While most PhotoDay orders default to shipping directly to the customer with Drop Shipping, Bulk Shipping lets you consolidate orders into one grouped shipment for centralized pickup—great for schools, sports leagues, and any job where delivering to one location makes more sense than shipping to individual addresses. Learn more about PhotoDay's 3 shipping options.
What's new: Bulk shipping is no longer limited to Private gallery jobs. Group and Public gallery jobs can now use bulk shipping!
Bulk Shipping is only available for specific labs, including Miller’s. Please contact Support for the most up-to-date list of labs offering Bulk Shipping.
Bulk Shipping Requirements
Bulk shipping is only available for specific labs, including Miller’s. You can easily add multiple labs to your PhotoDay account.
The initial bulk deadline must be within the first 30 days after publishing. A second bulk shipment deadline can be created in the same job, but since a job's automated marketing ends after 30 days, you will need to send manual reminders/communication.
There may be a minimum lab cost when using the bulk shipping feature. This cost is dependent on your lab selection. If less than the total in product lab costs (for the whole bulk order) are ordered by the processing date, you will receive an invoice with the remaining balance. All invoices are due upon receipt. Learn more below.
Once the bulk shipping deadline has passed, the orders will be shipped overnight (excluding weekends). Please note that the job will automatically expire after the Deadline Date. If you wish to republish your gallery after it expires, you must enter a new Deadline Date or attach a Drop or Drop & Bulk price sheet.
Depending on your lab selection, some products may not be available for Bulk Shipping. Learn more below.
Bulk Shipping in Different Job Types
For Private Gallery Jobs, orders will automatically be split up per subject and any additional sorting options.
For Public and Group Gallery Jobs, you can use Bulk Shipping with or without subject data.
For all job types, you can configure additional sorting options in the Job’s Bulk Settings. Grouping and Sorting Options can be set based on existing subject data or by custom dropdown fields that you determine.
At checkout, grouping fields auto-populate if the subject being shopped has data for those fields. If the subject has no data, the customer selects from a dropdown.
If a customer is not tied to a subject at all, they will manually select their grouping fields at checkout. If they have multiple subjects, or multiple grouping options apply to them (e.g., a subject on multiple teams), we will let them know to just choose one to use for the distribution/pickup of their order.
These grouping and sorting options are not required. If you enable bulk shipping without configuring sort fields, the checkout experience won't prompt customers for grouping input.
Miller's Bulk Shipping Information
$15 total lab cost minimum when using the bulk shipping feature. If less than $15 total in product lab costs (for the whole bulk order) are ordered by the processing date, you will receive an invoice with the remaining balance. All invoices are due upon receipt.
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