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Build a book list and get it priced

Curate the titles your families need, then invite your sellers to supply them. You never set prices yourself.

15 min

Before you start

  • A verified school account with its page live
  • At least one linked manufacturer whose catalogue you can draw from
  • At least one linked seller to ask
  1. Platform staff

    Platform staff link you to your manufacturers and sellers

    Both links are created by staff. The manufacturer link is what lets you see a catalogue; the seller link is what lets you ask that seller to supply a list.

    Without a manufacturer link you have nothing to build from

  2. Schools

    Start a new book list

    Give it a title families will recognise — a class and a year works well — and a short description for the sellers you will ask.

    /partner/bundle-requests/new

  3. Add titles from your manufacturers

    Open a manufacturer catalogue and add what you need, setting a quantity per title. Search by title or reference code if the catalogue is large. There is no pricing at this stage at all.

  4. Submit the list and choose who to ask

    On submitting you pick which of your linked sellers to invite. You can ask more than one — each builds their own version at their own price, and families choose.

    A list nobody has been asked to sell cannot become a bundle

  5. Sellers

    Sellers accept or decline

    Each seller answers independently. One declining does not take the list away from the others. A seller who declines can be asked again later.

  6. A seller sources the titles and builds their bundle

    Anything they do not already stock they must buy from the manufacturer first. This is the slow part — it involves a purchase order and a payment confirmation per title.

  7. Schools

    The priced list appears on your page

    Once staff approve a seller’s bundle it goes live on your school page, where families can buy it as one purchase.

Worth knowing

You can withdraw a seller, but not after they have built

A seller can be removed from a list while they are still deciding or sourcing. Once they have produced a bundle from it, the invitation can no longer be withdrawn.

Every title must come from a linked manufacturer

This is checked per title, not per list, so a list can legitimately span several manufacturers — as long as you are linked to each of them.

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