Overview
Flaviar Checkout brands are able to sell merchandise and non-alcohol items on Flaviar alongside alcohol items.
In most states, compliance restrictions prevent licensed alcohol retailers from selling merchandise and other non-alcohol items (unless the merchandise is being offered as a promotional item at no cost to customer).
For any merchandise or non-alcohol item being sold for a monetary value, the seller most often will need to be separate from the retailers who are fulfilling sales for your alcohol items.
Our platform is able to split consumer orders so that the alcohol sale is routed to a licensed alcohol retailer, while the sale of merchandise or non-alcohol item is routed to either you or your designated 3PL.
Costs
Selling merchandise and/or non-alcohol items on Flaviar Checkout requires an active Core or Plus susbcription, as well as one of our Shopify integrations (i.e. a direct integration into a Shopify website you own or Shopify Buy Buttons integrated into your non-Shopify website).
For all sales, there is a standard payment processing fee of 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction. These fees are automatically deducted from your payouts.
In addition to the payment processing fees listed above, all merch sales are subject to a pass-through Shopify transaction fee. The transaction fee % will depend on your Shopify store plan.
Shopify Store Plan | Transaction Fee % |
Basic | 2% |
Shopify | 1% |
Advanced | 0.5% |
Plus | 0.15% |
Consumer Shipping Fees
At this time, combined alcohol and merchandise orders do not result in multiple shipping fees charged to the end consumer. This is because unique shipping rates for each product type would result in one, single-lined shipping rate that is not clearly split-able between two different vendors post-purchase.
Given this, we can only accommodate Free Shipping on all merch at this time. We recommend baking the cost of shipping into the retail price of your merchandise.
Order Management
Our team will set you up with a Flaviar fulfillment account and demo as part of your onboarding. This account will be used to receive revenue and manage orders.
Management of merchandise orders (e.g. updating order status, creating shipping labels, etc.) must be handled using one of the following methods:
In Shopify
Via a Shopify-integrated app
Payments
Payments for each order are delivered to your Stripe account which is connected to your Flaviar fulfillment account. Payments are initiated once the order is shipped.
Getting Set Up
Whether you or a 3PL will be fulfilling, we’ll need to set up a fulfillment account that will properly route the funds from non-alcohol sales to you and the order details to the fulfiller.
Before setting up your non-alcohol products, email [email protected] to let our team know who will be fulfilling these items. Please provide the following information:
The first and last name the account will be under.
The email address the account will be under.
Your fulfillment account will have to be under a separate email than any of your existing Flaviar accounts.
Ship from address and phone.
Return address and phone.
State(s) you will need to collect sales tax in
Your Business EIN
Your email for all merch-related customer service inquiries.
Our team will then create a fulfillment account for you and have you connect your Stripe account to receive payments.
Once set up with a fulfillment account, you can proceed to add products through the same process that you added alcohol items. Our team will then approve the products in the system and you’ll be able to generate the buy buttons.