At a Glance
- ShelfSpace billing is a flat $20 per artifact — every check the platform cuts and every credit memo it recovers
- Free to start: no subscription, no monthly minimum — you pay only for what the platform produces
- Vendors are never billed; only retailers pay platform fees
- A monthly fee statement lists every artifact and its $20 fee
- Volume discounts are available for multi-location and high-volume operators
What You're Billed For
ShelfSpace billing is dead simple: a flat $20 per artifact. An artifact is something the platform produces on your behalf, and there are two of them:
- A check — $20 every time the platform cuts a check for you, whether it's an AP invoice payment, a consignment settlement payout, or an ad-hoc payment. You sign and send it; the $20 covers generating it.
- A recovered credit memo — $20 each time an automated credit memo is recovered (applied against a payment, a purchase order, a settlement, or a product fulfillment). There's no commission and no percentage of what comes back. You keep 100% of the recovered credit.
That's the whole price list. There are no seat licenses, no per-location fees, and no tiers based on how much you sell.
Free to Start
There's no subscription and no monthly minimum. You can connect your data, onboard vendors, and run the platform without paying anything until the platform produces its first billable artifact. Fees may be waived entirely during your initial evaluation period — the terms are set in your agreement.
Because we're allergic to subscriptions, your bill tracks your activity. A slow month is a smaller bill. A month where the platform cuts no checks and recovers no credits is a $0 month.
What's Not Billed
Not every action carries a fee. You are not billed for:
- Manual or vendor-initiated credit memos — only automated credit memos that the platform builds and recovers carry the $20 fee.
- Credit memos that never get applied — if a credit memo is voided before it's recovered, there's no charge.
- Anything a vendor does — vendors never pay a platform fee, on any artifact.
If your total fees for a month come to less than a few dollars, they roll forward to your next statement rather than being collected on their own.
Your Monthly Fee Statement
Once a month, on your billing day, the platform totals the artifacts it produced for you in the prior period and delivers an itemized fee statement. Every line shows the date, the artifact, and its $20 fee, so your bookkeeper has a clean record that reconciles against your QuickBooks activity.
Fees are collected on your billing day via a remotely created check or ACH debit drawn on your designated account — the same payment authorization you grant in the Terms of Service. The statement is available in your dashboard and emailed to your billing contact.
Volume Discounts
The flat $20 rate is the standard rate. Multi-location operators and high-volume retailers can set custom per-artifact rates — including waived fees on specific artifacts. If you're running serious volume, let's talk and we'll size the rate to your operation.