The worst job in corporate gifting is not choosing the gift. It is the Tuesday in December someone spends placing forty separate web orders, pasting forty addresses into forty checkouts, with forty order confirmations to reconcile afterwards. It does not have to work like that, and because we built our own systems for exactly this problem, we can describe the better way in concrete terms rather than promises.
Can I ship to multiple recipients in one order?
Yes. On our site, one order can carry as many destinations as you have recipients. At checkout you assign each item its own delivery address, give each destination its own gift message, and pay once. Behind the scenes the order splits into a separate shipment per address, each with its own tracking, but on your side it is a single transaction with a single total.
That structure matters for more than convenience. One order means one receipt for the accounts, one payment to authorise and one place to look when someone asks what was sent where. The forty-checkout method generates forty chances to mistype an address; entering everything in one sitting, with an address book that remembers last year’s list, removes most of them.
How do I send corporate gifts to multiple addresses?
There are two routes, depending on how many addresses you have.
For a handful of recipients, the checkout route covers it. Add what you want to the basket, then assign a destination to each item as you check out. Each address takes its own gift message, up to 170 characters, so the hamper to your Galway client does not arrive carrying the message meant for your auditor. Addresses you have used before are saved against your account, so the second year takes minutes rather than an afternoon.
For longer lists, corporate buyers use our spreadsheet route instead. We supply a template; you fill one row per recipient with the address, the products and the preferred dispatch date, and upload it. The system validates everything before any order is created: it checks the products exist, checks the dates, and checks the addresses, down to catching a misspelt country name and suggesting what you probably meant. Errors come back to you as a list to fix, not as a failed delivery three weeks later. Repeat customers can reuse last year’s order as a starting point, which is the closest corporate gifting gets to a standing order.
If your list is somewhere between five and five hundred, talk to us and we will tell you honestly which route fits.
How do I know all recipients received their gifts?
Because each destination becomes its own shipment, each destination gets its own tracking number. You are not given one tracking reference for a pallet and left hoping; you can see, per recipient, what was dispatched, when it travelled and when it was delivered.
That per-recipient visibility is the thing to insist on from any supplier, including us. With food in the parcel it is not a luxury. A hamper sitting in a depot for a week matters in a way a sitting box of branded notebooks does not, which is also why the dispatch date question deserves more attention than it usually gets; we cover that in when should you order corporate Christmas hampers.
How do you collect employees’ home addresses for remote teams?
Carefully, because home addresses are personal data and your team will notice how you handle them.
The clean approach is consent and minimalism. Ask people whether they would like to receive a gift at home, collect the address through whatever your company already trusts for personal data, use it for the delivery and nothing else, and delete it afterwards rather than letting a spreadsheet of home addresses live on a shared drive. Make opting out painless: someone who prefers not to share their address can collect from the office, and nobody should have to explain why.
Two practical notes from the dispatch side. First, addresses typed by their owners are wrong surprisingly often; ask for an Eircode, which resolves most ambiguity on its own. Second, decide the office-or-home question before collecting anything, because it changes what you need to ask. There is a fuller discussion of which gifts suit which destination in should corporate gifts go to the office or someone’s home.
Can I pay by invoice or bank transfer?
Yes. Card at checkout works for any order, but corporate account customers are not asked to put four hundred hampers on a credit card. Account orders are placed against the company and settled by invoice, with payment by bank transfer in the usual way. If your accounts team needs a purchase order number on the paperwork or itemised lines for the VAT treatment, say so when ordering and it will be on the invoice rather than bolted on afterwards.
Setting up an account is a conversation, not a form: tell us roughly what you send and when, and we will have you arranged before the season starts.
From the packing bench: the orders that go wrong each December share one feature: the address list was finalised in a hurry. The orders that go right were uploaded in October with dispatch dates attached, then forgotten about until the thank-you emails arrived. Be the second kind.
