Order Intents allow 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.
For both options, you can choose to send only the totals for each product per size or also include their quantity breakdown. Quantities can be broken down by:
- Delivery
- Delivery and doors
- Delivery and a selected attribute (e.g., Region, Channel, etc.)
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 can assign a Company to each Order Intent, making it easier to identify which retailer submitted the intent, and ensuring the right account info is captured for integrations like your ERP.
You can choose to do this in two ways:
List View: A Company column appears before Total $ column.
Detail View: A Company section is added to the header before the Totals.
Once you assign a Company, navigate back to the Assortment Order Intent tab, where 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
- Company
- 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 for a Detailed Export.
To do this, select Export on the top right corner of the page. You will have two download options for your export:
- Full Order Intent details
- Order Intent summary
Once you select the appropriate option, a new browser tab will be opened and you will see a spinner indicating that the export is in progress. Once the export is complete, the file will be automatically downloaded to your computer and the tab will be closed, placing you back on the Order Intents screen.
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
- A breakdown of units/cost/retail by Delivery, Door or Attribute, if submitted by the buyer. Products are grouped by delivery in both the interface and exports, with ship dates available per delivery.
- Company
- Buyer