TradeBeyond Explore
CBX Software Limited
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Explore allows retailers, brands, suppliers and factories to introduce, source and match products with retail mood boards, ranges and themes, in a digital showroom. Explore is home to thousands of validated suppliers and is designed to extend innovation, source and bring products to market faster. Explore, is the ultimate sourcing app, that not only makes connections but, provides an entire industry the tools to win.
Explore is not another finished goods online marketplace; but rather, it is the exclusive network in which retailers, brands and their suppliers and factories, can connect, source, extend innovation and bring private label products to market faster. Explore allows members to work “virtually”, in real time, side-by-side, seamlessly and will ultimately revolutionize how the retail industry manages product development and product sourcing for own brands.
For more information visit www.tradebeyond.com.
more • Visual updates: logo and brand colors
• Support multi-product selection for Reply Products
• Added new product fields: Factory Name, Loading CBM
• Bug fixes
26.04.100 Apr 18
• Visual updates: logo and brand colors
25.08.200 Feb 8
• Bug fixes
25.08.101 09/10/2025
• Bug fixes
25.08.100 09/06/2025
• Bug fixes
25.03.202 08/23/2025
• Bug fixes
25.03.201 05/12/2025
Collection
• Intend to Buy - Retailer / Premium Seller
• Click "My Intent Quantity" to specify the quantity of the product you intend to purchase.
• View "Total Intent Quantity" to know how many quantities of the product are intended to be purchased.
• Upload Multiple Products - Retailer / Premium Seller
• Click "Upload Multiple Products" in the "+ Add Product" menu
• Add "Collection No." field after "Collection Name"
Bug fixes
25.03.100 03/29/2025
Mobile - Image
• Users can pinch the image with two fingers to zoom in and out, and swipe down on the image to close it.
Premium Suppliers - collection
• Suppliers can use the line board feature in shared collections.
• Suppliers can add product to collection from share with me/company.
Performance improvements and bug fixes
24.10.100 10/19/2024
24.05.100
Bug fixes
24.05.100 05/24/2024
23.10.300
Requests - Sending a request
Click on the "To" row to show connected people and companies
If User A sends a request to a company that is not connected, and User A's coworkers connect with the users in that unconnected company, the admins in the Customer Team of that company can automatically receive the connection invitation from User A.
23.10.301 10/16/2023
23.10.100
Products
Add "Remark" field in the Reference Price section
Bug fixes
23.10.100 09/25/2023
23.8.101
Bug fixes
23.8.101 09/01/2023
23.08.100
Line Board in Collections
Display more product information in desktop mode
Bug fixes
23.8.100 08/26/2023
23.07.201
Bug fixes
23.07.100
Line Board in Collections
Switch to Line Board mode to view the products in collections
View the product details and media files inside Line Board
Able to print it
23.7.201 07/28/2023
23.07.100
Line Board in Collections
Switch to Line Board mode to view the products in collections
View the product details and media files inside Line Board
Able to print it
23.7.101 07/24/2023
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- My Things
- Users can see and edit the items that they are the Admin.
- Company
- Users can see the items that created by co-workers.
- If user is an Editor of an item, user can edit it.
- If user is an Audience of an item, user can view it.
- Company Folders in Company
- This function is for corporate accounts to categorize items by departments.
- They can create a company folder for each department, then putting the related items into this folder via "Show in" popup.
- One item can only assign to one company folder.
- Company Admin, Admin and Editor can assign items to a company folder.
- Only company admin can create and edit company folder.
- Groups
- Users can create groups and invite co-workers, connected people, not connected users, non-Explore users to join the groups.
- They can attach products, collections, media, documents in a post and discuss together.
- Wall
- This pages contains the posts that created by myself, connected people, and groups.
- My Network
- This is the home page for Network.
- Users can see the latest invitations and connected people.
- If users do not have invitations nor connected people, system shows them the premium users.
- Connections - People
- This page shows the connected people.
- Users are connecting in user-level in the new version of Explore.
- For the exiting company connections, the invitation senders are connected with invitation receivers.
- When connecting with a corporate user, user is connecting with this independent corporate user, but not the corporate company.
- Connections - Companies
- This page shows the connected companies for all the co-workers.
- They can know about the companies that co-workers are cooperating with.
- Invitations
- This page shows the invitations that received and sent from me.
- Customer Team
- After connecting with a user
1. If it is a basic account, the name of basic account shows in the Customer Team table
2. If it is a corporate user, the name of the corporate company shows in the Customer Team table
- Company admins and team admins can assign co-workers to the customer teams.
- If a team admin/ member shares an item to a specific company, all the team admins and members becomes the Editors of this item.
- Share popup
- For basic account, they can share items to connected people, email addresses, groups.
- For corporate account, they can share items to Market (Premium only), connected companies,connected people, email addresses, groups.
23.4.101 05/05/2023
My Things
Users can see and edit the items that they are the Admin.
Company
Users can see the items that created by co-workers.
If user is an Editor of an item, user can edit it.
If user is an Audience of an item, user can view it.
Company Folders in Company
This function is for corporate accounts to categorize items by departments.
They can create a company folder for each department, then putting the related items into this folder via "Show in" popup.
One item can only assign to one company folder.
Company Admin, Admin and Editor can assign items to a company folder.
Only company admin can create and edit company folder.
Groups
Users can create groups and invite co-workers, connected people, not connected users, non-Explore users to join the groups.
They can attach products, collections, media, documents in a post and discuss together.
Wall
This pages contains the posts that created by myself, connected people, and groups.
My Network
This is the home page for Network.
Users can see the latest invitations and connected people.
If users do not have invitations nor connected people, system shows them the premium users.
Connections - People
This page shows the connected people.
Users are connecting in user-level in the new version of Explore.
For the exiting company connections, the invitation senders are connected with invitation receivers.
When connecting with a corporate user, user is connecting with this independent corporate user, but not the corporate company.
Connections - Companies
This page shows the connected companies for all the co-workers.
They can know about the companies that co-workers are cooperating with.
Invitations
This page shows the invitations that received and sent from me.
Customer Team
After connecting with a user
If it is a basic account, the name of basic account shows in the Customer Team table
If it is a corporate user, the name of the corporate company shows in the Customer Team table
Company admins and team admins can assign co-workers to the customer teams.
If a team admin/ member shares an item to a specific company, all the team admins and members becomes the Editors of this item.
Share popup
For basic account, they can share items to connected people, email addresses, groups.
For corporate account, they can share items to Market (Premium only), connected companies,connected people, email addresses, groups.
23.4.100 04/17/2023
General bug fixes
23.2.100 02/13/2023
When creating multiple products in the excel template, no limitation on the size of the product images
23.1.100 01/19/2023
Enhancement of the login function
22.12.100 12/30/2022
Emails
Batch sending some types of emails every 12 hours
Send auto reminders for outstanding invitations
Network
Enhance ranking logic in Suggested Members
Images
Lower minimum pixels for product images and moodboard
Product
Display 3 decimal places in the fields of Details part
Show "<0.001" if Volume (CBM) is smaller than 0.001
Collection
Batch select products to change status, move to folder, add to collection
Supplier Account
Enable activate and deactivate function for each user
22.10.100 12/06/2022
Images
Show full sizes of uploaded images in all the image sections
Volume (CBM) on product detail page
Volume is calculated in meters even using centimeters, inches, feets
Search behavior
Search results are sorted by most relevant items based on the keywords
Search results display in different types of tenses
22.7.302 07/29/2022
Basic Accounts ~
Suggested Members section in Network
Basic, Supplier, and Retailer Accounts ~
Enhancements of Comment popup
22.7.204 07/18/2022
Enhancements on contents of email notifications
Requests
Suppliers can initiate chats with retailers in product requests
Upload Multiple Products
Support to upload 5 product images for a product in excel
Market
Retailers and basic accounts can see indicators and filter for products and collections that share to their companies
Comment popup
Show essential product or collection information when leaving a comment
Display media center when clicking on an image/ video/ 3D image in a comment
22.7.102 07/01/2022
Basic Account ~
Group
Connection
Home
Corporate Account (Supplier only) ~
Send invitation to basic accounts
Enhancement on Network
Basic & Corporate Accounts ~
Enhancement on comment button
22.7.101 06/23/2022
• Visual updates: logo and brand colors
• Support multi-product selection for Reply Products
• Added new product fields: Factory Name, Loading CBM
• Bug fixes
more Version 26.04.100 Apr 18
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