EXOLOX → RETAILER / MARKERS SALES WORKSPACE R05

Your teams. Your markers. One retailer cart.

The $10 clear formed polycarbonate stand is the anchor product. The actual studio MARKERS panel includes team-palette matching, the color wheel, inventory, wish list, low-ink tracking, saved palettes, comparisons, studies, the animated connector, brush/chisel tips, handles and ZERO. Saved markers stack beneath the wheel. The first five fill the stand; order quantities are independent of preview positions.

This is a product-section ZIP, not a replacement theme. It includes a host-side cart adapter. Retailer checkout is disabled until the merchant configures its own catalog. No OLO, BLICK or Michaels installation, commercial partnership, or Collective connection is activated.

Open the product experience ↗ · Download the updated ZIP ↓ · Combined checkout setup →

1. Agree the stand supply route

Use Shopify Collective if both shops are eligible: agree cost/margin, shipping, returns and fulfillment, then import this one product into the retailer catalog. Do not activate a supplier price list until terms are agreed. Alternatively, create a direct stand listing and agree order handling with EXOLOX. The ZIP does not provide automatic order forwarding.

Current EXOLOX retail offer: $10 USD, stand only, in stock, ships within one week. Markers, handles and connector rings are separate items. No wholesale margin or fabricated inventory count is supplied. Original approved CAD geometry is unchanged.

2. Install in an unpublished duplicate theme

  1. Copy the supplied section, product template and adapter asset into their matching theme folders. Preserve unrelated files and any existing template with the same name.
  2. Import/create the stand using product.json and the product image as references. Assign this product template to the stand only. Liquid uses this store's stand variant ID, never EXOLOX's variant.
  3. Check price, availability and approved shipping message. The native stand-only form works without marker mapping.
  4. Follow the retailer checkout guide to map every offered marker half, handle and Connector Ring pack to local SKUs. Enable combined checkout only after testing.
  5. Verify the team reference/OLO match swatches, both tip controls, connector replay, handle, ZERO, add/edit/reorder/remove, quantities and first-five stand order on desktop and mobile.
  6. Inspect the native cart: individual components, quantities, stand, rings, stock rejection and totals. Do not place a paid test order without authorization. The merchant approves its own production launch.

3. Keep the customer in one store

The combined checkout adds selected components and the stand to the host retailer's cart. Missing/unavailable mappings block the selection. Shopify remains the authority for price and stock. Saved configurations are not completed purchases or proof of ownership. The standalone proposal cannot combine items sold by different stores.

Guest markers, inventory, wish list, palettes and selection save locally in this browser. Signed-in studio libraries retain their account workflow; color studies require sign-in. Opening My markers in the Color Studio transfers the selected collection on the same Site origin; the separate full studio's account-save controls remain unchanged. No customer name, email or payment information crosses the product iframe.

Referral tracking

The Shopify adapter adds private line-item properties _olo_experience=marker-stand and _olo_referral=exolox for merchant reconciliation. Existing outgoing OLO affiliate links retain ref=exolox. Neither proves commission attribution: OLO must validate its affiliate setup and completed-sale reporting. Collective is a supply/fulfillment integration, not an affiliate program.

Hosting and other retailers

The interactive is remotely hosted at exo-partner-color-studies.tonyexo.chatgpt.site/olo-pitch.html?embed=product. The ZIP is not a self-hosted copy of the entire Color Studio. The generic adapter accepts the merchant's catalog and cart callbacks; a non-Shopify retailer must supply its own backend integration.

Messages check the exact iframe/parent source and origin. Cart commands require the per-session token. No wildcard postMessage targets, admin credentials, customer data or extra tracking pixels are shipped. Keep the disclosures and retailer consent/privacy flow.

Release gate

□ Commercial terms · □ own-store SKUs · □ fulfillment · □ complete cart test · □ referral conversion test · □ mobile/desktop review · □ merchant approval.

The product experience and installation package are ready for review. First retailer checkout, commercial terms and live conversion verification remain pending.

Shopify Collective price lists · Shopify Ajax cart API