How to Use the Deakin Wishlist | Plan Your Field Season, Share With Your Team, and Check Out When You’re Ready
Introduction
Outfitting a field program isn’t a snap decision. You’re coordinating equipment across multiple crew members, balancing budgets, waiting on project approvals, and trying to make sure nothing gets forgotten before helicopters start flying. That’s exactly why we built the Wishlist feature on deakin.com. A simple but powerful tool that lets you plan, collaborate, and purchase on your own timeline.
Whether you’re a procurement manager assembling a purchase order for an entire exploration camp, a field supervisor building a gear list for the summer crew, or a geology student slowly putting together your first field kit, the Wishlist makes the process easier. Here’s how to get the most out of it.
Step 1: Browse and Build Your List Over Time
You don’t have to buy everything at once. As you browse deakin.com, add items to your Wishlist by clicking the heart icon on any product page. Your list saves automatically and persists between visits, so you can build it gradually over days or weeks as you work through your equipment needs.
This is especially useful during planning season when you’re reviewing what needs replacing, what’s new, and what your project requirements call for. Add a Brunton compass today, a set of sample bags tomorrow, and rain gear next week. Your Wishlist keeps everything in one place so nothing falls through the cracks.
Pro tip: Use your Wishlist as a reference checklist before the field season starts. Walk through your categories such as navigation, safety, recording, sampling, clothing, camp equipment and make sure each area is covered.
Step 2: Share Your Wishlist With Coworkers and Project Managers
This is where the Wishlist becomes a real collaboration tool. You can share or email your Wishlist directly from your account, which opens up several practical workflows:
• Field supervisors to procurement: Build the list based on what you actually need in the field, then send it to your purchasing department for approval and ordering. No more back-and-forth emails trying to describe part numbers and quantities.
• Project managers to crew members: Create a recommended gear list for the project and share it with your team. Each person can review the list and confirm what they already have versus what they need to order.
• Students to parents or advisors: Heading into field school and not sure how to explain what a Brunton Geo Lite Transit is? Share your Wishlist with family or your academic advisor so they can see exactly what’s on your required equipment list, with descriptions and pricing.
• Team coordination: When multiple people are outfitting for the same project, a shared Wishlist prevents duplicate orders and ensures everyone is working from the same equipment standard.
You can also email your Wishlist directly to our team at online@deakin.com with any special instructions. We’ll confirm availability of all items and provide a shipping quote based on your delivery address. This is particularly helpful for large or complex orders where you want a human to double-check everything before it ships.
Step 3: Add Everything to Cart and Check Out When You’re Ready
When the budget is approved, the PO is signed, or payday arrives, converting your Wishlist to an order is simple. Add your Wishlist items to your cart with one click, review quantities and sizes, and check out. No re-searching for products, no hunting through your browser history, and no risk of forgetting that one critical item you spotted three weeks ago.
This is especially valuable for customers who order on a seasonal cycle. Many of our exploration and forestry customers build their Wishlists during the winter planning months and then place orders in early spring when field programs are confirmed and funded.
Real-World Wishlist Scenarios
The Exploration Geologist: You’re planning a six-week mapping program in the Yukon. Over the course of a month, you add items as you think of them: replacement hand lens, new InReach Mini 2 (it’s on sale), extra Rite in the Rain notebooks, fresh flagging tape, sample bags, and a new Cruiser Vest because yours finally wore out after eight seasons. When the project gets the green light, you share the list with your office manager, they approve it, and you add everything to cart in one go.
The Forestry Contractor: You’re outfitting a 15-person planting crew. You build a Wishlist with Bushpro planting bags, Speed Spades, rain gear, bug jackets, and camp equipment. You share the list with your operations manager for budget review, then email it to online@deakin.com with the note “We need 15 of each planting bag and spade, plus camp equipment for a 20-person camp.” We come back with availability, bulk pricing, and a shipping timeline.
The Geology Student: Your field school equipment list arrives in February. You’re on a tight budget and can’t buy everything at once. You add the Brunton Geo Lite, the Rite in the Rain 540F, a hand lens, and an Estwing hammer to your Wishlist. You apply for the Deakin student discount. Over the next two months, you buy items one or two at a time as funds allow, checking them off the Wishlist as you go.
Getting Started
The Wishlist is available to all customers with a Deakin account. If you don’t have one yet, creating an account takes less than a minute and also gives you access to order history, faster checkout, and exclusive promotions.
Start browsing, start adding, and when you’re ready, we’re ready to ship.
Create your free account at deakin.com and start building your Wishlist today. Need help with a large order?
Email your Wishlist to online@deakin.com or call us at 604-253-2685.
We’re always happy to help.