# Multi-vendor shops and collectives

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**In short:** A shop or collective selling for many makers usually has one split for most of them and a few special deals: a higher share past a monthly line, a different rate for one collection, or a minimum before paying. Each is a setting, and most makers follow the shop's.

## 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 terms 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 tiers rate. Only the part of a sale above the line earns the higher share:

**A $120.00 print, with $950.00 already sold this month** (example)

| | |
| --- | ---: |
| First $50.00 at 60%, up to the line | $30.00 |
| Next $70.00 at 70%, above it | $49.00 |
| **Marram Print Studio's share** | **$79.00** |

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](https://vendordue.com/docs/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 payout, 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](https://vendordue.com/docs/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 row 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](https://vendordue.com/docs/rate-rows).

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 > 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](https://vendordue.com/docs/invite-vendors#what-you-control).

## 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.

**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.

**Can makers have different pay days?** Yes. Give a maker their own schedule on their Terms tab. Everyone else keeps yours.

**Does the monthly line count sales or what the maker earned?** Sales: the figure their share is worked out on, usually revenue.

Checked against VendorDue on 2026-10-06.