Path from PIM to Publication, Storefront, and Shelf grade

This month's release brings new automation and flexibility to how you publish, manage, and distribute your product content, from catalogs and data sheets through to B2B storefronts and Shopify channels. New features give you the power to:

• Automate the creation of catalogs, data sheets, and technical documents with Print & Publish, the new name for Inriver Print.
• Manage channels faster with the addition of Table View to Plan & Release for filtering, sorting, bulk actions, and drag-and-drop reordering.
• Connect your SAP ERP to Inriver via the new, SAP-Certified BTP Adapter for native integration without custom development
• Present complex enterprise data models as a clean, unified storefront experience with new data flattening in Brand Store.
• Control which international Shopify Markets your products appear in, directly from the PIM with the latest update to our Shopify Adapter.

Here's the detail on everything that's new for your business this month:

Print & Publish: New Name, New Automation, and More Power for Every Publishing Process  

Keeping your product documentation accurate, on-brand, and up to date across catalogs, data sheets, brochures, and technical materials is time-consuming work that gets harder as you expand to new products, markets, and languages. It’s a challenge that affects both physical and digital distribution. This month’s release eases that burden with the introduction of new features to our Print solution, now known as Print & Publish. 

Print & Publish connects your PIM directly to Adobe InDesign so that publications for both print and digital channels will always reflect your governed product data, without manual data handling or repetitive rework. Alongside the new name and widespread performance improvements, this release introduces three new optional add-ons that bring automation and advanced data handling to your publishing workflows: 

• Self-Service Publishing gives business users — for example product managers and marketing teams — the ability to generate finished documents from PIM data using designer-built templates, but without needing InDesign skills. Outputs can be exported as PDFs or passed to a designer for a final review before distribution.
• AutoPublisher takes publishing entirely out of human hands for high-volume, frequently updated materials like data sheets. You define a template and a set of conditions — for example, specific fields changing in the PIM — and AutoPublisher generates updated PDFs, HTML, or PNG files and delivers them to your DAM, PIM, or wherever you need them. It typically runs overnight, creating new versions only for products where data has changed.
• Advanced Data Handling is a bundle of features built for organizations with complex data or multi-market requirements. The Organizer lets you filter a master data source into targeted regional editions. Advanced data transformations support custom calculations at the point of publication. Combined data sets allow designers to work with multiple data sources in a single InDesign panel.

You can find out more about Print & Publish in our Frequently Asked Questions and learn how to use the new features in our Community Knowledge Base. There's also a fully updated training course in our HowNow training platform. Customers and partners can both take Print & Publish Foundations once you've registered for HowNow and completed the initial Inriver User Onboarding pathway. 

If you're on Print 2, no migration is needed. The performance enhancements have already been applied to your environment. Speak to your Customer Success Manager about adding any of the new capabilities. If you're still on the legacy Print 1 solution, or haven't yet connected your PIM to InDesign, your CSM can walk you through what moving to Print & Publish would involve.

Manage Channels Faster As Table View Comes to Plan & Release

Users working in the new Inriver UI can now benefit from faster, smoother entity management within channels with the addition of the familiar dynamic Table View from Enrich into Plan & Release. 

This means you can now filter and sort entities directly in the table, select multiple entities for bulk updates or removal, use context menus for quick actions, and click through to any entity without leaving your workflow. Here's how it looks: 

This update also brings index drag-and-drop reordering to Plan & Release in the new UI, a capability previously supported by the sortable card view in the legacy UI. This feature is available to all users in the new UI today. So, if the ability to drag-and-drop entities in Plan & Release was holding you back from switching fully to the new UI, now is the time to take another look. 

Connect your SAP ERP to Inriver via a New Native, SAP-Certified Adapter

If your organization runs on SAP, it’s now easier to connect your S/4HANA Public Cloud ERP system with Inriver PIM via the new, SAP-certified adapter. 

The adapter enables product data to flow direct from your ERP into Inriver for enrichment and governance. It uses SAP’s preferred Business Technology Platform, the integration layer at the heart of SAP's clean-core architecture. There’s no custom development or ongoing maintenance burden for your team at implementation, or when SAP updates. 

SAP certification means the adapter has been independently reviewed by SAP for security, API compliance, and data-handling standards — reducing IT risk and simplifying internal approval for SAP-centric organizations.

Together with the existing Inriver SAP Commerce Cloud Adapter, this creates a complete product data pipeline within your SAP ecosystem.

Turn Data Model Complexity into Brand Store Simplicity

It’s now possible to give your resellers, distributors, and internal teams an intuitive, digital way to explore your product catalog, even when you’re working with complex enterprise data structures. 

Our B2B product content portal, Brand Store, gives external partners and internal teams self-service access to your product content through branded, searchable storefronts. With this release, Brand Store now includes optional data flattening, so you can present product information from multiple underlying entity types as a single, unified view. Storefront users get a clean, simple experience. Brand Store hides back-office complexity without forcing any restructuring to your data model.

Store Admins can configure which entity types to combine, choosing exactly what fields, media, and related data to share. Store users benefit from more powerful search and filtering across all of that data, richer product detail pages that bring everything together in one place, and cleaner exports they can put straight to work. The result is faster product discovery for greater engagement with your content, and fewer questions back to your team.

The graphic below illustrates the differences when you choose to configure a Regular Store or a Flattened Store: 

For information on how to configure data flattening in your storefronts, visit our Community Knowledge Base. If you’re interested in adding Brand Store to your Inriver environment, please speak to your Customer Success Manager.

Manage Your Shopify Markets from Within Inriver

Following the launch of the Inriver Shopify adapter in autumn 2025, we're continuing to deepen the integration between Inriver and Shopify to give customers more control over their storefronts directly from the PIM.

New support for Shopify Markets means it's now possible to manage your international expansion on Shopify through Inriver, selecting which markets each product should appear in from within your PIM rather than making those selections directly in Shopify. This keeps market assignments alongside the rest of your product data, reducing context-switching and helping ensure consistency as you scale into new regions.

This is the first phase of our Shopify Markets support, with further capabilities including market-specific translations, to follow in future product releases.