Orgill Order Fulfillment Service or SOF: How does it work?

Orgill Order Fulfillment Service or SOF: How does it work?

Orgill's Order Fulfillment Service, sometimes called "Small Order Fulfillment" or SOF, is a separate service. If a dealer wants Orgill to fulfill the orders from their online catalog, the dealer needs to separately sign-up with Orgill for the SOF service.

Availability

The SOF service is currently only available for dealers in the United States. Orgill is working on getting the shipping logistics finalized in Canada and is expecting to offer SOF service to Canadian dealers at some point during 2019.

How It Works: In General

Decide if you wish to accept or reject the order. For accepted orders, login to the Boost Content Manager (BCM) and transfer the order to Orgill for fulfillment. Otherwise cancel the order.

How It Works: In Detail

You will probably receive the following types of orders from your online catalog:
  • Valid orders
  • Fraudulent orders
  • Test orders where someone or a bot is experimenting and/or filling in random text in the checkout form

When each order is submitted by a customer in your online catalog, the catalog will email a notification message to a predetermined email address to inform the merchant (you) about the new order. Orders do not go directly to Orgill unless you send them to Orgill as described below using BCM.

When you, as the dealer, receive such order notification emails, do not attempt to process the order from the email message. Instead, you need to login to your catalog Admin area to review the order details first.

Find the order in the ORDERS section under Process Orders. Click the order number beside the desired order to view the order's information.

Review the order information to determine if you will accept or reject this order. Consider all of the information provided such as does the "Fraud Score" raise any red flags (e.g. a Fraud Score of 1% is good, however higher percentages are progressively questionable), does it look like someone just entered random or bogus text in the checkout form for name, address, etc., has the order been paid by credit card or other valid payment method, etc. In other words, does it look like a valid order that you wish to accept?

For orders which you decide to reject, refer to the "Canceling an Order" article for details.

For orders which you decide to accept:
  1. Login to the Boost Content Manager (BCM), go to the ORDER MANAGEMENT section, and find this order in the order listing.
  2. If there is a red/pink warning about the order, then you might want to communicate with the customer (e.g. email them) about the issue and/or cancel the order in the catalog Admin area.
  3. Otherwise (if no warnings), click the "Details" link beside this order on the BCM order detail page, change the Fulfillment Status field from "In Store" to be "Orgill WareHouse" and click [Save].
  4. If the customer is paying by credit card and if your catalog is configured for automatic pre-authorization but manual capture of credit card funds, then also see this article to capture the funds before they expire.

Other Methods of Order Fulfillment