What's new in October 2026 · Docs

Changes are listed newest first, each with a link to its guide. For anything newer, see What's new.

29 October 2026

TABS credits repriced. One TABS credit now buys 4 product photo scans. Packs are 100 for ₦2,000, 500 for ₦9,500 and 2,000 for ₦36,000, or choose any number from 25 to 100,000. See account and billing.
A photo scan reads dates and batch numbers. Expiry date, Manufacture date, Batch number, NAFDAC number and Country of origin go into your custom fields, and photo quick add asks for the barcode first. See adding products.
Filter by your own fields. Products and Inventory filter by custom fields, such as expiring in the next 90 days, and Inventory's export keeps the filter. See categories and custom fields.
A new order on a phone is four short steps. See orders.
Chat pictures open at once. Each file downloads once per device and is cleared when you sign out. See chat.
Pinning a message leaves you where you were, and on a phone the keyboard waits until you tap a field and the field stays in view.
Long product names no longer push a page off a phone's screen, and What's new no longer brings back an older release's notes.

27 and 28 October 2026

Extra fees and invoices. Charge installation, packaging or a call-out on top of a sale, and print or send a customer an invoice for any order. See orders and invoices.
Chat dates now read Today, Yesterday, then the weekday, and the account menu and Settings show the version, Tabs v0.4.0.
Integrations behind one tile. A store's integrations sit behind one Integration tile beside Cash, Transfer and POS. See payments, receipts and returns.
An order completes itself. An order completes once it has been delivered and paid, and reopens if a payment is voided and money is owed again. See orders.
Delivery companies on orders and transfers. Pick one and its price is added to the order when you book. See delivery companies.
A full delivery address, and who served. A delivery takes a street address and a city, and a postal code if you have one, and the ticket says who served the customer. See orders.
Resellers: pickup, delivery and how they pay. A reseller order has a How it leaves card for pickup or delivery. See resellers.
Add stock from Inventory. Tick items and enter how many of each came in. See inventory.
Chat tags every kind of record. `#` now tags couriers, tasks, shifts, resellers and more. See chat.
Paystack's fee, and TABS credits history. Your customers pay Paystack's fee on top, and Billing lists every use of your credits. See account and billing.
Offline, and back. When the connection returns, Tabs says "You're back online" and opens by itself, trying again if the signal is weak. See Install from your browser.
Help links to these guides. Search in Tabs and your account menu now open these guides, and some screens have a link such as "How connecting works" to the part you need. See Getting started.

26 October 2026

Payment integrations are their own group. Integrations sit in a group called Or through an integration, under Cash, Transfer and POS. See payments, receipts and returns.
Paystack by link or QR code. The customer scans a QR code or copies a link and pays on their own phone. See payments, receipts and returns.
Edit an order's items until a batch ships. Stock moves by the difference. See orders.
Swap deals: tax and edits. The tax on a swap is worked out on what the customer pays, and a swap's total can't fall under the trade-in's worth. See swap deals.
Sales price, and discounts under it. Initial retail price is now Sales price, and Final retail price is now Final sales price. See adding products.
Adjust asks one question. Adjust quantity has one box, Why, and Save stays off until it's filled in. See inventory.
TABS credits. Scan credits are now TABS credits, and Billing shows your balance. See account and billing.
TABS credits in Billing. Billing has a TABS credits card with your balance, this month's photo scans, and Buy TABS credits. See account and billing.
Moniepoint, step by step. The page now walks through connecting, with a picture for each step. See Moniepoint POS terminals.
What's new inside Tabs. The user menu now has What's new, a short list of the latest changes with a Got it button.
Chat on an iPhone. Sending a message keeps the keyboard up, and the thread scrolls instead of the page. See chat.
Inventory: what needs restocking. Inventory is back in the sidebar as the list of what has run out or is running low. See inventory.
Book a delivery company. Book a rider from Dreacot without leaving Tabs, paid in TABS credits. See couriers.
Shops anywhere. Tax is called VAT, GST or Sales tax, as your country does, and each store has a Time zone. See stores.
The dashboard follows the store. With one store picked, its cards follow it. See the dashboard.
A long chat message is cut with Read more, an edited one says "edited", and a reply to you notifies you. See chat.
Send a test push, under Settings, Notifications, checks that notifications reach your devices with Tabs closed. See notifications.
A Moniepoint terminal set to Any store covers a store added later, and the owner is reminded daily of a payment still to give back. A customer with a phone number has WhatsApp beside Call and Email. On a phone, Back closes an open dialog instead of leaving the page.
A discount that would take a swap's total under its trade-in credit is refused when the swap is confirmed or its order changed. See swap deals.
Your device's time zone is sent when you sign in, to count a session's five working days. See the Privacy Policy.

25 October 2026

Moniepoint POS terminals. Send what an order owes to your terminal, and the order marks itself paid. See Moniepoint POS terminals.
One place for every way to pay. Paystack and payment links are in Record payment, wherever it opens. See payments, receipts and returns.
Choose the store for each sale. With two or more stores, a new order asks which store you're selling from. See orders.
Discounts in Edit items. A role that can give discounts can change a line's discount or the order's. See orders.
A product's variants show a Wholesale column when one has a wholesale price. See sizes, colours and options.
On a phone, swipe through pictures in chat and press and hold one for its actions. See chat.
A payment that goes through, and a product added, end on a tick. Moniepoint is no longer listed as coming soon. See integrations.

22 October 2026

Import from a Google Sheet. Link a Google Sheet and Tabs reads it like an Excel file. See adding products.
Changing a yearly plan on Billing. A bigger yearly plan is charged now, and a smaller one starts at your renewal. See account and billing.
A lapsed business is read-only. When a plan lapses, every page still opens, under a banner. See account and billing.
Receipts. An order has a receipt once a payment is recorded on it. See payments, receipts and returns.
Swaps. A trade-in without a selling price goes onto your shelf as a draft product. See swap deals.
Where Tabs means a number of units, it now says Quantity.
See who reacted to a chat message by holding a reaction. See chat.
A system notification goes away once what it's about has been seen. See notifications.
When photo scanning is busy, a scan says so and isn't counted. The installed app opens on a Tabs Blue screen with the Tabs mark. Facebook Marketplace is listed under Integrations as coming soon. See integrations.
A receipt on WhatsApp always goes as its PDF, and Send receipt has a WhatsApp number box on every device. See payments, receipts and returns.

21 October 2026

Discounts at the till and on swaps. Take money off one line or the whole order. Give discounts is a new permission. See orders.
Two more prices. An item can carry a Final retail price and a Wholesale price. See adding products.
Many products at once. Import from a photo of a list, scan barcodes one after another, or choose up to 20 photos. See adding products.
Roles and stores. Delete a role people hold and they move to Staff or a role you pick. See members and roles.
Chat and notifications. Notifications reach your device with Tabs closed. See notifications.
Press a product's photo to see it full size. On a phone, Take a photo is offered wherever you add a picture, and the bottom bar shows only the tabs your role can use.
A transfer's line keeps naming a deleted product, and Stock value on the dashboard shows one line for each currency.

20 October 2026

Customers can pay through Paystack. Connect your own bank account and a customer can pay by card or bank transfer. See integrations.
Integrations, rated. Every integration's card shows its stars, and you can rate one you've connected. See integrations.
Everyone belongs to a store. A member sees and works only in their own store. See members and roles.
Roles. A new role can start from Cashier, Stock keeper, Store manager or Accountant. See members and roles.
Yearly billing. Pay for a year at the price of ten months. See account and billing.
Importing and exporting products. Import from any sheet, and Export gives your products back in the same columns. See adding products.
Scan a product from a photo. Tabs reads its name, brand, category and barcode, never a price. See adding products.
Orders and transfers. A transfer can be received in parts. See stores and transfers.
Insights in five parts. Insights now covers members, orders, products, stock and customers. See Insights.
Chat. Record voice notes, pin messages and send pictures as an album. See chat.
Notifications on your screen. Choose a sound, hide message text, pause notifications for a while, and send yourself a test. See notifications.
Report an issue at the foot of the menu sends a problem to the Tabs team. See report an issue.
In the browser, Tabs offers to install itself in a card in the corner. See install from your browser. On a phone, a bar along the bottom holds Home, Chat, Sell, My day and More.

14 October 2026

Tabs for Mac and Windows. Download Tabs from usetabs.app/download.
Tabs is open. Tabs runs in your browser, and every plan starts with a free trial. See getting started.
Resellers. Give stock to the people who sell it on for you, at a price agreed for each line. See resellers.
Clocking in and out. Staff clock in and out of their own shift on My day. See roster and shifts.
Insights. A new page under Dashboard shows each member's sales, orders and hours. See the dashboard.
Scan a phone's IMEI to add it. Tabs checks it against the store. See adding products.
Barcodes. Leave the barcode blank and Tabs makes one, and an item can carry up to three more. See adding products.
Your own shift duties. Add duties your shop needs, such as Cashier or Generator, beside the six that come with Tabs. See roster and shifts.
A store's currency, and an exchange rate. Each store has its own currency. See stores and transfers.
Billing renews by itself. The first card payment starts a monthly subscription. See account and billing.
A notifications page lists everything that reached you. Chat takes spreadsheets, CSVs, presentations, iPhone photos and voice notes.
A transfer can take several sizes or colours of a product at once. "Publish" on a product is now Put on sale, and Ctrl + Enter saves any form.

13 October 2026

Importing products, rebuilt. Import takes an Excel file and checks every row before anything is saved. See adding products.
Swap deals. The product a trade-in becomes is made when you confirm, and an item you take for nothing can have a worth of zero. See swap deals.
The search at the top finds a courier by name, phone or email, and Tabs offers to restore a customer or courier you removed earlier.
Emailing a receipt leaves a line in the order's notes, and every table remembers how many rows you like to a page. Two-factor recovery codes download properly in the desktop app.

11 October 2026

Couriers. Keep a record of the riders and delivery companies you use. See couriers.
A swap is one page. Each trade-in becomes a product of its own when you confirm. See swap deals.
More on the dashboard. Busiest hours, and Not selling. See dashboard.
"Is this the same one?" Type the name of a product, customer, supplier or courier you already have, even with a typo, and Tabs asks before you add it twice.
Several orders at once. Tick orders and choose Mark completed or Cancel orders. See orders.
At the till. After a sale, a slip offers New sale, Open order and Print receipt. See orders.
Filter options show a count beside each, and a product running low says so in the Products table.
Assign a task from an order's or a transfer's Tasks card. A long amount is written short, such as ₦2.5B.

10 October 2026

Email a receipt. Press Send receipt on an order and Tabs emails the customer a PDF. See payments, receipts and returns.
Tasks about an order or a transfer. Choose Add a task from the record's menu. See tasks.
Low stock, with a safety net. An item with no reorder level uses the product's Minimum stock. See adding products.
Change your password from settings. Security changes your password without the email step. See account and billing.
Swap deals. A swap can be delivered, and you can say who served the customer. See swap deals.
Finding things, and doing several at once. Orders have an Ordered filter and transfers a Created filter, and you can delete several roles, stores, categories or transfers at once. See orders.
Bring a discontinued variant back, and copy a shift on the roster by holding Alt or Ctrl while you drag it.
The built-in Staff role can now edit an open order, finish a handover and record a return.

9 October 2026

Swap deals. Take a customer's old item as part payment for a new one, all on one order. See swap deals.
More on the dashboard. Best sellers, How people paid, and Sales by store and member. See the dashboard.
Checklists are part of tasks. Any task can carry a checklist. See tasks.
Repeating shifts you can stop. A repeat is now a rule Tabs keeps. See roster and shifts.
Your VAT rate, set once. Every new sale opens with VAT on. See account and billing.
Chat. Forward a message to up to five chats. See chat.
Finding things. Orders can be filtered by fulfilment, type, store and who placed them. See orders.
A customer's page shows their order count and what they've spent. Within a store, a barcode can belong to only one item.

8 October 2026

Work: tasks, the roster and checklists. A new Work group in the menu. See tasks and roster.
A home page for each job. My day, Operations and Overview. See home views.
The bell. Notifications cover mentions, new orders, low stock, shifts and tasks. See notifications.
Charts on the dashboard. The dashboard draws your sales over time and covers your new and returning customers. See the dashboard.
Activity on every record. Each page carries a dated list of who did what. See activity.
Chat. Mention someone with @, and search inside a chat. See chat.
Doing several at once. Tick several rows and delete, remove or suspend them together. See members and roles.
Orders can be searched by number or customer name, filtered by status and payment, and sorted.
Scanning a barcode finds the product in its 12-digit or 13-digit form, and paying for your plan happens in a window over the page.