What's New in Acquire - 1.79
6 October 2026
click here for past feature updates
Images
View Product Images
Products with an image now show a thumbnail in the Add Items To Basket screens, and clicking it opens a larger view making it easier to confirm you're ordering the right item, especially for non-consumable products where names alone can be ambiguous.
Other Features & Information
This release includes an update to some of the underlying screen-rendering libraries behind Acquire's web pages. You may notice minor visual differences in some areas (spacing, button styling, etc.) as a result - please let us know if anything looks or behaves unexpectedly.
Past Feature Updates
Euros & Irish Vat Rates
Irish Companies & Outlets
Monetary values are shown in Euros for companies based in Ireland, and Irish VAT rates are applied to orders, invoices and credits for suppliers based in Ireland. Contact your Zonal Account Representative to have your company and suppliers set up for Ireland.
Suggested Ordering
Future-Dated Forecasts
Future-Dated Forecasts lets your own planning system supply Acquire with day-by-day consumption predictions, so Suggested Orders are calculated around your forward-looking forecast instead of a rolling average of past usage.
Users
Head Office Outlet Manager Enhancements
Assign outlets to a Head Office Outlet Manager at the time of creating the user. As a Head Office Outlet Manager, configure the email notifications you receive for each of your assigned outlets.
Other Features & Information
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Acquire .NET 10 Upgrade |
Upgrade to .NET 10, ensuring Acquire has access to the latest stability and security improvements. |
Users
Head Office Outlet Manager
A new head office role that can be assigned outlets, letting those users easily access and manage multiple outlets for which they are responsible.
Features & Information
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Update Help Page with Knowledge Base links |
Access the new Knowledge Base from Acquire so you can access documentation more easily. |
| Quick Search Performance Improvements | Improve the performance of the Quick Search feature by reducing the total number of orders searched across to within the last two years. |
Prices
Email notification when catalogue price changes update orders
Receive email alerts when a catalogue import updates prices for an active order so you are aware of changes ahead of the delivery arriving at your site.
Prices
Update order unit prices from Acquire Product Sync
For customers managing products in Zonal Connect, Acquire can be configured to update unit prices in active orders when price changes occur, reducing the number of reconciliation issues to resolve.
Other Features & Information
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Security headers: Remove unsafe-inline from content security policy |
Remove unsafe-inline from the content security policy for both CSS styling and script. |
| Login page Okta Compatibility | An update to the HTML structure of the new SSO login page to support Okta integrations. |
Platform
Single Sign-On (Launch Acquire from Zonal Connect)
Log in to Zonal Connect using SSO and gain access to Acquire without the need for multiple user accounts.
Prices
Use latest catalogue price at time of accepting orders
Configure Acquire to use the latest catalogue unit price when accepting orders, saving sites time by reducing the number of orders with reconciliation issues to resolve.
Budgets
Prevent Budget Overspend
Prevent orders from being placed that breach budget limits, ensuring sites never overspend against those product category
Invoicing
Allow Invoices With Duplicate Product Code
Supplier invoices where the same product code is used multiple times will now be accepted and will not cause an invoice reconciliation issue, ensuring EDI invoicing is a seamless experience.
Other Features & Information
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Budgets - Show Categories In Edit Quantity Modals |
View the categories for each product when editing your orders, so you can more easily track spending against individual categories |
| Amend multiple lines during credit note creation |
Make it quicker and easier to create manual credit notes, by applying the reason to multiple lines at once |
| TECH: Order Response Performance |
Improving the processing time of Order Response documents to bring it closer to other types |
Forced Drops
Scheduled Drops
Schedule a forced drop for a future date and time, so you can ensure your outlets receive new items when menus change.
Budgets
Change Delivery Date For Budget Period
Choose a delivery slot in the basket and update your budget view, so you can ensure you keep to your allocated budgets.
Budgets
Amend Basket Products Per Budget Period
View and edit the individual products in your basket per budget category, so you can easily bring basket orders back under allocated limits.
Ordering
Download Order Lines
Download a report containing orders with individual lines, so if your supplier's system goes down you can always provide a backup to ensure your site still receives deliveries.
Other Features & Information
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Allow outlet managers to reconcile orders |
Outlet managers can now force reconciliations on orders, so that issues with invoices can be resolved more quickly |
| Block outlet users from cancelling credit requests if restricted |
Restrict your outlets from cancelling credit requests if the outlet is not permitted to raise them, ensuring your management of invoices is not interrupted unintentionally |
| Cancel Forced Drop |
Cancel a forced drop whilst it's in progress to stop remaining orders being sent to the supplier by mistake |
Delivery Schedules
Upload Supplier Managed Delivery Schedules
Suppliers have the ability to upload delivery schedules on behalf of their customers, streamlining the process and saving customers valuable time managing their own schedules. This not only reduces the administrative time for the head office operators but also helps ensure that delivery schedules are accurate and up to date, improving overall efficiency and coordination between the supplier and the customer.
Other Features & Information
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Zonal Connect Product Sync Catalogue information |
When looking at your Supplier catalogues and the Zonal Connect Product Sync has been enabled for that supplier you will be able to see, the date and time the catalogue was last updated as the last product update received over the sync |
Orders
Order Attachments
Easily upload attachments to orders, allowing all relevant physical documents to be securely stored in digital format and accessed at any time. This ensures critical paperwork is never misplaced and can be quickly retrieved whenever needed, streamlining your workflow and enhancing organisational efficiency.
View the orders topic for more information on adding attachments.
Other Features & Information
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Check Automated Suggested Order Delivery Slot For Existing Orders |
When an automated suggested order is due to be created, Acquire will check for any existing orders against the same delivery slot, ensuring that duplicate orders are not created for your sites |
| Product Exclusions Switched On By Default |
Product Exclusions will available without switching on any other configurations of suggested ordering, so you can use this feature without enabling any other settings |
Suppliers
Supplier Managed Delivery Schedules
Save time setting up ordering for your sites by giving suppliers the ability to manage delivery schedules on your behalf.
Orders
Add "Manual Suggested Order" Label To Order Search Page
Filter the order search page by Manual Suggested Orders, making it easier for you to manage these orders and track their progress.
Orders
Configure Returns / Edit Accepted Order By Outlet
Use all features in Acquire that allow editing order quantities of deliveries whilst piloting Aztec+ Stocks, so your sites can immediately gain the benefit of Acquire's full ordering functionality.
Orders
Quick Search Results Reflect Order Visibility Settings
Quick Search results will respect the order state visibility settings setup for your company, so users will only ever see the orders listed that you want them to.
Suppliers
Supplier Catalogue Downloads
Suppliers will be able to view and download the catalogues your company has uploaded, helping both parties to troubleshoot product and pricing issues more easily and reduce the number of reconciliation issues to investigate.
Products
Exclude Products (Preferred Pack Size)
Improve the accuracy of your suggested orders by choosing which pack sizes are included in the calculation for each product.
Invoices
Add Invoice Export Date to Finance Report
The Finance Report will show date invoices were exported in the downloaded CSV file, helping finance teams to more easily find older unreconciled invoices yet be investigated.
Orders
Remove .xml validation on Order Response/Dispatch Advice names
In order to make the experience of invoicing with integrating with suppliers more seamless, Acquire's validation on file names has been relaxed for invoices so that we no longer reject these files when they don't conform to an exact .xml extension.
Badge
Bulk Delete Failed EDI Documents
The Failed EDI Documents page allows bulk deletion of documents, improving the experience of managing the list by giving users a way to remove items that cannot retried.
Orders
Change Departments and Update Deliveries
The Department against an order can now be changed and the associated delivery updated, so that orders sent to Aztec+ Stocks are always against the correct cost centre.
Stock
Buffer Stock Days By Product Per Outlet
Configure suggested ordering buffer stock in days at the product level, so you can use Acquire's calculation to ensure that outlets always order enough of their most important items.
Orders
Automated Suggested Order Creation Email
Trigger an email notification to outlets when an automated suggested order is created for them, so outlets are always reminded to review orders before being sent to suppliers.
Orders
Automated Suggested Order Failure Email
When an automated suggested order fails to be either created or placed, an email will be sent to both outlet and and head office users alerting them so don't miss out on the opportunity to place a stock order.
Technical
NET 8 Upgrade
Acquire has been upgraded to use .NET 8 framework, bringing the solution in line with future state architecture projects.
Stock
Display Stock
Help your outlets order more accurately by allowing them to set the amount of stock on hand intended for display purposes only.
Budgets
Display Budget Spend On Suggested Order Modal
View your budget spend when creating a suggested order, so your outlets always keep to their budget limits.
Badge
Truncate Large Numbers On Order Status Widget
See larger numbers shown on the dashboard in a format that makes it easy to digest, so you can quickly understand the status of your orders.
Stock
Buffer Stock Quantity By Product By Outlet
Customers using suggested ordering can now configure buffer stock by a fixed quantity added to individual products in each order. Click here to view the configuration guide.
Budgets
Upload Budgets
Outlet budgets can be configured using a single CSV file upload, reducing the amount of time required to set up all the periods contained within a budget.
Products
Allow Individual Outlets To Manage Product Availability
Customers can select the outlets permitted to manage their own product availability, giving customers more flexibility in how ordering lists are managed across their estate.
Settings
Download Company-Supplier Settings
Admin users can now download all the current company configurations for active suppliers from the Company-Supplier Settings page, allowing further analysis of this information by other teams.
Orders
Restriction of Maximum Order Quantity By Product
Customers can now restrict the amount outlets are able to order of individual products for each delivery slot, enforcing more control over products normally ordered or are of higher value.
Orders
Apply Category Template From Basket
Outlet users can now apply Category Templates directly from the basket page, making this template more easily accessible and giving a more unified experience to ordering.
Products
Download Catalogues Display Stock Unit Columns
Downloaded catalogues now also include information about stock units, allowing downloaded catalogues to be used with Par Levels.
Orders
Bulk Progress Orders To Invoiced State
Zonal Admin users now have the ability to bulk progress orders to an Invoiced state without creating invoices. This will enable Zonal to assist customers who do not use Invoicing to request that specific orders are separated from other Accepted orders that may need further action.
Templates
Category Templates
When customers want to manage ordering lists to be used for specific departments they can create a Category template, allowing entire product categories to be assigned to that template.
When categories are assigned, the template will automatically add all products within that category and maintain the list if products are added or removed.
Templates
Print Category Templates
Outlets using Category Templates will also be able to print a physical structured form, allowing them to write down order quantities when surveying their current stock levels to then create an order within Acquire.
Catalogues
Download Catalogues
To help Zonal and customers troubleshoot catalogue issues, catalogues can now be downloaded as a CSV file, in a format that allows them to be re-uploaded.
Stock
Redesign Buffer Stock Configuration
To help customers more easily configure their buffer stock in future, the suggested order tab in Company Settings has been redesigned to simplify this setup.
Budgets
Outlet Budgets
Companies can now create weekly budgets allowing outlets to keep track of their spending against product categories.
Products
Quick Search For Products
All users can now use the Quick Search field to search for products and quickly create orders.
Sites
Bulk Assign Outlet by Reference/Name
When assigning outlets, customers can now enable an optional field to be displayed allowing the list to filtered using a comma-separated list of names or outlet references.
Petty Cash
Purchases
Purchases allows customers to create deliveries for orders placed with suppliers outside of Acquire. In addition, the feature can be configured to allow petty cash purchases to be checked into stock.
Emails
Credit Request Email Notification Enhancements
The Credit Requests email notification has been enhanced to add more details about the specific invoice lines.
Stocks
Configure Stock on Hand by Outlet
To facilitate the migration from Aztec stocks to Aztec+ Stocks, Acquire can be configured to choose the system individual outlets receive Stock On Hand from, ensuring that Suggested Ordering and Order To Par can continue to be used.
EDI Orders
List Failed EDI Dispatch Advices
Failed Dispatch Advices will now be displayed under the Failed EDI Documents page with a list of the failure reasons, assisting integrated suppliers and customers with to resolve issues with this type of document.
Invoice & Credits
Reset Invoice and Credit Collection Flag
In order to support customers using the Supplier Payment Interface, Zonal admin users emulating head office users can reset invoices and credits for collection via a bulk action to allow these documents to be exported again.
Products
Catalogue Product Search
To help customers troubleshooting product catalogue issues, search and filter fields have been added to the Active catalogues modal.
Orders
Forced Drop Improvements
Users wanting to see a summary of a forced drop can choose an additional email notification with the result of the forced drop and can also filter the list of orders on the Order Search page to show only these order types.
Orders
Add Allocations To Suggested Orders
Allocations has been extended to both manual and automated suggested orders, the calculation including any allocated products when suggesting items and applying the same restrictions around editing and deleting these products.