Welcome to YumShare

 Shopping on YumShare 

Shopping on YumShare achieves lower price for goods by bulk buying. You can get these bulk buying discounts without having to bulk buy yourself, by joining a YumShare club and buying together with the other members.
 
If you want to you can buy one packet of your favourite cookies and a bottle of tasty apple juice, there is no minimal order amount for members. The clubs have regular club shopping lists, run by a club organiser and then you just pitch in your personal shopping list, large or small.
 
YumShare is made of shopping clubs and each club has a single club organiser. Club organisers then setup club shopping lists, each with a specific wholesaler and deadline. Club members then add their personal shopping lists to the club shopping lists.
 
Table of Contents
    1. Club member
      1. Find a club
      2. Joining a club shopping list
      3. Shopping on a club shopping list
      4. What your group shopping list needs to do
      5. Deadline and paying for your goods
      6. Getting your shopping
    2. Club organiser
      1. Create a club
      2. Club membership
      3. Creating a shopping list for you club
      4. Getting going with your club shopping list
      5. How the shopping list works
      6. Members shopping
      7. The club shopping list deadline
      8. Payment, confirmation and delivery date of your order
      9. Sharing out the goods

How it works!

 

Club member

To shop on YumShare you need to be a member of a clubs shopping list. Once you’ve joined a club shopping list, you can go shopping with the wholesaler the shopping list is associated with. When the club shopping list deadline closes you’ll be asked to pay the club organiser for your order. Your club organiser will then inform you of a date you can pick up the goods from the clubs pick up location.

 
Please note that all payment by club members go to the club organiser and not to YumShare.

  1. Find a club

Once you’ve logged into YumShare you need to request a membership of a club that’s nearby and convenient for you. You can search for clubs in the ‘clubs’ tab to the top right of your browser window, and then select ‘Request Membership’ to the right of each club listed.

  1. Joining a club shopping list

Once you a member of a club you can join one of its club lists by visiting the clubs home page and selecting join list.

  1. Shopping on a club shopping list

When shopping on a club shopping list, you get a view which shows the ‘club shopping list’ and your own ‘personal shopping list’, side by side.
 
You only need to buy single items of product and there is no minimum order amount for your personal shopping list.
 
Your ordered items will only qualify for purchase if the product has all its slots filled. The number of order slots varies for each product, from one bottle for a beauty product to twenty five slots for a sack of organic arborio risotto rice.

  1. What your group shopping list needs to do

As a group though your club shopping list has to reach the wholesalers minimum order amount.
Each product on the club shopping list has to fill all of its slots to qualify for purchase when the shopping list deadline closes the list.

  1. Deadline and paying for your goods

When the club shopping list reaches its deadline the list is closed and your club organiser will contact you for payment.
 
All payments as a club list member go to the club list organiser and not to YumShare.

  1. Getting your shopping

Your club list organiser will inform you of a pick up date for your shopping.
 
The goods are delivered to the club location, listed on the the clubs home page.
 
You then make arrangements with your club organiser to pick up the goods.
 

Club organiser

As the club organiser you’ll be the sole administrator of your club, having the responsible for placing the finished shopping list order with YumShare, making payment to YumShare via PayPal for the order and taking delivery of goods that you’ll share out with your club members.
 
Note your club members pay the club organiser for the shopping and then you pay YumShare in one go for the complete club shopping list.
 
Please make sure you have a PayPal account, you can sign up for one here http://paypal.com

  1. Create a club

Once you logged in can create a club using the left hand site menu.
Give your club a name, description, location and select the tags that best describe the food and products your club likes.
You should spend a little time on the description as this will help people know if the club is right for them.

  1. Club membership

Public - Club membership happens through request from YumShare members or by you and your club members sending out invitation to YumShare members and the public.
 
Private - You can keep your club closed for your own households or organisation/company shopping.

  1. Creating a shopping list for you club

In your clubs home page you can create new lists using the ‘create a new list’ button.
You can create as many lists as you like for your club.

  1. Getting going with your club shopping list

Once the club shopping list is created you should first of all shop for the items you would like to buy yourself.
 
When this is completed you can message your club members inviting them to shop on this list.

  1. How the shopping list works

Each club shopping has a deadline after which no more shopping can take place, this is set when you start the list.
 
The shopping list has a minimum order value which the shopping list must be over on the deadline date for the club shopping list to be processed. This minimum order amount varies with different wholesaler.
 
Items on the club shopping list only qualify to be purchased on the deadline date if all their order slots have been filled. The number of order slots varies for each product, from one bottle for a beauty product to twenty five slots for a sack of organic arborio risotto rice.

  1. Members shopping

As your club members shop on the club list and you get closer to your deadline, you can message or make posts to your club members asking them to take up remaining order slots to enable products to qualify for purchasing on the deadline date.

  1. The club shopping list deadline

When the club shopping list deadline is reached the list is closed.
 
All items that reached their order slots will qualify for purchasing.

  1. Payment, confirmation and delivery date of your order

We leave it up to you to collect your payments from your club members as we recognise there are many different ways this will happen and these are beyond the scope of YumShare.
 
As club organiser you can see a list of members purchases and the amount they owe.
 
When your ready you need to make a payment for the order to YumShare for the full amount for the order to our PayPal account, account details provided on request to info@yumshare.co.uk
 
When the funds have cleared in full, we will conform your order and give you a delivery date.
Please note that we only deliver to one location, as the club organiser you need to make arrangements with your members for pickup of the products.
 
Delivery date will be approximately three to six days after orders have been paid for.

  1. Sharing out the goods

When the delivery date has been confirmed you need to let your club members know the delivery date and remind them of your pick up location.