Managing bulk orders in Shopify can be a time-consuming and frustrating process, especially for merchants handling corporate gifting, influencer campaigns, or sending product samples to resellers. Shopify isn't designed to efficiently manage orders that need to be shipped to multiple recipients, which leads to common pain points like manual data entry, address errors, and tracking challenges.

According to recent research, corporate gifting is expected to reach $242 billion by 2025, with 60% of companies increasing their gifting budgets. Yet many Shopify merchants struggle to tap into this market because managing bulk orders is just too complex.

For a typical 100-recipient corporate order, merchants might spend 5 hours manually creating draft orders (if they’re really speedy: 2 min per order). Or 2-3 hours finagling their spreadsheet into the right format for an upload app like Matrixify. 

The Challenge with Multi-Recipient Orders

For most merchants, handling multi-recipient orders involves choosing between equally frustrating options:

• Tedious manual entry for each individual order or difficulty uploading and importing orders with multiple addresses

• Lack of address validation, leading to failed deliveries

• Being overwhelmed with order and shipping notifications

• No easy way to track the delivery status across all orders

• Challenges with billing, reporting, and inventory management

Introducing Send to Many: One Send, Multiple Recipients

Send to Many streamlines the entire process of multi-recipient order management, enabling merchants to create and manage these complex orders in minutes.

With Send to Many, merchants can:

• Upload a recipient spreadsheet once and get it right the first time

• Handle address validation issues directly in the app

• Automatically calculate accurate shipping and tax for all orders

• Track delivery status from a single dashboard

• Manage special notes and card messages effortlessly

• Consolidate costs and revenue for clear reporting

Business Impact

By simplifying bulk order management, Send to Many saves hours of manual work, reduces errors, and enables merchants to confidently manage larger, more profitable corporate orders.

• Upload and process a 100 recipient corporate gifting order in 5-10 minutes, a huge time saver

• Few, if any, failed deliveries due to address validation errors

• Much more streamlined responsiveness to customer needs

• A mind-set change from dreading bulk orders to eagerly seeking out bigger and bigger bulk orders

How to Use Send to Many: 4 Simple Steps

1. Create Your Send
   Start by creating a new "Send" in the app, a Paid Send for a corporate gifting order or a Free Send for influencer mailings or sample distribution. Add your products, define key details like delivery dates or custom messages if any.

   

   
   

2. Upload Your Recipients and Their Gifts
   Upload your CSV file or Google Sheet. The import tool automatically validates addresses, flags errors or missing information. Make any changes directly in the app instead of having to repeatedly update and reload your spreadsheet.

   
   

3. Review and Configure
   Preview total costs, delivery timelines, and any outstanding issues before confirming your send. Shipping and tax calculations are automated to save time.

   

   
   

4. Track and Manage
   Monitor your send from a single dashboard, track deliveries, and access consolidated reporting for easy oversight.