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Stay up to date with what’s going on at Boardera. Release Notes summarize all​​ new product features , bug fixes and improvements .

Every DECODE account now holds its own set of real sample boards, ready to run in one click, so you can see what DECODE does on genuine design files before uploading your own. The six samples are curated open-source designs, from a 2-layer shield to 4-layer instruments, rover electronics, and a rigid-flex board, and they replace the old pre-baked Sample Project. Clicking a sample opens the New Project panel with its name and files already in place: set the quantity and country of origin, choose Run Analysis, and it goes through the same analysis as your own upload, charged the same way. Nothing runs and nothing is charged until you start it. Samples sit in a Sample Projects group at the bottom of the left panel, and every group in that panel can now be collapsed. Once run, a sample is an ordinary project you can edit, re-run, export, or delete. Existing accounts have received the same set.

You can now bring colleagues and partners into a DECODE project without sending files around or exposing your design to anyone a link might reach. Share report asks for an email address and sends an invite that works only for that address; if the recipient has no account, confirming the invite creates a free one. The project then appears under Shared Projects in their left panel, and it is your original project, not a copy: everyone sees each other's changes live, and the AI agent conversation shows who asked each question. Activity on a shared project is billed to the project's organization, never to the person you invited. Shared with lists everyone who has access, who invited them, and when they last opened the project. You can remove a person or cancel a pending invite at any time, and invitees can leave on their own. Invite links expire after 7 days, while access from an accepted invite stays until it is removed. Beta: contact us to have report sharing enabled for your account.

Three small changes make everyday work in DECODE calmer. In the 3D view, clicking a face of the view cube now snaps to that face and switches dragging to pan, so a flat view of your board stays flat while you move around it and zoom with the scroll wheel. Home resets the view and returns dragging to rotate. In the project list, the delete icon is replaced by a more options menu that appears when you hover over a project, or on a long press on a phone, with Delete inside it. And the Complete your profile prompt now waits until your second finished project, so your first report is never interrupted.

When you upload a design through the DECODE MCP server from your AI assistant, a problem now shows up as a problem instead of an endless "Analyzing design" message. If your files arrive but analysis cannot start, the upload area shows the error, with the hosted upload page as a fallback. Analysis warnings appear as they happen, and a long-running analysis tells you it is still running and to ask the assistant to check back later. Your assistant also has more to work with: project details now list the attached files and their types, any uploads still pending, and whether analysis has not started, is in progress, or is complete, so it can say which stage a project is at instead of asking you to upload files that already arrived. Asking for a costing summary before analysis is complete now returns a clear answer rather than a request to keep retrying.

Every email DECODE sends, including account verification, password reset, and invites, now comes from api.support@boardera.io, the same domain the links inside those emails point to. A sender that matches its links no longer looks like a mismatch to mail filters and phone security checks, and a reply to any DECODE email reaches our API support inbox. The display name, Boardera Decode API, is unchanged. If your organization allow-lists senders, add api.support@boardera.io.

The DECODE project panel now behaves like the global navigation it is. A single sidebar button at the far left of the top bar opens and closes it, as does Ctrl+B or ⌘B, and the panel runs the full height of the page beside the project title instead of opening beneath it. On a desktop it narrows the report to make room; on a narrow screen it opens as a drawer over the page. Your account now lives in a footer pinned to the bottom of the panel: your name opens Account, Usage & Billing, Settings, and Log out, the gear holds API Keys, MCP Server, and the export schema version, and the help button opens the knowledge base in a new tab. The footer stays in place while a long project list scrolls above it.

Opening a project on a phone now shows the report first, instead of covering it with the AI agent chat. The chat stays one tap away, from the floating "Ask about this project" bar or the chat toggle in the header, and once you open it, it stays open while you remain in that project. From a drill-down page you can now swipe back to the report. Scrolling the report and its drill-down pages feels smoother on both Android and iPhone, tapping into a form field on an iPhone no longer leaves the page zoomed in after you sign in, and form errors are brought into view when they appear, so you no longer have to scroll up to find out why a sign-in did not go through.

The Help button in DECODE now opens a dedicated DECODE guide in the Boardera knowledge base. It covers the questions that come up when running a project, and it points to our updated project guidelines for how to package your design files.

DECODE now includes an AI agent beside your report. Ask it about your project and it answers from that project's own data: fabrication spec, DFM findings, BOM, and costs, and generic advice. It can also make changes for you, including ones the report has no field for: board dimensions and thickness, layer, material, finish and colour attributes, fabrication and assembly options, and BOM line details such as mount type, do not place, consigned parts, approved alternates, and notes. Bulk requests like "mark all 0402s surface mount" change exactly the lines you meant. The agent re-runs the analysis when it judges one is needed, or asks whether you are ready, and the XLSX and JSON downloads follow the fresh results. Every action it takes is shown inline with its inputs and its before and after values.

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You can now correct what DECODE read from your design files and re-run the analysis on your changes, without uploading anything again. Values the report displays, such as solder mask colour or a BOM line's approved parts, are marked as editable and change in place. Edits do not recompute on their own: they collect as pending changes while the report keeps showing your last results, and the main button reads Rerun Analysis with a count of what changed. Discard changes returns everything to the last run. Your edits are kept as overrides, so a re-run builds on them instead of re-extracting over them, and each changed value shows what it replaced. Teammates on the same project see your edits live, and everyone sees the analysis screen while a re-run is in progress.

The DECODE API now serves its own schema from an authenticated endpoint, so your tooling always sees exactly what the API will run. Call GET /api/v1/schema with the same API key or bearer token you use for queries: you get the schema as SDL by default, or standard introspection JSON with ?format=json, both carrying field and argument descriptions and guidance written for AI agents. The response follows your resolved schema version and echoes it in a header, does not consume your token allowance, and sits in its own rate limit so polling it never crowds out real queries. If a client tries a standard introspection query, the error now names this endpoint instead of a generic refusal, so a code generator or your own AI agent can find its way without reading the docs. The API playground loads the live schema too, so its Docs panel and autocomplete reflect every change the moment it deploys.

Weltron Elektronik is now available as a contract parts provider, giving EU-based manufacturers another live pricing source for BOM components. Weltron (Contract) appears in your vendor configuration alongside your other distributors, and connecting takes a single API key, which Weltron issues by email. Once connected and added to your AVL, Weltron pricing, stock, price breaks, minimum order quantity, packing unit, and lead time appear in the BOM Components table like any other distributor. Weltron prices in euros, so every offer is converted to USD as it is retrieved and lines up with your other sources. Only exact and alias matches count as offers for a part; Weltron's suggested alternatives and quantity-limited special offers are left out for now.

The download menu on the DECODE Results page now offers XLSX, generated in your browser in under ten seconds for a typical job from the same data that drives the on-screen report. The workbook opens with a Summary sheet giving the board-level picture: identifier, layer count, dimensions, key fabrication parameters, and the DFM and provenance counts. Separate sheets carry the extracted fabrication specs as structured rows, one row per DFM finding with its severity, location, and description, and one row per provenance record showing which source file each inferred parameter came from. BOM specs and BOM sourcing sheets round it out. The template is maintained in the same system as Boardera's other document templates, so its layout can evolve without waiting for a software release.

When several items in your ERP inventory match the same part, for example the same manufacturer and part number in different packaging or stock pools, only one used to appear and the rest were hidden or held for manual review. Every match now shows as its own offer in the sourcing widget, the match-review queue lists all candidate matches for an item rather than a single suggestion, and a saved mapping can associate one part with several ERP items and keeps all of them across a re-sync. Confirming one candidate in the review queue no longer discards the other valid matches, and existing single-match mappings keep working unchanged.

When a BOM line carries a manufacturer part identifier and an item in one of your enabled inventory sources has that same value as its SKU, Boardera now treats that as the match, publishes the offer, and records the mapping, without needing a manufacturer part number match first. An exact identifier you asserted ranks above a part-number lookup, and it reaches ERP items that carry no manufacturer part number at all, which no automated path could match before. Matching is exact, so a partial or differently cased identifier does not match, an item that already has a mapping is left alone, and the identifier that produced the match is recorded so the decision stays auditable.

Your ERP's available quantity is on hand minus reserved, but the sync only mapped the on-hand column, so offers overstated stock for parts already reserved to orders. The mapping editor now includes a subtract transform with an optional floor, so Qty Available can be set to on hand minus reserved, floored at zero, and "Suggest from this feed" proposes that automatically for a new source when both columns are present. Test Connection now refreshes the source field list in the mapping editor, including on a source that has already synced. Existing sources sync unchanged until you switch the Qty Available operation on the Mapping & filters tab; after that, a part's offer quantity matches the Avail figure in Cetec's own interface.

For rigid-flex boards, the full assembly 3D view now colours each region by how it is actually built instead of painting the whole board as soldermask. Flex corridors render with amber coverlay over a polyimide dielectric, while rigid sections keep their familiar soldermask and FR-4 look, so you can tell at a glance where the board bends and where it does not. Copper, silkscreen, and pads are unchanged in every zone, and silkscreen stays legible across the flex areas. The fold preview uses the same colour rule. Rigid-only boards and boards without regions look exactly as they did before, and DFM views are unaffected.

http://boardera.io is now the primary Boardera site, as we transition from http://boardera.ca . Every http://boardera.ca page redirects to its matching page on http://boardera.io , so bookmarks and search results keep working. The homepage leads with a "Run a report" call to action and shows figures drawn from a real DECODE analysis of the sample project, the same project you can open after logging in, with a downloadable sample report beside it. Marketing pages are now fully server-rendered with their own titles and descriptions, and the site carries the corporate content that used to live on http://boardera.ca : About, Careers, News, Book a Demo, and the blog. DECODE is presented as one product with three ways to use it: the web UI, the MCP server, and the API, each with a dedicated page, alongside new pages for the Quote Tool, Storefront, and Security.

Swapping a BOM file mid-project is now a first-class action. A Change File control sits in the BOM list panel header, right beside the close control, in addition to the existing sidebar link. Re-picking a file that has already been classified takes you straight back to the parsed BOM list with no redundant confirmation step, and when a parse result looks wrong you can explicitly re-run parsing on the current file instead of unsetting and re-picking and hoping for a different answer. If parsing produces no usable data, you are returned to file selection with a clear error within moments rather than waiting out a three minute spinner. The Part Sourcing widget also gets a visual tidy, with the Import button now sized to match its neighbours.

For gerber sets without a dedicated outline layer, outline detection could select a small interior silkscreen box instead of the true board edge, throwing off board size, pricing, and the panel outline. Geometry jitter introduced by the pad weld in the new rendering engine was rejecting most pads from the detection's convexity check, leaving only a skewed handful to anchor the search. The filter now tolerates that jitter, the full pad set participates again, and the detected outline matches the board. The outline advisor is also hardened against a timing race in loose-file uploads, so a correctly assigned outline is no longer deselected while polygon extraction is still in flight.

Products created on behalf of an API consumer now take their data region from the consumer's account rather than from the connected supplier profile. For an EU-flagged consumer, uploaded files, renders, polygon data, 3D and SpeedDFM outputs, BOM extraction, and exports all land in EU storage, and board processing runs on the EU cluster, regardless of whether the request came through the API, a Decode session, or the editor. Pricing continues to run against the supplier's configuration so quotes are unchanged. Existing products keep their current region.

Analysis polling through the API is lighter and more predictable. Polls no longer contend with the collaborative editing engine for the same product writes, which removes a source of long stalls and gateway timeouts under load, and a liveness fallback ensures a confirmed suggestion is always applied even if the background applier is unavailable. Assembly projects submitted through the API now keep their assembly setting through analysis and price as assemblies rather than falling back to PCB only. Per-product status lookups are now index-served, trimming a fixed overhead from every poll.

Routine host maintenance on our workflow orchestration service could previously cause a brief platform-wide pause in quote sync, DFM, and pricing while a replacement task struggled to join the cluster. Replacement tasks now join cleanly while the outgoing task is still running, and the service has been resized to meet the vendor's recommended capacity, so maintenance windows, deploys, and recoveries pass without interrupting in-flight work.

A cluster of fixes makes project analysis more consistent, especially right after a deploy or under heavy concurrent load. The advisor registry is now updated in place on startup instead of being emptied and rebuilt, so an analysis that runs during a restart always selects its full advisor set. Control tasks that coordinate analysis runs are no longer starved by long-running advisors sharing the same process, eliminating five minute stalls and the occasional failed run. An inert dispatch path that accounted for 93% of internal analysis traffic while never doing useful work has been removed, so real work no longer queues behind no-ops. And a bookkeeping fix ensures pricing always waits for layer ingestion to finish, closing a path that could price a board before its layers had landed.

Repeat orders no longer mean rebuilding your pricing work. A new Clone action on the Quote Overview page copies a whole quote, header and every line item, into a fresh pending quote for the same customer. Every override survives the copy: pricing, BOM and constant overrides, and BOM item notes all carry over and re-price exactly as you left them. The clone is a true fresh start, with its own quote number, line items reset to Pending, a new expiry date, and no ERP linkage or version history tying it back to the source, which stays untouched. It works on any quote, including locked and expired ones, and drops you straight onto the new quote's overview page, ready to adjust and send.

The 3D view in the quote editor now frames your board precisely every time. The Home action and every view switch fit the board exactly to the viewport, including the exploded stackup view, so no more boards floating small in the corner or clipped at the edges. The orientation cube has moved to the top right corner, where it no longer covers other controls, and dragging it now turns the camera at a natural rate: a sweep across the cube rotates the view as far as a sweep across the stage. Rotation and roll controls appear whenever you hover the cube, snap animations respect your reduced motion preference, and the toolbar adapts smoothly to smaller windows. The Decode layer viewer picks up the same cube improvements.

Component placement files in .txt format are now recognized on API and quote submissions, matching what the editor's centroid wizard has always accepted. Previously, automatic centroid extraction only picked up .csv and .xlsx pick-and-place files, so a .txt placement file uploaded through the API was silently ignored. Now your component positions come through on the first pass, with no interactive step and no re-export from your CAD tool.

The 3D board viewer now runs exclusively on our modern WebGPU rendering engine, and the legacy renderer has been retired entirely. Every user and every browser now takes the same rendering path, with an automatic WebGL2 fallback for browsers without WebGPU support, so the viewer keeps working everywhere with nothing to configure. The result is a lighter application in your browser and one consistent, faster picture of your board across the whole platform.

Signing up for DECODE at http://boardera.io is now a clean three step flow: create an account with Google, Microsoft, or email and password, accept the terms, then choose your plan. The free tier continues straight into DECODE, and choosing a paid tier routes through checkout and lands you on that tier, which means you can now start on a paid plan even when signing up with SSO. Company name and use case no longer hold up sign-up; a dismissible "Complete your profile" prompt appears after your first project instead. The account menu has been tidied to match: a new Account page holds your name, company, use case, and password settings, and the dashboard is now Usage & Billing, with a Manage Plan action and the long per-project usage list moved to the bottom of the page.

The API now returns the complete gerber file to PCB layer mapping. A dedicated route lists the layer role, layer number, and assigned file name for every layer of a product: copper, silk, mask, paste, drill, outline, and mechanical. The JSON export carries the same information, with each stackup layer listing its assigned file (null when nothing is assigned) and outline and mechanical assignments included alongside. Integrations can now verify exactly which file drives which layer without opening the editor.

The 3D layer meshes served by the asset export API and shown in the Decode layer viewer now come compressed, roughly 3.4x smaller on the wire, and a long-standing orientation flaw in the generated GLB files is corrected so meshes render with the proper face orientation in third party 3D tools.

For domains using Custom AI Labor Prompts, the BOM line item details page now lets you set the labor prompts yourself. Two new pickers replace the Mount Type dropdown: a single primary labor prompt and any number of additive prompts. When the AI classifier picks the wrong prompt for a part, override it on that line alone; pricing applies your selection directly and skips the AI call for that item. No rewriting your prompt library and no living with a misclassification.

With panel detection enabled, the Assembly Panel widget no longer opens with a blocking yes/no question. The configuration form appears immediately: when our vision pipeline recognizes that your files already contain a panel, the form arrives pre-filled with the detected layout and dimensions; when it does not, the form proposes a starter panel sized to fit up to four boards within your domain's panel limits. A new fit check flags a board count that cannot physically fit the configured panel and blocks confirmation until it is resolved. Beta: contact us to have panel detection enabled for your domain.

The Vendor dropdown in the Add Custom Offer form now lists custom vendors alphabetically instead of in creation order. "Select a vendor" stays first, "+ Create New Vendor" stays pinned last, and a newly created vendor appears in its correct position the next time the list opens.

Avnet is now available as a distributor integration. Connect your Avnet account and BOM sourcing retrieves contract pricing, stock availability, lead times, lifecycle status, minimum order quantities, and packaging options directly from Avnet, displayed in the BOM Components table right alongside your other distributors. Avnet appears as a selectable distributor in your AVL configuration.

The service that applies collaborative edits to quotes and projects now runs as its own dedicated server, decoupled from the main platform. Editing sessions survive platform restarts and deployments with nothing more than a brief automatic reconnect, and server side updates continue to apply even while the main application is cycling. Nothing new to learn, just fewer interruptions.

Suppliers can now connect their own Google Analytics to their Boardera storefront. Enter your GA4 Measurement ID in Storefront Branding and your storefront begins reporting page views to your own analytics property, consent-gated and privacy-safe by design, with quote and order identifiers stripped before anything leaves the browser. See where your storefront traffic comes from and what prospects look at, in the analytics tool your marketing team already uses.

The Decode results page has had a full round of polish. The upload area now leads with a single "Browse files" action, with folder upload one click away as a link. Project loading is announced with a brief toast notification instead of status text crowding the project rail. The stackup section now presents layers as a table like every other results section: click a layer row and the stackup diagram opens in the detail panel, the same way DFM findings already work. All sections start collapsed, with a single expand-all control at the top of the page replacing the per-section controls. The duplicate DFM summary strip at the top of the page is gone; the full DFM report below remains the single home for findings. Less scrolling, fewer competing controls, one consistent way to read results.

The universal JSON export now computes pricing only when your query actually asks for it. Request engineering data alone (BOM, stackup, drill data, board options) and the export no longer kicks off a full pricing run behind the scenes, so spec-only integrations get their payload noticeably faster. Ask for costing and everything behaves exactly as before.

The Profit Projections table on quote details can now show its currency columns per unit as well as per order: manufacturing cost, factored cost, markup, gross profit, list price, discount, and price, each divided by the order quantity. Per-unit columns sit directly beside their per-order counterparts and are hidden by default; switch them on from the table's existing column control and your choice is remembered with the rest of your view. Read the unit economics of a quote without reaching for a calculator.

Exports from the quote overview (quote export, pricing breakdown, and JSON) now finish with a "Your download is ready" button, and the file downloads when you click it. Previously, browsers with strict download blocking (Chrome's default) could silently suppress the file while the platform reported it had started downloading. Because the download now starts from your own click, it can't be blocked, and a success message only appears once the download has genuinely begun.

With AI BOM parsing enabled, importing a BOM takes you straight from upload to your parsed parts list, with no manual column-mapping step. The editor shows progress while the parser works, gives it the time it needs to finish properly, and only falls back to manual column mapping if parsing genuinely can't complete. The parsed BOM list is also easier to get back to: reopening a parsed project shows it immediately, and a control on the Part Sourcing widget reopens it any time. Beta: contact us to have it enabled for your domain.

The DECODE portal at http://boardera.io now supports single sign-on. New users can create an account with one click using an existing Google or Microsoft login (work, school, or personal) and land on the free tier with no separate password and no email verification step. Existing users who sign in with SSO are matched to their account by email automatically. The fastest path yet from "curious" to "analyzing your first design."

The Decode API Layer Viewer is Here!

The Decode layer viewer is now available in the Decode interface and API so one can easily retrieve the 3D meshes of each layer to recreate your own digital twin.

The Decode results page gains a new "Focus" toggle in the PCB Fabrication and Assembly Labor sections. Turn it on and the table shows only the line items actually driving your cost, hiding the more detailed rows that would otherwise bury the numbers that matter. Hidden items are never silent: the section shows "X of Y items" and a one-click "Show all," and totals, summary percentages, and exports are completely unchanged. Each section toggles independently, and your choice is remembered per project.

When a project contains only a BOM or only Gerbers, Decode no longer renders empty placeholder sections or navigation entries for the data that isn't there. Results pages now show exactly what your upload supports, with nothing more to scroll past.

PROJECT SETUP & UPLOADS

Design packages can now be uploaded as .rar and .7z archives in addition to .zip and .tar. This works everywhere files come in, including the project editor, Quick Price, and the API, and it covers nested archives and full ODB++ trees, with the same size and safety limits as existing formats. If your CAD or customer packages arrive compressed, they now come through without a manual re-zip step.

API projects are no longer locked to the first BOM they receive. A new clearBom mutation lets integrations discard a bad BOM and re-analyze with a corrected upload, and when a BOM parses to zero rows the platform now recovers automatically on the next upload, with no manual intervention and no throwing away the project and its analysis.

Controlled impedance can now be set via submitProjectSuggestions, matching the other board options already writable through the API. Integrations can correct or declare the requirement directly, and the documentation notes its effect on pricing and lead time.

A round of polish across the new quote editor based on direct user feedback. BOM editing now lives where the work happens: the line item details page gains multi-select and bulk actions over BOM rows, replacing the separate BOM details page (old links redirect automatically). Editor breadcrumbs now show the customer's part number instead of an internal SKU, and lead time displays the actual calculated value with its explanatory tooltip restored. Fonts, buttons, and box sizing across the editor have been made more consistent.

Custom offers on BOM components can now carry a description. When you enter a negotiated rate or an alternate sourcing arrangement, add a short note about what it refers to, and that description follows the offer onto the BOM view, so there is no more guessing which agreement a price came from weeks later.

EXPORTS & DATA

The universal JSON export now carries the full 40-column standardized BOM, closing the gap on the remaining fields: factored unit and total costs, cost factor, required quantity, board quantity, factory lead days, consignment, leads, compliance, and last-updated, among others. Pricing-sensitive fields appear only in the pricing BOM, keeping the engineering-only project BOM clean. Downstream systems now receive exactly what users see on screen.

XLSX exports that assemble multiple values inside a single cell no longer insert stray blank lines between entries. Intentional line breaks in your data are preserved, and only the unwanted ones are gone. Applies to all spreadsheet export paths, with document templates unaffected.

The layer-composite color scheme used in DFM is now standardized between the interactive viewer and the generated report, so a layer looks the same wherever you review it. One less mental translation when walking a customer or colleague through findings.

Saved views in the quote editor sidebar can now be arranged in the order you want them. Hover over a view, grab the drag handle, and drop it where it belongs, putting your most-used layouts at the top. The order is personal to you and persists across sessions, and your starred default view behaves exactly as before.

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The DECODE API is live at boardera.io. The same engine that drives the Boardera platform, covering fabrication analysis, BOM processing, assembly planning, and pricing, is now available as a hosted automation API you can plug directly into your own workflows, portals, ERP, and customer facing interfaces.

Upload a design package, get back a complete, structured analysis in minutes:

• Fabrication analysis: DFM, layer stackup, board dimensions, copper area, drill data, and pad features extracted from Gerbers and ODB++

• BOM processing: component matching, procurement links, live availability and end-of-life risk, RoHS / REACH compliance flags

• Assembly planning: part counts, placement volumes, package classifications

• Pricing: PCB only, assembly only, and turnkey models aligned to fabrication and EMS operations

Sign up at boardera.io or contact api.sales@boardera.ca. The API is fully documented and ready to integrate today. The portal comes with an embedded sandbox and user friendly DECODE tool to test the API capabilities before you write any code.

New API accounts can now sign up at boardera.io with no payment method on file and receive a monthly refreshing free tier of analyses. Plug DECODE into a workflow, prove it out, and only add billing when you're ready to scale beyond the included allotment. The free quota resets every month automatically.

SpeedDFM results are now returned as part of every DECODE API analysis alongside the rest of the fabrication output. Integrators can flag designs that violate fab rules before a design ever reaches a manufacturer, using the same domain configurable thresholds available inside the Boardera platform, with no extra call required.

API and Decode consumers can now choose which JSON export schema version they receive, directly from the portal settings. The portal shows your currently resolved version, lets you select any active version, and the Decode JSON download honours that choice: the payload is transformed to the selected version, and both the file name and the meta.schemaVersion field reflect it. Integrations pinned to an established schema keep receiving exactly the payload shape they were built against, even as we continue to evolve the format.

API documentation is now published per schema version. The latest version lives at the canonical docs URL, and every other active version has its own documentation reflecting that version's actual payload shape, with the schema version shown in the header. If you integrate against an older active version, the docs you read now match the data you actually receive.

The Decode upload area now accepts whole folders. Drag in — or pick — a directory, including nested subfolders, and every file is uploaded with its relative path preserved, alongside any individual files you add. Previously, dragging a Gerber or ODB++ export directory could silently drop its subfolders; now the full package comes through intact. Browsers that don't support folder selection fall back gracefully to picking files.

Decode now surfaces problems through a single, consistent notification pattern instead of messages that varied from screen to screen. Expired sessions, lost connections, unexpected results, and missing projects each show a plain-English, dismissible toast with the right next step — Sign in, Retry, or Reload — so it is always clear what happened and what to do about it.

QUOTING WORKFLOW

Quotes can now be tagged from the Customer Information section using a multi select tag picker. Tags configured for the domain are available to apply to any quote, and tags already on a quote that no longer exist in the active list still display so nothing is silently lost. Tag changes are captured in the audit trail and stored alongside the quote in both MongoDB and the ERP facing data path, so they flow through to exports and downstream reporting. Useful for slicing the quote list by program, priority, customer segment, or any other category your team already tracks informally.

When a quote is added to the cart, the cart subtotal and the server side order validation now use the FX rate that was locked onto the quote at creation time instead of re-converting at the current rate. Customers who quote one day and order the next no longer see the cart total drift from the quote they were sent. The same fix applies to existing quotes: the exchange rates snapshot already lived on the line items and is now consulted everywhere prices are surfaced.

The category label assigned by the AI labor prompt, shown as the "Details" column in the placement table (e.g. Standard_Passives-0, Small_IC-0, Large_IC-0), now flows through to the JSON document export under each pricing line item. ERP and analytics consumers can now distinguish between labor categories without scraping the UI.

The quote editor gains real-time collaboration and a round of layout polish. Avatar circles now show who else is actively viewing a quote, so teammates working the same quote can see each other at a glance, with a simple coloured dot for live connection status. Line-item details now include a configurable BOM side panel where you can reorder rows by drag-and-drop and show or hide columns to match how you work. Rounding out the pass: editor breadcrumbs and project files show real customer part numbers and file names instead of internal IDs, the customer name displays as a clean read-only label, your starred default view is selected automatically when you open a quote, and the line-items box restores its "+" add button with a proper empty state.

BOM & SOURCING

Two long standing oddities in the designer editor are fixed. When a designer chooses "I'll provide the PCB" the editor no longer skips file upload entirely; designers can still upload Gerbers if they have them, even when supplying the bare board themselves. And when a BOM is uploaded first and Gerbers are added afterwards, the PCB widgets are no longer disabled. The editor now correctly recognizes that both surfaces are in play and lets the designer complete the rest of the configuration.

On the supplier portal quote view, customer supplied parts no longer suppress other warnings on the same line item. Previously, marking a part as customer supplied silently overwrote every other validation issue with the single "Customer Supplied Component" info entry, hiding things like Unknown Mount Type warnings that the manufacturer still needs to act on. Now all applicable warnings stack alongside the customer supplied marker.

The Quote BOM table on the supplier portal now consistently surfaces component package, description, and Country of Origin from the parts database. Two related fixes drive this. The Mounting column now falls back to the same classification source that the More Details panel and Placement Costing table already use, so a part the rest of the screen classifies correctly no longer reads "Unknown" in this one column. And the Potential Package column for Arrow and Future sourced parts now shows the component case (e.g. 0402) instead of the supplier's shipping packaging (e.g. REEL).

Sourcing wall time on large BOMs has dropped by roughly 3x. A 1180 row BOM that previously took ~238 seconds to fully source now completes in ~75 seconds, with consistent runs and no workflow hangs. The improvement comes from pipeline tuning across the Boardera parts populator, and customers should feel it as "the quote came back faster" with no visible UI difference.

Two production stability issues affecting large or API driven projects are resolved. Uploading a very large BOM (~1180 lines) no longer triggers a feedback loop that exhausts platform memory and crashes the service. And API projects that arrive with two viable BOM files (typically the same BOM uploaded twice with slightly different names) no longer cause both BOMs to break each other. The platform now handles the duplicate cleanly.

The download BOM button now produces a richer, better organized XLSX export generated through the DOCXTemplater engine. Every column visible in the BOM table flows through to the export exactly as it appears on screen, covering all ~40 fields across reference designators, part identification, vendor pricing, attrition, tariffs, factored costs, and compliance. Column order, headers, and number formatting are aligned with what procurement teams expect, and long requested fields like excess cost are now included. The result is one consistent, complete spreadsheet for the full BOM review, pricing, and handoff workflow.

Manufacturer users can now attach notes to individual BOM line items directly from the Part Details page. The notes box reuses the same pattern as existing Quote Notes, so there is nothing new to learn: a free text box that persists with the line item and is available for editing or clearing whenever needed. Notes are scoped to the manufacturer's domain, so purchasing instructions, internal commentary, or notes to the customer can be captured per part without leaking across tenants.

PRICING & CAPABILITIES

The legacy split between FR4 Tg 130, FR4 Tg 150, and FR4 Tg 170 pricing configs has been consolidated into a single FR-4 material entry, and Temperature Rating (Tg) is now a first class option on the capabilities page. Fabricators can declare the Tg range they support and price the material once, with the Tg constraint handled separately as a capability filter rather than baked into the material taxonomy. Existing pricing configs migrate automatically.

Drill files are now automatically assigned to the correct layer span based on the design, using an ML model trained on the historical project corpus. Designers no longer need to re-assign drill files manually after upload, and manufacturers get correctly assigned drill spans without having to ask. Fewer round trips, more accurate pricing on first quote.

BOM pricing now accounts for distributor order multiples (Minimum Package Quantity). When a part can only be purchased in fixed multiples — reels of 1,000, tubes of 50 — the quote rounds the purchase quantity up to the nearest multiple instead of assuming the exact count needed can be bought. Offer ranking factors in the real cost too, so an offer with a low unit price but a large order multiple no longer wins when the forced excess actually makes it more expensive overall. The required multiple is surfaced as an MPQ value in the BOM details table alongside MOQ, and parts from sources that don't report an order multiple behave exactly as before.

SpeedDFM has reached 1-to-1 parity with the industry standard DFM tools and is now domain configurable, so each manufacturer can tune thresholds to match what their fab actually rejects rather than living with a single shared default. Duplicate checks on the same geometry have been removed and false positives from missing feature awareness have been cleaned up. The net effect for customers is a markedly better DFM signal to noise ratio, and the ability to dial it in further if needed.

Manufacturers running Boardera as an internal quoting tool can now disable platform generated emails to their customers. There are two levels of control: a domain wide setting on the Customer Management page that turns off all automated customer emails across the domain, and a per quote override for cases where a manufacturer wants the default behaviour but needs to silence emails on one specific quote. Useful for shops that handle all customer communication out of band and don't want the platform contacting customers in parallel.

QUOTING WORKFLOW

The quote list search bar now matches against the customer name in addition to quote number, part numbers, descriptions, and SKUs. For organization accounts the company name is searched, and for individual accounts the email address is searched — matching what each column already displays. Existing quotes have been backfilled so customer-name search works immediately across all historical data. Small change, frequent win for anyone triaging a long quote list.

Manufacturers working through a sorted or filtered BOM can now drill into a part's detail page and return to the overview without losing their place. The sort column, sort direction, and search query are all retained when the Back button is used, and they cleanly reset when a user genuinely moves on to a different quote. This removes a small but chronic source of friction for anyone working through a long BOM a row at a time.

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The quotes module has been tightened up based on direct customer feedback. Redundant row-level actions have been removed from the Quotes Overview table, the Line Items table, the Notes and Terms table, the Internal Files table, and the PCB Sourcing table on the Line Item Detail page — every action those rows used to offer is already accessible elsewhere in the UI, and removing the duplicates leaves a cleaner, more predictable interface. Supporting UX standardization across box components continues in parallel, with consistent placement of add controls, consistent single-click row interactions, and section dropdowns for multi-section boxes.

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PCB SPECIFICATIONS

PCB fabricators can now configure the working panel sizes their equipment actually supports — multiple panels per fabricator, each with its own width, height, frame border widths for tooling holes and fiducials, and an active/inactive flag. When the platform nests assembly panels for a job, it evaluates every active panel a fabricator has configured and chooses the one that maximizes material utilization. Fabricators get more accurate pricing that reflects their real capabilities, and customers get better utilization without any extra work.

Designers can now specify that their PCB requires UL marking, following the same pattern as IPC Class III. Manufacturers declare UL capability in their capabilities configuration. UL markings default to free (most fabs include them at no charge), but manufacturers can configure custom pricing if they prefer.

Board Options now supports custom copper thickness for designs that require non-standard copper weights — high-current, RF, and specialized thermal management applications. The Copper Thickness dropdown gains an "Other" option that reveals an input field for entering thickness in microns (with one decimal place of precision). Standard dropdown options (0.5 oz, 1, 2, 3, and 4 oz) and their micron equivalents are shown inline via a tooltip so designers can sanity-check their entry. Custom values flow through to pricing configuration, the formula engine, order output, and the full per-layer copper thickness string sent to the ERP.

Designers can now specify their tolerance for non-functional boards on a panel through the existing Quote and Order modals. Two values are captured: X-Out per Panel (an integer, defaulting to 2 — the maximum number of non-functional boards accepted per panel) and X-Out per Order (a percentage, defaulting to 5% — the maximum share of non-functional boards across the whole order). Zero values mean no X-Outs accepted. Both values flow through to the pricing configuration as a pricing option and are exposed to the formula engine, letting manufacturers offer lower pricing when designers accept some defect tolerance rather than requiring fully perfect panels.

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Projects now include a required Industry Sector field in the Project Info component, covering Automotive, Automotive Safety, Aerospace, Aviation, Defense, Medical, Industrial, Consumer Electronics, Information Technology, White Goods, Other, and Unknown (the default). The selected industry is visible to manufacturers and vendors so they understand the compliance standards, quality expectations, and handling procedures that apply to the project, and it is available as a variable in the formula engine for pricing rules that depend on industry context.

BOM & SOURCING

The editor's part modal now surfaces suggested alternative parts from Nexar alongside the existing "did you mean" list. Up to five suggested parts appear in a familiar card layout with the part number and manufacturer clearly displayed, giving designers a fast path to a suitable replacement when the original part needs to change. When a suggested part is selected it is immediately added to the approved part numbers list for that component, with instant UI feedback and graceful handling of duplicates. Finding and approving an alternative now takes seconds.

The BOM Part Details page now gives manufacturer users the full picture they need to make sourcing decisions without leaving the page. Per-item part handling fees are visible in the table — correctly reflecting each item's packaging type (cut tape, tube, bulk, reel) and the supplier's configured rates — so the true landed cost of each line is obvious at a glance. Manufacturer selection is now available per row, letting users pick or override the OEM for any component through the existing custom-sourcing override system, with pricing recalculating to match the selection and a clear "Requested MFR Mismatch" indicator when the priced manufacturer differs from the selection. And inline error and warning badges now appear directly on each row for unable-to-source, lifecycle, large purchase quantity, customer-supplied, unknown mount type, and manufacturer mismatch conditions — with distinct styling for errors versus warnings and a hover reveal for the specific message text. The existing BOM Issues summary tool continues to work and filter the table by issue type.

Tables inside box components now support robust multi-row selection with a shared bulk-edit flow. Users can select multiple rows and operate on them as a set — select-all is now a single batched state update regardless of row count, selected rows are visually highlighted. Bulk actions live in the existing header menu: table-specific quick actions (the BOM table, for example, exposes Assign to vendor, Specified Parts Only, Long lead time accepted, Alternatives allowed, and Customer Will Supply) change immediately from the menu, while a general "Edit" action opens a bulk-edit modal. The modal shows only editable fields, displays "Multiple" when selected rows disagree on a value, and writes only the fields the user actually changed. BOM bulk edit specifically supports sourcing options, selected vendor, markup, landing factor, mount type, and lead count — covering the operations manufacturers perform most often on groups of components.

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PRICING & COSTING

Labor BOM tables now read left-to-right the way manufacturers actually calculate the values — name and details first, then base cost, then the multiplier, then the derived totals. The previous ordering forced users to jump across columns to reconstruct how a row's total was computed; the new ordering makes the calculation sequence obvious at a glance.

ERP & INTEGRATIONS

The editor now includes a control to load a project directly into an ERP, and projects are also loaded automatically when a user creates a quote or updates an existing product via the Apply button. PCB fabrication details flow through the custom mapping so the ERP sees every relevant spec without manual re-entry. This closes a long-standing manual step in the quoting-to-production handoff.

When a supplier package is downloaded for a project that is missing TopPaste or BottomPaste layers, Boardera now auto-generates valid paste Gerber files and includes them in the package — named boarderaPaste_top.gbr and boarderaPaste_bottom.gbr. Pad apertures are scaled to 90% of the extracted pad dimensions (the industry-standard reduction for solder paste), and the generated files are proper Gerber RS-274X with X2 attributes identifying them as paste layers authored by Boardera. This removes a manual step that manufacturing engineers have been doing by hand every time a design arrives without paste layers, and it unlocks Mycronic MY600/MY700 solder jet programming out of the box.

UI / UX

All toast notifications now include a visible close control so users can dismiss them immediately rather than waiting for the auto-timeout. Auto-dismiss behavior is preserved, so toasts users ignore still disappear on their own. This fixes a persistent complaint from users who had toasts covering controls they needed to interact with.

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Several high-traffic pages are now noticeably faster. BOM-related lookups, vendor record access, and chat-list loading have all been meaningfully optimized — the chat list in particular loads and orders correctly at a fraction of its previous latency, and large BOM pricing queries are measurably tighter across the board. These gains apply to every user and every project with no configuration change required.

Boardera has introduced new panel detection capability that automatically identifies panelized PCB designs during the file upload process. When a designer submits Gerber files that contain a panel layout rather than an individual board, the system now analyzes the design data and detect the presence of panelization and provides both a board count per panel and the array configuration.

This improvement reduces the need for manual review and ensures that panelized projects are flagged and handled correctly from the start. By catching panel layouts early in the process, manufacturers can avoid quoting errors and ensure that pricing, tooling, and production assumptions are aligned with the actual design intent. The detection runs automatically in the background and requires no additional action from the user.

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We have upgraded our automatic PCB layer assignment engine. When Gerber files are uploaded, the system now uses advanced processing technologies to analyze file naming conventions, content patterns, and design context to determine the correct layer type for each file.

This upgrade delivers significantly improved accuracy across a wider range of naming conventions and EDA tool outputs. The result is fewer manual corrections during project setup, faster time-to-quote, and a more reliable digital twin of the PCB design from the moment files are uploaded.

Boardera now automatically extracts fabrication notes and tables from both the uploaded Gerber files and PDF files and automatically interprets them against available board fabrication options. When the system detects a specification in the design notes such as "Surface Finish: ENIG" or "Solder Mask: Green" it auto-selects the corresponding option in the project editor and displays a "Detected" icon above each affected field so users can see exactly what was found and why. This feature is early stages and will get more and more capable over time.

A new Platform Intelligence widget in the editor provides a summary of the detected suggestions. Clicking it opens a full history modal showing the extracted text and the interpreted option. When conflicting notes are found across different layers, the system flags them for user resolution rather than guessing. Users can override any auto-selected option at any time. This feature dramatically reduces manual data entry during project setup, ensures specifications are captured directly from the designer’s intent, and speeds up the path from upload to quote.

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We have introduced a streamlined "Create New Quote" workflow that allows manufacturer users to build quotes from scratch in a way that mirrors traditional ERP processes. Instead of requiring a project upload first, users can now start with a blank quote, select or create a customer account and contact, add line items, and submit in a single guided flow.

New accounts and contacts can be created inline without leaving the quote flow, and the system handles all record creation atomically on submission. This makes the quoting process faster and more intuitive for manufacturer teams accustomed to starting from the quote rather than the project.

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Quotes now support full version history. When a customer requests a re-quote with different specifications or quantities, manufacturers can create a new version of the quote rather than editing it in place. Each version is preserved as a complete, read-only snapshot of the quote at that point in time, including all line items, pricing, and overrides.

Manufacturers can now clone an existing quote line item to quickly create a new one at a different quantity. When a line item is cloned, all sourcing decisions, vendor selections, price overrides, attrition settings, and manual adjustments are copied to the new line item automatically.

After selecting "Clone," the user is prompted for the new quantity. The system then creates the new line item with all overrides intact and recalculates pricing based on the updated quantity. The cloned line item is fully independent and can be edited without affecting the original. This eliminates the tedious and error-prone process of manually recreating complex configurations when quoting the same project at multiple volumes.

We have removed the restriction that previously limited users to a single quote request per project. Both designers and manufacturers can now request additional quotes from the project editor at any time, regardless of how many quotes already exist for that project.

Each quote is created as a separate record, and previously requested quotes remain unchanged. This gives teams the flexibility to explore different quantity scenarios, compare pricing across revisions, or re-quote after specification changes without disrupting existing quote history. All quotes for a project are visible in the quote history view.

A new dedicated Exceptions table has been added to the quoting workflow, providing a single consolidated view of every issue on a quote. Each exception is categorized by severity — Errors (which block submission), Warnings (which recommend review), and Info (awareness only) — using clear color-coded indicators so users can immediately understand the priority of each item.

Clicking on any exception navigates directly to the responsible field, eliminating the need to scroll through the page searching for the source of an issue. Users can also dismiss or acknowledge reviewed warnings, which collapse into a separate section to keep the active list focused. This streamlined approach to exception management results in faster, more confident quoting with fewer blocked submissions and reduced error rates.

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A new "Other" option is now available across key PCB fabrication and assembly specification fields, including Solder Mask, Silkscreen, Finishing, Material, and Assembly Options. When a designer's requirement is not available in the standard dropdown list, they can now select "Other" and enter a free-text description of their exact specification.

The system stores the custom value and displays it as "Other: [your description]" throughout the project editor, quote documents, and supplier RFQ views. Selecting "Other" on any field automatically defaults to a "Quote Required" status, ensuring that non-standard specifications receive proper review and pricing. Manufacturers can also reference these custom values in their pricing formulas using new isOther formula functions, providing full flexibility for handling non-standard requirements within automated pricing workflows.

The PCB material selection has been expanded from a single FR-4 default to a comprehensive list of over 25 laminate materials. Designers can now specify the exact substrate required for their board, including standard options like FR-4 Fiberglass and FR-4 Halogen-Free, as well as specialty materials such as Polyimide, PTFE, Aluminum-Core IMS, and a full range of Rogers high-frequency laminates (RO4350B, RO4003C, RT/duroid 5880, and more).

Each material option is integrated across the project editor, pricing configuration, and manufacturer capabilities settings. Manufacturers can configure pricing for individual materials and define which substrates their facility supports. The selected material is available in the formula engine for use in custom pricing logic, and is passed through to order output and manufacturing notes.

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Manufacturers can now setup global custom vendors and enter custom vendor offers for individual BOM components directly within the platform. When the automatically sourced pricing does not reflect a negotiated rate, a preferred supplier agreement, or an alternate sourcing arrangement, users can add a custom offer that overrides the default pricing for that component.

Custom offers are entered through a dedicated modal on each BOM line item and are displayed in a clear table alongside the standard sourcing data. The system automatically recalculates all downstream costs, margins, and profit projections when a custom offer is applied, ensuring that the financial impact is immediately visible. This feature gives quoting teams the flexibility to reflect real-world procurement arrangements directly in their quotes without manual workarounds.

We have redesigned the BOM table columns to provide clearer, more transparent visibility into what each value represents. The updated layout includes 40 standardized columns covering the full lifecycle of a component — from reference designators and part identification through vendor pricing, attrition quantities, tariff costs, factored costs, and compliance data.

Each column now uses precise, unambiguous headers so users can immediately understand whether a value includes factors like landing costs, attrition, or markups. New columns have been added for Attrition Quantity, Factored Unit Cost, Total Scrap Cost, Cost Factor percentage, and Country of Origin, among others. These same standardized columns are reflected in BOM exports, ensuring that exported data matches exactly what users see on screen and eliminating confusion when sharing BOM data with procurement teams or external systems.

BOM spreadsheet and JSON exports now include a dedicated "Attrition Qty" column that shows the additional quantity added per component due to attrition. This value represents the difference between the base quantity and the total purchase quantity, giving procurement teams immediate visibility into how many extra parts are being ordered to account for production losses.

The new column is positioned between the existing base quantity and total purchase quantity columns for easy comparison. When attrition is not configured or set to zero, the column displays 0. Values are fully consistent across the UI, spreadsheet, and JSON exports, ensuring that downstream purchasing systems receive accurate attrition data without manual calculation.

The project editor has been streamlined by removing pricing elements that are now handled entirely within the quoting workflow. The quantity input, price estimate, and pricing-related data have been removed from the editor, allowing it to focus purely on capturing the design's technical specifications and building an accurate digital twin of the PCB project.

The BOM section in the editor has been renamed from "Part Sourcing" to "BOM Parts" and now focuses on technical part information — descriptions, packages, and valid part verification — rather than pricing and availability. A new "View Quotes" action in the editor takes users directly to the quotes page filtered for the current project, providing a clear bridge between design specification and the quoting process. This separation ensures that pricing decisions are made in the right context and that the editor remains fast and focused on design accuracy.

The Profit Projections section has been enhanced with the introduction of new Cost Factor and Factored Cost columns. These additions expand the system’s ability to represent true underlying costs by clearly separating base costs from applied cost adjustments. This provides greater transparency into how costs are built up and improves the accuracy of margin and profit calculations across PCB, assembly, and BOM domains.

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We have added new configuration options that allow manufacturers to precisely control how rush orders affect lead time calculations. This ensures that expedited timelines remain realistic and aligned with each manufacturer’s actual operational capabilities, rather than relying on fixed or overly aggressive assumptions.

Manufacturers can now define a percentage-based lead time reduction for rush orders and apply a maximum reduction in days to cap how much lead time can be shortened. The system automatically applies whichever reduction results in the smaller change, maintaining consistency and preventing unrealistic delivery promises. Rush-adjusted lead times are reflected throughout the platform, including within lead time variables used in custom formulas, ensuring that all pricing logic, markups, and downstream calculations remain accurate and synchronized.

The project editor now automatically transfers write access to whichever browser tab or window you are actively viewing. Previously, opening the same project in multiple tabs could result in one tab being locked into read-only mode, requiring a manual refresh to regain editing control.

With this update, navigating away from a tab automatically releases its edit lock, and returning to a tab automatically re-establishes the connection. This means you can freely switch between tabs and windows without encountering read-only blocks, making multi-tab workflows significantly smoother and eliminating a common source of frustration during project setup.

Manufacturers who use Boardera as an internal quoting tool can now disable all automated emails sent to their customers. Two levels of control are available: a domain-level setting on the Customer Management page that disables all customer-facing emails across the entire organization, and a per-quote checkbox that suppresses emails for a specific quote only.

When enabled, the domain-level setting prevents all designer-targeted emails including quote ready notifications, unread message alerts, and account invitations. Manufacturer-facing emails are unaffected. The per-quote option appears when creating a new quote and entering a customer email, allowing selective control on a case-by-case basis. Both settings default to off for new and existing domains, ensuring no change in behavior until explicitly configured.

Additional Costing Details

We have added new dedicated tables to clearly separate and present key costing components. Tariffs now have their own dedicated table, making it easier to understand how duties impact overall pricing. Shipping and logistics costs are also presented in a dedicated table, providing clearer visibility into fulfillment-related expenses.

In addition, BOM costs and markups are now shown in their own dedicated table. This separation improves transparency and allows manufacturers to review material costs and applied markups independently from other pricing elements.

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Boardera now supports the full range of IPC-4761 via plugging options, replacing the previous "Resin Plugged Vias" checkbox with a dedicated dropdown. PCB design engineers can now specify the exact via protection method required for their board, from simple tenting through to filled and capped configurations.

The available options include Type I Tent through Type VII Fill & Cap Copper, and non IPC Solder Mask Plug & Cover. Each option is available in the project editor, pricing configuration, and manufacturer capabilities settings, allowing you to configure pricing for each plugging method and define which options your facility supports. Existing projects that used the Resin Plugged Vias checkbox have been automatically migrated to the corresponding dropdown value.

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We have expanded the solder mask colour selection from a limited set to 13 options, giving designers a wider range of finish and appearance choices for their boards. The full list now includes Green (default), Green Matte, Green Semi-Matte, Green Glossy, Black, Yellow, Red, Purple, White, LED White, Blue, Clear, and None.

Each colour option is integrated across the project editor, pricing configuration, and manufacturer capabilities settings. Manufacturers can configure pricing for individual colours and define which options their facility supports. The selected colour is passed through to order output and manufacturing notes.

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A new Laminate CTI configuration is now available, allowing designers to specify the electrical safety rating required for their PCB laminate. CTI measures a material's resistance to surface electrical tracking and is critical for meeting IEC and UL safety certifications.

The available options follow the IPC Performance Level Categories: PLC 0 (CTI >= 600V), PLC 1 (CTI >= 400V), PLC 2 (CTI >= 250V), and PLC 3 (CTI >= 175V), with PLC 2 as the default — the standard rating for FR-4 laminates. This attribute is configurable in pricing, the project editor, and manufacturer capabilities.

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We have added a new sourcing issue summary to the BOM view that clearly surfaces the overall health of component sourcing. The system now displays a count of items that are OK, have warnings, or contain errors, giving users an immediate understanding of potential sourcing risks within a project.

Each status is fully interactive. Clicking on any indicator automatically filters the BOM to show only the relevant components, allowing users to focus quickly on issues that require attention. In addition, individual warning and error indicators are displayed directly beside the affected part numbers, making it easy to identify specific problems such as lifecycle concerns or missing attributes without leaving the BOM view. This enhancement improves visibility, speeds up issue resolution, and reduces the risk of overlooking critical sourcing constraints during quoting.

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We have added the ability to expand and collapse individual components throughout the interface. This improvement is particularly valuable on pages with a high level of detail, such as the Quote Line Item details view, where large numbers of components and supporting sections are commonly displayed.

By allowing users to collapse sections that are not immediately relevant, the interface becomes easier to navigate and significantly less cluttered. This helps users focus on the information that matters most at each stage of the quoting process, improving usability and efficiency when working with complex jobs.

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We have added support for using project lead time values directly within custom pricing formulas. Manufacturers can now reference calculated lead times when defining their own logic, making it possible to adjust pricing and markups dynamically based on how quickly a job needs to be completed. This enables scenarios such as applying premium costs for expedited builds or adjusting pricing tiers automatically based on delivery expectations.

Lead times are calculated in working days and are kept consistent with the values shown throughout the system. This enhancement gives manufacturers greater control and flexibility in how they price jobs, while ensuring that lead time–driven logic remains reliable, predictable, and aligned with the overall quoting model.

Based on continued testing and your feedback we continue to improve the user experience. Thank you for your feedback.

1. You can now hover over a part in the BOM and access a copy control for pasting into other pages as needed.

2. Global column visibility control has been added to all box components so you can see the data that is important to you and hide that which is not.

3. We are including the part numbers and descriptions on the Quotes table so you can see your customer references to the line items within the quote.

4. Metric values are now visible for Copper Weight in both Capabilities and the Project Editor.

5. References to ‘Partial Drills’ will now be referenced as ‘Controlled Depth Drilling’ to add clarity in both Pricing Automation and Editor experiences.

Our vision and investment in automating the mundane to keep you focussed on your meaningful tasks continue.

1. Further improvements to automated layer assignment for the PCB have been added and refinement to our models will continue. This will minimize oversight and effort to create the digital twin.

2. Tariffs. We will now supply worst case scenario tariff costs in scenarios where >1 CoO (Country of Origin) is identified for a single component. This will ensure we are all planning for worst case scenario when the true CoO for a future purchase is unclear.

Investment continues to ensure the results of the platform's analysis, manufacturing and pricing recipes are made available to your systems appropriately.

1. A more detailed breakdown of of pricing is now available in the JSON Data Export.

2. An Add to Cart link is now available in the JSON Data Export. This will allow the buying customer the ability to click and confirm the order using non native communications and quote documents.

We are excited to announce the Beta launch of a powerful new feature that brings natural language AI prompts into the labor pricing process. This feature allows users to guide the system with simple instructions, and in turn the AI analyzes each component to determine which pricing formula should apply. Traditional formulas remain at the core of the calculations, ensuring that labor costs are always accurate, consistent, and aligned with established methods.

What makes this feature stand out is the intelligence it brings to component analysis. Instead of requiring the user to manually classify every part into families, the AI evaluates details such as package type, solderability, and inspection requirements, and then selects the appropriate formulas accordingly. This combination of trusted calculations and AI-driven insights provides the best of both worlds: the reliability of structured cost formulas with the flexibility and automation of modern AI.

In addition, the system can support several AI prompts at once, giving users the flexibility to describe exactly how they want to price manufacturing jobs down to the finest detail. This approach enables labor costs to be calculated with unprecedented accuracy, while at the same time leveraging automation to quote even the most complex jobs in minutes instead of days. The result is a faster, smarter quoting process that maintains precision without sacrificing speed.

This feature is currently available as an opt-in Beta. If you would like to participate and explore how AI-driven prompts can enhance your quoting process, please contact us to enable it on your account. We look forward to your feedback as we continue to refine and expand this capability.

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We have introduced a new Gantt chart view for lead time calculations, providing manufacturers with a clear and visual representation of production timelines. This feature allows users to better understand scheduling impacts and plan resources more effectively throughout the quoting process.

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Shipping lead time estimates are now more accurate, reflecting improvements in how we calculate and adjust for regional variations and carrier performance. These refinements ensure that manufacturers can provide customers with realistic delivery expectations.

Attrition configurations have been expanded to include more quantity tiers, offering manufacturers finer control over production assumptions at varying volumes. This enhancement allows for more precise planning in situations where different production runs experience different attrition rates.

A new calculation method has been added for attrition, giving users the ability to set values as percentages in addition to fixed numbers. This option provides greater flexibility and helps manufacturers match their internal costing practices more closely.

Tariff rate exports within pricing reports have been improved to provide more accurate values. These updates help ensure that the landed cost of parts is clearly and reliably reflected in all customer-facing documents.

Designers placing an order can now attach their own purchase order directly in the system. This makes it easier for both parties to align internal documentation and streamlines the order handoff process.

Manufacturers now have the ability to edit BOM component markups line by line. By default, the system automatically applies markup values based on the manufacturer’s standard configurations, but this feature provides the flexibility to adjust individual components where necessary. Once changes are made, the system automatically recalculates the overall profit and margin projections, ensuring that the financial impact of each adjustment is immediately clear. This gives quoting teams both accuracy and agility when fine-tuning their pricing strategies.

Assembly labor markups can also now be edited on a line-by-line basis, providing the same combination of automation and manual control. Default markup values are applied automatically to maintain consistency, but manufacturers can override them for specific tasks or labor types as needed. Every adjustment is reflected in updated profit and margin projections, giving teams confidence that their quotes capture both detailed cost realities and accurate overall profitability.

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We have added a feature that keeps team members informed when they are assigned as the process owner of a quote. As soon as a quote is created or updated with a specific process owner, that team member will automatically receive a notification. This ensures the right person is aware of their responsibility and can take action without delay.

By notifying process owners immediately, this update helps maintain accountability, improves response times, and keeps your quoting workflow running smoothly from start to finish.

We have expanded our BOM import capabilities to support files that use semicolons as delimiters. This improvement ensures that BOMs formatted with semicolons can now be parsed and processed correctly without the need for manual reformatting.

With this update, you can work more easily with files from different design tools or customer formats, saving time and reducing the risk of errors during the import process.

We’re excited to introduce a powerful new feature that brings full profit transparency to your quoting process. With our new profit projections tool, Boardera now automatically calculates detailed profit breakdowns for every quote giving you instant visibility into the financial performance of each job before you send a quote to your customer.

You’ll see a complete breakdown by cost category (PCB, Assembly, and BOM), including applied markups, gross profit, and margin percentages. The platform clearly displays both the list price values and the impact of any customer discounts, so you can compare how each offer affects your bottom line at a glance. You’ll know exactly where your profits come from and how adjustments to pricing or discounts will affect your margins and total profitability.

This level of insight helps you make smarter pricing decisions, quickly identify quotes that need adjustment, and ensure that your business remains competitive and profitable. With automated profit projections, you’re always a step ahead in managing your manufacturing business with confidence.

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We’ve made a small but impactful improvement to help you organize your pricing and calculation workflows. You can now include numbers in the labels for your custom formulas and project calculation formulas. This makes it easier to create clear and descriptive names, such as “Markup_1,” “SMTCount_Line_2,” or “Step_3.” Your team will be able to quickly identify and manage different formulas within your projects.

This update makes it simpler to keep your work organized and your processes more intuitive, especially when handling complex quotes with multiple custom calculations.

We’ve made it easier for designers to get comprehensive pricing information. In the Storefront, designers can now add multiple quantities to a single quote request. This allows you to compare pricing for different order sizes and submit your requirements all at once, without the need for separate requests.

When the quote request is sent, the manufacturer receives a single, consolidated request showing all quantities and requirements in one place. This streamlines the review process, reduces back-and-forth communication, and makes it simpler for both designers and manufacturers to find the best solution for every project.

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We’ve expanded our contract pricing integration to include both Mouser and Arrow, two of the industry’s leading electronics distributors. Manufacturer users can now connect their Mouser and Arrow accounts to Boardera using their own credentials, allowing them to fetch their exact negotiated prices for BOM components during the quoting process. This enhancement builds on our existing integrations with Digikey and Cofactr, giving you even more options to ensure your quotes reflect your true purchasing costs.

With contract pricing support for Mouser, Arrow, Digikey, and Cofactr, you can now streamline your sourcing, eliminate manual price checks, and create quotes that are both accurate and competitive—no matter which distributor you work with. This new capability makes it easier than ever to keep your quoting aligned with your purchasing agreements.

We have introduced a new capability that gives manufacturer users even more control over their custom pricing formulas. You can now query specific mount types and placement counts directly within your pricing logic. This means you can create highly tailored pricing strategies based on the number of components with certain mount types such as SMT or through-hole and the total placement count for each project.

By leveraging these new parameters, you can better reflect true production complexity, apply differentiated markups, and fine-tune your pricing for a wide range of assembly scenarios. This feature allows you to build smarter, more flexible formulas that adapt to the unique requirements of every job.

We’ve made the PCB project editor easier to use and more intuitive with a series of clarity-focused enhancements. Users will now notice improved tooltips, more informative helper text, and clearer toast notifications throughout the editor. These updates are designed to make it easier to understand each step, reduce confusion, and help you complete your projects faster and with greater confidence.

With these improvements, finding the right options and understanding your next steps is simpler than ever, so you can spend less time troubleshooting and more time getting your quotes and projects completed.

We’ve added a new feature that allows manufacturers to communicate important information directly to their customers within the Boardera platform. Manufacturers can now configure a custom message that will be displayed to designers when they access their quotes or projects. This makes it easy to highlight timely updates, such as changes to tariff rates, important reminders, or any other critical notes the customer should be aware of. With this capability, manufacturers can keep designers informed and ensure everyone is on the same page throughout the quoting and order process.

Take your quoting strategy to the next level with enhanced markup options.

What’s new?
Boardera now gives you much greater control over how markups are applied to your quotes. Instead of a single slider, you now have separate markup formulas for three distinct cost categories: PCB Fabrication, Labor, and BOM. Each category can have its own formula and unique logic, allowing you to trigger different markup calculations based on the specifics of each job.