Feature
Take wholesale orders straight from your flipbook, with minimum order quantities enforced automatically
Flipbook cart & MOQ lets buyers browse a published flipbook, pick colors and sizes in a quantity grid, and submit a wholesale order request — no buyer account needed. A live progress bar enforces each product's minimum order quantity before submission, and the seller confirms final pricing afterward. There is no payment or checkout on the buyer side.
Flipbook cart & MOQ lets buyers browse a published flipbook, pick colors and sizes in a quantity grid, and submit a wholesale order request — no buyer account needed. A live progress bar enforces each product's minimum order quantity before submission, and the seller confirms final pricing afterward. There is no payment or checkout on the buyer side.
What can Flipbook Cart & MOQ do?
A color × size quantity grid
Add to Cart opens a quantity matrix for every color and size combination on that product — a grid on desktop, a wrapped touch-friendly layout on tablet and phone, or a single quantity box when a product has no colors or sizes.
MOQ enforced at every step, including the server
A live progress bar shows how many of the minimum units are in the cart until each product's MOQ is met. The Add to Cart button, the cart's continue button, and the order submit button all stay disabled until it is — and the server independently re-derives the real minimum from the flipbook's own saved state, so it never trusts the quantity a browser sends.
No buyer account needed
Buyers fill in Your Name, Business Name, Email, and optionally Customer Code, Phone, and Notes, then submit — no login or account required. It is an order request: the form states final pricing and availability will be confirmed by the seller, and the button reads "Submit Order Request."
Every order tracked in your dashboard
The seller dashboard shows total views, a 30-day daily-views chart, and every order with its line items — product, SKU, color, size, quantity, and unit price — plus a status stepper from Reviewed through Confirmed, Processing, and Delivered, and CSV/Excel export for offline use. See the Digital Showroom (/products/digital-showroom) for the full publish-and-sell workflow.
How does Flipbook Cart & MOQ work?
1. Set MOQ in the layout editor
Set a Minimum Order Qty (MOQ) per look or per individual product while building the layout, then publish the flipbook.
2. Buyers fill the cart
A buyer opens the published link, picks colors and sizes in the quantity matrix on each product, and watches a live progress bar until every item meets its minimum.
3. Buyer submits, seller reviews
The buyer submits the order request with their name, business, and contact details — no account needed — and the seller gets an email notification and reviews the order on the flipbook's dashboard.
What are the technical specs for Flipbook Cart & MOQ?
| Spec | Detail |
|---|---|
| MOQ per product | Quantities across every color and size are summed and checked against one MOQ |
| Blocked at four points | Add to Cart, the cart continue button, order submit, and the server, which re-derives the minimum |
| Payment | No checkout or card processing on the buyer side; the seller confirms final pricing |
| Buyer account | Public form: Name, Business Name, Email, with Customer Code, Phone and Notes optional |
| Order statuses | New, Reviewed, Confirmed, Processing, Delivered, Archived — a six-stage stepper |
| Products with no MOQ | No minimum enforced; a buyer can order any positive quantity |
How do brands rate Flipbook Cart & MOQ?
“Our wholesale process was constantly delayed by static PDF linesheets that took days for our team to format. If a color variant or MOQ changed, it meant another bottleneck before we could pitch to international buyers. Alovia completely modernized our B2B sales. Using the studio, we now generate dynamic, up-to-date linesheets and high-quality campaign presentations in seconds. Our distributors get a professional, instantly adaptable catalog without waiting for traditional physical shoots, and it has noticeably shortened our wholesale order cycles.”
Leonard Kho
Head of Wholesale & B2B Sales
“In e-commerce operations, the biggest bottleneck is always waiting for physical samples to arrive just so we can start building our B2B linesheets and marketing assets. It traditionally creates a massive last-minute panic. Alovia gave us a very practical way around this pre-production gap. Now, we can virtually test garment combinations and finalize our linesheet drafts months before the actual production run is even finished. It simply removes the waiting game and gives our sales and marketing teams the content they need way ahead of schedule, without the usual stress.”
Hannah Meyer
Head of E-commerce Operations
What works with Flipbook Cart & MOQ?
Digital Showroom
Publish a catalog, lookbook or line sheet as an interactive flipbook: buyers open one link, browse on any device, and submit orders from the page.
Catalog Generator
Turn a creative brief and flat-lay photos into a finished lookbook, campaign or B2B line sheet, exported as a PDF or a shareable flipbook link.
How to Create Wholesale Line Sheets
A line sheet lists each SKU with photography, wholesale price, RRP, sizes and MOQ. Alovia builds one from product photos and exports a PDF or flipbook.
PDF Export
Turn a finished lookbook or line sheet into a real PDF — one page per canvas page, Tabloid size, with selectable wholesale price, RRP and MOQ text.
Frequently asked questions about Flipbook Cart & MOQ
Can a buyer pay for their order in the flipbook?
No. There is no payment, checkout, or card processing on the buyer side. The buyer submits an order request with quantities and contact details, and the seller confirms final pricing and availability separately, off-platform.
Does a buyer need to create an account to order?
No. The order form is public — a buyer only needs to enter Your Name, Business Name, and Email, with Customer Code, Phone, and Notes optional. There is no buyer login, buyer account, or buyer-facing order history to sign into.
What happens if a buyer tries to submit an order under the minimum order quantity?
The order is blocked at four separate points: the Add to Cart button, the cart's continue button, and the order submit button all stay disabled below the minimum, and the server independently re-derives the minimum from the flipbook's own saved data and rejects the order — it never trusts the quantity the browser sends.
Does MOQ apply per color/size combination, or to the whole product?
To the whole product — quantities across every color and size a buyer adds for that product are summed together and checked against the single MOQ, not enforced separately per variant.
Does the seller get notified when a buyer submits an order?
Yes — an email notification goes to the seller's account address as soon as an order is created, with a link straight to that flipbook's analytics dashboard to review it.
What happens if a product has no MOQ set at all?
No minimum is enforced for that product — the quantity check only runs when a MOQ value actually exists on the product; a buyer can order any positive quantity of an MOQ-free item.
What statuses can a seller move an order through after it arrives?
New, Reviewed, Confirmed, Processing, Delivered, and Archived — a six-stage stepper the seller updates manually from the dashboard as the order is handled.
Can a seller delete an order from the dashboard?
Yes — only the flipbook's owner can delete an order, enforced at the database level, and doing so also removes that order's line items.
Ready to try Flipbook Cart & MOQ?
Publish a flipbook once, and let buyers request a wholesale order without ever leaving the page.
Sources
- Digital Commerce 360, on McKinsey's B2B Pulse Survey — B2B buyers willing to spend over $50,000 on a single order (73%). Source dated 2024-09-12.
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