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Programa - 2025 Changelog

Stay up to date with what's been released and any changes in the platform.

14 May 2025

New features in development

AI Import Product Tool
Invoicing & Payments
Schedule/ Project Management Integration
- Deeplink Products in Project Tasks for constant context

Programa for Designers

Invoicing (in development)
- Create and preview invoice before sending
- Better page load times of new Invoice List page
- Ability to create default payment terms & select default Invoice PDF templates
Custom Specs Fix - Long text fields are now displayed cleanly in Schedules and Product Library.
Improved Web Scraping (Ongoing) - Better error handling and fallback messaging when scraping fails.
Better file sort behaviour on the Files List page within a Project

07 May 2025

New features in development

AI Import Product Tool
Invoicing & Payments

Programa for Designers

(In development) Download invoices instantly – A new download option makes grabbing invoices fast and simple.
(In development) Improved invoice creation - More clarity and styling for creating and issuing invoices.
Cleaner long spec text - Long spec fields are now easier to read, with improved text visibility
Product specs PDF export improvements - Now export product-level specs straight to PDF.
Create custom specs faster - Easily add custom specification entries to your library.

01 May 2025

New features in development

AI Import Product Tool
Invoicing & Payments

Programa for Designers

Invite cross-studio users – You can now invite team members from other studios directly into your own workspace.
Invoice access boost - Invoices can now be verified and fetched directly for smoother workflow and record-keeping.
Supplier details in Schedules - Easily see key supplier information inside your schedules—no extra clicks needed.
Schedule Attachment Feedback - When you upload an attachment to a schedule, you’ll now see a confirmation message, so you know it’s been saved.
Cleaner Back-End - We’ve removed outdated tech and improved internal specs to keep Programa fast and stable.
Fixed issues with time entry validations, designer/supplier specs, and refresh token handling—especially on schedule and invoice pages.
Improved how schedule titles display when there’s no content (cleaner empty states).
Minor updates to ensure deployment stays smooth and stable.

23 April 2025

New features in development

AI Import Product Tool
Invoicing & Payments

Programa for Designers

Invite cross-studio users – You can now invite team members from other studios directly into your own workspace.
Spec fixes – Resolved issues with designer schedule speed.
Add Line Items to invoices – You can now build invoices with custom line items for full flexibility.
Updated invoicing setup flow – Onboarding and Stripe connection have been streamlined in Settings.
Invoice date accuracy – Time entries now show the correct dates inside invoices.
Modern CSV import – New importer improves stability and accuracy when uploading product data.
Guest access stability – Trade Portal guest users can now navigate the Get Started flow without issues.
Retry logic smarter – Background jobs (invoice sync, variant generation, analysis) now retry fewer times to prevent system hang-ups.

12 April 2025

New features in development

AI Import Product Tool
Invoicing & Payments

Programa for Designers

Template project name corrected and layout tweaked for small laptops.
Top‑nav selectors refined for quicker switching.
Scraped‑product location now persists after page refresh

Programa for Brands

Track the status of large uploads with a dedicated batch‑state endpoint.
Legacy hooks removed for a faster, leaner product search.

9 April 2025

New features in development

AI Import Product Tool
Invoicing & Payments

Programa for Designers

Payment improvements: Collect card payments without leaving Programa.
New Getting Started: Opens on the right resource and displays fresh Appcues links.
New layout tweaks keep the onboarding page usable on compact screens.
Top Nav fixes: Faster, clearer navigation across the app.

Programa for Brands

New API lets suppliers ingest products in bulk and track batch status.
Specify where each product can be sold or shipped, right in the listing.

7 April 2025

New features in development

AI Import Product Tool
Invoicing & Payments

Programa for Designers

Product CSV exports with modern template
Import Product Tool scrape image fix

Programa for Brands

Faster search bar modal for Trade Portal use

3 April 2025

New features in development

AI Import Product Tool
Invoicing & Payments

Programa for Designers

Admin can export Address Books to CSV

1 April 2025

New features in development

AI Import Product Tool
Invoicing & Payments

Programa for Designers

'Send Invoice' button fix
Address book imports & emails display improved
Onboarding progress fix

28 March 2025

New features in development

AI Import Product Tool
Invoicing & Payments

Programa for Designers

Security hardening
- Email confirmations fix
Quickbooks tax-sync bug fix
Shared Schedule speed improvements

Programa for Brands

Bulk (un)archive in Leads view

25 March 2025

New features in development

Trade Portal
AI Import Product Tool

Programa for Designers

Mobile access for Trade Portal launched
Removing client access from Client Dashboard fix
New 'Getting Started' resources in Onboarding

20 March 2025

New features in development

Trade Portal
AI Import Product Tool

Programa for Designers

New onboarding flow
CVS exports with branding
UI styling cleaning for Trade Portal
Invoice total calculation fixed
Web Clipper image upload fix
Trade Portal product filters tightened

18 March 2025

New features in development

Trade Portal
AI Import Product Tool

Programa for Designers

Schedule PDF export fixed
New Tax-inclusive price display
Stripe API upgraded for smoother payments

Welcome Back!

Hello A&D community.

Happy New Year! As we kick things off with gusto, we hope you're equally as excited to get going in 2025 🚀

At Programa, we have a massive year ahead, and can't wait to get started on all the exciting functionality we have planned.

We're listening to your feedback, and have been inundated with lots of love/constructive thoughts/opinions/ways of working and we can't thank you enough for your honesty and candor. Keep it coming.

We wish you all the best in business, work and your craft. This is your year, let's go 💪

~ Sam
Product at Programa

06 January 2025

Programa for Designers

General platform fixes and improvements
General security improvements
Duplicate subtasks are now not created when working on a slow internet connection.
Fixes for issues with dragging and dropping of Tasks in Project Management
Improved handling of rapid subtask deletion to prevent errors and data loss
Improved Task Comment editing experience

Programa for Brands

Better Search Modal user experience
Better hover states in the interface
Better mobile support for Collections

It's that time of year!

Hello A&D community.

How are you doing and how has this year been for you?

It's been a joy to bring you these updates over the past year or so. As we come up to the end of the year, a reminder to be kind to yourself, enjoy time with loved ones, and make space for growth as we wrap up a massive year.

At Programa, we have absolutely LOVED building the platform for you, the Design and Architecture community, and have so much in store for next year.

Come the end of December, it will also be a time for us as a team to slow down (only a little) to rest and recharge, as we gear up for our biggest year yet!

A truly heartfelt thank-you to you for choosing to journey with us, and we look forward to continuing with you right through to next year and beyond.

Stay safe and well this festive season, see you on the other side 🎉

~ Sam
Product at Programa

19 December 2024

Programa for Designers

Improved handling of subtask changes to prevent data loss and unexpected behavior when working quickly

Programa for Brands

Suppliers can now see unpublished product details before publishing

17 December 2024

Programa for Designers

A fix for reordering phases after adding a new phase.
For QuickBooks, simplified product and service management by removing the use of categories created by Programa.

Programa for Brands

Fix for filters
Fix for an issue when brand is empty
Fix for handling product preview if contact person is missing
Styling tweaks and visual improvements
Product descriptions now display line breaks properly.

10 December 2024

Programa for Designers

Better handling of duplicated data when importing
Fixed an issue with clicking on the timer button on a Task card opening the task instead of starting/stopping the timer.

Programa for Brands

Improved handling of recent searches for guest users
Better mobile responsiveness
Fixed Apple login logo

09 December 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixed an issue where you could still drag Pinboard items after they've been archived/deleted.
(NEW) Ability to request bank transfer payment capability (if available in your region) and you satisfy billing conditions.
When uploading an unsupported file type, you'll now be notified.
Thanks for all the feedback! We've added an "All tasks" navigation link when editing a Task so you can easily go back to the Project or Studio Board or List view.
(NEW) Ability to have negative amounts on invoice line items, allowing for things such as fixed rate discounts.
(NEW) You can now assign an external account to invoice processing fees (instead of hoping for the best, or losing it completely in your accounting system).

Programa for Brands

Improvements to sharing of Collections
Better experience when searching and not finding anything, in the Trade Portal
Other various fixes and improvements to the Trade Portal
- Layout and image styling on Product Details page
- Analytics
- Logo handling
Fix for Safari & iOS video playback

03 December 2024

Programa for Designers

Work on internal importing tools
(NEW) Editing a Task is now in it's own dedicated page. Other enhancements include:
- Autosaving when making changes within a Task, so you don't have to click 'Save' each time you make an edit.
- Better handling of smaller screen sizes
- Ability to link to specific Tasks (more on this coming in the future)
- More consolidated navigation when jumping in and out of Tasks, and better performance.
We removed the 'New' badge from 'Project Management' and 'Studio' - it was about time.
Fixed issue where filter message was not showing correctly when filtering in Project Management.
Improved handling of Task comments.

Programa for Brands

Updates to Brand Carousels
Fix for old URLs
Styling updates
'Recent searches' are capped so users aren't overwhelmed by the history of their searching endeavours.
Fixes for when search window is activated (and showing it)

28 November 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixes to counts not updating in Program Management

Programa for Brands

Fixes and improvements to Brands pages
Fixes and enhancements to Collections and navigational elements in the Trade Portal
Homepage now better adapts to different device screen sizes

27 November 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixes for issues with customer names and tax codes and third party accounting software.
Permission structure for Pausing subscriptions
Changes to sidenav when user is a trial vs paid, on mobile.
You will now be better redirected to pages you were trying to access, once you log in, instead of always being sent to the default projects page.
Improvements in the background for us at Programa internally to better support your schedule import needs.

Programa for Brands

More visual tweaks to the hero brands space
Responsiveness improvements to homepage
Better behaviour for users opening editorial links

26 November 2024

Programa for Designers

Better handling of unused software connections
(Coming soon) Ability to pause your subscription

Programa for Brands

Improvements to how we handle Products with many variant options and variants.
Styling updates to hero brands space
Updates to how we handle categories
Better handling of missing data (if the situation arose)

20 November 2024

Programa for Brands

Tweaks and visual updates for trending products, brands directory, logged out view, product details.
Additional hero brand spaces on homepage
Visual and styling changes to categories layout

19 November 2024

Programa for Designers

New Cancel flow (Not going to include this in release notes)
Ability to pause and resume your subscription (coming soon)
Fix for issue when exporting to PDF when some items are hidden
Updates for increased mobile-friendliness across the platform
Improvements to invoice processing fee calculation
You can now enter information in a 'country' field in Address Book for more complete customer information.
Improvements and updates to tax calculations
Better handling of sales tax calculations given the new country code field in Address Book.

Programa for Brands

Empty state for sub-brand profile pages
Fixes and improvements for Product pages
Fixes to Categories page
Visual tweaks and changes for Trade Portal (AU/NZ only)
Trade Portal editorials
Changes to height of variant selectors section on Product Details page

13 November 2024

Programa for Designers

(NEW) Your clients can now click on images of items in a Shared Invoice to view a larger image
More mobile-friendly 'Getting started' page for a better onboarding experience.
Fixes for public share links not being clickable in the share side panel.
Fixes for incorrect subtask and comment counts.

08 November 2024

Programa for Designers

(NEW) You can now reorder Sub-tasks within a Task in Project Management by dragging and dropping them.
Improved file attachment name handling when uploaded
Fixed an issue with Sub-tasks
More improvements to page load times for Project Management
Fixed issues with the Task modal closing/not closing unexpectedly
Added Task Counts for each Status in List view, so you don't have to count them!
(NEW) Ability to see total time spent on a project across all users.
(NEW) Ability to set the default Schedule view in the Client Dashboard for your clients to either List or Grid view

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) Improvements, fixes and enhancements to Collections and live products
Better handling of Categories in filters
Styling changes and updates for Product Details
Updates to search
Improved navigation and breadcrumbs for users to more easily navigate product pages

31 October 2024

Programa for Designers

Updated subscription cancellation flow for a better user experience.
Visual improvements to Files page of Projects

30 October 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixes for Centralised Client Dashboard
- When deleting from the Files page of a Project, you'll know what file type you're deleting.
- Fix for uploading a thumbnail
- Type fixes
Fix for a Hungarian currency issue.
Improvements to page load speeds for Project Management and Studio pages

Programa for Brands

Users need to be authenticated to see certain Product information.
Onboarding flow fixes for certain re-subscribe scenarios
Solves for exception scenarios when suggesting products

29 October 2024

Programa for Designers

Better handling of longer input text in Sub-Tasks.
Improvements to Centralised Client Dashboard sharing:
- List of users in the sidenav
- Presence of public share link in the row context menu
- List of emails in the users filter

Programa for Brands

Fixes for CSV uploads and handling variant prices.
Ability to unpublish products more easily when editing the product
(Coming soon) Featured brands on the home page.
Internal process improvements for accepting Brands into Programa
Improved filter slider handling in Trade Portal
Brands now have the choice to re-subscribe to cancelled subscriptions or create a new one.
Improved visuals and functionality of Homepage
Updates to old pages and URLs

24 October 2024

Programa for Designers

Updated look and feel of settings and billing page
(NEW) You can now add labels to Tasks and filter Tasks by those labels in the Project and Studio views.
Fixed issue with tax for invoices from non-US locations.

23 October 2024

Programa for Designers

(NEW) Centralised client dashboard share controls within your Project 'Files':
- View a list of clients with access to the files in that project
- Filter project files based on client users' access
- Copy the share link, resend the link, delete access completely from the project files page
Handling of exception scenarios when users are deleted from the studio
Improved filtering functionality in Project Management
Fix for handling empty images in PDF schedule export.

Programa for Brands

Brands directory
Some fixes for buttons and icons and interactions in the Brands side of the platform
Changes and tweaks to price and lead time filters
Fixes for CSV upload process.

22 October 2024

Programa for Designers

(NEW) See product thumbnails on invoice items
(NEW) Payment link now available on the shared invoice page, allowing you to easily make payments.
Fix for rounding issues with accounting platforms
Improved supplier search

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) Continued work on the Trade Portal
- Fixed issue with trending brands
- Tweaks and improvements to interactions and UI

17 October 2024

Programa for Designers

Improvements to data being updated in schedules
NEW - You can now click on key dates in the timeline view to open the associated task.
Fixed an issue when stopping a stopped time entry.

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) Performance improvements for search
(Coming soon) Images on product pages are now automatically adjusted
CSV templates and exports now include 'Length'
(Coming soon) Carousel showcase improvements

15 October 2024

Programa for Designers

NEW - You can now edit your comments in Tasks
Fixed an issue with image tags in pinboards.
Added a close button when image cropping.
Performance improvements
Fix for purchase orders being hidden in sidenav in Schedules.
Fix for better currency support throughout the platform

Programa for Brands

Better handling of Brands' subscriptions

11 October 2024

Programa for Designers

(Coming soon) You will soon have the ability to manage file sharing from the files page.
(Coming soon) ScheduleAI visual and behavioural improvements.
Fixed issue with euros when using a commas.
Fixes to Invoice creation page when changing certain fields.
Fixed syncing issue with external accounting software and expired authentication.
Better support for more countries

Programa for Brands

Improved loading in Trade Portal when filtering and sorting.

10 October 2024

Programa for Designers

Ability to select and deselect tax rates when invoices are saved.
Checks to prevent inviting users who are already members

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon to the Trade Portal) Empty states and improved caching of product information.
More links to help articles
(Coming soon to the Trade Portal) Work on carousel features highlighting brands prominently.
Fixes for when searching for products
(Coming soon to the Trade Portal) Ability to manually enter price values when filtering by price.
(Coming soon to the Trade Portal) Tweaks and improvements to main homepage search
Removed need for requiring product images on import.
Better bulk publishing abilities for internal users

07 October 2024

Programa for Designers

Visual tweaks in Project Management Tasks
Improved Project Management Board and List view performance through optimized data fetching.
No more weird behaviour when you're dragging around in Project Management.
(Coming soon) Tweaks and improvements to Programa ScheduleAI

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon to the Trade Portal) Improvements to suggested products and hover states
Performance improvements
(Coming soon to the Trade Portal) New ways to interact with product categories
Fixed an issue with updating product

03 October 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixes for Zoom control in Timeline view in Project Management - if you select a different zoom level, you should be able to see the data change to view more or less information.
Improvements and fixes for Project Management filters
Fixes for onboarding links
Fixed Time entry editing which wan't being saved to the correct task.
Fix so milestones only show for relevant phases.

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) Better handling of product suggestions.

02 October 2024

Programa for Designers

Uplift - capture more customer details when creating customers in Stripe, and pushing this data across.
Better handling of invoices between Programa and Stripe so users only see the invoices generated in Programa.
Treatment for when there's nothing to view in the Project Management Board view because you've filtered too hard. Before it was difficult to know how many results are being hidden, now you do. Also better empty state treatment if it's not a filter issue that's making you see no cards.
Fixed for bouncy cursors that would bounce back to previous input fields when performing certain actions.
A quick change to naming our new Canva link feature to 'Canva Shares'
Another quick fix for tooltips in Project Management

Programa for Brands

Continued improvements to CSV upload capability.
(Coming soon) New product suggestion feature which shows more personalized product recommendations based on the Designers' recent activity and library.

30 September 2024

Programa for Designers

Fix for the total cost calculation in Schedules.
Better handling of crop tool in Schedules, especially those with large lists of Products.
Fix for where Tasks now disappear from the board when deleted.
Fixed issue where image uploads were failing on Project Settings page
Phase dropdown in Tasks now scrolls (if you had that many phases!)
Fix for issue where Task target dates weren't saving properly.
NEW ability to SORT tasks by due date

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) Improvements and finalisation of new search, results page, and loading.
(Coming soon) More work on filters
Fixed an issue in Leads/Quote Requests if the Designer's studio image was missing.
(Coming soon) Better product suggestions.

25 September 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixed an issue on the Getting Started page
Placeholder icons in Invoicing for some upcoming changes
Fixed issue with deleted projects and time entry filtering.
Fixed an issue with permissions for Studio members.

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) Work on new carousel showcase feature in trade portal
(Coming soon) Work on new Searching within Trade Portal
(Coming soon) Improved reliability of search terms in new Search
NEW Capability to export product data for bulk editing and re-upload

20 September 2024

Programa for Designers

(Coming soon) Integration with third party presentation software

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) Tweaks for trending products
(Coming soon) New category navigation
(Coming soon) Speed and performance improvements to filtering

19 September 2024

Programa for Designers

Improved number translation when importing
Improved backend handling of invoices
Fixed an issue that hindered users from adding new products to their product libraries from the Schedule.
(Coming soon) Bank Transfer payment option
Fixed button that upgrades account
Improved sync with accounting third party software.

Program for Brands

(Coming soon) Carousel spotlight management feature
(Coming soon) Persistent filters when sorting
(Coming soon) New component for trending products

17 September 2024

Programa for Designers

(NEW) Ability to filter tasks by due date status, including overdue, due soon, and no due date.
Work on third party integrations
More work on Project Management filters

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) New filters for the Trade Portal
(Coming soon) New category and subcategory pages

13 September 2024

Programa for Designers

Fix an issue with ordering of Tasks
Fixes and improvements for invoice syncing with third party software

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) New price and lead time filters added to the trade portal
(Coming soon) Ability to showcase a selection of products from curated collections
(Coming soon) Product cards with loading state

11 September 2024

Programa for Designers

(Coming soon) Invoice sharing capabilities
Fixes to Task Phases
Improvements to Invoicing sync error handling

Programa for Brands

Improvements to Brands signup flow
Improvements to syncing of Brand and Sub-brand statuses
(Coming soon) Trending Brands
(Coming soon) A better more unified search experience
(Coming soon) Programa Selects
(Coming soon) New Trade Portal homepage
(Coming soon) Improvements to Search Results interface and behaviour

06 September 2024

Programa for Designers

Small updates to Invoicing
Fix for Schedules and interrelated fields

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) Visual updates to viewing Product Details

05 September 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixed issue with phase names
(Coming soon) Exciting new functionality in Schedules, stay tuned.

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) Trending brands
Code refactor
Ensuring products from non-approved companies don't show in the platform.
(Coming soon) New filters and search functionality
Improvements to Collections (coming soon)

02 September 2024

Programa for Designer

(Coming soon) Ability to add Canva links to client dashboards, copy links to other projects, redirects for invalid links.
Ability to start/stop timers directly from Task cards.
More work on concurrent Timers within the platform
Time tracking now handles discarded Projects and Tasks more reliably

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) New filter by colour in the trade portal
(Coming soon) Work on new Search experience
Changes to QR page which hides unfinished 'Contact

30 August 2024

Programa for Designers

(Coming soon) New ability to see Canva file links in project file list
Speed improvements to Schedules financial section.
(Coming soon) Work on invoice processing fees for certain transaction types.

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) Trending products
(Coming soon) Fixes and improvements to new Collections.
Minor styling adjustments
Supplier onboarding flow is simplified
Fixed an issue when adding/editing products with missing or incorrect data and where saved data wasn't persisting.
Ability to select longer lead times when adding or editing products

27 August 2024

Programa for Designer

Improved breadcrumbs in Project Management for better navigation
NEW - Ability to copy project management phases and tasks to a different project
Tweaks to dropdowns on Time Tracking page
(Coming soon) When sending invoices, interface has been updated with the ability to select a preferred payment method.
Time entry export now reflects user-applied filters.
(Coming soon) Ability to link to Canva files and presentations from within your Project, and share with your client.

Programa for Brands

(Coming soon) Better sort abilities when searching products
Improvements to modals on Brand Profiles.

22 August 2024

Programa for Designer

Improved user invite flow to prevent errors when submitting the form.
Fixed some field focus behaviour during data entry
Fixed issue with invoices not syncing

Programa for Brands

Image lightbox feature allows users to view and navigate product images in a full-screen modal.
(Coming soon) Ability to add products to a collection instead of just bookmarking them.
(Coming soon) mobile-friendly design for product details page

21 August 2024

Programa for Designers

Fix for concurrent timers in Project Management
Fix for invoices not syncing to QuickBooks for non-US users

Programa for Brands

Added some fields to CSV import flow
Improved product search using caching in filter
Updates to legacy add/edit pages
New home page feature added to trade portal

20 August 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixed issue where archived projects were not showing up on the project management timeline.
Fixed a bug that could cause errors when project names contained single quotes eg. John's Project)
Task assignees can now be fully removed, even if a task is moved between swimlanes.
Fixed issue with invoices not syncing to QuickBooks for non-US locations with default tax enabled.

Programa for Brands

Improved new search experience with pagination
Trade Portal changes (coming soon)

19 August 2024

Programa for Designers

Users can now easily remove the key date from tasks by clicking 'x' in the field.
You can now see projects with the same name displayed separately on the timeline in Studio
Added member name to time entry rows and resized the notes field to improve time tracking usability.
Fixed issue that could cause invalid project timeframe updates
Fixed an issue where the time entries sidebar link would revert to an old URL when the timer was stopped.

Programa for Brands

Trade Portal now provides a link in the toast notification to easily navigate to the schedule after adding a product.
Improved handling of duplicate brand names during product imports.
Change to prevent supplier companies from triggering the duplicate studio flow, which was not intended for them.
Resolved some issues with product page routes

16 August 2024

Programa for Designers:

Fixed an issue where demo projects were incorrectly removed from the project timeline.

Programa for Brands

Improved handling of product data in CSV/API flow
Fixed issue with CSV/API flow using incorrect singular sub-sub-category names

15 August 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixed an issue that caused incorrect client savings calculations in the schedule total.
Boards section in project menu hidden if no boards exist
Fixed an issue that prevented copying demo projects when the project had no boards.
Fixed the empty state issue on the PM Studio page to prevent it from crashing.
Fixed issue where projects were not saving due to a tax rate validation error.
Fixed issues with custom time entry filtering and total time calculation in the time tracking system.
Maintains task position when copying projects to avoid disruption.

Programa for Brands

Improved product sync flow to support 'priced from' field
Fixed an issue where not all products displayed brands on the Product Card.

14 August 2024

Programa for Designers

Tweaks, small fixes and improvements to new Project Management interface.
NEW in Project Management - ability to drag and drop and reorder phases within a Project (in the sidenav).
Project Management - Notification email to user when assigned a task.
Fixed issue with products disappearing after bulk actions
Improved project export - task comments are now removed to simplify the exported data
Product search results are now paginated for new functionality in Schedules coming soon.
Fixed an issue that caused errors when reactivating subscriptions.
Fix for truncated project names to prevent the project phases panel data from overlapping.

Programa for Brands

New Search interface in Trade Portal (coming soon)
Improved sync functionality

12 August 2024

Programa for Brands

Work on a new exciting integration for Designers (coming soon)
Decommissioning of old project Boards and limiting functionality to avoid conflicts and a confusing experience.
Work on the Time Entries new coat of paint.
Added ability for Demo projects to maintain Project Management elements with relevant due dates when added to a Studio
Tweaks and improvements to the timeline view based off feedback from Designers.
NEW Studio view in sidenav - ability to see all your tasks in a Board, List or Timeline view, across all your projects.

Programa for Brands

Ability for the platform to handle situation where product RRP price is nil.
Search results loading state
Improvements to Product Import process

13 August 2024

Programa for Designers

Tweaks and improvements to new Project Management list view based on design review
Improved reliability of demo project tests by allowing for small time differences
Project exports now exclude task comments for better reliability

07 August 2024

Programa for Designers

Time entries for new Project Management - ability to start and stop timers from within Tasks in the new Project Management tab. This will sync to the existing Time Entries page, which has had a visual refresh.
You can now simply press 'Enter' to move to the next subtask within a Task.
Fixes to Tasks positioning
Fix to enforce valid due date for invoices so that it doesn't get stuck when draft Invoices tick over today's date into the past.
Exporting a Project now includes new Project Management Tasks and Phases
Project Management overdue task date indicator
Work on Programa Product AI (coming soon)
Fix for handling of orphaned time entries in new Project Management
Fix to not include archived item amounts in tax calculations

Programa for Brands

Work on new Product details page
Based off your feedback, the default Lead digest frequency has been changed to 'weekly'.
Brand Profile product card price logic
Exciting work on new search functionality
Fix for handling edge case on Brand Profile where deleting a brand with products orphaned the sub-brand and made the Profile page error out.
Ensuring the 'Featured Brand' card on new Brand Directory correctly falls back on product images when the Sub-brand is missing a banner.
Work on new 'Collections' feature (coming soon)

08 August 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixed issue where relevant error message is now displayed when a project fails to save due to any validation rules.

09 August 2024

Programa for Designers

Fix for totals in Schedule PDF Export not reflecting the disabled markup

05 August 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixed the issue with the 'Send Quote' button in Product Library which was resulting in an error when sending a Quote.
Ability for Programa to reinstate deleted schedules in the backend.

Programa for Brands

Updated styles for sales team cards in Brand Profile
Updated navigation on 'get started' email to Onboarding unless approved.
Removed the old Brands page (redundant and duplicative page) and replaced it with access to the Brand Profile.
Fixed unexpected redirect to page 1 of Leads each time
Visual changes and tweaks to new Brands Directory page, such as display card treatment for featured Brands.
Fix for unexpectedly detaching/orphaning sub-brands when users removed a Brand from their workspace, resulting in an error.

01 August 2024

Programa for Designers

Fix for confirmation emails to Designer users
Ability for Programa platform admins to reinstate schedules from the backend.
In Pinboards, 'Navigate to archived attachments" button now appears without needing to refresh the page after an attachment is archived.
Fix for Stripe tax mismatch issue.
Cleanup of Designer signup flow

Programa for Brands

Updates to infrastructure for CSV imports
Updates to Trade Portal Collections (coming soon for Aus/NZ Designers and Brands)
Fix for the featured brand dashboard issue

31 July 2024

Programa for Designers

Continued work on Invoicing refresh
Enhanced security feature implementation - OTP (one time password, using email) is now required after 2 simultaneous logins.
Coming Soon - New Studio view for Project Management - providing a complete view of all your Tasks, timelines, phases and deadlines for all your projects across your studio.
Fix for PDF Export of selected products in Schedules and the financial totals not totalling correctly. Thanks to Courtney from Studio Smiths and Katie from Spatial Studio for picking up on this!
Fix for issue where selecting QuickBooks tax rates with no tax values while creating an invoice caused an error.
More graceful error handling for when an error occurs when trying to save an invoice with invalid tax Inclusive line item amounts.

Programa for Brands

Visual improvements to in platform Brands Plans page
CSV import fixes and better support for variant images

30 July 2024

Programa for Designers

Tweaks and updates to Timelines in Project Management
NEW ability to change Project and Phases dates by dragging in Timeline view (coming soon)
Fix for QuickBooks Settings page which was failing if no QuickBooks rates were set.

29 July 2024

Programa for Designers

Ability to see last QuickBooks Tax resync date stamp

Programa for Brands

Clearer copy when signing up to Programa (either as a Brand or Designer)
Work on Similar Products
Continued work on Collections in Trade portal

26 July 2024

Programa for Designers

NEW - Ability to sync QuickBooks Tax Rates with new sync button under QuickBooks settings. Go to Settings -> Invoices tab -> QuickBooks Settings -> 'Resync tax rates with QuickBooks'
NEW - Refresh to the Open and Sent Invoice pages.
Updated security and access controls.

Programa for Brands

Updated infrastructure to support new Brands work
Work on new Brands Directory
Work on Collections in Trade Portal (coming soon)
Fix for products on grandfathered accounts re-subscribing.

23 July 2024

Programa for Designers

Integration testing for Invoices
Fix for Total Tax amounts not updating when toggling between Markup on and off.
(Coming soon) Project Management Tasks, Subtasks, Phases, etc. are also included when copying a project.
(Coming soon) Project management filtering by Team Members and Phases

Programa for Brands

Updates and changes to the CSV import now has better support for product data, images, attachments, and variants.
Tweaks for new Brand Directory work
Fix for (sub)brand profile when external link is missing

18 July 2024

Programa for Designers

(Coming soon) More Project Management tweaks
OTP work
Show both tax exclusive and inclusive prices for Schedule Product Details sidenav
Updates to Invoicing look and feel
(Coming soon) Programa Product AI help article links and more information.

Programa for Brands

Set default Sub-Brand banner image for existing Sub-brands until updated by the user. Any new Sub-brands created will require the user upload a banner image for that Sub-Brand
(Coming soon) Work on Collections
Tweaks to Quote Requests email template

12 July 2024

Programa for Designers

NEW ability to show Schedule Total amounts split out with and without tax (i.e. by Tax exclusive amount, Tax amount, and Tax Inclusive amount) in the main Schedule, Shared Schedules, PDF export, and Excel export.
In Project Management (coming soon):
- Can create a phase under the project phases list.
- 'Today' hotkey shortcut
- Drag and drop
- Fixes and tweaks to experience and page layout
Invoicing improvements (coming soon) - implemented pagination for invoices to only initially show fixed number of invoices rather than loading all.
Minor change to append the selected Trade Portal product to the end of the current list of products in the library.
Fixed success and error messages flashing twice.
(Coming soon) Programa Product AI popup feature for easier product selection and logic around when. it shows results
Display the selected tax rate on sent invoices page (so you know what Tax Rate you selected when sending the Invoice)
Improved tax display on the Invoice Page - it now shows 'No Tax rate selected' if no rates chosen when creating the invoice, and displays the applied tax rate in the 'Total Tax' label post saving.

Programa for Brands

NEW Product Details drawer when viewing the new My Products page (coming soon) giving Brands the ability to quickly see detailed product information. Includes ability to see available variants of a single parent product.
(Coming soon) Trade Portal Collections

09 July 2024

Programa for Designers

Fix for redundant checkboxes in Shared Schedules, and some visual tweaks to bulk select in Pinboards (i.e. overlapping of checkbox and section divider).
Improvement for general lag performance in Product Library by implementing pagination.
(Coming soon) Programa Product AI feature now provides more relevant suggestions based on the user
NEW Ability to view the details of an existing tax rates that was set in Programa (and the split if viewing a combo rate) through the global Tax Settings page (go to your studio Settings -> Invoices -> Tax Settings table)

Programa for Brands

Fix for Brand Profile pages where the product name/card shouldn't continuing stretching when name is too long
Fix for issue where the count of products on the brand Profile page did not match the actual number of visible products in the Trade Portal

05 July 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixed issue in Project Management (new) where users were unable to use the "search people" feature on Project Details sidenav in Board view without refreshing the page
Resolved error when selecting more than 15 members in Project Management
Project Details in Project Management now displays assigned team members in the Timeline view with a 'counter' bubble after 3 team members.
Cosmetic and styling fixes for attachments in Project Management Task cards.

Programa for Brands

Work on new Collections feature (coming soon)
Fixed issue where the profile dropdown in the side nav wasn't working properly when clicking into the Brand Profile from the dashboard.

04 July 2024

Programa for Designers

Project Management (coming soon)
- Fix for automatically closing a task upon uploading an attachment, especially for images
Fixed issue with tax rates not saving/applying correctly in invoices

02 July 2024

Programa for Designers

Project Management (coming soon) - Ability to add team members to projects in Board view

Programa for Brands

Resolved issue causing product image grid to stop displaying in the new Brands directory
Updated the individual lead emails template
UI updates for the Brand and sub-Brand profile page
Fixes to demo link, plans page visibility, and upgrade call-to-action

01 July 2024

Programa for Designers

Project Management (coming soon)
- Resolved issue where Tasks were not updating automatically after save
- Fixed subtasks swaying effect, prevented deletion confirmation pop-up from opening on naming a subtask, and enabled viewing the latest number of subtasks without needing to refresh the page
- Users can now scroll through long tasks and save them without any issues
- Ability to edit and delete phases directly from the Project information sidenav, including updating phase name and timeframe
- Fix for Task Target Date picker

Programa for Brands

Updated Plans for new plans launch
Fixed the issue where clicking "View all products" on Brand Profile page redirects to Latest Products tab instead of showing all products.

26 June 2024

Programa for Designers

Project Management (coming soon!)
- Task delete confirmation
- New Checklists in Tasks for Project Management - ability to easily add, complete, and remove checklist items in Task cards.
- Ability to see team members assigned to a Task directly in Board view, with a max of 3 visible members and an indicator for additional hidden team members
- New Key Date feature - Add and display important dates set on a task, and see it in the Timeline view
- New ability to see the number of completed and total checklist items in Board and List View for each Task
- Resolved issue where the project-timeline header overlapped with project management menu options.
- Ability to display selected phases on task cards in Board view
- Elegant handle of profiles pictures with no image set.
- Added Task comments in Project Management with ability to add, view, and delete comments.
- Tasks created in any swim lane now assumes the status of that swimlane, and not default to 'To Do'
- Added search functionality to task attribute dropdowns
Fixed an issue where a blank page was generated at the end of Schedule Export PDF when terms and conditions were turned off before exporting
Fix to maintain scroll position after archiving or deleting photos in Pinboards.
Empty state for Schedules now provides clear call to actions for new users to easily navigate and add products.
Improved padding around the checkbox and resolved visibility/accessibility issues in Shared Schedules.
(Coming soon) Apple Signup and Login using your Apple credentials.
Added spinner in Task form to indicate when sending or saving data

Programa for Brands

Enhanced Get Started Page with new payment logic and streamlined onboarding steps
Improved accessibility for the Done button on the Supplier Company Edit detail side panel in Safari browser.
Search in new Brand Directory
Backend preparation for new Brands plans launch
New filter by category in Brands Directory
New Supplier Brand company page showcasing a snapshot of the Brands products and link to view the rest of those Brand's products.
Updated to new Brand Plan names
New "Jump to" carousel feature in Brands Directory

19 June 2024

Programa for Designers:

Project Management coming soon
- Enhanced Timeline View now integrates Project and Phase data
Better validation messages when importing address book data
Improved Task form now resets when opening the modal for easier data entry.
Fixed Pinboards 'Move to Section' menu when bulk changing pins now displays all sections and is scrollable for improved user experience.

Programa for Brands

New ability to add a header image to your sub-Brand's profile (to be used if the sub-brand is a featured Brand in the new Brand Directory)
Revamped brand cards on the Brand Profile page

18 June 2024

Programa for Designers

Coming soon for Project Management
- Start and stop timers directly from Task Cards with cumulative time tracking.
- List View for Tasks in a Project, now displaying task details including status, phase, target date, team members, and recorded time.
Fixed the issue where invoice transaction fee amounts were not showing up in QuickBooks
New simple bulk actions in Image Library

17 June 2024

Programa for Designers

Ability to add and remove team members to/from a Task in Project Management, with the ability to select up to 50 members and search for them.
Ability to internally import schedule data from a template.
Resolved Time Tracking issue where time entries became unlinked from Board card: Users can now view previous time entries and create new entries as expected.
Fixed an issue with German month names.

Programa for Brands

Update Side Navigation panel access logic to align with new Brands Plans.
Add 'Featured Content' to Brand Profile which can be self-edited and updated.
New 'Featured Brands' section in Brands Directory including dynamic cards that either show Brand banner or associated Brand products.

13 June 2024

Programa for Designers

Fix for issue in Schedules to prevent field from losing focus and page jumping to the top when editing product line items.
Improved tax settings for transaction fees: Now, when selecting to pass on transaction fees to clients in an invoice, users can mark the fee as non-taxable with a new 'Is taxable?' toggle.
New simple bulk actions in Pinboards, including Move to section, Archive, and Delete. You can select multiple pins at a time or whole sections of pins.
Work on Project Management (coming soon)
Fix for issue where invoice line items were not appearing in QuickBooks due to names exceeding character limit. Line items should now transfer successfully.

Programa for Brands

Enhanced product card design on Brand Profile page with updated 'add to' button functionality for better Designer experience when browsing a Brand Profile.
Work on brands directory (coming soon)

07 June 2024

Programa for Designer

New Designer referral program within the product
Fixed Xero invoice saving issue for UK accounts.

Programa for Brands

New supplier subscription plans

06 June 2024

Programa for Designer

Fix for taxable line item status on Xero invoices which wasn't being carried across.
Fix for archived items triggering "Feedback required" flag - you now shouldn't see the 'Feedback Required' indicator if the item has been archived.
Fix for tax rates with commas in the name causing issues when selecting tax rates in the Project Settings.

04 June 2024

Programa for Designers

Fix for bug in select drop-downs
Fix for excel rows getting mixed up in export.
Ability to add a product to your Product Library from the Trade Portal when viewing a product's details.
Changes to the treatment of T&Cs in the Schedule PDF export - if you have company T&Cs and this is turned on for a Schedule, the Schedule PDF export will append any T&Cs in it's own page at the end of the document. The cover page will now tell you if there are any T&Cs in the document.

Programa for Brands

New Brand Profile improvements - company details + contact form
Trade Portal 'Supplier' facet for search/filters and profile links
Remove unnecessary and heavy non-indexed fields in Brand edit page
Add location filter to Product Match

30 May 2024

Programa for Designers

Continued work on Project Management (coming soon!)
Fix for PDF images that looked distorted
Fix for old sharing links still accessed via pdf downloads
Changed for location of T&Cs within PDF export, especially for large bodies of text.
Fix for QuickBooks sync job where the invoice doesn't exist in Stripe

Programa for Brands

Brands Dashboard tweaks

27 May 2024

Programa for Designers

Task Creation for Project Management (coming soon)
Tax figures in schedule are also included in excel export
Fix for importing QB tax rates once they are archived

24 May 2024

Programa for Designers

Updated 'book training session' link for designers
Increase terms and conditions font size
Product Library style updates for search, sort, filter section
Add Tax exclusive/inclusive labels on schedule totals (coming soon!)
Project Management timelines (coming soon!)
Changes to invoicing page for when only partial stripe setup has occurred.

23 May 2024

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Product Library has gotten a little makeover!

New look and feel
For those with access to our Trade Portal (Australia and New Zealand only at the moment) ability to now 'Add' Trade Portal products to your Product Library. This utilises a similar experience as in Schedules, except it only searches for Trade Portal Products since you're already in Product Library.
Ability to see which products in your Product Library are from the Trade Portal
Ability to see when you imported those Trade Portal products (date stamp)
Fix for the invoice sidenav bar (when you're creating a new invoice) which was weirdly sitting behind the header section at the top of the page.

Programa for Designers

Fix for spec sheet Notes missing in PDF Export
Fixes for tax changes on Invoicing page (Tax coming soon!)
Fix for tax rate calculation when markup is toggled
Ability to toggle whether an item is taxable or not in Invoicing.
Changes to the 'Need Help' link in the designer sidebar
Experiment - Add products via Product Match flow
Fix for Invoice ready to send error
Add any missing tax rates to Quickbooks from Programa when Invoicing (coming soon!)
Fix for ensuring PDF export includes only filtered item attachments

Programa for Brands

Supplier subscription quantity shouldn't be updated
Fix for CSV Parser to correct dimensions order
Update TO email to new alias for brand operations mailer
Correct format for PriceFrom field for CSV product import
Filter products by date on new My Products page (coming soon!)
Company owner check on dry run CSV upload

16 May 2024

Programa for Designers:

Check for allowing only one connection at a time to an external accounting platform.
Fix for Quickbooks Invoice line item issue from trailing white spaces
Apply tax at Invoice level when connected to Quickbooks

Programa for Brands

Empty states for Activity Widget on Brand Dashboard (coming soon)

14 May 2024

Programa for Designers

Additional view in Project Management (coming soon)
File sorting on project page for Project Management (coming soon)
New tax rates used in Invoicing (coming soon)
Styling tweaks to left sidenav

Programa for Brands

Brands dashboard design tweaks (coming soon)
Add AWS Lambda Service and lint fixes
My Products page filter by category (coming soon)

09 May 2024

Programa for Designers

Work on tasks for projects in Project Management (coming soon)
Prep work for import from trade portal behaviour in product library (coming soon)
Duplicate check and alert for Doc Code field in Schedules (imminent)
Fix for issue with marking items as approved in summary tab making all other entries disappear
Fix for issue with Tax rates now being copied along with the project.
Added toggle for whether a product is taxable or not, to Product Library products

Programa for Brands

Change in Brand approval requests to now being sent to an email alias
New activity widget in Brands dashboard (coming soon)
Fix for Algolia limit overriding native pagination when viewing products in trade portal
Updates to Quote Requests templates to add schedule share details URLs to email carrier

03 May 2024

Programa for Designers

Fix for Pinboard share page JS error which may cause iOS/Safari failure
QuickBooks integration - ability to update, delete invoices (coming soon)
Fix for adding a supplier in Summary page causing a field to lose focus

02 May 2024

Programa for Designers

QuickBooks - Create invoice and add products (coming soon)
Fix for using correct dimensions for client dashboard cover image via crop tool
Changes to the sidebar for easier help access
Fix for misaligned 'Trade Discount' percentage icon when Tax is turned on

Programa for Brands

Fix for email CSV dry run
New filtering of products by status and Brand on new My Products page (coming soon)
New Brands Dashboard product analytics widget (coming soon)
Fix for Quote Requests email template

29 April 2024

Programa for Designers

Fix for selected Tax rates in Projects that weren't clearing/selecting properly
Suppliers are now alphabetised in Purchase Orders @cellina
Fix failed project validation with tax rates

Programa for Brands

Improved pagination on Products, Leads and Quote Requests pages
Fix for text issues in PDF export that was either too small or truncated
Fix so that Brand Profile sections respects subscription tiers
Update to admin csv dry run process to have the result file be sent via email
Added step to cleanup unused Product Option Value in CSV product upload flow

24 April 2024

Programa for Designers

Implementation of Tax feedback
Label in Price to include showing whether amount is inclusive or exclusive.
QuickBooks integration work continued - fetch or create products
Script for migrating tax rates from stripe on Go Live

Technical Updates and Programa for Brands

Correct timestamp format for archived leads
Update variant parsing logic for csv product uploads

22 April 2024

Programa for Designers

Ability to fetch tax rates and read/write contact details from QuickBooks when integration goes live
Added Turks & Caicos to available countries
Fix for issues with subscription billing and upgrading
Ability to see which rates were set as Default in Global tax settings
Better labelling in top summary bar in Schedules indicating whether rates are inclusive or exclusive

Technical Updates and Programa for Brands

Fix for product deletion process for Brands and Suppliers which was slow and non-performant
Additional test coverage for new functionality.
Ensuring retrieval of existing product option values return the same data type for brand CSV import

April 16 2024

Programa for Designers

Work on QuickBooks integration coming soon
Fix for truncated text in PDF exports
Work on Tax functionality coming soon.
Fix for the issue that prevented Org and Profile image upload in Settings
Removed the suggestion for searching by Tags in Pinboards
Fix for missing Navigation Buttons in Shared Schedules Lightbox
Fix for Procurement Hub error where it was switched on for user, but they were unable to access Procurement Hub.
Fix for export PDF in schedules where the notes field was not appearing in the exported Schedule PDF
Fix for the Schedule Filter dropdown labels which had an underscore

Programa for Brands

Visual tweaks to the left hand menu labels
Added search functionality to the new My Products page coming soon
Added a check to prevent re-uploading already existing documents on Products

15 April 2024

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Ability for notes on products in Schedules to be hidden on PDF exports.

If you have any data within the 'Notes' section of a product, when generating a Schedule PDF (bulk select or entire schedule), you can select to not include this in your PDF Export. This is accessible from the sidenav options menu when you're exporting.

Other updates

Programa for Designers

System will ignore duplicate requests to copy the same project when a project copy job is already underway. There is no visual treatment to warn you, it will just ignore any duplicate requests.
Fix for removing products from the Client Dashboard Schedule thumbnail when marked as 'Hidden'.
Additional trigger for opening Intercom live chat when you access the help centre to better help you when you need it.

Programa for Brands

Product data carrier for upcoming Brands Dashboard

11 April 2024

Programa for Designers

Fixed an issue when entering a product with lengthy details in the schedule and sharing it to the client dashboard, the product details section gets cut off. Also fixes the label beneath to "description".
Fixed visual treatment for large numbers in the fields within Schedules
Fix for Suppliers in Schedules not updating properly and fix for when the supplier address field is too long
Fix for elements in the Schedule section line item
Reduced chance of errors when copying a schedule

Programa for Brands

New Insights tab in Products table coming soon
Improvement to CSV import template to remove Option Name and Option Value columns and derive them from either existing columns or new columns
Fix for the admin csv import dry run function

09 April 2024

See more of April

Highlight

New 'Hidden' product status in Schedules.

You now have the ability to keep Product line items in schedules hidden from customers so you can focus on designing and less time worrying about what your customer sees. More specifically, any Product with 'Hidden' status will:

Be excluded from Client Dashboard and live links
Remain visible in your schedules the same as any other line item
Be excluded from financial totals (both section and schedule level).
Remain visible to select in Purchase Orders
Remain visible to select in Invoicing
Remain excluded from exports (bulk select, schedule and excel exports)

Other fixes

Fix for when the up and down arrow are spammed when viewing Product Details in Schedules, this resulted in ending up on the wrong product.
Fix to exclude certain countries from the invoice application fee due to Stripe limitations. Until Stripe supports application fees in Mexico, the plan unfortunately is to not add it to invoices.
Fix for localising Stripe processing fees that are being passed on and update to the calculation.
Fix for limiting the invoice item description field to 500 characters so that it doesn't break when the invoice is generated.

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