What are the payment options?
Once ordering is enabled, you will be able to place your order with the following options:
Option 1: Pay with a School Purchase Order
Director's Choice Edition must be ordered through an Authorized Sound Innovations Retailer, listed on this site. The Authorized Retailer will bill the school using the Purchase Order, and the books will be shipped directly to the school.
How do I set up the Parent Pays option?
1. After you have created your method, please activate it.
2. Click Order to place your order.
3. On the payment options screen, select "Parents Pay" and specify the date the books need to be delivered to your classroom. A minimum of 15 business days is required to complete your order. Once you have selected the desired delivery date, you will not be able to change it. To order additional books after this cutoff date, you will need to access your method again, and repeat the ordering process.
4. You will see a payment cutoff date listed on this screen. This is the date by which parents must pay for their student's book(s) so that all books may be printed and shipped to your school at one time.
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If parents place their order before the Parent Purchase Cutoff Date, they will receive a discounted shipping rate of $1.50 per book for US orders ($3.00 for Canadian orders) and all books will automatically ship together to the school address you specify. Books ordered after the Cutoff Date will incur standard shipping rates plus a $2 handling fee per book (to be paid by the parent), and will be shipped directly to the parent. We recommend that you encourage parents to purchase their student books before the cutoff date. |
5. Enter information for your program (school name and school year). This is the information with which parents will locate your custom method.
6. Enter the estimated number of books that will be purchased by parents. You will be able to track actual purchases by the parents compared to your estimate in My Account.
7. Please enter any special instructions that will help the parent determine the correct book that they should purchase when they access the Sound Innovations website. You will be able to print a flyer to hand out to your students to help the parents order their books online once your order is complete.
8. Enter your school shipping information and select the check boxes to agree to our terms and approve the content of your custom method.
9. Select the Sound Innovations authorized retailers who will participate in the sale of the method. You may select up to five retailers.
10. Your order is now complete. You may now print out a customized flyer that will instruct parents on how to purchase their student's book. We recommend distribution of this flyer well in advance of the Parent Purchase Cutoff Date to allow parents ample time to place their order.
11. You may then select to order your Teacher's Score for your method, create a new method, or print sample sections of your method. You may print the first level of each student book, most of Level 1 of your Teacher's Score, or entire sample books of Violin, Clarinet, and Mallet student books.
12. You will receive a reminder email five days before the Cutoff Date. On the Cutoff date, all books that have been paid for will be printed and shipped to the specified school address. Any books ordered after that date will be shipped to the student's house.