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Every product now has a complete change history. You can see what changed, when, and where the change came from — whether a person made the change, a Product Rule applied it, a bulk edit ran, or a Product Group propagated a value to siblings.

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Before you begin

  • Log in to the New Back Office as an Owner or Manager.
  • Navigate to Products → Product Catalog and open any product to follow along.
  • The History panel is available on every product. There’s nothing to enable.
History captures changes to scalar fields like Retail Price and Target Margin. Linked-relationship changes (Department, Modifiers, Taxes) are not currently included.

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Open the History panel

On any product detail page, find the clock icon in the top-right of the page header. Click it to slide the History panel out from the right.
Product detail page with the clock-icon History button highlighted in the top-right of the page header
Product detail page with the History panel open on the right, showing entries grouped by date with a timestamp and source for each change
Each entry shows:
  • What field changed — for example, Retail Price or Target Margin.
  • The before and after values — $4.49 → $5.49.
  • Timestamp — grouped by date, with a precise time on each entry.
  • Source — the user, Product Rule, or Revision that made the change.
Close the panel with the × in the top-right of the panel.

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What gets captured

Every common path you’d use to update a product produces a History entry. Today, three sources can appear on an entry:
  • Direct edits — when you change a field on the product detail page, the entry shows your email address.
  • Product Rules — when a rule sets a value on a matching product, the entry is attributed to Product Rule. Group-link propagation is currently recorded under this source too.
  • Bulk edits — when you bulk-edit from the Product Catalog, the entry shows up as a Revision. If a Product Rule controls the same field, the rule re-fires immediately afterward and pulls the value back to its rule-set target — both events are logged so you can see exactly what happened.

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Quick reference

Source labelTriggered by
Your email address (e.g. you@yourstore.com)A direct edit you made on the product detail page.
Product RuleA rule firing — when the rule was created, when its conditions started matching the product, or when it re-fires after another change. Product Group propagation is also recorded under this source today.
RevisionA bulk edit applied from the Product Catalog.
Use the History panel to debug “why did this product’s price change?” questions. The source on each entry tells you whether it came from a person, a rule, or an automated propagation — so you know exactly where to make a correction.