Deposits stay held
Your deposit sits against your order until the pool closes and the order is placed.
Small orders get small-order prices. WiderTable puts school orders together, shows you every price before you commit, and checks the goods when they arrive.
One pool, four stages
One item. One closing date. A price ladder every school can read before committing.
We publish one item, its closing date and a price ladder: every quantity and the price at that quantity.
You name a quantity and pay a deposit. The more the pool commits, the lower the price every school pays.
The pool closes at the quantity reached. We order that quantity from the supplier at the price agreed for it.
We count and check the stock at our hub, then deliver each school its share and record who received it.
Control at every handover
Every deposit, supplier payment and handover leaves a record we can reconcile.
Your deposit sits against your order until the pool closes and the order is placed.
We count the stock and check its condition before any of it is split up.
Deposits, balances, refunds and supplier payments all tie back to an order.
Registration is free. We will tell you whether we deliver to your area and what is open there.