At a Glance
- Schedule a fixed payment to any vendor on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly cadence
- The platform cuts a Check 21 automatically every cycle — you set it up once
- Pause, resume, skip the next payment, edit the amount, or cancel anytime
- Add your banking and signature first — recurring checks are drawn on your account
- Built for recurring vendor payments like rent, utilities, and fixed services
What Recurring Payments Are For
Some vendor payments never change. Rent, utilities, a software subscription, a fixed monthly retainer — the same amount, to the same vendor, on the same schedule. Cutting those checks by hand every month is busywork that is easy to forget and easy to get wrong.
Recurring vendor payments let you set one of these up once. You choose the vendor, the amount, and the cadence, and the platform generates the check on every scheduled date until you tell it to stop. It works for cannabis and non-cannabis vendors alike — your landlord and your packaging supplier sit in the same list as your flower distributors.
Setting Up a Schedule
From the Payments screen, start a new recurring schedule and provide:
- Vendor — any active vendor on your account
- Amount — the fixed amount of each check
- Description — what the payment is for (e.g. "March rent," "monthly POS subscription")
- Frequency — weekly, biweekly, or monthly
- Start date — when the first check should go out
Once saved, the schedule runs on its own. Each cycle, the platform creates the payment, generates the Check 21 check, and records it in your AP history exactly like a one-off payment.
Frequency Options
Three cadences cover the way recurring vendor costs actually land: weekly for short-cycle obligations, biweekly for payroll-aligned schedules, and monthly for rent, utilities, and subscriptions. Pick the one that matches the vendor's terms and the platform handles the dates from there.
Pausing, Skipping, and Canceling
A recurring schedule is never locked in. You stay in control of every series:
- Pause an active schedule and resume it later — useful for a seasonal vendor or a temporary hold.
- Skip the next payment when you need to miss a single cycle without canceling the whole series.
- Edit the amount or description when the terms change.
- Cancel the schedule entirely when the obligation ends.
Before You Start: Banking on File
Because a recurring series cuts a real check every cycle, you need your banking details and authorized signature on file before you can create one — the same requirement as sending any check on ShelfSpace. This is a one-time step; once your account is verified to issue checks, every future schedule uses it. See Check 21 Payments for how check-writing works, and Payments & Checks for one-off payments. Learn more about cannabis accounts payable on ShelfSpace.