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  1. 13-Nov-2026

    Grower forecasts in kilograms, tighter rows

    • The grower forecasts tables now show kilograms (tonnes on request), and the rows are closer together so more fits on the screen.
  2. 13-Nov-2026

    Grower forecasts: the week as a matrix

    • The grower forecasts page now shows the week as varieties by size in tonnes, darker where there is more fruit, with amber and red marked on the size they belong to; tonnes at risk; each variety's change on last week's outlook; a four-week chart; growers in the order to chase them; and a grower's forecast in the side drawer.
  3. 13-Nov-2026

    Grower forecasts for the network agent

    • The agent of a grower network can import the growers' weekly forecast sheets and see the week added up in kilograms: by variety and size, by delivery, with the next three weeks, who is in, late or missing, and the amber and red lines.
  4. 13-Nov-2026

    A paused organisation is fully read-only and 3 more

    • When an organisation's subscription is paused, every change is now refused by the server, on every screen. Signing in, viewing and exporting your data keep working.
    • A fuel fill can be removed by someone with the Delete permission, or by the person who saved it within 10 minutes (Undo still works). Anyone else is told plainly that nothing was removed.
    • PackChain can now give a customer's other systems (for example a reporting tool) a key to read that customer's farms, blocks, receiving, work orders, pallets and loading notes. Read-only, one organisation per key.
    • The API now answers at packchain.co.zw/api/v1, and packchain.co.zw/developers explains how another system reads your data.
  5. 12-Nov-2026

    Plant Care lists entries on planned blocks only and 2 more

    • On the Plant Care activity pages (Mulching, Pot Weeding, Lime & Gypsum, Grass Strimming, Trellising), Latest entries now shows only entries on the planned blocks, the same blocks as the table beside it. Every entry is still listed under Plant Care, Transactions.
    • The Pruning Plan no longer saves a planned line that does not point at a real block.
    • In Pruning, when the plants pruned on a block reach the block's plants, the block is marked complete automatically, for every pruning type (main pruning already did this). Blocks already at 100% are completed the next time someone who can enter opens Pruning. A block reopened on purpose stays open until more work is logged on it.
  6. 12-Nov-2026

    Pruning Log lists entries on planned blocks only

    • The entries under the Pruning Log now cover the planned blocks only, the same blocks as the table above them, and the figures at the top count those entries. Every pruning entry is still listed under Pruning, Transactions.
  7. 12-Nov-2026

    Pruning Log shows planned blocks only

    • The table at the top of the Pruning Log now lists only planned blocks, as Plant Care does: blocks on the Pruning Plan today, and blocks planned earlier that are not finished. A planned block shows before any work is logged on it, with its planned dates. The log of entries underneath is unchanged.
  8. 12-Nov-2026

    Transactions pages for Pest & Disease, Pollination, Plant Register and Forecasting

    • Each of these Farm modules now has a Transactions page, like Fuel, Plant Care and Pruning: every entry with its number for any dates, a search by number, block, name or note, Excel, and a button on each row that opens the entry where it is changed.
  9. 12-Nov-2026

    Pruning transactions

    • Pruning has its own Transactions page: every pruning entry with its number, for any dates, with a search by entry number, name or note, and Excel. Open a row to change it.
  10. 12-Nov-2026

    Install PackChain on a MacBook, PC or phone

    • The account menu (your name, bottom of the side menu) has a new item, Install PackChain. In Chrome and Edge it installs with one button. In Safari on a Mac it shows the steps: File, then Add to Dock. On an iPhone, iPad or Android phone it shows that device's steps. Installed, PackChain opens in its own window with its own icon. It is offered only in production organisations, not in staging.
  11. 12-Nov-2026

    Entry numbers for Pruning and Pest & Disease and 1 more

    • Every Pruning log entry (PR-), scouting entry (SC-) and treatment record (TR-) now has its own number, shown in the lists. They stay open to change, and each change is kept on the entry with who made it and what it was before. An administrator can give numbers to earlier entries with one button, oldest first.
    • Pollination records now carry their own numbers (hive placements HP-, hive checks HC-, bee counts BC-, bloom walks BW-, fruit-set samples FS-) and are no longer locked: anyone who can enter presses Correct, and each correction is kept. Plant Register entries are numbered (PL-) and their details can be changed; the plant count itself is still corrected by reversing the entry. Forecasting fruit counts are numbered (FC-) and keep a history of changes.
  12. 12-Nov-2026

    Plant Care entries get numbers and can be changed

    • Every Plant Care entry now has its own number (PC-<company code>-00001). Entries are no longer locked: anyone who can enter may change one, and each change is kept on the entry. A new Transactions page under Plant Care lists every entry for any dates, with filters and Excel. An administrator can give numbers to the entries saved before today.
  13. 12-Nov-2026

    The phone joins the new look, smaller and tighter and 1 more

    • On phones: the menu, Home and the suite screens are now the deep blue glass look with coloured icons; figures sit in one slim band; the module strip is one line per step; text, buttons, cards and tiles are smaller so more of the work fits on the screen; the strip of open pages is gone.
    • On phones the bottom bar now starts with More and then shows up to four of your own modules, the ones you work in most first. A module with one page opens that page; others open their tiles. Home is at the top of the menu; Search and alerts stay in the top bar.
  14. 12-Nov-2026

    Smaller week cards and figure tiles

    • On a computer, the This week, Last week and Every week cards on Loading Notes are now two short lines each, and the remaining large figure tiles and older figure rows use the same small numbers as the rest of the app.
  15. 12-Nov-2026

    Slimmer summary strip, blue charts and softer pop-up windows

    • On a computer, the summary strip at the top of Dispatch, Inventory, Packing and other modules is now one slim line per step, so a page no longer shows two rows of figures. Charts use the blue-led colours instead of the old green. Pop-up windows open over a soft blue veil.
  16. 12-Nov-2026

    No pop-out list when pointing at a module and 2 more

    • On a computer, pointing at Analytics or at any module in the side menu no longer pops out a list of its pages. A click opens the module's tiles instead.
    • On a computer, the figures at the top of dashboards and reports are now one slim deep blue band with smaller numbers, instead of separate large cards.
    • On a computer the app is smaller, tighter and flatter throughout: a compact side menu, a light top bar, 34-pixel buttons and fields, plain table headers, softer cards, a glass page icon, and pages that ease in. Home's cards and figures are smaller.
  17. 11-Nov-2026

    Home in night glass

    • On a computer, Home is now the same deep blue glass scene as the suite screens: a larger greeting, frosted cards and brighter figures. Working pages with tables and forms stay light so they remain easy to read and print.
  18. 11-Nov-2026

    Master File tiles: an icon for each page

    • Every Master File page now has its own icon on the tile screens (they all showed the same folder). A check now stops two pages of one module sharing an icon.
  19. 11-Nov-2026

    Night glass side menu and top bar, and coloured icons on the tiles

    • On a computer the side menu and the top bar are now deep blue glass to match the tile screens; the menus that open from them stay light. The tiles on the suite and module screens have coloured glass icons.
  20. 11-Nov-2026

    Tiles for Analytics and every module on a computer and 2 more

    • Clicking Analytics, or any module in the side menu, on a computer now opens its pages as tiles, the same as the suites. Pointing at a module still shows its list of pages.
    • The suite and module screens on a computer have a new look: a deep blue glass banner with the suite or module name, how many modules or pages it holds and what is waiting; cleaner tiles; and Needs attention and Recent Activities as cards. A module's banner links back to its suite.
    • The suite and module screens on a computer are now a deep blue glass scene: frosted tiles with white glass seats, today's figures for the suite or module at the top right (for example kilograms received and pallets built), and Needs attention and Recent Activities as frosted panels.
  21. 11-Nov-2026

    Suite screens on a computer: smaller tiles and what needs attention and 1 more

    • On a computer, clicking a suite such as Packhouse no longer unfolds its list in the side menu, because the tiles already show its modules. The tiles are smaller, and underneath the suite now shows what is waiting for you and your team and the latest entries across its modules.
    • The tile screens on a computer have Back and Forward buttons in the bottom right corner, to step between a suite, a module and the page you came from.
  22. 11-Nov-2026

    The module tiles on a computer

    • Clicking a suite such as Farm or Packhouse in the side menu on a computer now opens the same tile screen as on a phone: its modules as tiles, then a module's pages and its recent activities. The side menu and the top bar stay in place.
  23. 11-Nov-2026

    Glass tiles on the phone module screens

    • The phone module screens have a new look: each icon sits on a glossy deep blue seat with a soft reflection, on frosted glass tiles, and the names are in normal case.
  24. 11-Nov-2026

    Phone module tiles in PackChain deep blue

    • The icons on the phone module screens, and the marks beside Recent Activities, now use the app's deep blue instead of green.
  25. 11-Nov-2026

    Readable text on the dark week tiles and 9 more

    • On Dispatch > Loading notes the selected week tile (and the other dark panels) now shows its small lines and units in light text; they were dark grey on blue.
    • Fruit Processing batches now save only the batch that changed, so two people working at once no longer risk overwriting each other. A batch changed on another device is refused with a message.
    • Editing the order book now saves only the line that changed, so two people working on different customers no longer collide. A line changed on another device is refused with a message.
    • The Backup Centre and the hourly backups now also cover customer orders and their issue history, loading notes, quality checks, fuel fills and dips, plant care entries and the staff list.
    • The hourly backups and the Backup Centre now also cover staff private details and payroll (pay runs, rates, periods, tax tables, statutory set-up, loans, packer incentive). Each backup is shown only to people allowed to read that list.
    • Attendance clock events are now backed up too, one day at a time, and the Backup Centre can put a single day back from its backup.
    • On a phone, Keep me signed in now starts ticked, and the app offers fingerprint or Face ID once after you sign in. The screen lock starts at 30 minutes on a computer and stays at 15 on a phone; each device can still change it.
    • When the server refuses a save (a rule, your access, or someone else changing the same record first) the app now says why and carries on, instead of pausing for a reload. Running numbers that two people take at the same moment sort themselves out.
    • PackChain can now open on the page each person works on most. Data-entry staff start on their own work: on a computer the app opens on that page, and on a phone it is one large button at the top of Home. Admins choose this per person under Manage Users.
    • On a phone, the menu now opens each suite and each module as a screen of large tiles, one per page, with the module's latest entries underneath. Tap a tile to open the page; the phone's Back button returns to the tiles.
    • Recent Activities now also shows for Pruning, Pest and Disease, Plant Register, Forecasting, People (leave requests, for HR) and Documents.
    • The Your work card on a phone now shows today's figures for that work, such as the number of batches and their kilograms.
  26. 10-Nov-2026

    Loading notes saved one at a time

    • Saving a loading note now sends only that note, so two people working on notes at once no longer overwrite each other
    • A note changed on another device is refused with a message, not silently replaced
  27. 10-Nov-2026

    Sign-in and contrast fixes

    • A very quick sign-in can no longer end on the Server data could not be loaded screen
    • The greeting on Home and the small labels on dark panels are readable again
  28. 10-Nov-2026

    Sign-in tidy-up for PackChain owners

    • The Home page no longer asks the server for field-weighing totals before an owner has chosen an organisation
  29. 10-Nov-2026

    Fixes found by the new page sweep

    • Empty boxes no longer stay marked as loading for screen readers
    • Purchase orders no longer shows its figures twice
  30. 10-Nov-2026

    Fuel: stock adjustment form

    • Approvers can post a stock adjustment on a tank from Dips or Transactions, without a dip: add or take off litres, with a reason
  31. 10-Nov-2026

    Analytics: three more graphs and recent traces

    • Yield & pack-out shows packed by week, this season against last
    • Orders & customers shows shipped, packed and short by customer
    • Estimates vs actual shows each variety ahead of or behind its estimate, and where the year will end
    • Traceability remembers the last traces on the device
  32. 10-Nov-2026

    Analytics: what changed, block drawer, filters that stay

    • The season flow bar adds Orders filled and Against estimate
    • Yield & pack-out shows what changed in the newest week
    • The season, dates and variety stay as you change report
    • Tap a block on a report to see its season at the side
  33. 10-Nov-2026

    Analytics: season flow bar and one tab strip

    • Every Analytics report shows this season so far against last season: harvested, processed, packed for export, and the air / sea split
    • The seven reports sit on one tab strip
  34. 10-Nov-2026

    Inventory: purchase order drawer, transfers to do, count cards

    • Purchase orders are one list with a received bar; tap an order for its steps, lines and deliveries
    • Transfers shows what is still to send or receive, with the steps on each
    • Stock counts are cards with progress and steps; Reorder shows what to buy by supplier
    • Stock reports are tabs
  35. 10-Nov-2026

    Inventory: stock flow bar, tabs and item drawer

    • Every Inventory page shows the stock flow bar and one tab strip, with set-up pages under Set-up
    • Stock shows each item against its minimum and maximum, how long it lasts, and a status
    • Tap an item to see where it is held, what is on order and its last movements
  36. 10-Nov-2026

    Quality: check drawer, waiting list and holds inbox

    • A QC check opens in a side drawer with each reading shown against the farm standard
    • Receiving and Processing QC list what is waiting for a check today, with a countdown on firmness to add
    • Online and dispatch holds are one inbox showing each release step
    • The QC End of day report shows defects by variety as a heat map
  37. 10-Nov-2026

    Roles: delete pallets and reopen closed work

    • A role allowed to delete records can also delete an empty pallet.
    • Reopen closed work: a role with it can reopen finished fruit transfers (with a reason), finished field-weighing blocks and paid sales orders.
  38. 10-Nov-2026

    Roles: what a role can do; select all pages

    • Role Management: a role you create can be allowed to delete records, unlock locked entries, reopen paid orders and approve stock counts.
    • Page access lists get one tick box to select or clear every page.
  39. 10-Nov-2026

    Add user in three steps; My account for everyone

    • Add user: who they are, what they do and where, on one sheet; leave the PIN empty and one is made; email sign-in can be set straight away.
    • My account opens from the account menu for everyone: change your PIN, two-step sign-in, Google / Microsoft, Face ID and this device.
  40. 10-Nov-2026

    Manage Users: status bar and side panel

    • Manage Users gets a status bar (accounts, can't sign in yet, no farm, locked out, admins without an authenticator); tap one to see only those people.
    • A person opens in a side panel with Profile, Access, Farms and Sign-in tabs; unlock and two-step reset are there too.

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