At a Glance
- Adding a vendor automatically sets them up as both a consignment (scan-based) partner and a wholesale (AP) partner — no proposals, no opt-in, no bilateral approval
- You, the retailer, set the terms — category splits, caps, payment terms, and settlement frequency — in the vendor's Settings tab
- Whether a specific delivery is consignment or wholesale is your call per order, at receive time
- Term changes take effect immediately, from the next cycle; there's no vendor sign-off gate in the platform
How Partnerships Work on ShelfSpace
When you add a vendor, ShelfSpace automatically sets them up as both a consignment (scan-based / SBT) partner and a wholesale (AP) partner. There's nothing to propose, nothing to opt into, and no bilateral negotiation to run inside the platform — both partnership types are provisioned the moment the vendor is created, so you're ready to receive either kind of delivery right away.
This is a deliberate design choice. ShelfSpace doesn't broker, negotiate, or store contracts between you and your vendors. Whatever commercial terms the two of you agree to, you arrange directly — a conversation, a handshake, a signed agreement in your own files. The platform's job is to run the operations those terms imply: settlements, accounts payable, credit recovery, payments, and data.
You Set the Terms
Terms live in the vendor's Settings tab in your retailer portal, and you set them unilaterally. There is no vendor-facing approval step and no negotiation log inside the platform — you configure the numbers, they take effect, and every change is captured in the audit trail.
Category-level profit splits. Each product category (flower, concentrates, edibles, etc.) gets its own vendor/retailer revenue split. A vendor might receive 60% on flower but 55% on edibles. See profit splits for how these work in practice.
Discount caps and aging thresholds. You set the operational discount budget the vendor funds, and the aging thresholds at which slow-moving product gets marked down. See aging discounts for details.
Payment terms and settlement frequency. For consignment, you pick each vendor's settlement cadence — weekly by default, or biweekly/monthly. For wholesale, you set the AP payment terms (COD, Net 30, Net 60, etc.). Both live on the same vendor record.
Changes take effect immediately — from the next cycle forward. Historical settlements are never retroactively recalculated; the terms that were active when a sale happened stay on that settlement's record.
Consignment vs. Wholesale Is a Per-Order Choice
Because every vendor is already set up for both modes, you don't decide "is this a consignment vendor or a wholesale vendor?" — you decide it per delivery, at receive time. Each delivery has a Wholesale | Consignment toggle, and that choice decides the payout path:
- Consignment — the delivery feeds the weekly settlement engine and pays out through a settlement.
- Wholesale — the delivery becomes an AP payable / purchase order you settle on your payment terms.
The same vendor can ship you a consignment order and a wholesale order on the same day; each is its own delivery with its own Order Type. See receiving and payout for the full receive flow. Visit our consignment service page for more on the overall model.