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Consignment is in beta and off by default. Contact support from the app to request access for your store.
Consignment lets you list and sell stock you don’t own. A consignor, which can be a brand partner, a supplier, or an individual, gives you items. You rent or resell them, and Supercycle tracks the revenue share you owe the consignor as their items earn. Supercycle keeps a running balance for each consignor, adds to it as their items are paid for, reverses it on refunds, and records the payouts that settle it. Open your consignors from Consignors.

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How it works

Consignment runs on one number per consignor: the balance owed. It moves in three ways.
  • Earnings. When a charge on a consigned item is paid, Supercycle renders the consignor’s revenue share against that charge and adds the result to their balance.
  • Refunds. When a paid charge is refunded, a reversing entry takes back the same proportion of the original earning.
  • Payouts. When you record a payout, the entries it covers are settled and stop counting toward the balance.
The amount on every earning is frozen when it’s recorded, along with the formula that produced it. Changing a consignor’s revenue share later changes future earnings only. To start, turn consignment on and set a default revenue share, add your consignors, then assign items to them. Every task is on Consignment actions.

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Key terms

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Payout methods

Payout methods are set under Consignment for the shop, and per consignor on their page. Recording a payout tracks what you owe and what you’ve paid. It doesn’t move money. With Manual, you make the payment yourself and record it afterwards.

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Consignment and your methods

Consignment is independent of how an item is sold. An item can be on resale, on a rental method, or both. Assigning it to a consignor changes who earns a share of the revenue when it’s paid for, and nothing else. Store-owned items have no consignor, so you keep all of the revenue. Consigned items earn the consignor their revenue share and you keep the rest. Consigned and store-owned stock run side by side, and one order can include both.

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Consignment FAQs

A consignor earns when a charge on one of their items is paid, not when the order is placed. Supercycle renders the revenue share formula at that moment and freezes the amount on the entry.
Supercycle adds a reversing refund entry proportional to the original earning, so the refunded share of the basis reverses the same share of the amount. The formula isn’t rendered again.
Only future earnings use the new share. The formula and amount are frozen when each earning is recorded, so past entries aren’t recalculated.
No. Supercycle records what you owe and what you’ve paid. With the Manual method you make the payment yourself, then record it to settle the balance.
Yes, once you link them to a Shopify customer. A Consignment page appears in that customer’s account with their balance, activity, payouts, and items. See Consignor customer accounts.