A coach wants to order products for her team. In order to save on shipping, we would like to ship all orders to the coach, and then she can hand them out at practice.
How can we identify all of the orders from her team within Shopify so that we can bulk ship to a single address? Checkout codes? Tags?
Utilize a checkout code? (less involved, more preferable).
Is there a tagging feature available?
Have each order input the coach’s address as the shipping address? (more involved, less preferable)
We have the same issue for businesses and churches that purchase our coffee. They want to let congregants or employees order from our site but pickup their coffee at the church or at work. The congregants and employees will not have to pay a shipping fee if they can piggy back their orders onto the weekly order the church or business already places with us.
We need an easy way for our customer to link their order to the business or church so we know what to do with the order when we get it.
I would recommend the use of a discount code (Maybe the name of the team?) to use at checkout. This will allow you to filter orders by the discount code used and easily group them together.
There are options to tag customers or have them auto tag (using a 3rd party app) but the discount code is definitely the simplest setup.
I am also searching for an app that will aggregate orders to ship to a single location. You mention 3rd party apps. Do you know of any apps that do this?
For tagging apps, there are tons to choose from and I can’t suggest just one. The functionality is very similar for most of them and you will want to find one that fits your budget and provides functionality that is comfortable for you. You can browse those apps here:
I can also suggest using an affiliate marketing app like the one linked below. This creates a unique URL that the main client can then share with anyone else that needs to make a purchase under their umbrella. You can use affiliate links to automatically apply discount codes as well. A great alternative to consider.