Delivery Slot Management: Multi-Vendor Marketplace for Shopify – [User Guide]

Delivery Slot Management app is a simplified solution to offer scheduled deliveries on Shopify store products.

The app allows the merchants to add delivery method to the app, create slots for the customers for on-time deliveries and fixed-day deliveries. Thus, let customers select a slot when they wish to get the item delivered.

Now, the Delivery Slot Management app is integrated with the very popular Multi-vendor Marketplace app for Shopify. Enabling this feature app, the merchant can allow sellers to add delivery method and create slots for the customers.

NOTE:- The app is compatible with the Split Cart feature app in case you want customers to choose cart-wise delivery slot.
Also, the app is compatible with Store Pickup & Custom Option feature apps.

• Sellers can add their own delivery methods and create slots for the customers.
• There will be two delivery options for the sellers: On-time delivery & Fixed-day delivery to create slots.
• Sellers can cancel or reschedule deliveries to your customers.
• Moreover, the sellers can allow customers to reschedule deliveries.
• Have the best option to offer scheduled deliveries on products.
• Also, the sellers can close deliveries on products for some specific days.
• Additionally, create custom fields to get required information from customers.
• Sellers can offer fixed day delivery irrespective of time.
• Also, offer on-time delivery for the customers.
• Sellers can also add customer information to products.
• Moreover, you can assign delivery method to sellers via the Delivery Slot Management App.

To get this feature app firstly, you need to install the Delivery Slot Management App on your Shopify store.

Once done, visit the Feature App section and install the app.

Shopify Admin Panel

Now, coming to the Delivery Slot Management App on Shopify admin, you need to visit the Configuration menu and enable the option.

In this configuration, you will have a configuration “Include Vendor Delivery Method“. Enabling this tab, both admin’s and vendor’s delivery method will be shown to the customers.

Moreover, you can choose if you want to show the admin’s or the vendor’s delivery methods on product page.

Assign Delivery Method To Vendor

Multi-vendor Admin Panel

As soon as you enable the feature app, you will have a new sub-menu added to the Configuration menu in the app.

Now, you need to enable this configuration to allow sellers to add delivery methods and create slots.

Sync Seller

You can sync the sellers into the app to allow previously added sellers to create delivery methods and add delivery slots to their products.
For that, visit the Multi-vendor admin panel>>Configuration>>Delivery Slot Management Configuration>>Click Sync Seller button.

Thus, the sellers are synced successfully as shown in the screenshot:-

Let’s check the configuration on seller end.

The sellers will add the delivery methods and create slots from their respective seller panels. For this, the seller needs to visit Configuration>>Delivery Slot Management menu.

How to Add Delivery Methods?

Clicking the Add Delivery Method button, the seller can add a new delivery method. The seller can delete or edit any existing delivery methods as well.

The seller will enter the delivery method details and assign delivery slots to the method added. Moreover, allow customers to reschedule deliveries and reschedule deliveries after fulfillment.

How To Add Delivery Slots?

From the Delivery Slot section, the seller can add delivery slots for the customers. The seller can allow customers to choose either a fixed date or a fixed date & time for the order delivery.

While adding a slot, the needs to enter the delivery information such as title of the slot, delivery type: single or multi-user delivery.

Single User Delivery: Select this delivery type if you want to allow only one customer to book a slot at a time.
Multi User Delivery: Select this delivery type if you want to offer the same time/date slot to multiple customers. Thus, You can allow more than one Customer to book a single slot at a time.

Also, from the Availability section, the sellers can configure either Fixed Day Delivery or On-time Delivery options for the customers.

On-time Delivery

On-time Delivery:- The seller needs to configure this delivery option if they want to allow customers to choose a preferred date & time to get the item delivered to the destination.

Also, the seller will enable the weekdays to let customers choose a date for the order delivery.

Thus, the customer will get the option to choose a date & time for the order deliveries.

Fixed-day Delivery

Fixed-day Delivery:- The seller needs to configure this delivery option if they want to allow customers to choose a preferred date (irrespective of time) to get the item delivered to the destination.

Thus, the customer will get the option to choose a date for the order deliveries.

Overwrite Specific days:- Moreover, the seller can configure this option if they want to close deliveries on some specific days.

Custom Information:- Show additional information related to your products.

Custom Field:- Also, the seller can add custom fields in case you want to add additional information from the customers at the time of placing an order.

Now, to show the delivery widget on the seller’s products, you need to add the codes from the app.

After selecting a delivery method, the customer will get the option to choose a date & time slot for the order delivery.

Customer “My Account” Section

Customers can view the delivery details from their account.

Additionally, the customer can request the admin to reschedule the deliveries.

You can show seller delivery methods on the cart page of your store. For that, you need to enable the Split Cart feature app in the Multi-vendor Marketplace app. Know more about the split cart feature app.

Now, visit Multi-vendor admin panel>> Configuration>>Split Cart Configuration>>Enable Allow Delivery Slot tab.

Visibility of Seller Delivery Method on Cart Page:-

Deliveries

From this section, the seller will have the list of all the order deliveries requested by the customers. Moreover, the seller can edit the delivery and approve & cancel it.

So, that’s all about the Delivery Slot Management app for the seller.

Demo

Please check the Demo here: https://delivery-slot-management-demo.myshopify.com/pages/demo

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