Selling Products at Shows: Pre-Orders, Shipping & More

[SandiLeigh]

I was thinking about offering these products to my guests at my April shows.

Can I take pre-orders from them and then place one large order with all of the pins under one person's name.

How would I go about charging shipping to each customer for that? Would I just eat the cost of the shipping myself?

What have others's done in the past for something like this?

Any advice?

 

[jrstephens]

You could take up orders and submit them as a catalog show. I would do them as a seperate order and have them pay the additional shipping on them. they could always combine orders to save on the shipping. Warranty would probably not be much of an issue on these products.

 

[chef131doreen]

I start to take pre orders now in April when I am at a show the orders will go to 1 address the April host she can seperate them and give them to the guests that came to her show. ( I will get her something free for doing this for me) as soon as I get enough for a caddy show they will go in and I will get them to each host .

 

[hperschnick]

Here are a few order forms that I have. I think I got one here and I got one from my director. One has additional fees in it for the products to cover shipping... all of the prods will all go on one guest order since warranty won't really be an issue.

I think instead of a free SBRC if they buy all 3 I'll give the HWC pin - I bought several so that might be a fun give away if they get them all.

now let's see if I can add and attachment!!) I think I did it, we'll see!

 

[chefcruz]

I was thinking about using this form to collect orders at a booth this weekend. Any suggestions on how to inc S&H? Can I collect multiple orders and submit it as one order to home and split the shipping amonst all the individual orders?

 

[wadesgirl]

Last year I did preorders. Just calculated the tax and rounded up to the nearest dollar for shipping. Then I submitted the orders under the current host's name and got the orders back to that host to give to her guests. It worked out pretty well, and the price was covered by rounding up the total.

 

[chefcruz]

thanks wadesgirl that makes sense.