Who's waiting, how long, and who gets paid this week
More vendors are waiting than you have cash for this week. Here's the one screen that decides who gets paid.
This is everything you owe, sorted by how far past due it is. Not a list of invoices — a picture of who has been waiting on you, and for how long. Twelve thousand two hundred and eighty-eight dollars, split across five columns.
Four thousand seven hundred and nineteen dollars of that has been past due for more than three months. That's the number that ends vendor relationships, and on most accounting screens it's invisible — because nothing sorts by age.
Wholesale flower, your non-cannabis bills, and consignment settlements all sit in the same book here. They compete for the same bank balance, so you shouldn't have to check three screens to see them.
Vendors are sorted longest-waiting first, so the top of the list is the top of your list. Boston Bay Property has been waiting a hundred and thirty days.
Open any vendor and you get the payables underneath it — what each one is, when it was due, and how late it actually is. Ember Edibles has a wholesale order and a consignment settlement, and only one of them is behind.
That mix is worth a warning, so you get one. When a vendor has both an open wholesale order and a live consignment settlement, ShelfSpace flags it — because paying both can pay for the same product twice.
And this one already has a check scheduled. It stays visible, because you still owe it — but there's no checkbox and no pay button, so you can't accidentally send it twice.
Now the part that actually decides your week. Tell it how much cash you have to work with. Six thousand.
Then work down from the top. Boston Bay at a hundred and thirty days, and Birch and Bloom at a hundred and one.
Four thousand seven hundred and nineteen dollars owed, and twelve hundred and eighty-one left of your six thousand. Your whole ninety-plus column, cleared, with money to spare.
Reach for one more and you're six hundred and fifty-two dollars over. Nothing stops you — it just tells you the truth before you commit. So you either find the cash, or you pay Northbrook next week.
Drop it back off, and what's selected is exactly what gets paid — never a row that's hidden behind a filter.
Review and pay opens the run, and it checks every one of them against payments you've already made before it will send anything.
Owed is what the vendors are owed. Cash out is what actually leaves your bank — because when credits are sitting on a vendor's account, ShelfSpace applies those first and cuts a smaller check.
Consignment settlements are called out on their own, since approving one cuts that check immediately.
Then one button sends the whole run — one payment at a time, paced under your bank's limit, so a big batch can never get away from you.
And the same schedule exports straight out for your bookkeeper — the vendor summary, or every payable line by line. That's your week, decided in about a minute: oldest first, against the cash you actually have.