Background
Bean Box has been selling Specialty Coffee online for the past 12 years, and we've developed deep expertise in curating, marketing, and selling high-end coffee to consumers across the US. We're very excited to share our audience with exceptional coffee roasters, so you can earn a share of our customers' demand for great mornings.
Summary
Roastery is a Specialty Coffee drop-ship platform created by Bean Box, which allows our coffee roasting partners to sell their coffee directly to Bean Box customers through our Web site, iOS and Android apps, email audience, text messages, app notifications, select 3rd-party marketplaces (including Amazon), and more. Under this model, Bean Box customers buy your coffee from us directly; you receive orders to ship (fulfill); and Bean Box pays you on a wholesale basis for each bag. The platform provides a roaster-facing portal for your operations and marketing staff, which also includes support for data export and API integration should you require it.
Advantages
- Sell your Specialty Coffee to a very broad, national audience of coffee lovers
- Allow consumers to subscribe to your coffees (we manage all the details)
- Participate in selling coffee to thousands of Bean Box subscribers
- Run discounts and promotions, and reserve guaranteed volume with Reserved Runs
- Associate your brand with the premier Specialty Coffee brand in the US
- Offer your coffee in a wide array of sizes both metric and imperial, from 100g to 5lb
Requirements
- Must meet Bean Box's standards for coffee sourcing, quality, handling, and fulfillment
- Must be able to package and fulfill coffee, and convey packages to USPS
- Must abide by the fulfillment schedule they set (see how cutoff time works)
- Must grind coffee for orders that require it
- Must provide their own label printer and label stock (4"x6")
Account setup
Once you're invited, onboarding is self-serve and takes about an hour. Your onboarding hub walks you through it: your roaster details (contacts and shipping schedule), your logo, your coffee catalog (we find your coffees on your own site; you confirm the details and set your wholesale prices), and samples. From there, we send the Drop Ship Agreement for signature and ship your first outer packaging, and then you go live.
Coffee products
Bean Box primarily sells 12-ounce bags of coffee, and we offer subscriptions in 12-ounce, 2-pound, and 5-pound denominations. Roasters can choose to offer a wide range of bags, from 100g (smallest) to 5lbs (largest). Only coffees offered in the 12-ounce size are eligible for curation for Bean Box subscribers. We also support selling curated coffee gifts, ready-to-drink coffee, instant coffee, and other product formats on an as-invited basis.
Marketing and sales tools
The platform provides roasters with a robust set of tools to boost sales, including weekly discounts, Reserved Runs, social media marketing materials, and Web site badges. See Weekly discounts and Reserved Runs.
For more info
Any questions can be directed to roastery@beanbox.com.