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Dynamic Build-a-Box

Feature Highlights

Price Flexibility

Setting up a build-a-box was often challenging in the past because brands had to commit to a fixed price, even if the actual costs of the products in the box differed. What if customers selected only the most expensive items? Our dynamic build-a-box does away with this fear, because the price of the bundle is calculated based on the products the customer selects. You set requirements around box sizes, minimums or maximums, and the customer can fill up their box without breaking the bank. Everyone wins. 

Box sizes and discounts

Our build-a-box admin setup allows you to specify one or more box sizes that customers can select, and also a discount associated with each. This way, you can incentivize customers to purchase larger boxes with more items by having progressively larger discounts. You can also make sure you’re sticking to any operational or cost requirements by requiring these specific box sizes, while allowing customers to personalize their selections. Discounts are optional, but are a great tool for maximizing AOV. 

Minimums and Maximums and Discounts

If you don’t have strict box size requirements, you can also set up a minimum number of items, a maximum or both to help customers stick within a reasonable box size as they select their items. This flexibility can help you achieve your financial or operational goals, while allowing customers to tailor their purchase to their preferences too. You can reward customers with a box discount for meeting your minimum size requirements as well. 

Subscription and One-time options

Our build-a-boxes can be sold as a subscription only, as one-time only or you can let your customers pick. You can offer subscription discounts, even in addition to box size discounts and any frequency options you’d like. All these levers help you drive the purchase behavior that’s best for your business. 

Easy Management in Customer Portal and Admin

This is where the magic happens. Our build-a-box is so thoroughly built into our system that it is extremely easy to adjust what is in a customer’s box on an ongoing basis. Customers can easily do this in the customer portal with a few clicks. Your customer success team or admins can also easily do this in our app. Awtomic keeps track of the requirements, products and discounts and keeps everything in sync so you don’t have to worry about it. 

Slide out details

It’s hard to make purchase decisions from a thumbnail image, which is why we have a lovely experience when any product in a box is clicked to view a carousel of the product images and any description that exists for the product. Want to show your review stars as well? No problem. 

Product Variant Options

Do your products have multiple variants? No problem! You can even choose if you want each variant to be its own product card in the box, or to be a single card with a drop down for the customer to select from. It’s your party - we’re just here to make it easy and beautiful. 

Built in Sections and Navigation

With the flip of a setting you can turn on beautifully sorted sections by Product Type with a built in navigation system that jumps you between them with ease. As your catalog grows, you don’t have to worry about adding friction for your customers. 

Custom Filters

Lots of items in your build-a-box? Filters are here to make this easy. In our app you can create and control custom filters based on tags or variants to make it easy for your customers to find exactly what they are looking for. Favorite flavors, scents, colors, sizes - you name it. We even have ways to set pre-selected filters when opening the box as customers purchase, or in the customer portal. 

Layout Options

The world is your oyster. Our default layout launches from your product pages, but you can also use our full page option where subscription frequencies and box sizes are selectable on the same page. Want to build a fully custom purchase flow? No sweat - we have documentation and support to make this simple too. 

Extras and Upsells 

As an option, you can add another step in your build-a-box process to recommend products that people can add in addition to their box. This will add extra cost to their order and is a great opportunity to upsell related products or add-ons. 

Operations and Fulfillment 

Our dynamic build-a-box creates orders with the line items in them only. This makes fulfillment easy because the orders are exactly what should be picked and packed. Your team will not have to filter out the “parent” box product, or worry about extra item counts. 

Accounting and Item Count

Since orders are exactly set up to use product line items and their discounts and don’t add additional box products, your accounting and item counts will all be accurate. You’ll be able to see top products sold across your boxes easily in Shopify reporting with the accurate discount applied based on box settings. 

Sold out settings 

Have inventory shortages? No problem. We have settings to show or hide sold out items so you can control the experience for your customers. 

Preselected items

Want to open a box with items already selected? You can create great custom experiences with recommended items and reduce friction by opening the box with different selections already made. From there, customers can make adjustments or just go directly to check out.

Use Cases

Baby and Kids Subscriptions

Frozen or Chilled Foods

Meal Kits and Services

Juice, Smoothies and Beverages

Pet Food and Products

Beer and Wine Clubs

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