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Quick order & fast reordering

A wholesale buyer rarely browses. They re-buy the same twenty lines, or they order a size run in one go. There are four separate tools for that, and only one of them needs setting up.

ToolWhere it livesDo you set it up?
Quick order padA section on the product pageYes — you add it to the theme
Quick order (by SKU)The buyer’s accountNo — it appears by itself
Buy againThe buyer’s accountNo — always on
ReorderAny past order in the accountNo — always on

All four respect the branch’s catalog and its order limits. A SKU the branch cannot buy will not resolve, appear or survive, even if the buyer knows the code.

1. The quick order pad (product page)

A section that puts a quantity box on every variant of a product, so a whole size run is added in one action.

It is not on any product page until you add it. Nothing appears for your buyers if you skip this.

  1. Go to Online Store → Themes → Customize.

  2. Open a product page template.

  3. Choose Add section → Quick order pad.

  4. Set the heading and description, pick the layout, and decide whether to show SKUs and at what stock level to warn on low stock.

  5. Save the template.

The buyer then gets a table or grid of every variant with a quantity box, a running item count, and one Add all to cart button.

Kapoor Apparel buys the Crew Tee in S–XXL across 4 colours: a 5 by 4 grid, 12 in each cell, 240 pieces at ₹385 — ₹92,400 added in one click.

What to expect:

  • The grid layout only appears for products with exactly two options and up to 120 variants. Anything else falls back to the table.
  • Adding is all or nothing. If one line breaks an order limit, nothing is added — the buyer fixes that line and adds again.
  • The pad is hidden for gift cards, event products, bundles, and any product with required options.

2. Quick order by SKU list or CSV (account page)

For buyers who work from their own system: they paste SKUs and quantities, or upload a CSV, and get matched lines back.

They open Account → Quick order and paste one line per SKU:

SKU-123, 4
SKU-456, 12
SKU-789, 2

Matches show the product with a quantity box. Misses read “SKU not found” or “Not available to order” — the second means the SKU exists but the branch’s catalog does not carry it.

Sharma Distributors’ buyer pastes 60 lines out of their ERP: 57 resolve, two are discontinued, and one is excluded from their catalog.

You set nothing up for this. It appears by itself for eligible company buyers. But three things are worth telling a new customer:

  • 100 SKUs per lookup. Lines beyond that are dropped silently, so a buyer pasting 250 rows gets no warning that 150 went missing. Split long lists.
  • It matches on SKU only, never on product name or a description.
  • There is no retail version of this page. Only company buyers get it.

3. Buy again

Account → Buy again lists everything the buyer has ordered in the last 365 days, with a quantity box beside each line: product, SKU, “Ordered 7 times · Last ordered 12 Jun”, and today’s price.

Vashi’s manager sees 2.5mm cable at ₹4,150 a box — today’s contract price, not the ₹3,980 they paid in June — types 20, and adds.

Two things decide what a buyer sees here:

  • Prices and stock are always today’s, never historical. This is the answer to “why is my usual item more expensive than last time”.
  • A plain Buyer sees their own purchase history. To see everything the branch has bought, including colleagues’ orders, they need the Location admin role — see buyer roles.

Items you have stopped selling, or removed from that branch’s catalog, stay on the list reading “No longer available”. The window is a rolling 365 days, so a seasonal item bought 14 months ago has dropped off.

4. Reorder a past order

The simplest route: a Reorder button on any order in the account. Every line that is still purchasable goes back into the cart at today’s prices and today’s order limits.

A Location admin also gets a branch orders tab — named after their location — listing every order placed for that branch, whoever placed it, and can reorder from those too. Vashi’s manager opens the branch tab, finds order #10412 placed by a colleague who has left, and reorders it: 14 of the 16 lines land in the cart.

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