Plain English: free portal, no fees, weekly check runs that clear on your terms, all your ShelfSpace retailers in one login.
| Today | With ShelfSpace |
|---|---|
| You invoice the retailer; you call AP if it's late | Same invoice — paid weekly through us, or Metrc-driven settlement if you ship on consignment |
| Wait past terms when the retailer's behind | Paid in the next weekly check run after your invoice is due |
| Email asking "where's my check?" | Log in, download your check yourself the day it's cut |
| Credit memo conversations happen over phone or email | Credit memos sent through the portal — you approve or dispute in one click |
| Sales data: whatever the retailer chooses to share | Real-time sell-through visibility on your products at every ShelfSpace retailer |
| Multiple retailers = multiple AP contacts and systems | One login covers every ShelfSpace retailer you work with |
Every vendor working with a ShelfSpace retailer gets free access to the portal. One login, every retailer. Download checks the day they're cut, see real-time sell-through across your customers, approve or dispute credit memos without phone tag, and ask ShelfiQ about anything in plain English.
No. The portal is free, there are no per-transaction fees, and we don't take a percentage of your invoices. We're paid by the retailer, not by you. We've never charged vendors and have no plans to.
Weekly. Once an invoice is both approved by the retailer and past its due date per your terms, it goes into the next weekly check run. You log into the portal and download your check from there. Your terms still apply — we just batch payable invoices into weekly cycles instead of you waiting on the retailer's check-cutting cadence.
We're the AP team now, so the question comes to us first. We triage with Metrc data and delivery records, and most issues resolve within 24 hours without you chasing anyone. If we can't resolve it ourselves, we loop in the retailer directly — you're not stuck in a portal ticket queue waiting on someone to respond.
It's a Check 21–compliant Substitute Check, legally valid under federal law. You can deposit it by mobile phone, print it and walk it into the bank, or process it through remote deposit capture. Your bank doesn't treat it differently from a paper check from the retailer.
Your relationship with the retailer is unchanged. You'd go back to invoicing them directly, the way you did before. Nothing about your business depends on us continuing to exist — we don't hold your money, we don't hold your data, we don't lock you in.
Your product, your inventory, until it sells. When you ship on consignment, the product lives on the retailer's shelf but stays your property. The retailer's POS sees the unit ring at the register, and that's the trigger that creates the obligation to pay you. No invoice required up front. No COD. No Net 30 from a purchase order that may or may not exist.
Settlement runs weekly from POS data. Every cycle, ShelfSpace pulls the week's POS data and calculates what's owed to you on each unit per your wholesale terms with the retailer. You see the calculation line by line in the portal. Your check is ready that cycle. No invoicing, no chase, no reconciliation calls.
Unsold product comes back, no questions. If a SKU isn't moving, you can pull it. No write-off, no awkward "we need to return this" conversation. Your product, your decision.
Chris ran a vertically integrated cannabis company for nearly a decade — production and retail. He's been the vendor waiting months on a check, and he's been the retailer trying to verify what got delivered. ShelfSpace exists because both sides deserve better. We're cannabis-specific, METRC-certified, and bank-grade secure.