It’s very likely that you’ll want to add titles from different catalogs to an order, whether it’s titles from both an adult and a kids catalog, or a frontlist “Omni” catalog and a drop-in catalog, this is a pretty common scenario.

This is very easy to do. You simply, after creating an order, make sure that the correct order is selected as your Active Order at the top of a catalog page:

If you’re not able to select the order you like, you most likely just have “bound” it to a specific catalog, other than the one in which you’re working. You can change that by going to your Orders page and editing that order. The first pop-up window will show your general order details, click Next to go to the binding options (or if you do not want to bind your order click Save without Binding). In the next pop-up start typing a publisher name under the Vendor bindings field or a catalog name in the Catalog binding fields. Click the name of the publisher or catalog you want to bind your order to so their names appear and select Save when finished. Please note too, depending on a publisher’s setup their distributed presses may auto-assign when an order is bound. For example, selecting W. W. Norton as a bound vendor will also bind the order to Akashic Books, Thames & Hudson, Tin House Books, and Yale University Press.

Once your order is bound, return to the catalog from which you’d like to order and select this order from your Active Order list. Binding an order to a publisher rather than a specific catalog tends to make things as simple as possible, as you won’t be able to accidentally add another publisher’s titles to the order, but can add a title from any of this publisher’s catalogs to the order.

If you’d like to un-bind your order, simply go back in to your order edit screen, go to the 2nd pop-up page, and click the X icons next to the publisher you want to un-bind from. Click Save and you are all set!:

Binding your orders also enables you to be able to narrow down your search for old orders by selecting a publisher from your left-hand refinement bar. If you do not bind an order to a publisher/catalog, it will not be officially connected to a Vendor, and so when refining your orders by a specific publisher unbound orders will be filtered out.