tradeit 9.0.0 released: expanded B2B ordering, Punchout procurement, mobile commerce, Smart Search, and platform-wide enhancements

tradeit 9.0.0 introduces a major expansion of B2B Ordering Portal capability, alongside enhanced Punchout procurement integration, new Mobile Application support, an enhanced Smart Search, and wide-ranging improvements across checkout, authentication, catalogue control, and platform administration.

Version Focus

• Enable governed B2B purchasing at scale, including Ordering Portal and Punchout procurement capability
• Support mobile-first ecommerce journeys
• Introduce a ground-up rebuild of Smart Search, including:
• Smart Search core
• Advanced search and merchandising capabilities
• AI product discovery driven by semantic search

These updates enhance tradeit’s ability to support complex B2B, retail, DTC, and multi-channel ecommerce operations.

B2B Ordering Portal

tradeit 9.0.0 includes a significantly enhanced B2B Ordering Portal, designed for organisations that require structured purchasing control across teams, departments, and locations.

It enables businesses to control ordering behaviour, enforce budgets, and manage approvals at scale.

Core capabilities

• Role-based access control
  Define user roles (Super User, Manager, Employee) to control ordering, approvals, budgets, addresses, and company management
• Structured ordering lists
  Create and manage predefined product lists with line-level limits, budgets, and usage controls
• Approval workflows with audit history
  Configure approval steps with expiry, reminders, order modification, and full audit tracking
• Company and user-level budgets
  Allocate budgets at organisation and user level, with enforcement at checkout
• Ordering on behalf of employees
  Enable controlled purchasing for others, including pack-based ordering and structured baskets
• Credit and debit note handling
  Adjust allowances and monitor spend accurately
• Parent–child company structures
  Manage multi-entity organisations with cascading permissions and branch-level control

Packs

• Create predefined product packs for roles or onboarding
• Restrict packs to authorised products only
• Simplify repeat purchasing and standardisation

Reporting

• Account summaries
• Allowance and item-level reporting
• Budget usage tracking
• Company-wide budget visibility

This represents a significant advancement in tradeit’s B2B capability, enabling controlled purchasing environments at scale.

Product List and Catalogue Governance

tradeit 9.0.0 introduces enhancements to catalogue visibility, control, and governance.

Key improvements

• Updated “Restrict Access To” behaviour
  Public products in the list become the only visible public products
  Private products are automatically exposed where assigned
• Company cascading (parent to child)
  Apply catalogue rules consistently across organisational hierarchies
• Improved user assignment and import tools
  Simplify large-scale catalogue and customer management
• Match All Product Lists option
  Combine multiple lists for tighter restriction control
• Attribute-based visibility and variation control
  Manage product availability through structured rules
• Budget categories
  Enable line-level budget control within orders
• Enhanced UI and management tools
  Improve usability across import/export and governance workflows

These updates enable precise control of product availability aligned to customer structure and permissions.

Mobile Application

tradeit 9.0.0 includes support for a native mobile application across iOS and Android, extending ecommerce journeys beyond the browser.

Core capabilities

• Biometric authentication and passkeys
  Enable fast, secure sign-in
• Persistent sessions
  Maintain authentication across app usage with controlled expiry
• Integrated mobile purchasing journeys
  Provides full purchasing capability through a combination of native functionality and embedded ecommerce features
• Guest browsing and account transition
  Move seamlessly from browsing to registered user flows
• Wishlist / favourites and Saved for Later
  Support ongoing purchasing workflows
• Store locator
  Provide location data, opening hours, facilities, and preferred store selection
• Notifications
  Triggered by workflow actions to support engagement and updates
• Native UI components with multi-brand support
  Maintain consistent brand experience across environments
• Cookie consent interface within embedded views

The mobile app supports integrated mobile commerce across B2B and retail use cases.

Checkout and Ordering Improvements

tradeit 9.0.0 includes updates focused on reducing friction and improving ordering efficiency.

Key updates

• Quick Buy functionality
  Enable one-click purchasing for individual products or full baskets
• Order confirmation upsell component
  Introduce structured upsell opportunities post-purchase
• Improved validation and velocity checks within Quick Buy flows
  Support secure, high-speed ordering

These updates support more efficient purchasing journeys and more flexible ordering behaviour.

Authentication and Access Security

tradeit 9.0.0 strengthens identity and access management across customer and administrative environments.

Highlights

• Social login and Single Sign-On (SSO)
  Simplify authentication and account access
• Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
  Support email, SMS, and authenticator-based verification
• Controlled single-factor bypass (audited)
  Allow restricted access scenarios with full traceability
• Granular permissions framework
  Control access to pages, features, and behaviours across the platform

These updates strengthen platform security and access control for complex organisations.

Smart Search

tradeit 9.0.0 introduces Smart Search, a ground-up rebuild of the search platform, built on OpenSearch.

It strengthens search precision, relevance and control, and introduces AI product discovery driven by semantic search.

Smart Search Core

Smart Search core provides improved scalability and control across search behaviour.

• Incremental and scheduled indexing
• Configurable search behaviour, including thresholds and scoring logic
• Diagnostic tools for analysing search performance and relevance

Advanced search and merchandising capabilities

These advanced search and merchandising capabilities enable:

• Synonyms and spelling correction
• Faceting and filtering
• Product code and attribute search
• Merchant-controlled ranking, weighting, and relevance behaviour
  

These capabilities ensure existing search control and merchandising logic are fully preserved.

AI product discovery

AI product discovery is driven by semantic search, with the option to combine semantic and keyword matching through hybrid search.

• Semantic search using embeddings generated from product data
  
• Product recommendations based on product relationships and attributes
• Hybrid ranking combining semantic relevance with keyword precision
• Configurable balance between lexical and semantic results

This supports improved product discovery while maintaining merchant control.

Search and Catalogue Enhancements

Additional updates improve product discovery and navigation:

• Category suggestions for direct match queries
• Improved attribute-based search, including special character support
• Stock status facets and filtering
• Real-time stock-aware sorting
• Updated search flyout with suggested terms

These changes enhance search usability and product findability across large catalogues.

Accelerator 9.0.0 Updates

The tradeit Accelerator receives updates focused on usability and frontend performance.

Highlights

• UX improvements aligned to Baymard guidelines
• Saved for Later functionality
• Updated search flyout
• Article comments component
• AJAX basket updates
• Expanded responsive breakpoints (XS to XXL)
• Updated frontend framework and example catalogue

These improvements support more consistent and responsive ecommerce experiences.

Platform, Administration and Performance Improvements

tradeit 9.0.0 includes a wide range of platform-level enhancements.

Key updates

• Secure credential management with audit tracking
• Asynchronous audit event notifications
• Expanded import/export capabilities with validation improvements
• Delivery and surcharge enhancements, including box-based models
• Expanded order and basket export data
• Product review enhancements
• Improved reporting with live filtering
• Enhancements across event handlers, configuration, and headless APIs

These updates improve operational control, scalability, and system reliability.

Summary

tradeit 9.0.0 delivers a set of strategic improvements across three key areas:

• B2B capability through advanced ordering control, Punchout procurement integration, and catalogue governance
• Customer experience through mobile application support and improved purchasing flows
• A ground-up rebuild of Smart Search, providing advanced search, merchandising, and AI product discovery

Together, these updates strengthen tradeit’s position as a platform for complex, scalable ecommerce across B2B, retail, and multi-channel operations.