Shop ConductScience from your purchasing system
Open our store from your institution's purchasing system, fill a cart at our website prices, and return it to your system to finish the order.
How researchers order
Once your institution sets up the connection, every order starts and ends in your purchasing system.
Open ConductScience from your purchasing system
Pick ConductScience where your system lists its punchout suppliers. Our store opens with a blue bar that names your institution.
Fill your cart
Shop as you would on our website. Items go in your cart at the price on their product page, in US dollars.
Review and return the cart
In the blue bar, select “Review and return cart”. Check the prices, then return the cart to your purchasing system.
Finish the order in your system
Your purchasing system turns the cart into a requisition. Nothing is ordered until your system sends us the purchase order.
Shipping, quotes and changes
- Shipping and tax. The cart has no shipping or tax. We add shipping to the invoice, plus tax where it applies.
- Quantities. You can return up to 100 of an item per line. For more, ask us for a quote.
- Items that need a quote. Services, kits built from parts you choose, and items sold by quote cannot go back to your purchasing system. Request a quote from the product page, then make sure your purchase order names the quote number.
- Changing a cart. To change a cart you already returned, edit the requisition in your purchasing system. Our store then reopens with the requisition’s items in your cart and tells you about any it could not load.
- View-only carts. If your purchasing system opens a cart as view only, you can see the items but not change them.
If your institution is not connected
Ask your purchasing team to set up a ConductScience punchout, and send them this page. Until then, you can order with a quote and a purchase order.
For purchasing teams
We connect to purchasing systems through cXML punchout.
What we support
- cXML 1.2.014 punchout, Level 1. Shoppers fill the cart on our store.
- Create, edit and inspect requests. New carts, changes to a returned cart, and view-only carts.
- Cart return. The cart goes back to your system's BrowserFormPost URL.
- Purchase orders. By cXML OrderRequest or by email.
- After the purchase order. Confirmation, shipping and the invoice follow the usual steps on How to Order.
- Test orders. An order sent with deploymentMode “test” reaches us labeled as a test, and we do not ship it.
- Browser windows. The store opens in a new window or the same one, but not inside an iframe.
Cart line format
| cXML field | What we send |
|---|---|
| SupplierPartID | Our SKU |
| SupplierPartAuxiliaryID | Our product ID, plus the variant ID when the item has options |
| UnitOfMeasure | EA |
| Classification | UNSPSC 41100000 (laboratory and scientific equipment), or a code you choose |
| Description | Up to 250 characters, or your system's limit |
| UnitPrice | The price on our website, in US dollars |
What we need from you
- The From credential your system sends, with its domain and identity.
- The host names of your BrowserFormPost URLs. We return carts only to those hosts.
- The supplier credential your system expects from us, if it has one.
- Your UNSPSC code and description limit, if they differ from ours.
- Whether you send purchase orders by cXML or by email.
Please keep secrets out of email. We exchange the setup URLs and the shared secret through your supplier portal or another secure channel.
Email info@conductscience.com with your institution, your purchasing system and a contact for the setup.
