Over the past few months, we’ve shipped a major set of improvements across Amber. Everything below is live, and all of it is designed to help your team move from products to purchase orders, suppliers, documents, and payments with less coordination.
Visualize what products arrive, and when payments are due
See payments and merchandise arrivals in one place, looking both backward and ahead. Pick the date range that matters and view it by day, week, month, or quarter, then drill into the orders behind each number.
A better live version of spreadsheets
Work in board view, not just lists. Update many records at once, save the views your team actually uses, and filter in plain language so the table shows the work you need right now.
Know what needs to be paid, when, and why
Every payment is tied to a purchase-order milestone, so finance and operations can see what is due, when it is due, and which order created the obligation. Receipts and status stay on the same record.
Turn exceptions into clear next steps
When something differs from what was ordered, Control Tower is the place to review it. Quantity, cost, date, and document variances land in one queue so your team can resolve them instead of hunting through threads.
Incoming and outgoing emails reliably update POs, shipments, payments
Supplier emails and documents now update the relevant records, and you can draft replies from the order itself. Amber captures more of the operational traffic; your team stays in control of what goes out.
Manage product codes without manual tracking
Amber assigns and tracks UPCs at the SKU and order level, so your team no longer has to manage blocks of codes by hand or worry about duplicates slipping through.
Organize every product, option, dimension, and SKU clearly
Parent products, options, dimensions, and SKUs now sit in a cleaner structure. That makes Amber a better fit for apparel, beauty, jewelry, home, and any other product type your team runs.
Give suppliers a faster way to collaborate with you
Suppliers open the relevant order with a magic link, without creating an account first. They get into the work immediately, and the rest of setup happens after.
Reconciliation without the manual chase
Purchase order, Invoice, Packing List, Shipments, and Goods Receipt reconcile automatically. Amber compares what was ordered, what was shipped, what arrived, and what was billed, and flags the line items that do not match on quantity, cost, or unit. Clean matches move straight through. Exceptions land in one place with the specific variance called out, so your team resolves discrepancies instead of cross checking five documents by hand.
Freight and duties allocated to the SKU level
Landed cost now reflects the true cost of each product, not just the PO unit price. Freight and duties are allocated across line items based on your chosen method (by value, weight, or quantity), so every SKU carries an accurate all in cost. That number flows straight into margin valuation, giving your team a real picture of profitability the moment goods land.
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