Learn how your cart works
We are dedicated to providing you with a seamless shopping experience, which is why we have implemented our unique cart experience before checkout.
Our cart allocation system evaluates various factors to ensure that you receive the most optimal allocation of products. It takes into consideration seller restrictions and shipping routes for a more efficient ordering process.
In this guide, we will explain in detail how your cart works and highlight the recent enhancements we have made to improve your wholesale shopping experience.
How Cart Allocation Works
Our cart system enhances the shopping process by performing the following actions:
- Finding the Best Product Combinations: Our allocation process scans and analyzes thousands of seller inventories against the products in your cart to determine the most suitable combination of products. Factoring in price, availability, and seller ratings, we can provide the items you need, from the most suitable sellers, at the best available price.
- Accounting for Seller Restrictions: Considering specific seller limitations, such as Minimum Order Value, stock availability, and location restrictions, we ensure that your cart aligns with the requirements set by each seller. This process enhances the overall ordering experience while maximizing the fulfillment of your complete order.
- Calibrating for Efficient Delivery: Additionally, our system analyzes the combination of sellers that can fulfill your order, taking into consideration factors such as shipping costs and transit times. By doing so, we ensure that you receive your products in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible.
Allocating your cart to suppliers
Once you have added all the items you wish to purchase to your cart, you will be prompted to click on the ‘Find suppliers' button on the lower right corner of your screen.
Our system will analyze the items and quantities in your cart against all the factors listed above, confirming your ideal allocation, instantly.
After allocation, you can clearly see and review how the items in your cart have been assigned to the best sellers available. Your chosen products may be assigned to multiple sellers, and you will be able to see if you reached each seller's Minimum Order Value (MOV).
Once all supplier requirements are met, you will see a message stating "All suppliers are ready for checkout." Simply click on "Proceed to checkout" to finalise your order.
If you have not reached the MOV set by a supplier, you will see a progress bar and a percentage amount indicating how close you are to meeting the requirement. This progress bar serves as a visual guide, prompting you to add more products to your cart to reach the designated MOV.
If you choose not to add more of the same items to your cart or if there are no more units available, you can navigate to the supplier's inventory and add different items. You can track your progress towards reaching the MOV by monitoring the progress bar.
If you are satisfied with the items allocated to you, simply click on the 'Proceed to checkout' button to move forward with your order and begin the checkout process.
If your allocated cart doesn't meet your expectations, you can easily make changes from the cart page, add products from the supplier's inventory, or navigate back to the catalog to add more items.
After making any changes to your cart from the main catalog, you will be asked to update it again before proceeding to checkout. This ensures that we are always considering the best possible combination of products for your final order.
To check if all requirements have been met, simply scroll to the bottom of the page where you will find a message confirming the number of suppliers ready for checkout.
Easily view the available quantities for checkout by accessing the "Product overview" feature.
Are you in a rush and can't add more items to a specific supplier's cart? You can still move forward with the available suppliers by clicking on "Proceed to checkout". Any items that weren't successfully allocated to a seller will be returned to your cart for you to review and purchase at a later time.
