Polishing the Pathways of Springtime in Helm

As the days grow longer and the sun finally decides to clock in, Helm has had a spring clean.

This release focuses on polishing everyday workflows, making your teams faster, safer and more confident, while quietly taking care of the complex bits behind the scenes. Every refinement here is designed to keep your operations flowing and your compliance tidy, so you can get on with running a brilliant warehouse.

Everyday Refinements and Reliability Enhancements

Dropship Purchase Orders Displayed Correctly

Dropship Purchase Orders now appear exactly where and how you expect them to in the app. This keeps your purchasing view clean and reliable, so your team can review, track and reconcile orders without second guessing the data in front of them.

Seamless Batched Inventory Moves Within a Warehouse

Batched Inventory can now be moved within the same warehouse smoothly and consistently. This makes internal stock movements more predictable and auditable, helping you keep batch-level traceability intact while your team moves quickly on the floor.

Custom Purchase Order Templates Back in Harmony

Custom Purchase Order Templates are now behaving impeccably and can once again be assigned via Print Templates or Fulfilment Clients in the Settings page. This restores your control over branding and documentation, so every purchase order sent to suppliers aligns neatly with your internal and external standards.

Safer Courier Deletion with Confirmation

Courier deletion now includes a confirmation step, acting as a safety net against accidental removals. This small guardrail protects your courier configuration, helping prevent unnecessary disruption to your despatch flows.

Courier Services Navigation Buttons Restored

Navigation buttons on Courier Services pages are clearly visible and fully functional. This makes switching between courier services more intuitive, saving your team time and reducing the risk of misconfiguration during busy periods.

Cleaner CSV Exports Without Line Break Surprises

Line breaks in exported data no longer cause issues with CSV exports. Your data now travels cleanly into external tools, supporting smoother reporting, reconciliation and downstream analysis without manual clean-up.

Low Stock Alerts for Packaging Inventory

Low Stock Alerts can now be enabled for packaging items as intended. This gives you full visibility over packaging levels so that cartons, bags and other materials do not quietly run out in the middle of a fulfilment rush.

Reliable Target Location Selection When Moving Stock

The target location selector has been refined so that all locations can be selected correctly when moving stock. This helps your team direct inventory precisely where it needs to be, maintaining accurate location data and smoother replenishment.

Steadier Helm Integration With Voila Webhooks

The Helm integration with Voila Webhooks now retrieves and assigns data perfectly. This stabilises your connected workflows, ensuring that key events and updates move between systems reliably for better automation and insight.

Create Inventory Link for Batched Groups

The Create Inventory Link endpoint now supports linking batched items to groups. This enhancement makes it easier to maintain structured relationships between batch-based products and their grouped records, supporting more flexible reporting and control.

Bulk Import of Inventory Customs Values

Inventory customs values can now be imported in bulk via the Inventory Import feature. This significantly reduces manual entry, supporting compliance and accurate declarations when moving goods across borders.

Shipment History Searchable by Order ID

The Shipment History page now allows you to search and list by Order ID. This makes it far quicker to locate specific shipments, respond to customer queries and audit movements from order through to despatch.

Global Search Smoother and Smarter

Global Search has received a series of enhancements and optimisations. The overall experience is now more responsive and more helpful, allowing you to find orders, inventory and configuration details with greater confidence and less hunting.

Order Returns Reports With Channel Order ID

Order Returns Reports now include a Channel Order ID column. This gives your teams clearer traceability between sales channels and returned orders, making it easier to investigate issues, spot trends and improve customer experience.

Shipping Reports With Sales Channel and Picker

Shipping Reports now show both Sales Channel and Picker. This added context helps you understand which channels drive volume and which pickers handled which orders, supporting performance reviews, training and capacity planning.

UI and UX Refinements Across Key Areas

A collection of UI and UX improvements have been applied across Plugin Store, Crons, Jobs and Integrations. These refinements make complex areas feel more approachable and coherent, giving you clearer oversight of automation and connectivity.

Daily Stock Value Reporting via Internal Cron

Stock Value Reporting has been reworked and is now processed daily via an internal cron system. This delivers more consistent, timely valuation data, supporting financial reporting, stock optimisation and more informed decision making.

Fulfilment Client Default Supplier via API

Fulfilment Client default suppliers can now be set via API. This makes it easier for your technical teams and partners to automate configuration, ensuring suppliers are applied correctly across clients and reducing manual set up work.

Springtime Showstoppers in Custom Reporting and Warehouse Defaults

Configurable Custom Report Builder

You can now design fully custom reports that mirror exactly how your business thinks. Choose a report source or module, pick the fields and columns you need, add or remove any that are not relevant and reorder them into the ideal sequence. Once set, you can export your reports in a structure that suits your teams and external tools, turning Helm into a flexible reporting companion rather than a one-size-fits-all template.

Warehouse-Based Default Locations

Warehouses can now have their own default locations. By enabling this in General Settings: Defaults: Allow Warehouse-Based Default Locations, you give each warehouse its own intelligent starting point for stock placement. This reduces mis-picks, speeds up receiving and helps new staff follow consistent patterns without needing to memorise complex location rules.

Smarter Safeguards and Stabilised Insights

Cancellable Dynamic Component Orders in Batch Flows

Batch-processed orders containing dynamic component inventories can now be cancelled as expected. This gives you more control when plans change, helping you correct mistakes, adapt to customer requests and maintain accurate order statuses even in more complex component-based scenarios.

Stabilised 30 Day Graph With Self-Repair

The 30 day graph overview has been stabilised and now includes self-repair functionality. This keeps your high level performance view more resilient, so you can trust the visual trends you rely on for monitoring volume, throughput and operational health.

Richer Purchase Order Delivery Webhooks

Purchase Order Delivery Created webhooks now include Delivered Item SKU and Quantity. This additional detail supports stronger integration with external systems, enabling more precise stock updates, reporting and automation the moment goods are received.

Quiet Little Superpowers Behind the Scenes

Automatic Requeue for Failed Jobs

Failed jobs are now automatically requeued. This creates a more forgiving and resilient background processing layer: if something stumbles, Helm will attempt to get it moving again without constant manual intervention from your team.

Delivery Charges on Deliveries

The app now supports delivery charges on deliveries. This gives you a more accurate financial picture per delivery and helps ensure that charges are recorded correctly for billing, reconciliation and reporting.

Pickable Locations in Replenishments

Pickable locations are now clearly displayed within the Replenishments menu. This makes it easier for your team to identify which locations can actually serve picks, sharpening replenishment decisions and improving picking efficiency.

App Menu Visibility Management

You can now manage menu visibility and priority directly from General Settings: App Settings: App Menu Visibility. This lets you shape Helm’s navigation around your own operations: exposing what matters most, hiding what does not and guiding teams towards the tools they need every day.

Force Scanning Enhancement Across Key Workflows

Force Scanning is now fully enforced wherever it is enabled, ensuring that locations are scanned rather than guessed in several critical workflows. This includes Box Manager for pre-sort location selection, Stock Adjustment for bin selection and search, Replenishments for from and to location selection, Deliveries for bin selection, Bulk Deliveries for location selection and Pallet Management for move locations. The result is stronger accuracy, better traceability and fewer location-related errors across your warehouse.

SKU as Barcode in Core Picking Flows

SKU can now be used as a barcode in Deliveries, Multi Picks, Tote Picks with packaging quantities and Single Picks on both single and bulk screens. This gives you more flexibility in how you scan and identify products, especially where SKUs are already printed or well known by your teams.

Polishing the Multi Pick Pack Terminal

Automatic Despatch Note Printing

The Multi Pick Pack Terminal now supports auto printing of despatch notes once your settings and printer are configured. This transforms a previously manual step into an automated one, helping despatch stations run faster and more consistently during busy periods.

System Default Dimensions for Smoother Orders

The Multi Pick Pack Terminal now uses system default dimensions when individual inventory items lack dimensions. This prevents orders from failing due to missing dimensional data, maintains compliance with carriers and keeps your multi pick operations flowing even when not every product has been meticulously configured.

Spring Cleaning for Space-Hungry Volumetric Logs

Automatic 30 Day Volumetric Log Retention

Volumetric report log files are now automatically cleared with a 30 day retention period. This keeps your system lighter and tidier over time, preserving recent, relevant history while quietly cleaning up older logs in the background.

Every adjustment in this release, from the quietest cron to the brightest new report, is built to give your teams more confidence, more clarity and more time. As spring arrives outside, Helm continues to clear the paths inside your operations: fewer obstacles, fewer surprises and many more calm, predictable days in the warehouse.

Thank you for trusting us with your logistics; everything here is crafted to keep your business moving beautifully for you and your customers.

Your team at Helm