Release Notes September 2025: New features, attributes, validations and system fixes to Erudus

New Features

All users

Cyber Essentials badge

We have added a Cyber Essentials badge to the website footer at erudus.com, to inform and reassure visitors that Erudus is Cyber Essentials accredited. Cyber Essentials is a government-backed, industry-supported scheme to help organisations protect themselves against common online threats. Wholesaler users

New Range List download

Wholesalers can now download (in CSV format) a copy of the range list they have submitted to Erudus, via the Wholesaler Dashboard.

Caterer users

Purchase history downloads

Caterers that are able to view a Purchase History through the Erudus portal are now able to download their purchase history data in several different formats, such as in CSV format to import into other systems.

Fixes

API users

“Plaintext_ingredients” issue on Ingredient Declaration

There was an issue displaying ingredient declarations using the attribute “plaintext_ingredients” via the API, when certain special characters had been used in said ingredient declaration. This has been resolved and the “plaintext_ingredients” attribute will display the whole declaration without issue.

Manufacturer Users

New column for Product Visibility

For when viewing visibility for their products by Wholesaler, a column has been added to the table to list the Manufacturer’s Product Code for the products that have been tagged by Wholesalers.

Product Editor freezing

There was an issue causing the Product Editor to freeze when completing some of the standards testing attributes in the “Product Characteristics” section. This has been resolved and there should be no more instances of the Product Editor freezing when entering attribute data.

Identification/Health Marks with special characters

Users had found the “Identification/Health Marks” attribute was being validated not to allow certain special characters. This has been relaxed to accommodate non-UK health marks that contain special characters.

Wholesaler users

Problem with Purchase History PDFs

There was an issue preventing the download of customer Purchase Histories in PDF format via the “Customer Purchases” area of the Wholesaler Dashboard. This has been resolved and customer Purchase Histories will download without issue.

Product codes including # issue

Wholesalers were not being able to find products in their catalogue if the Wholesaler Product Code had a hash (#) in it. The issue causing this has been fixed and hashes can now be used in Wholesaler Product Codes.

New Attributes

Sustainably sourced palm oil

A new attribute has been added so Manufacturers can declare whether palm oil contained in a product is sustainably sourced. This attribute will only be made available for completion when the palm oil attribute is set to “Yes”.

Seasonal dates

Fruit and Vegetable specifications now have attributes to declare the start and end month for when the produce is in season.