A few weeks ago it was time again – we invited our service partners to the annual JTL-Partner Convention. The event is not only a way for us to maintain careful contact with our partner network. We also provide them with lots of new information about our development, planned releases and offer them the opportunity to advise and support our customers even better with presentations on our products.
Different city, same river, lots of information
Unlike in the past, this year’s Partner Convention was not held in Cologne but in Bonn, at the Kameha Grand Hotel. However, in order not to break with tradition, the Rhine was once again within reach this year.
The event, which entered its sixth round in 2018, began as it does every year with a keynote speech by Thomas Lisson. The JTL founder presented the current status of the company and our planned roadmap for the year. For example, our partners learned a lot about the JTL-Connectors to Shopify, Afterbuy and Plentymarkets. Or that the closed beta of the JTL-Fulfillment Network already processes over 10,000 orders per month. Speaking of fulfilment: JTL-Fulfillment GmbH was also a topic – if you’re looking for more information, you’ll find it here.* Many also listened attentively when Thomas announced that internationalization of the ERP is also being considered.
The 160 visitors from 85 service partners also received specific information on the further training concept and news from our wide-ranging partner network. We also offered the developer speed dating, which we already offered at last year’s JTL Connect, on a smaller scale. If there were any questions about our products or if a partner was looking for first-hand tips, they would find what they were looking for here. However, the individual presentations on the future of our products were certainly a highlight.
JTL-Wawi
The next JTL-Wawi release, version 1.4, was already casting its first shadows. We gave a brief insight into project 2.0, in which the sales order, listing, invoice, invoice correction, customer and worker areas will receive a comprehensive overhaul. We will soon be providing you with initial information on some of these new features here in the blog.
JTL-Shop
While the shop developers are making the final adjustments for JTL-Shop 4.06, a new major release, JTL-Shop 5, is on the horizon. It will still take some time before we can go into detail here. Nevertheless, customers can already look forward to a content editor, working title OnPageComposer, the switch to the standard encoding UTF8 as well as an auto-updater and much more. More information on this will follow in the course of the year, but for now the stable release of JTL-Shop 4.06 has priority for us, which already contains some much desired new features.
JTL-Shipping (DE)
What are we cooking up at JTL-Shipping? For example, our Austrian customers won’t have to wait long for the integration of Austrian Post. However, all customers should pay attention to points such as DHL Prio, shipment tracking and address validation, which we will be adding to JTL-Shipping in the near future.
JTL-WMS
If you use our Warehouse Management System, there is also news for you. We are working on a new, native JTL-WMS mobile client for Android, iOS and Windows. We are also planning the integration of scales, which also applies to JTL-Packing Bench+. We have a few other things up our sleeve, which we will of course also present to you in due course.
New website
But that’s not all – we are also changing our website. We will be launching our new, revised JTL website in the near future. Together with the new JTL-Store, where you will be able to buy everything related to JTL, you can expect a new, cleaner design, updated information about us and our products and lots of other content.
The end of the day’s program was followed by the second part of our events, which is familiar to JTL customers: Networking and summing up the day over a few drinks. And what was the verdict in many places? That our service partners are excited about all the innovations we presented on this day.
“The JTL-Partner Convention is the most important event of the year for our partner network. The reactions of the partners have shown us that we are on the right track. In a great atmosphere, we benefited greatly from direct contact with the participants and their feedback on various topics and suggestions. We will now tackle these step by step and continue to improve the network together with our partners,” said JTL Partner Manager Martin Rudloff, summarizing the day from our perspective.
Finally, we would like to thank all visitors of the JTL-Partner Convention 2018 for this successful day and are already looking forward to the JTL-Connect 2018 on August 31 in Düsseldorf!
*(We already explained the differences between our individual fulfillment topics here a few weeks ago).
