Multi-vendor shops and collectives

One way for most, a few exceptions#

A shop with twenty makers rarely has twenty deals. It has one, and a handful of makers on something else. VendorDue is built the same way:

• Your shop-wide termsShop-wide terms The rate, schedule, holds and agreement every vendor follows, unless they have their own. In the glossary are the one deal. Every maker you put on them follows them, including any change you make later.
• A maker on something else has their own consignor rate, schedule, holds or agreement. Each part is separate: a maker can have their own rate and still follow your schedule.

In the example shop, Fernhill Pottery pays most makers 60% of revenue on the 1st of every month. Two makers are different.

A higher share past a monthly line#

Marram Print Studio gets 60% of their first $1,000.00 of sales each month, and 70% of everything above it. That's a tiersTiers A higher rate once a vendor's sales pass a line you set, counted each calendar month. In the glossary rate. Only the part of a sale above the line earns the higher share:

On the 1st of the next month the count starts again from zero. You can count from their first sale ever instead, under Everything they ever sold. See Rate shapes.

A minimum before paying#

Mossgate Candles sells a few small candles a month, so you agreed to pay them only once they're owed $50.00. That's a minimum payoutMinimum payout The least a vendor is paid at once. Below it, their money waits for the next payout. In the glossary, one of their holds. On a pay day when they're owed less, nothing lands for them. Their money stays On hold, and their row in Upcoming says it waits until they're owed $50.00, your minimum. It lands on the first pay day after they reach it. See Holds.

A different rate for some products#

A maker can earn one share on most things and another on some. Say Alder Ceramics runs workshops you sell as tickets, and you split those 50%. Add a rate rowRate row One line of a consignor rate: what it applies to, like a product, a collection or a price range, and the rate for it. A sale takes the first row it matches. In the glossary for the Workshops collection on their Terms tab. A sale takes the first row it matches, reading down, and their Default covers everything else. See Rate rows and the Default.

If every maker's workshops are split 50%, put the row in your shop-wide consignor rate instead, and it applies to all of them.

Letting makers see their sales#

Makers in a collective often want to see a sale the day it happens. Turn on Let vendors see live sales in Settings › , then Vendors, and each maker sees their own sales on their page as they come in, marked as not final until their payout lands. See Invite vendors to their page.

What multi-vendor shops ask#

Can one order include items from several makers?

Yes. Each item belongs to the maker its product names, and each is worked out on that maker's terms. One order can put money on several payouts. More

Who gets the discount when a customer uses a code?

A sale's revenue is what the customer paid for the item, after discounts. See What the share is of, for how each kind of discount is shared. More

Can makers have different pay days?

Yes. Give a maker their own schedule on their Terms tab. Everyone else keeps yours. More

Does the monthly line count sales or what the maker earned?

Sales: the figure their share is worked out on, usually revenue. More