Brands paid through ShelfSpace every week
Consignment system built for cannabis.
Vendor delivers product. You sell it. You pay them after.
Wholesale ties up your cash before a single customer walks in. Consignment flips it: the vendor owns the risk, you own the shelf, and the money moves only after the SKU earns its keep.
How cannabis consignment worksGrocery, hardware, apparel — they all moved to consignment decades ago. In those aisles it's called scan-based trading; it's the same model that stocks a cooler with Coca-Cola before a single can is paid for.
Big retail figured out long ago: buying inventory upfront is brutal. The supplier owns the risk; the retailer owns the shelf. We brought that playbook to cannabis, with a team that knows Metrc and the math.
Why general consignment software doesn't work for cannabisAdd them in ShelfSpace, set the split, and settlements run the next week.
No spreadsheets to chase. No shared docs to maintain. Add the vendor, pick the split, and the settlement engine takes over weekly from there.
Getting started with consignmentConsignment and wholesale are set up for every vendor from day one. Your team picks which one each delivery is when it arrives.
Consignment isn't all-or-nothing, and it isn't a switch you flip per vendor. There's nothing to propose and nothing to convert — the split and the payment terms both sit on the vendor from the start, and whoever receives the truck marks that delivery consignment or wholesale. The same vendor can ship you their proven movers wholesale and float you their new SKUs on consignment in the same week.
Cannabis vendor management guideThe platform reads your Metrc and POS sales data. Runs the math. Queues the check. You approve. You send. Every week.
No quarterly reconciliation. No "we'll figure it out next month." The vendor sees the same numbers you see, every package, every sale, every week. Download a real settlement (PDF).
Anatomy of a cannabis consignment settlement reportRun a BOGO. Take a return. The settlement reconciles both.
A discount needs no adjustment at all on consignment — the vendor is paid their split of whatever the item actually rang up for, so a BOGO is shared the moment it rings. Returns and any credit memo you've built get netted off the same week's payout as ordinary line items, instead of becoming a conversation next quarter.
How consignment settlements workEvery package on your shelf, every sale at the register — traced and matched.
Cannabis is the one industry with a state-mandated package ledger. We use it. Vendors can't dispute the numbers, because the regulator already signed off on the manifest.
How Metrc verification worksLive sell-through. Inventory aging. Next payment date. All in one view.
When the vendor can see what's selling and when they get paid, the phone stops ringing. You save the back-and-forth; they get the data they actually need to plan replenishment.
How vendors get paid through cannabis consignmentCheck 21 compliant. Mobile-deposit ready. Mailed or downloaded.
Cannabis banking is a mess. Wire fees, ACH limits, returned checks. Check 21 sidesteps the whole circus, because the vendor downloads the image and deposits from their phone.
How check payments workWhat used to be inventory is now liquid.
Modeled at $3M annual revenue with a 90-day inventory turn.
Inventory is your biggest balance-sheet item. Start taking a chunk of your deliveries on consignment and that money stops leaving your account in the first place — funding payroll, marketing, new locations, or just breathing room.
Case study — $27K freed at a Massachusetts dispensaryMark it down to move it — your margin percentage doesn't budge.
In wholesale you already paid for the unit, so every dollar you discount comes straight out of your margin. On consignment the vendor is paid their share of what the item actually rang up for — so a markdown is shared the instant it rings, in the same proportion as the split you set. Sell that $50 eighth for $40 and a 50/50 split still pays you $20 on $20. You never have to chase the vendor for their half, because they never got it.
How cannabis consignment profit splits workYou own the vendor conversation. We own the settlement cycle.
Most operators try consignment in spreadsheets and quit by week six. The math, the category splits, the returns, the Metrc reconciliation, the payment cycle — none of it fits in Excel. We built the engine that does.
See full consignment docsCash freed + zero waste + locked margins. Straight to your bottom line.
See your settlements free — automate the payouts on us for your first 30 days.
Seeing your settlements is free forever. Automating them — running the numbers and cutting the check — is $999/mo for one location, $899 each for 2–3, $799 each for 4–9, and $749 each for 10+. ACH is included; mailed checks are $5 each. Start on a 30-day free trial — auto-renews to your monthly rate; cancel anytime before it renews. See the full pricing model →
See full pricingSee your settlements free. Automate the payouts on a 30-day free trial.
"I've been a cannabis operator since 2015, and I have the scars to prove it. ShelfSpace is the product of everything I learned the hard way."
— Chris Mitchem, Founder
Free for 30 days, then a flat monthly subscription per location — cancel anytime before it renews.
Most do — and most are eager once they see the structure. They get weekly settlements with sell-through data on every package, instead of chasing payment for months on Net 60. You handle the vendor relationship and the contract; the platform runs the weekly settlement cycle.
Nothing. Same deliveries, same POS, same Metrc, same staff. Customers can't tell the difference.
You haven't paid for it. It goes back to the vendor. That's the entire point.
First vendor agreements within 14 days. Settlements start the following week.
Visibility — tracking transactions, seeing what's owed, and receiving settlement reports — is free forever. Automate, which runs the weekly settlement and cuts the check, is a flat monthly subscription per location, starting with a 30-day free trial. See pricing.
Weekly. The platform reads your Metrc data and the POS sales export you upload, calculates what each vendor is owed for the week's sell-through, and queues a Check 21 payment with a settlement report showing inventory, units sold, and amount paid. You approve and send. The vendor sees the same data you see. See a full sample.
Then that delivery is simply received as wholesale, on whatever terms you already have — COD, Net 30, Net 60. Nothing has to be renegotiated and nothing gets turned off: every vendor is set up for both lanes, and each delivery is marked consignment or wholesale as it's received. Start by asking the vendors most likely to say yes (high-velocity SKUs, growing brands, anyone tired of chasing payment) — we'll help you sort them.
