Set up recurring orders
Three mechanisms, set up separately. A standing order is a saved order list plus a schedule, and it is the fastest of the three to get live. A subscription sells access on a term and is the only one where money moves whether or not anything ships. Reorder suggestions predict rather than schedule, and their settings decide whether buyers read them or learn to ignore them.
Two decisions here are expensive to change afterwards, so make them deliberately: the price mode — captured at the start, or resolved fresh at every run — and, for subscriptions, the term and notice period. Both belong in the customer agreement, not in a field somebody flips later.
- Standing orders — Fixed cart, fixed interval.
- Subscriptions — Plans, terms, billing cycles.
- Configure reorder suggestions — Thresholds, channels, opt-in.
How smart reordering works
Predicting the next order from consumption — the arithmetic, the confidence question, and the four situations where the prediction is confidently wrong.
Standing orders
A saved basket plus a schedule. Setting the interval, the price mode, the notification lead time and the end condition — before the first run rather than after it.