To place a Group Order, log in with any Montessori Services or For Small Hands account, or create a new one.
NEW
and recommended for 2024: Schools, Recruit a Parent to Help!
Group Orders are a part of the For Small Hands
School Credit Promotion. Read more
about how it works, and all the ways you can earn FREE materials for your school.
In this section of our website, you can
- Add families to your Group Order
- Add items to each family's order
- Estimate each family's total (including their share of shipping)
- Add free bags to your Group Order (for distribution)
- Checkout and place your Group Order (or print it to mail)
- Print your Group Order (with final shipping charges and total for each family)
- View your placed Group Orders
View our Stock Updates page
for information about No Longer Available items, Substitutions, Price Changes, Tips, etc.
Group Order FAQ
We recommend distributing paper catalogs, since they get a higher response from parents, and you will likely earn more credit, but you are still welcome to participate without them. You can send the For Small Hands website or eCatalog to parents and collect and submit their orders with the online Group Order system (the same as you would if distributing paper catalogs).
If you (the School Credit Promotion Coordinator) are not the person who normally has access to the school's montessoriservices.com/forsmallhands.com account, you can setup another account to place the Group Order. You will have the opportunity to enter the school's information during checkout, to ensure they are properly credited.
Yes. The shopping carts are completely separate.
Yes. We recommend compiling it on the website if you are mailing in your order, as it will calculate the shipping charges and amount due for each family's order.
- While compiling your Group Order, you will find estimated totals on the Group Order Estimate page (for all the orders combined), and the Family Order Estimate page (for each family's order).
- For finalized totals, you will need to proceed to Checkout Group Order and confirm your shipping address.
- Then, continue on to the "Review Order" page and print your order from the "print or save your full Group Order" link.
- We highly recommend saving a copy of this page for your records
- Mail it to:
Montessori Services
11 West 9th Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
You can select the number of free bags you would like during Group Order Checkout
Yes, you can see estimated shipping charges, sales tax (California only), and totals, at any point while placing the Group Order. The Group Order Estimate page shows all the orders combined, and the Family Order Estimate page shows each family's order. Estimates are based on the default billing address on your account. If you do not have a default billing address, estimates show regular shipping to the contiguous U.S.
To see the finalized totals for all the orders combined, continue to Checkout Group Order and enter your shipping address and other information. Then proceed to "Review Order", and click "print or save your full Group Order".
If you submit the order on our website, you will find it under the Group Order History link in your account. If you mail in your Group Order, it will not show up in your history. We highly recommend you print and save a copy for your records.
We're sorry, once you have submitted your Group Order, we cannot accept changes to that order.
However, families can still place Individual Orders and designate your school to receive credit
through December 31. Some schools place an early Group Order to qualify for free shipping, and a later one to accommodate last-minute additions; you can submit as many Group Orders as you like during the promotion.
