Every cannabis vendor knows the second job. You sell the product, you hand over the manifest, and then — weeks later — you're still the one writing the "just following up on invoice #1043" email. Net 30 quietly becomes net 60. The buyer likes you, isn't disputing anything, and simply hasn't gotten to it. So the person who made the sale becomes the person who collects on it, one awkward reminder at a time.
The reason it drags is not that dispensaries won't pay. It's that paying you is friction — someone has to cut a check, find your address, or log into a portal they've forgotten the password to. Every step you can remove is a day you get paid sooner. Get Paid exists to remove all of them at once.
What Get Paid does
You pick the dispensary that owes you and click send. That's the whole action on your side. From there, three things happen without you touching them again:
The email doesn't read like a collections notice. It reads like an invoice from you, because that's what it is — your name on it, your amount, a button that gets the buyer paid up in about a minute.
The reminder cadence, so you don't have to remember it
Most overdue invoices aren't refusals — they're things that slipped. A steady, predictable rhythm of reminders clears the bulk of them without a single phone call. Get Paid runs that rhythm for you and stops the moment the invoice is paid.
Day 3
First gentle reminder, if the invoice is still open
Day 7
A second nudge one week in
Weekly
Then once a week, until it's paid
You set it in motion once. The buyer stops getting reminders the instant they pay, and you stop being the one who has to keep track of who's been quiet for how long.
What the buyer sees when they click Pay Now
The Pay Now button opens a single screen — not a signup flow. The buyer sees who they're paying and how much, chooses how they want to pay, enters their own bank account, signs, and confirms. Nothing is hidden and nothing is pre-checked on their behalf.
You're paying
Evergreen Botanical Co.
$4,180.00
Invoice #1043 · 34 days past due
The buyer's view. Amounts shown are an illustration. The buyer picks pay-in-full, pay-part, or pay-over-time, enters their own bank details, and checks the box before a branded confirm dialog asks them to authorize.
That required checkbox — I own this account and have the funds — isn't decoration. It's the buyer putting their name to the payment before a branded confirm dialog asks them to authorize it. It protects them, and it protects you from a payment someone wasn't actually cleared to make.
The part that matters most: the money never passes through ShelfSpace
This is the question every cannabis vendor asks, and the answer is the reason Get Paid works where card processors don't. When the buyer authorizes, the payment is drawn on their own bank account and paid to you as a check — the same kind of check a dispensary would write by hand, just digital. There is no ShelfSpace account in the middle holding your funds.
ShelfSpace never holds, touches, or has access to the money. It moves from the buyer's bank to you — nothing sits in a processor account that could get frozen or shut off.
Cannabis is why this design is the point, not a footnote. Card networks and payment apps regularly cut off plant-touching businesses, and anything that parks money in a middle account is a single point of failure. A check drawn on the buyer's own bank sidesteps all of it: it's a bank instrument between two businesses, and ShelfSpace is just the software that asked for it cleanly. If you want the longer version of the trust story, is ShelfSpace safe for vendors answers it straight.
Payment plans: proposed by the buyer, approved by you
Sometimes a buyer can't clear the whole balance at once. Instead of that turning into silence, Get Paid gives them a way to say so — they can propose paying part now, or spreading it over time. But a proposal is not a payment. Nothing is charged until you approve the plan.
You see what they're proposing and decide. Approve it and the first payment goes out, with the rest running on the schedule you agreed to. Decline it and the invoice stays open and keeps collecting reminders. Either way, the choice about your own receivable stays with you — a slow payer gets a path to clear the balance without you eating a loss or writing it off.
A buyer proposing $500 a week is a buyer telling you how they'll pay. That's a better position than a buyer who's gone quiet — and you're the one who says yes.
Where you watch it come in
Once a collection is out, you don't manage it — you watch it. ShelfSpace notifies you when a payment is on its way, and your AR aging schedule updates so the invoice moves out of the overdue column. If you run collections across a stack of dispensaries, the accounts receivable view keeps every open invoice in one place, sorted by how far past due it is, so you always know who to send next.
One honest note on timing, because it matters: a check is on its way the moment it's sent. Like any check you deposit, only your own bank confirms when the funds actually land. ShelfSpace won't tell you money has arrived that hasn't — it tells you a payment is coming and lets your bank do the confirming.
How this fits with the rest of getting paid
Get Paid is the outbound side of collecting. It sits next to the things dispensaries already use ShelfSpace for on the paying side — an AP aging report that decides which vendors get paid this week, and Check 21 digital checks that make a bank check something you send in a click instead of a trip to the post office. You're on the receiving end of the same rails: the buyer pays by bank, you get a check, and nobody had to trust a middleman with the money.
If you sell into cannabis and you're tired of being your own collections department, that's the whole pitch. You made the sale. Getting paid for it shouldn't take a second sale's worth of effort.
