For Retailers

Never overpay a vendor again.

Every invoice checked against Metrc before a dollar goes out. We run the AP desk. You just approve.

Schedule a call 30 minutes with Chris. See how your vendor payments would run.
Pays for itself, or we refund the difference
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Brands paid every week, on the ShelfSpace platform
How the done-for-you works

You connect once. We run your AP. You approve what moves money.

01

Connect Metrc & your inbox

Vendors email invoices to an address they already use; we ingest them.

02

We match & schedule

Every invoice three-way matched against Metrc and your PO, terms applied, the AP aging schedule built.

03

You approve the checks

Nothing pays until you say so; approve, and we cut the check or ACH.

Step 1 / 5 · Ingestion

Every invoice in the system, the moment it lands.

Vendor emails it. ShelfiQ parses it. Lined up against the PO and the delivery.

No paper to chase. No spreadsheet to update. The invoice is in the queue before you knew it arrived.

Invoice-by-email workflow
Step 2 / 5 · Metrc Verification

Inventory amounts verified in Metrc.

Synced with your state compliance system. The same source of truth your inventory team uses.

Cannabis is the one industry with a court-of-record for what was delivered. The platform uses it to three-way match every invoice. No more "we shipped 24, you signed for 22, here's an invoice for 24."

How Metrc verification works
Step 3 / 5 · Protection

So you never over-pay.

The platform won't let a check leave until the math holds.

Short deliveries. Wrong prices. Duplicate invoices. Small per check, thousands a year. The platform catches them before the payment leaves your bank.

How dispensaries lose money to vendors
Step 4 / 5 · Labor Savings

Your team will thank you.

Free your team up from 10–15 hours per week of busy work. And stop leaving money with your vendors.

We don't replace your bookkeeper. The platform compresses 12 hours of AP grunt work into 2. The rest of their week — close, reporting, strategy — finally fits. See where AP labor really goes.

How AP works for cannabis bookkeepers
Step 5 / 5 · Vendor Experience

Vendors love it.

Their own portal. Live payment status. Credit memos when due. Answers in seconds.

Happy vendors prioritize you. Better terms, better allocation, fewer collection calls. AP is half the vendor relationship. Run it clean and the rest gets easier. Vendors get their check digitally the moment it's ready — and for the ones who'd rather have paper, you can opt them into a physical check in the mail. Or skip the check entirely: if a vendor would rather be paid by direct deposit, you can pay them by ACH bank transfer straight to their bank.

How vendors get paid through ShelfSpace
Watch it work

See the whole delivery workflow run.

Invoices read, Metrc checked, duplicates caught before a dollar goes out — the real screens your team will use, recorded start to finish.

Your AP department, worth $224,500 in year one.

No software to learn and no new hire. Here's what we take over, and what it's worth for a store selling $500k a month.

ShelfPay · for dispensaries

Your AP department, done for you, paid for by your credits.

What we doWorth a month
Total value, first year
$224,500

You pay a fraction of that, priced on your monthly sales, never per invoice or per payment. And the credits we recover are built to cover it.

Schedule a call 30 minutes with Chris. See how your vendor payments would run.

Values are typical for a dispensary selling about $500k a month (about half of that spent with vendors): what it costs to hire the work out, or the money it brings back. Your free review shows your real numbers.

The credits pay for it. Or we refund the difference.

If the credits we recover in your first 90 days come to less than you paid us, we pay you back the gap. You can't lose money hiring us.

See the money you're missing before you sign No long-term contract You approve every dollar

Credit recovery and consignment come with it.

Same team, same approvals, one monthly price.

Credit recovery

Get back what your vendors owe you.

Returns, expired product, and promo costs, built into Metrc-backed credit memos every month and chased until the vendor pays.

See how credit recovery works
Consignment

Weekly settlements, run for you.

For product you sell on consignment: each vendor's split worked out from what actually sold, and paid on schedule.

See how consignment works
New · Connect your AIRun ShelfPay from ChatGPT, Claude or Meta Muse.Ask which invoices don't match Metrc, what vendors owe you in credits, and line up this week's payments, all from a chat. See how it works

See what your vendors owe you. Free.

We'll show you exactly how much is slipping through, then run your AP, guaranteed to pay for itself.

Schedule a call 30 minutes with Chris. See how your vendor payments would run.

The credits pay for it. Or we refund the difference.

If the credits we recover in your first 90 days come to less than you paid us, we refund the difference.

Chris Mitchem

"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

Finding the money you're missing is free. We run the rest for you, scoped to your operation.

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from AP software like Bill.com or Stampli?

Those are general AP tools. We're cannabis-native: every invoice is verified against Metrc, not just against the PO. The platform knows what 24 units of GG #4 actually weigh in your vault, because it reads the same compliance system your buyer reads. General AP software doesn't.

Can you just run accounts payable for me?

Yes. We run AP end to end — ingesting every invoice, three-way matching it against Metrc and your PO, applying terms, building the aging schedule, and cutting checks or ACH — and you approve anything that moves money.

How fast can we start cutting checks on the platform?

First verified check within 14 days. We onboard your vendors, connect your Metrc account and QuickBooks, and you're cutting your first three-way-matched payment in two weeks.

Do I still approve every payment?

Every check. The platform queues invoices, verifies them against Metrc, and prepares the check. You approve, print, and sign. Nothing leaves your bank without you.

Can I pay a vendor by ACH instead of a check?

Yes. A one-click check is the default, but ACH bank transfer is an opt-in alternative. After a one-time bank-transfer setup, you can pay any vendor who links a bank account by direct deposit instead of a check — the funds land straight in their account, with no check to print or deposit. Vendors who aren't set up for ACH keep getting a check. See how ACH payments work.

Does the platform handle vendor emails too?

ShelfiQ answers most routine vendor emails directly — payment status, balance questions, missing checks, credit memo follow-ups — using live Metrc and payment data. The ones that need a human decision escalate to your AP person, with the full thread context already attached.

Do non-cannabis vendors work on the platform?

Yes. Landlords, marketing agencies, consultants, distributors. The platform processes every check you cut — cannabis or not.

How does this compare to a bookkeeper doing AP manually?

A bookkeeper at $25/hour spends 10–15 hours a week on AP — $1,000–$1,500 a month per store in labor. On the platform, your AP person spends 2–3 hours a week on approvals and exceptions. The platform does the heavy lifting; your team finalizes.

What does this cost?

Your price is set by your monthly sales, never by how many invoices or payments you run. We quote it after your free review, so you see the money you're missing before you see a price, and it pays for itself or we refund the difference. See how the value adds up →