Curation: Running a Rotating Box or Club

Creating this experience will require work from the client's development team or their technology partners and is expected to be self-serve. The details of which are outlined in this article.

If the client requires technical support from the Ordergroove team then any hours used will be applied towards the available service hours within the client's agreement. If not enough service hours are available then you may purchase additional hours by contacting Ordergroove.

Additionally, if you'd like to discuss possible customizations to this experience as outlined below please contact Ordergroove for a consultation.

Overview

Synopsis
  • Merchants can run a curated box or club program using Ordergroove’s platform
  • Merchant rotates the products each customer is receiving to provide a surprise-and-delight experience
  • Two integration options are available
Areas Impacted
  • Subscription Creation
  • Order Placement
  • REST APIs (optional)
Out of Scope of Solution
  • Limiting actions in the Subscription Management Interface (e.g. limiting quantity or frequency of curated subscriptions)
  • Order XML modifications
  • Different endpoint for curation subscription and standard subscription orders
  • Messaging club components in transactional emails
  • Customer-curated box
  • Ordergroove storing/maintaining business logic around how boxes get personalized
  • Restricting orders to place only on a specific day of week, month, quarter, or other specific timeframe
Requirements
  • Merchant must maintain the calendar or schedule that rotates the box/club from one set of SKU(s) to the next

Resources Required

 

 Client/Systems Integrator

  • [S] Create a new SKU that represents the box or club

Option 1

  • [M] Map the box/club SKU to the fulfillable SKUs after the recurring order has been created by Ordergroove

Option 2

  • [L] Use Ordergroove's REST APIs to update the fulfillable component SKUs before the recurring order is created by Ordergroove

 


How To Set It Up

For detailed instructions, take a look at Curation Subscriptions: Rotating Box or Club in our Developer Documentation.