Order Intents allow retailers to Retailers to provide order-level data from their assortments, such as total units and dollars, to Brands via the NuORDER platform. This helps solve a multitude of problems for both parties, including but not limited to:
- Having to export, edit, and send assortments externally through email or another medium.
- Sending sensitive information to brands.
- Receiving assortments externally through email or another medium.
- Working offline.
- Difficult brand planning and complicated order analysis.
- Time-management inefficiencies.
With Order Intents, brand users can access an overview of their assortments online within NuORDER, as well as export as needed for external analysis.
Note: Assortments on the Orders page are not actual orders. They represent Order Intents that a Retailer has shared with a Brand and should not be treated as a Purchase Order.
Select your role below to learn more about the Order Intents feature as it pertains to you.
When you’re ready to submit an initial Order Intent to a Brand, select the 3-dot menu in the upper-right corner of the assortment, then select Submit Order Intent.
On the Submit Order Intent modal, choose to send one of the following options:
- Entire assortment: All data and rows in your current assortment.
- Filtered view only: Partial assortments that only send Products, Totals, Doors, Deliveries, etc. that you have selected, configured, and/or filtered in the current view of your assortment.
Add the Brand contact (contact must be a user for the Brand) you want to send the assortment to, and you can optionally add notes for the contact to read. You can put anything you’d like in the Notes section, including information about the assortment or a simple message to the brand.
Select Submit Order Intent to send it to the Brand. You’ll see a confirmation note at the bottom of the assortment after you submit it.
When you submit an assortment, information available to brands includes:
- Order intent ID
- Product information
- Product ID
- UPC
- Style Name
- Style Number
- Color
- Color Code/Number
- Date of submission from retailer
- Total cost (wholesale)
- Total retail cost
- Total Units
- Per Size, if available
- Bulk, if no sizes available
- Company
- Buyer
Information not available includes:
- Any retail-owned fields
- Notes
- Any fields overwritten by the retailer (i.e. if the retailer has changed colors and/or costs)
- A breakdown of units/cost/retail by Door or Delivery
Note: Once submitted, you can only update Order Intents, not retract or “unsend” it, and the brand retains access to all versions of the file.
To view the history of an Order Intent, select the 3-dot menu in the upper-right corner of the assortment, then select Submit Order Intent > View intent log. Here, you’ll see information on each Order Intent. Expand Order Intent line items to see filtered configuration and what data was included in that Order Intent.
Note: View intent log is only available if you have previously submitted an Order Intent for the current assortment.
As a brand user, you can view Assortments submitted by your retailers on the Orders page. Navigate to the Orders page from the Notifications list in the upper-right corner of the NuORDER platform when a retailer submits an Order Intent, or from the Orders option in the left side menu.
On the Orders page, select the Assortment Order Intents tab.
Here, you’ll see summary information about each assortment that your retailers have submitted as an Order Intent, including:
- Order Intent #
- Assortment name
- Date created
- Last modified
- Merchant
- Buyers
- Ship start
- Ship end
- Total $
Double-click into the Ship start and/or Ship end fields to select dates from a calendar picker.
The above summary information can also be exported on the Summary Export.
Select the Order Intent # to view details of the Order Intent. Here, you can select specific products to view product details and sizing, view the Version History, or export the assortment to a detail export.
On the Detailed Export, you’ll see the details for each product listed in the assortment, including:
- Order intent ID
- Product information
- Product ID
- UPC
- Style Name
- Style Number
- Color
- Color Code/Number
- Date of submission from retailer
- Total cost (wholesale)
- Total retail cost
- Total Units
- Per Size, if available
- Bulk, if no sizes available
- Company
- Buyer