Orders and customers

Group orders: one link for a whole team

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A group order is the job every embroiderer knows: a team, a class, a church group, or an office wants the same piece in twenty different sizes. Done by hand it is a spreadsheet, a group chat, and someone chasing people for money.

Broidry turns it into one link. You pick a product you already sell, set a price per person and a closing date, and share the link. Each member opens it, picks their own size and color, types their own name if the piece is personalized, and pays for their own spot. You are not collecting money from anyone.

Setting one up

  1. 1Open Group orders and start a new one from a product you already have on your shop page.
  2. 2Set the price each person pays and the date the group closes. The closing date is what protects you: after it passes, no one else can join, so you are not still taking orders while you are trying to stitch.
  3. 3Share the link. There is also a separate organizer link you can hand to the coach, the room parent, or whoever is actually herding the group, so they can watch it fill up without needing an account.
  4. 4Watch it fill. The group order page shows who has joined and who has paid, so you always know where it stands.

A spot is not real until it is paid

This is the part that saves you. A member who starts the form but never pays does not count as part of the group, and never appears on anything you stitch from. Only paid spots are real. It means the number you see is the number of pieces you are actually making, not the number of people who said they were in.

Stitching the batch

When the group closes, open its production sheet. It lists only the paid members, batched by garment, then color, then size — so you hoop once and sew a whole size run at a time instead of jumping around.

Every line still carries the member's name along with their wording, placement, and thread color, so you can run the batch efficiently and still bag each finished piece by the right person's name. Broidry also emails the paid members when the group closes, so nobody is left wondering whether their order went through.

Good to know: A group order that expires without enough members is not a disaster to untangle by hand. Broidry closes it on its date, tells you what it ended up with, and lets you reopen it if you want to give the group more time.