The orderable catalogue

A service marked orderable appears on your public page. A client picks it, fills in the brief, and the order arrives with you, already answered.

You sent nothing and created nothing.

Turning it on

On the service, switch on "orderable" and write the catalogue summary: the line a client reads before choosing. A concrete sentence beats a slogan.

You can also give it a cover image and arrange the order of the services on the page.

What the client does

They open your page, choose a service, read your introduction, answer the form, upload their files, and submit.

The order only exists on submit. Somebody who browses, opens a form and leaves writes nothing at all: no empty order, no phantom client to clean up.

What you get

An ordinary order: the same number, the same behaviour, the same page. The client record is created along the way from the contact details the form asked for.

There are not two kinds of order in Kalepio. Whether you opened it or the client did, it is the same thing.

What to decide before switching it on

It is less a setting than a way of working, and it raises two questions.

Do I want a job to be able to start without my having said yes? An order arriving through the catalogue commits you to nothing: you are not obliged to take it, and you can reply in the conversation. But it arrives.

Does my form stand on its own? Nobody will be there to explain a badly worded question. Fill yours in on your phone, as a client would, before switching this on.

An address per service

Every orderable service has its own address. So you can send somebody straight to "product photography" without walking them through the rest of your catalogue, which is handy when replying to a message.

Depending on your plan

The public catalogue depends on your plan, and the monthly order limit applies to orders arriving this way too. When it is reached the client sees a message that blames them for nothing and tells them nothing about what you pay.