To supplement your student’s education, you can place direct orders for materials through approved vendors like Amazon and Rainbow Resource – straight through the OpenEd platform.
The cost of your purchases will be deducted from your student’s wallet, so you won’t have to wait to be reimbursed. After our team approves your order, your items will be shipped directly to your door.
How It Works
After logging into our platform, you’ll see a Direct Orders section on the lefthand sidebar.
Below the title Direct Orders, you can click on either Amazon or Rainbow Resource to initiate a shopping session. (Note: At the very beginning of the school year, the Rainbow Resource option might not be available yet. We’ll be adding it soon!)
You can also start a shopping session by clicking on the Shop Amazon button that’s available in the top right corner of the marketplace.
Either way, you’ll be taken to a page that lets you review the available funds for each of your students.
When you’re ready, click on the Start Shopping button, which will redirect you to Amazon or Rainbow Resource (depending on your selection). You can shop around exactly as you would if you’d visited those sites like normal.
After you add all of your items to your cart, you’ll be sent back to the OpenEd platform to confirm your order.
The last step is to associate each item with a subject on your student’s education plan so our team has a sense of how your purchases relate to your family’s learning.
And that’s it! We’ll let you know as soon as your purchases are approved. Once they are, you’ll receive tracking info from Amazon or Rainbow Resource via email.
If you have any questions about an order, shoot us a message at [email protected].
Viewing Your Orders
To view the status of your orders, click on the Orders menu option from the lefthand sidebar.
This page lets you see all of your orders – which includes both direct orders and anything you’ve purchased through the OpenEd marketplace.
The status of each order is visible in the top right corner of that order’s info card.
Canceling An Order
If you need to cancel an order, click on that order’s info card from the Orders page.
If the order is still pending (meaning that it hasn’t been approved/fulfilled yet), you’ll see a Cancel Order button in the top right corner.