Feature deep-dive

Time-bound vendor routing overrides

Q: Which incentive programs does this work for?

Any time-bound vendor incentive. Industry-wide pattern: Nalpac (cashback + trips), Meyer, Premier, Turn14, Keystone. The mechanism is the same regardless of vendor.

Q: What if the forced vendor is out of stock?

Default behavior: fall through to default cheapest-routing. Toggle force_when_oos if you want to force the vendor anyway (rare — usually you want backup).

Force a brand to a vendor for cashback or trip incentives — auto-reverts when the window closes.

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Nalpac runs a trip incentive — $50k threshold by July. Most legacy platforms have no concept of time-bound vendor routing. Ordnance force-routes the brands you choose to Nalpac for the window, tracks $ vs threshold, alerts you 72 hours before expiry. You hit the trip; you don't miss it.

How it works

Match by brand, product type, or SKU

Force-route any scope — usually brand, occasionally product type, rarely individual SKU.

Date window

Start + end. Auto-activates and auto-reverts. No manual cleanup.

$-vs-threshold tracker

Set the cashback threshold ($50k) and we show running total + percentage on the dashboard. Hit the trip every time.

Out-of-stock fallback toggle

Default: if forced vendor is OOS, fall through to default routing. Optional: force anyway (rare, but available).

Expiry warning

Dashboard banner when an override is < 72h from expiry. Don't miss the threshold.

Audit trail

Every routing decision logs the override ID. Prove WHY a particular order went to a particular vendor.

What	Ordnance	SparkShipping
Native incentive routing	Yes	Not supported
$-vs-threshold tracker	Built in	Manual spreadsheet
Auto-revert	Yes — date window	N/A