It’s been over a month since we launched the new petra.com and we hope everyone is enjoying the new site. We’d like to thank you for all the feedback and suggestions we’ve received since the site launched. Your feedback is critical and drives our roadmap for future improvements to our site.
The new PetraCentral is just the beginning. It provides us with a foundation to build better features and improve the overall experience of doing business with Petra.
Our goal is to make running your business easier. We are here to support you and we will continue to adapt our site to make buying online from Petra as easy and frictionless as possible.
Upcoming features and enhancements
We’ve implemented many of your suggestions already and fixed issues that have been brought to our attention. We are planning to launch several major new features this year, as well as a lot of minor enhancements.
Here are the big features that we will be rolling out before the end of the year.
New Search Experience
We are currently working on a major overhaul of the search system that will be launching in December. The new system will provide many new filtering options, return better results for your search queries, and will make working with shopping lists easier.
We will also be updating the search on the quick order form to support more product identifiers, such as part number and UPC.
Brand Index
The brand index will be an alphabetized list of all brands that we are currently selling. You will be able to click the brand name to view all the products that the brand offers through Petra. This will make it much easier to see all the brands we offer and their products. This feature will be launching in December.
Updated Shopping List Features
We are making some changes to how shopping lists are created and managed. If you do not have a shopping list already, you will be able to create a list and add a product to it with a single click. This will more closely mimic how a traditional shopping cart would work, but still retain all the new features that shopping lists bring.
We will also be adding brand, available inventory, carton quantity, and other information to the shopping lists.
Online Returns
Our new online returns feature is nearly ready to launch, and we thank you for your patience as we are currently testing this feature and will be releasing it soon. We’ll have more detailed information on how this feature will work when it launches.
More to come
In addition to the changes mentioned here, we have big plans for PetraCentral next year as well, which we will share with you later. We greatly appreciate your support and feedback, so please keep letting us know what you would like to see improved!