Any organization or individual can place bulk orders. Bulk orders must meet the following criteria:
- Bulk orders must meet or exceed $200 including shipping.
- Bulk orders must ship to a single address.
- Bulk orders are not eligible for fundraising commissions.
It’s easy to setup a bulk order account through the account creation process. If you have a fundraising account, you already have a bulk order account.
Placing Orders
There are several methods available to place bulk orders.
- Use our built-in bulk order system to build shopping carts. The bulk order system allows you to create and save a shopping cart. Once the cart is saved you can add any book on the website to it by clicking on the “bulk order” text on the individual book page.
You can create and save as many separate shopping carts as you’d like. shopping carts can be edited and submitted anytime.
Once a shopping cart has been submitted, it can be viewed and re-submitted at any time. - Upload a purchase order. You can upload a purchase order within your bulk order dashboard. Acceptable file formats for uploading purchase orders are PDF and Excel.
Once your purchase order has been received, we will process it according to your specifications.
If the purchase order you upload is fully execute, we will ship your books the next business day and provide an invoice. If you require a quote from us, we will provide it for approval prior to shipping. - Use our order form. You can use our order form to create a book order or create a list of books for your own use. The order form can be downloaded in the bulk order dashboard.
When you download the order form, you can save books to it and then email or fax it back to us. We will process the order and submit an invoice for your approval.
Shipping and availability
Bulk orders are shipped either the same or the following business day on which they are placed. We will ship via USPS or UPS. When books ship, we will email shipping confirmation along with tracking codes.
If there are titles in an order that are not immediately available, we’ll alert you and provide the option to remove books from the order or wait for availability.
It is possible that books will ship from separate distribution centers. If this is the case, parts of the order may arrives 1 to 3 days apart. If this is the case, you will know through the shipment confirmation system
Shipping is a flat $.20 per book, no matter the size of the order.