The list where the parcels stay with the giver
Lena has moved. The flat is set up, the housewarming is in three weeks, and the guests are asking what is still missing. What Lena does not want: twenty parcels arriving one by one beforehand, to be unpacked and put away before anybody is even there.
That makes moving in the counter-example to every other occasion on this site. Everywhere else masked direct delivery is the core. Here it gets in the way.
23
wishes for the new flat
2
possible ways of delivering
Why here of all places
Why direct delivery is a nuisance here
A housewarming is an evening on which gifts are handed over. That is the difference from a wedding, where they are simply allowed to arrive.
- With direct delivery
- Twenty parcels stand at the door of a flat that still has boxes in it. They are unpacked before the party, and nothing is handed over
- With delivery to the givers
- Everyone gets their gift at home, wraps it and brings it along. The evening gets a moment it would otherwise not have
- What falls away
- No delivery address is needed at all. The list therefore never appears under "no delivery address – cannot be ordered"
- What stays
- The reconciliation. Bought is bought, everybody sees it, nobody brings the same tool case
The reconciliation hangs on the order status, not on the direction of delivery. That is why this reversal breaks nothing.
The list itself
Twenty-three wishes for an empty flat
A housewarming list is practical rather than festive. Much of it is small, some of it is needed more than once.
| Wish | Quantity | Price | State |
| Metal plant shelf | 1 | 129.00 € | Currently reserved |
| Tool case, 108 pieces | 1 | 89.00 € | Available |
| Towels, set | 3 | 29.00 € each | 1 of 3 available |
| Side table | 2 | 79.00 € each | Available |
| Coated pan set | 1 | 119.00 € | Gifted |
| Oak wall shelf | 2 | 49.00 € each | Gifted |
| Large house plants | 3 | 34.00 € each | 2 of 3 available |
| Lend a power drill | 1 | not in this shop | Already taken on |
The last row is not a product but a promise. That is what a wish outside the shop is for as well: somebody takes it on, and for everybody else it is settled.
What this occasion turns on
One decision, two side effects
The direction of delivery is decided per list. The same person can have the wedding delivered to themselves and the housewarming to the givers.
- Delivery address
- Is not needed. The owner does not have to store one, and none can be missing
- Address masking
- Falls away, because there is nothing to mask
- Mixed cart
- Not critical: the gift and your own shopping go to the same address anyway
- What the guest reads at the top
- "These gifts aren't delivered directly – they come to your own address and you hand them over in person."
The difference is described in detail in the chapter Setting up.
What you set up for it
Little, and most of it is the customer's
For you as the shop there is almost nothing left to do here.
- Where the gifts go
- The customer picks "to the giver" in the recipient tab of their list
- Allow reserving
- Your setting. Useful if two guests want to share a bigger item
- Theme "moving in"
- Not included, but created in two minutes: name, colour, icon
- Date
- The evening of the party. After it the list accepts nothing more
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