Your profitability is our mission. Optimize every slot on your shelf. Stop over-paying invoices. Carry inventory on consignment. Recover credits from your vendors. Don't just survive, THRIVE.

We optimize the profit margin of every SKU on your shelf.

METRC Certified METRC Third-Party Vendor
Cutting checks every week to brands you know
Chris Mitchem, ShelfSpace founder
From the founder

I've been a cannabis operator since 2015, and I have the scars to prove it. ShelfSpace is the product of everything I learned the hard way.

Chris Mitchem · Founder & CEO · Massachusetts
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Many cannabis retailers are at risk of closing. Not because they made bad decisions — because their SKUs are silently bleeding money.

An expired bag the vendor never reimbursed. A SKU discounted past its margin target with no credit filed. An invoice billed for 24 units when 22 came in. Each one's small. Stacked across hundreds of SKUs and a year, it's the difference between staying open and not.

We catch it for you. Every SKU, every month. You just approve.

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Real Case Study: We found $500,000 at a cannabis dispensary chain — their margin, hiding in plain sight.

Every invoice three-way matched against Metrc and your PO before any check goes out.

How we did it

Invoices arrived from forty vendors a month. Receiving counts lived on a clipboard. Short deliveries quietly cleared. One person spent 15 hours a week matching invoices, writing checks, and fielding vendor calls.

We took over. Three-way matching on every invoice — invoice ↔ delivery ↔ PO — before any payment goes out. QuickBooks stays in sync. Vendor emails go to us, not them.

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Cash freed when the right vendors switch to consignment — they own it until it sells.

How we did it

Every product on their shelves was bought and paid for. Half of it sat there for months. Some expired. All of it was cash they couldn't use for payroll, expansion, or marketing.

We pay every vendor on the right terms — COD, Net, or consignment, configurable per vendor. For this retailer, we transitioned the right vendors to consignment. Now those vendors own the product until it sells. Cash went back in the bank.

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Returns, expirations, co-marketing — credit memos pulled from Metrc, sent monthly, paid back.

How we did it

Returns nobody filed. Expired product nobody credited. Co-marketing dollars and shared promo costs committed in vendor agreements but never invoiced back. Four to six percent of revenue — just gone.

We pulled their data, built documented credit memos against the agreement terms both sides already signed, sent them to vendors with line-item Metrc backup, and got cleaner approvals because the math was auditable. Money that was always theirs — back in their account.

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Every SKU has a margin to protect. We protect it.

There's real money hiding in your AP, your credits, and your consignment. We find it, recover it, and keep it from leaving again.

50+ Massachusetts vendors already paid through ShelfSpace.

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$3,000,000
$500K Annual Revenue $10M
Conservative Typical Aggressive
Consignment
Cash freed from inventory
$46,233
25% on consignment
$92,466
50% on consignment
$138,699
75% on consignment
Accounts Payable
Invoice & payment savings
$21,000
$1,750/mo
$39,000
$3,250/mo
$63,000
$5,250/mo
Credit Recovery
Recovered vendor credits
$36,000
$3,000/mo
$60,000
$5,000/mo
$90,000
$7,500/mo
Total Impact
$103,233
$191,466
$291,699
EBITDA
15% → 18.3%
15% → 20.3%
15% → 23.2%

One team. All three. You only pay if we deliver.

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$2,500/mo first, $1,800 each more. Free evaluation in 48 hours.

*Estimates only — your actual numbers may vary.

Case Studies

Real results from real dispensaries. De-identified to protect our clients.

Accounts Payable
$4,873
Stopped a duplicate invoice across two locations
Same-day fix Read the full story
Accounts Payable
$1,140
Flagged a shorted delivery before payment went out
Same-day fix Read the full story
Accounts Payable
12 vendors
Non-cannabis vendors finally in the system
First 7 days Read the full story
Operations
1 min
Vendor AR reminder answered, Treasury user added — both in one thread

A vendor's AP team emailed asking for invoice status and to add a new Treasury contact. We pulled the live data, replied with the breakdown, and added the user — same thread, one minute later.

Same-thread fix Read the full story
Consignment
$27,350
Freed trapped inventory with one vendor switch
Results in 60 days Read the full story
Consignment
$8,370
Expired product returned at zero cost
Consignment
$6,230
Settlement question answered in 24 hours with shared data
24-hour resolution Read the full story
Credit Recovery
$83,741/yr
Credit recovery lifted EBITDA 15% at one dispensary
First 90 days Read the full story
Credit Recovery
$2,340
Recovered co-marketing credits nobody was tracking
Found in 14 days Read the full story
Credit Recovery
$1,847
Return credit nobody filed — recovered
First evaluation Read the full story
Credit Recovery
$3,180
Expiration credits buried in a vendor agreement
Found in 14 days Read the full story
Operations
47 emails
We handled 47 vendor emails in one week
Operations
98% less time
From 15 hours a week to one approve button
Results in 60 days Read the full story
Operations
Zero spreadsheets
Replaced a 200-row spreadsheet with Metrc data
First 14 days Read the full story
Operations
90% fewer calls
Vendor portal stopped 30 payment calls a month
First 30 days Read the full story
Operations
Real-time books
QuickBooks went from 3 days behind to instant
Consignment
Zero stockouts
Vendor started restocking from their settlement report
Within first month Read the full story
Accounts Payable
$7,340
We flagged 12 invoice mismatches in one month using Metrc
Found in 30 days Read the full story
Consignment
$14,230
We got a new product on shelves — zero risk for both sides
First 30 days Read the full story
Operations
20+ hrs/month
We took over vendor emails — vendors get instant answers, the owner gets his inbox back
Operations
23% less waste
We gave a buyer real data — waste dropped 23%
First 60 days Read the full story

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Free your team. They have better work to do.

ShelfSpace handles
ALWAYS ON
  • We pull invoices from email, vendor portals, and PDFs. Line items, totals, terms, and due dates land in our system and match against Metrc deliveries.
  • We cross-reference every invoice against the Metrc delivery and your purchase order. Discrepancies surface before payment goes out.
  • Each vendor's terms tracked per relationship — COD pays on delivery, Net 15/30 pays on schedule, consignment pays on sell-through.
  • We cut checks, send ACH, or use whatever rail your vendors prefer. Right amount, on time, with documented reasoning attached.
  • "Where's my check?" emails and follow-up calls come to us, not your buyer. We respond with live data and dispute-ready credit memos.
  • Returns, expiration credits, and co-marketing credits tracked from Metrc and POS data through resolution. Every credit gets pursued and applied to the next invoice.
  • We push bills, vendor credits, and payments to QuickBooks in real time with proper coding. Your bookkeeper sees clean entries, not a backlog.
Your team focuses on
YOUR BUYER
  • Product selection & vendor negotiation
  • Sell-through & promotional planning
  • New vendor sourcing
YOUR BOOKKEEPER OR FIRM
  • Month-end close & reconciliations
  • Payroll, JEs, financial statements
  • Tax prep & 280E compliance

Vendors win. Compliance wins.

What vendors get

Vendors get more, not less

Their own portal. Live payment status. Credit memos when due. ShelfiQ answers their questions in seconds.

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Official Metrc integration
METRC

Same source of truth as your compliance

  • Read-only — we never write to your account
  • Live sync — data updates as Metrc does
  • Vetted by Metrc — official third-party vendor

How much could we save your dispensary?

Free analysis in 48 hours. You only pay if we deliver.

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Frequently asked questions

What does this cost?

The evaluation is free. After that: Core AP is $2,500/mo for your first location and $1,800/mo for each additional (invoice processing, three-way matching, per-vendor payment terms, vendor payments, vendor inbox handled, QuickBooks sync) — consignment terms included. Credit Recovery is success-based — 30% standalone with no monthly fee, or 25% bundled with Core AP. No fee if we don't recover anything. Average evaluation finds $8,000–$25,000/month in unrecovered credits. We work alongside your buyer and your bookkeeper — they keep product, negotiation, close, and reporting; we handle AP. 5+ locations get custom Enterprise pricing.

How fast will I see results?

First credits identified in 14 days. Consignment settlements within 30 days. Full AP operation running within 60 days.

How is this different from AP software?

We're not software. We're a team that does the work. You don't learn a dashboard or manage a system. We verify invoices, cut checks, recover credits, run settlements, and handle vendor emails. You just approve.

Do you replace my buyer or bookkeeper?

No. Your buyer keeps product selection, vendor negotiation, and sourcing. Your bookkeeper keeps close, reconciliation, payroll, and tax. We handle invoice processing, vendor terms, vendor emails, payments, credit recovery, and QuickBooks sync. We make their jobs easier — clean QuickBooks entries land in real time.

How do you handle vendor emails?

Every vendor email about payments, balances, credits, and settlements comes to us. We respond with live Metrc and settlement data, in the same tone you'd use, without you ever seeing it. The five percent that need a human decision come to your desk with the work already done.

What does onboarding look like?

Day 1 we audit your last 90 days of vendor activity. Within 14 days we identify the first credits and start running AP for your top vendors. Within 30 days consignment settlements run. Within 60 days the full AP operation is live. You only pay once results show up.

Do you only work in Massachusetts?

No. We work in every state in the USA. Our Massachusetts network was first — 50+ vendors already paid through us there.

Works with every major cannabis POS