Personally Shopping With Baskets

Prerequisites

Before reading on please ensure that you have understood the following topics:

Overview

Shopping baskets allow you to buy products from organisations who are actively selling on the SQUIZZ.com platform. The organisations that you can shop and buy from on the SQUIZZ.com platform is controlled by the personal relationship you have with each organisation, and whether they are allow you to buy products from them.

Some organisations may allow you to view and buy their products without you having to be connected to the organisation directly. This may be known as retail purchasing. Other organisations may require you to connect with them first, then they will assign a customer account to you, that then allows you to access their product list and receive more tailored pricing. This typically occurs if you are a repeat customer or a higher valued customer.

In either case, once you have found a product that you can purchase from an organisation, to purchase a product you will need to add a quantity of the product to a shopping basket, then proceed through the order checkout process. During the order checkout process you can then set key details, including billing and delivery addresses, payment information, confirm your purchase, and submit the order to the selling organisation.

Multi Supplier/Seller Shopping Baskets

For each personal shopping basket you are allowed to add many quantities of each type of product, and have many products added across the same supplying organisation, as well as other selling organisations. This is known as "Multi Supplier/Seller Shopping Baskets". Once you have added one or more products to a shopping basket and have proceeded through the order checkout process, you will be creating separate orders with each selling organisation directly. This is different to many other online marketplaces, since SQUIZZ.com allows you to have direct relationships with the supplying organisations, add see the underlying sales orders being raised with each separate organisation.

Multiple Personal Shopping Baskets

You can create many personal shopping baskets. with each shopping basket holding a different collection of products that you may wish to purchase. This allows you to create separate lists of products based on the different aspects of your life. By default when you sign up to the SQUIZZ.com you will have the following shopping baskets created for you, these are:

General Personal Items
Personal Events, Parties and Presents
Personal Activities, Hobbies, Music and Sport

At any time you can delete, modify or use these original shopping baskets, as well as create new personal shopping baskets.

Controlling The Shopping Basket In Use

You can personally have multiple shopping baskets, only one of these shopping baskets can be set as the default "Basket In Use". This means that when you log into SQUIZZ.com, the basket that will appear within the header bar, as well as be the basket you can add products to when navigate an organisation's product list. By default shopping basket in-use also controls the pricing you see when navigating an organisation's product list, based on the customer accounts that are already being used with that basket. At any time you can switch the basket "in use" from within the Shopping Baskets menu. This is one way you can change the shopping basket that products are being added to.

Note that you can still add products in other shopping baskets. To do so you must navigate to the Basket Detail page of the shopping basket, where you can alter the basket's quantities, products, as well as more products to specific basket using the Basket Quick Add feature.

Pricing Longevity And Repricing Of Shopping Baskets

After a product has been added to basket, the price of the product will be locked in for a period of time controlled by the selling organisation. By default this is set to 24 hours, but it may be as low as 1 hour. Once the pricing has expired, if you then try to adjust the product within the basket, or proceed to the Order Checkout page, the basket's expired products will be re-priced. If no pricing could be found or the product is no longer being sold by the selling organisation to you then it will be removed from the basket. This means that less products could appear during the Order Checkout process at the review stage, or you could be blocked from completing checkout process if no products are in the basket any more. This would only be problem if you leave products in a shopping basket for a longer period of time, and can be avoided if you proceed to checkout with a shoppping basket in a short period of time.

Personal Shopping Basket Details

For each shopping basket the following details can be set:

Basket Name
Name of the shopping basket that allows it to be recognised, both by you or others that the basket is shared with. Consider setting a name that identifies the basket based on its purpose, the types of products that stored within it, events or activities that it relates to. Some examples include:
- Everyday personal purchases
- Personal activities, hobbies, sports
- Special events
- Events, parties, presents
- Secret surprises
- Shared interests
Basket Description
Set a longer description that can be used to provide more details about the basket. This may provide additional key information about the basket, such as purpose. key dates, reason why the basket exists, important notes, recommendations.
Basket Type
Personal - Shop For Me Or Others
Indicates that the basket is a personal basket that is used by you, or other individual people to buy products personally for themselves. This is the opposite of creating a basket that is used to buy products for an organisation.
Basket Group
Assign a basket to a Shopping Basket Group that allows you to easily find the basket when filtering baskets by group within the Shopping Baskets navigation menu.

Shopping Basket Group Details

For each shopping basket that you have personally created or are assigned to, there is the ability to group the baskets, to make it easier to quickly find and manage the baskets within the Shopping Baskets menu. the becomes more important when you are personally involved within more and more baskets. By default when you sign up to the SQUIZZ.com platform we've already created the following default Shopping Basket Groups:

Events
Work
Personal
Household
Friends and Family
Holidays and Recreation

At any time you can remove these defaults groups, modify them, as well as create new groups. These groups belong solely to you, and each other person on the platform will have their own shopping basket groups that they assign their shopping baskets to. If a shopping basket is not assigned to any basket group then the basket will appear under the Unassigned group. For each Shopping Basket Group you can set the group a name to allow it to be easy recognisable.

Create A Personal Shopping Basket

To create a personal shopping basket within the SQUIZZ.com platform you first must have been signed up to the platform. Once done follow these steps:

Login to the SQUIZZ.com platform from the Home page or mobile app.
Click on the Shopping Baskets menu item in the navigation bar (In small sized screens click on the menu button first).
Click on the Create Basket button.
Within the Create Basket dialog, in the Basket Name textbox type a name of the basket.
Within the Basket Description text area type any details about the basket, such as purpose, the kinds of products that should be placed there, or else any other relevent information.
In the Basket Type select the option "Personal - Shop For Me or Other People"
In the Basket Group drop down, optionally select a basket group to assign the basket to. If unsure then choose the Unassigned option, then any time after the basket has been created you can assign the basket to a group.
Click on the Save button.

After clicking on the Save button the shopping basket will be created and can then be found from within the Shopping Baskets menu. Note that the shopping basket may failed to be created if you have already created the maximum number of shopping baskets. If that occurs then it's best if you use one of the other existing baskets you have, or remove an existnig basket that you are no already using.

Remove A Personal Shopping Basket

If you no longer wish to use a shopping basket and have it removed from the your Shopping Baskets menu then follow these steps:

Login to the SQUIZZ.com platform from the home page or mobile app.
Click on the Shopping Baskets menu item in the navigation menu (for small sized screens click on the Menu button first).
Find the shopping basket and click on the Remove link for the shopping basket that you wish to remove.
In the confirmation overlay click on the Ok button, to confirm that you wish to permanently remove the shopping basket.

The shopping basket will be permanently be deleted, and any products in the basket will also be removed. The shopping basket will no longer appear in the Shopping Lists basket.

Set A Shopping Basket As The Active Basket In Use

To set one of your personal shopping baskets as the active basket in use follow these steps:

Login to the SQUIZZ.com platform from the home page or mobile app.
Click on Shopping Baskets menu item in the navigation menu (for small sized screens click on the Menu button first).
Find the shopping basket and click on the Use Basket button.

The shopping basket will be set as the active basket in use. The Use Basket will hide for the basket within the Shopping Baskets menu and show for the previous basket now not in use. The Basket Summary in the header bar will update to show the basket's name and overall quantity. Now when you navigate through an organisation's products pages and areas where products show. If a product is added to basket in one of these areas it will be added to the basket now in use (Unless a different basket is being used from within its own Basket Detail page). If the basket now in use already had an organisation's customer account assigned to the basket, then the pricing being shown for that organisation's products will be based on the existing account being set against the basket.

View Details Of A Shopping Basket

To see details of a personal shopping basket (including products within it, customer accounts assigned to it) then follow these steps:

Login to the SQUIZZ.com platform from the home page or mobile app.
Click on Shopping Baskets menu item in the navigation menu (for small sized screens click on the Menu button first).
Find the shopping basket and click on the View button.

The Shopping Basket Detail page will load. Within the page you can see the basket's name and description, a summary of the product quantities, total price amounts, a list of products within the basket, the ability to remove products from the basket, as well as further products to the basket using the Product Quick Add feature.

Find Featured Trusted Seller Organisations And Products To Buy

After you have logged into the SQUIZZ.com platform, on the Home page it will display a random list of organisations who are trusted, and are selling on the SQUIZZ.com platform. For each organisation you may be able to see a few products that it is selling, and have the option to buy the product by adding to your active basket in use. Additionally there's options to connect with the organisation, view its full product catelogue, as well as view its profile page. Organisations who are trusted have passed SQUIZZ.com's checks, and you can have high confidence that the organisation is legitimate and valid to a higher degree.
To view the Featured Trusted Sellers list follow these steps:

Login to the SQUIZZ.com platform from the home page or mobile app.
View the Featured Trusted Sellers List.

The list will choose from the trusted organisations at random, as well as randomly show products that the organisation is selling. This allows you to have greater awareness of organisations that you can buy from with a higher degree of trust, either for yourself or on behalf of an organisation you purchase for.

Add A Product To A Shopping Basket With Basket Quick Add

Within the Shopping Basket Detail page you can add products to a shopping basket you have access to, across multiple organisations, using its Basket Quick Add feature. This features allows you to quickly find and look up products against organisations that you know, when you partially know the code of the products you wish to add to basket. This relies on the organisation being already set up to sell on the SQUIZZ.com platform, and you having permission to access and purchase the organisation's products.
To add a product to a shopping basket using Basket Quick Add follow these steps:

Login to the SQUIZZ.com platform from the home page or mobile app.
Click on Shopping Baskets menu item in the navigation menu (for small sized screens click on the Menu button first).
Alternatively
If the shopping basket is already in use then click on the Basket button in the top header bar, then proceed to step 4.
Find the shopping basket and click on the View button.
After the Shopping Basket Detail page has loaded, within the Basket Quick Add panel, in the Organisation text box, begin to type the name of the Organisation that you wish to purchase a product from. (it has the placeholder text Type Name Of Organisation).
Select the Organisation from the auto-complete drop down if it shows up.
Within the Customer Accounts text box if may already select the customer acocunt that you can use for the organisation. If so you can move onto the next step. Alternatively in the text box you can type the code of the customer account that you wish to use to purchase with from the organisation. This is only available if the organisation has assigned multiple customer accounts to you, or you have permission to order from any of it's customer accounts.
Once a customer account has been selected, in the Product Code textbox type the start of the code of the product you wish to add to basket. Select the product once it displays in the auto-complete list. If it doesn't display then the product cannot be found. Alternatively you can click on the View Product Catelogues button to be taken to the organisation's Product Catelogue page, where you can find products by navigating the organisation's categories, and lists of products in each category.
If a product was selected, then in the Quantity text box type the quantity of the product that you wish to add to the basket. You can also click on the View Product Details button to open the Product Details dialog to view more details of the product, including name, description, images, attributes, and other key information.
Optionally in the Sell Unit drop down you may be able to choose a different sell unit. Sell Units control how many individual quantities you can add to basket. Each sell unit may package up a range of individual quantities, allowing more of product to be purchased, such as in packages, boxes, containers.
Click on the Add Product To Basket button.

An attempt will be made to add the product to basket. If successful then a notification message will display showing the quantity and price of the product that was added to basket. The Basket Products List on the page will also update showing the product now in the basket. If successful then the Basket Quick Add form will clear back to step 7. Repeat steps 7 to 10 against to add another product to basket from the same organisation. Or else repeat steps 4 to 10 to add a product to basket from a different organisation.