Reference

Glossary

In short

Every word VendorDue uses with a meaning of its own, in one list. Each means one thing everywhere, in the app, on your vendors' pages and in these docs.

VendorDue uses the words your vendor's accountant would use, and one word for each thing. Where you might say split or commission, VendorDue says consignor rate, and every page means the same by it.

A word underlined with dots anywhere in these docs opens its meaning from this list.

Adjustment: A line you add to a vendor's payout, with a reason, for money no sale explains.
Admin: Someone on your team who can change anything: consignor rates, holds, payments, settings and who has access.
Agreement: How long a vendor's goods stay, and what happens when that time ends.
Agreement ended: A vendor whose agreement reached its end without a renewal. Their charges stop.
Archived: A vendor whose new sales earn them nothing. What they're owed stays owed, they can't sign in, and they don't count against your plan. Bring them back any time.
Ask about this: Pins a sale, payout, receipt or rate to a message, so you both look at the same line.
Bill: What a vendor owes you for a charged day, numbered like B-2026-0001. It comes off their next payout, or they pay you directly.
Charge: Money a vendor owes the shop, like booth rent. It comes off their payout.
Check Shopify: The button beside the logo that reads your shop again now.
Cleared: A sale whose holds have all ended. It can land the same day.
Consignor rate: What a vendor earns from a sale. What you may call their split or commission.
Default: The rate for everything a vendor's other rates don't cover.
Final: An upcoming payout no new sale can join. Only a refund can still change it.
Fixed price per unit: A price you agree for each item. The vendor gets it, whatever the item sold for.
Held by you: A sale or vendor you held yourself, with the reason you gave.
Hold: Your own stop on a vendor or a sale, with a reason. Release ends it.
Lands: What a payout does on its day: its sales are counted and it's ready to pay.
Listed price: The price on the tag, before any discount.
Live sales: A vendor's sales that aren't on a landed payout yet. Vendors see them only if you let them.
Minimum payout: The least a vendor is paid at once. Below it, their money waits for the next payout.
Needs attention: The list in Activity of everything VendorDue couldn't work out by itself, each with what it needs from you.
Needs setup: A vendor with no consignor rate yet. Their sales are recorded and wait until they have one.
New from Shopify: A vendor who appeared in Shopify and went on your shop-wide terms by themselves, because you said new vendors should.
Not paid yet: Your vendor's words for money on a landed payout you haven't paid. You read it as To pay.
On hold: A sale whose money isn't safe to pay yet: it hasn't shipped, a return window is running, or you held it. It always says why and until when.
Open until: An upcoming payout that sales made up to that day still join.
Opening balance: Your vendor's words for an amount you added under Owed from before.
Owed from before: What you owed a vendor before your record started, added on their page so it's paid with everything else.
Owed to you: Bills vendors haven't paid you yet.
Paid: Money on a payout that the payments you recorded cover.
Paid ahead: Money you paid a vendor beyond what they were owed. It comes off their next payouts.
Passkey: Signing in with your fingerprint, face or device lock instead of a password. It counts as both steps of a sign-in.
Pay now: Lands a vendor's payout today with everything cleared, and records how you paid it, in one press.
Payout: One vendor's sales and what they're owed, on its pay day. It never changes once it lands.
Profit: Revenue less what the item cost you and any costs you set.
Rate 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.
Read-only: A store its plan doesn't cover. Every page opens and sales are still recorded, but payouts don't land and payments wait.
Receipt: The numbered record of one payment: how much, how, when and which payouts it paid. It keeps its number even if the payment is voided.
Record start: The first day VendorDue works out sales for. Settings shows it as Recording since.
Release: Ends a hold by hand, yours or any other. The sale joins the payout its date gives it.
Return window: Days a sale waits after it ships, is delivered or sells, so a return comes off before you pay.
Revenue: What the customer paid for the item, less discounts and tax.
Scheduled: A sale whose holds have all ended and that knows the day its payout lands.
Send now: Pays a vendor from your own PayPal balance, once you've proved it's you.
Sent back: A payment PayPal or Venmo returned, for example to a closed account. What it paid goes back to To pay.
Share of: The figure a share is worked out on: Revenue, Listed price, Profit or Fixed price per unit.
Shop-wide terms: The rate, schedule, holds and agreement every vendor follows, unless they have their own.
Store setup: The four questions VendorDue asks the first time an Admin opens it: what vendors earn, when you pay, what you agree, and when your record starts.
Tiers: A higher rate once a vendor's sales pass a line you set, counted each calendar month.
To pay: Money on a landed payout you haven't paid yet.
Unshipped sales: Your answer to whether a sale waits until it ships: Pay each sale as it is sold, or Hold each sale until it ships.
Upcoming: The Payouts tab that lists every vendor under the day their next payout lands.
Vendor setup: Sets up one vendor or several, start to finish: consignor rate, products, schedule, holds, agreement, charges and access.
Vendor's share: What the vendor is paid from a sale.
Viewer: Someone on your team who sees everything and changes nothing.
Void: Undoes a payment you recorded, with a reason. What it paid goes back to To pay.
Your share: What the store keeps from a sale.

Words VendorDue avoids#

You might say	VendorDue says	Why
Commission, split, cut	Consignor rate	One word for what a vendor earns, whichever way your deal runs
Statement	Payout	The thing that lands, is paid and has a receipt
Settle	Pay, or record a payment	Says who did what
Rule, terms of a rate	Rate row	A rate is a number on a row, not a rule
Close the month	Nothing to do	Payouts land on their own days. See Month end with your accountant

Common questions#

Why "consignor rate" when my vendors aren't consignors?: It's the word most shops and accountants know for a vendor's share, whether the deal is consignment, a booth or a split. Your vendors see the same word on their page. More

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