The Quick Order Form provides a fast and efficient way for wholesale customers - especially returning buyers - to place large orders quickly, boosting efficiency and sales. Available to Advanced and Premium subscribers, its placement adapts based on how your store is set up: in the Wholesale Shop navigation or within your theme’s customer/account pages.
The quick order form is offered in the Advanced and Premium subscription packages.
Learn more about the quick order form and other Advanced and Premium features here!
The Quick Order Form is fully customizable. Through Shopify’s page editor, you can add titles, descriptions, images, and links directly to the header of the form. Navigation can also be tailored - select which collections appear and adjust their order, or clear them entirely for a simpler layout.
You can enhance functionality further by displaying product SKUs and inventory levels directly on the form, provided that inventory tracking is enabled in Shopify. Optionally, backordered and out-of-stock tooltips inform customers of availability details or shipping timelines. The “Quick Order Form” button text is customizable via your theme settings, and you can hide it entirely if needed.
Customizing the Quick Order Form
- Customizing the title & description
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You can customize the area at the top of the Quick Order Form via the 'Page' settings in Shopify. This area can support all elements that Shopify's custom page editor allows for, including text, images and hyperlinks.
- Open Wholesale Gorilla and navigate to Online Store and select Customize quick order form to open the Quick Order Form admin page.
- Select Edit page description
- In the Content section of the page settings you will see placeholder text. Select all of the text and blank space in this text box and delete it.
- Add the desired text, images, or other content to this section.
- Save.
Adding Navigation to the quick order form
By default the Quick Order Form doesn't include any navigation, and just displays all of your products as one big list. You can add collection based navigation to the Quick Order Form by following these steps.
Open the Quick Order Form page in the Wholesale Gorilla admin, and scroll down to the Navigation section. Here you can select and arrange the collections that appear on the Order Form navigation menu.
- Adding Collections
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- Open Wholesale Gorilla and navigate to Online Store and select Customize quick order form to open the Quick Order Form admin page. Select Choose Collections.
- Select the collections you want to add to the Order Form men
To add all of the collections on your store to the Order Form navigation you can click Add All Collections.
- Changing the Order Of Collections
To change the order the collections appear in the Order Form navigation, click and hold on the collection to drag it to the position you'd like it included to.
- Removing Collections
To remove a collection from the Order Form navigation, click the Delete button next to the collection. Alternatively to delete all collections in the navigation click Clear all.
Displaying SKU & inventory information
Important! Wholesale Gorilla's inventory settings will only work if Shopify tracks your product inventory. Wholesale Gorilla gets inventory information for a product from the product's page in your Shopify admin.
- Displaying SKUs for products
A SKU will only be displayed if you've assigned one to the product listing in the Shopify admin. Once you have taken this step, you can enable the Display Product SKU setting in the Quick Order Form settings section of our app, and the SKU will then appear alongside the listing on the form.
- Displaying Inventory
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To show the remaining available inventory for a product on the Order form:
- Open Wholesale Gorilla and navigate to the Quick Order Form page.
- Select Display amount remaining. and save.
- Enabling Backordered and Out-of-stock messages.
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- Open Wholesale Gorilla and click the Settings tab.
- Scroll to the Inventory section and make sure you have checked, Shopify tracks my inventory.
- Check, Enable backordered/out-of-stock messages.
- Save.
Backordered messages will now display a tool tip letting your customers know that over-ordering is allowed. Hovering over the "i" icon will show any additional information.
- Displaying a shipping date
Shipping dates will be displayed next to out-of-stock or backordered items if you've set up a transfer for the product in your Shopify admin. If you have set an incoming inventory amount, the amount that's remaining available for order will be displayed as well. If you have not taken this step, no quantity will be shown. Learn more about transfers.
Selling when out of stock
Out of stock messages will let your customer know that this product is sold out, and prevent more than the remaining inventory from being added to the cart. This message will appear if you have not allowed over-ordering on a product listing, and it's stock level reaches zero.
Customizing the quick order form buttons
To customize the title of the quick order form button, navigate to your theme's settings, and drop down Wholesale Gorilla's menu and add a title for your quick order form button.
Hiding quick order form buttons
The Quick Order Form links are live by default. You can hide the links to the Quick Order Form by enabling the 'Hide Buttons' option in the 'Quick Order Form' settings area, which will prevent these from appearing on your Online Store.
Notes
- At this time, the Quick Order Form is a 'one size fits all' form within your site; the collections included upon it will be available to all wholesale customers on your site, and can not be adjusted on a per-customer basis.
- Changing the Quick Order Form navigation does not show or hide particular collections from wholesale customers. To show/hide products from certain customers you can use product exclusions.