Consignor Management

If you’re paying every consignor the same commission rate, you’re leaving money on the table with your high-volume sellers and probably undercharging for the overhead that casual drop-offs create. The standard 50/50 split works as a starting point. But once you’re managing 20 or more consignors, a one-size-fits-all rate stops making sense. Your best consignor — the one who drops off 40 items a month, sells fast, and never disputes a payout — is worth a better deal than the person who brings in three overpriced t-shirts twice a year and emails you weekly asking about them. ...

If you manage ten or more consignors, you already know the monthly scramble: pulling sales data from every platform, calculating commissions, formatting individual reports, emailing each one. For a store with 15 consignors, that’s easily two to three hours of admin time every month. More if someone wants a resend or asks “how did you calculate this?” It doesn’t need to be this way. Automated consignor statements turn a full day’s work into a button click. ...