January 2026 Product Updates - Retail

[jenni]

Hey, Toast Community! 

In this month's post, you can find updates on the following:

• New Item Detail Page
• Barcodes on Receipts
• Test Kitchen - Wholesale

Check out more about the updates in the descriptions below:

New Item Detail Page

The new item detail page is an improved experience designed to make managing your inventory easier and more intuitive. It introduces a full-page variant view, giving you clearer visibility into item variations and making it easier to navigate and manage your item library.

The variant page now displays all item variations in a full-page layout instead of the previous side panel, providing better visibility and a more streamlined way to review and update item details.

View the new item detail page by clicking on any item in your item library.

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Barcodes on Receipts

Barcodes on receipts are now available to support faster and easier check lookups.

You can now look up a past check directly from the POS — even after payment has been captured — without navigating to Checks & Issue Refunds in Toast Web. By scanning a receipt barcode, staff can quickly pull up a previous check to streamline order lookups and support more flexible checkout workflows.

This helps speed up common in-store scenarios, including:

• Faster returns, exchanges, and refunds
• Deli or counter ordering where guests add items and pay once at checkout 
• Diner-style ordering at a table with payment at the register on the way out

Note: Barcodes are also available on SMS receipts.

Want to enable barcodes on your receipts? Turn on “Print barcode on receipts” on the Guest Receipt Setup page. See here for instructions.

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Test Kitchen - Wholesale

Toast Wholesale is a new alpha experience being designed to simplify B2B, with a goal to replace spreadsheets and third-party tools with wholesale pricing, invoicing, and ACH payments — all in Toast Web.

We’re looking for early partners to help shape what’s next for operators who manage wholesale orders and want a more integrated way to price customers, send invoices, and track payments in Toast.

Join the Toast Wholesale waitlist.

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Do you have questions or feedback for the Toast Retail Product team? We'd love to hear from you in the comments below!👇

[ToddMtP]

I wish you'd go back to the system you previously had that updated the pricing when you updated receiving units.  I have some items that are in per case and some that are in per unit, so I am continually changing prices back and forth.  It was so much easier before you changed that.

[Rob]

Thanks for reaching out! Could you provide a screenshot of the error by chance? The troubleshooting steps I have so far are as follows:
 

• Confirm “Print barcode…” is enabled in Toast Web (Payments → Guest receipt setup)(make sure to save and publish)
• Make sure the check was fully paid/closed (receipt printed).
• Scan the barcode from the Payment Terminal’s Find/All Checks screen (not into any other input).
• There could be Barcode formatting issues; the error code you received might provide more details.
• Scanner config error

I will forward this feedback as well to try and get more information! 

[ToddMtP]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the clarification.  It did work once we scanned in the Find/All Checks screen.  We will hold onto the check and ensure that it still works the same on Monday.

[perry]

I'm not interested in scanning checks; I want to be able to scan my inventory so I can make money.