What Happens After Your Drop Ends
When your drop ends, the Sales Assistant takes it from there — sending checkout links, creating orders, and tracking who’s paid. Here’s the whole journey, start to finish.
- When the drop ends, winners get their checkout links and items with no bids move to Unsold.
- An order is created for each winner — multiple wins by one person are grouped into a single order.
- Orders update to Paid when they check out and Shipped once you ship; winners who don’t pay go Expired.
Prefer to watch? Here’s a full walkthrough of everything that happens once the checkout DMs go out.
The post-drop journey, step by step
- Your drop ends
Automatically when the timer runs out, or whenever you end it early.
- Checkout links go out
Each winner is DMed their checkout link. Any items that didn’t get a bid move to your Unsold list.
- Orders are created
A Thryft Ship order is created for every winner on your Orders page. If one person won several items, those are grouped into a single order so they check out and ship together.
- Customers check out
As each winner pays, their order updates to Paid. More on this in How Checkout Works.
- You ship
Once you buy the label and send it off, the order updates to Shipped. See Your Orders Page Explained.
- If someone doesn’t pay
Their item’s status becomes Expired and lands in Needs Attention, where you can resend the link, offer the next bidder, or sell it to someone else — see When a Winner Doesn’t Pay (Expired Items).
What to do with what’s left
Unsold items aren’t a dead end. Depending on how much effort you want to put in, you can:
- Leave it to the Assistant. Turn on post-sale monitoring and it keeps watching your unsold posts for 7 days after the drop ends, sending checkout links automatically. How that works.
- Add them to your next drop. Unsold items show up right in the grid — select them and go, no re-uploading.
- Update your captions and re-run them. Edit the price on Instagram, then use Re-analyze post so we pick up the change.
- Run a code word sale. Post a code word on your story and buyers comment it for an instant discount. How to set one up.
Common questions
What happens to items that didn’t sell?
They move to your Unsold list, and nothing is lost. You now have four ways to put them back to work — let the Assistant keep watching them, add them to your next drop, re-read your updated captions, or run a code word sale. See What to Do With Items That Didn’t Sell.
If one person wins several items, do they get separate links?
No — their wins are grouped into a single order with one checkout, so they pay (and you ship) everything together.
How do I know when an order is paid or shipped?
Each order’s status updates automatically — Paid when the customer checks out, Shipped once you send it. See Your Orders Page Explained.
What if a winner never checks out?
The item goes to an Expired status under Needs Attention. Here’s what to do.
