Selling with others: the marketplace

Panel → Marketplace. Other sellers list their products in your shop, you keep a commission, and everyone gets paid what is theirs. It is optional: a shop with no sellers never sees any of this.

How a seller gets in

You add them, from the panel: name, email and commission. There is no public sign-up where anyone can register — who sells in your shop is your call, and there is no queue of applications to review.

Adding them also creates their access to their own panel, separate from yours: they see their products, their orders, their balance and their shipping rates. They do not see yours or any other seller’s.

Who owns each product

Every product has an owner: the shop or a seller. And every product also says who prepares and ships it — the shop from its warehouse, or the seller from theirs. It is decided product by product, because one seller may keep some things in your warehouse and ship others themselves.

The customer is shown “shipped by X” at checkout, so they know several parcels are coming if they buy from several sellers.

One order, several parcels, one shipping fee per parcel

This is the part other platforms get wrong. If a customer buys from three sellers, that is three parcels, and each has its own shipping fee:

• Each seller with their own rates. A rate linked to a seller is theirs and only shows up for their parcel. If they have none, they inherit the shop’s, so signing up never leaves their parcel with no options.
• The price, per parcel. A rate by weight asks the carrier for the weight of that parcel, not the whole cart. Without this, each seller was charged for the weight of all three.
• And if the carrier is slow or does not answer, the rate has a fallback price: checkout does not hang waiting.

The customer picks one shipping option per parcel and pays everything together, once.

The money: one wallet per seller

All the money lands in your account. Each seller’s share is recorded in an internal wallet, and when you pay them, you settle it from the panel.

That is not a shortcut, it is what makes it work with any payment method — bank transfer, cash on delivery, Bizum — and without anyone having to enrol in their gateway’s “platform” product, which is a review many do not pass.

The wallet is not a number that gets overwritten: it is a ledger of movements, and the balance is the sum. Every euro has its line with its order:

+ sale                  their share of a paid order
− commission            yours, on that sale
− refund                the order was refunded: their share is taken back
+ commission returned   the commission on a sale that never existed is returned

It is recorded when the payment is captured, not when the order comes in. A bank-transfer order arrives before the money does, and crediting the seller against a payment that never shows up would be giving money away.

The commission

A percentage per seller, on their share of each order. The applied number is stored on each movement: if you change their commission tomorrow, what is already recorded does not move.

Refunds

If you refund an order, each seller has their share taken back and your commission returned. All with its own line in the wallet, so who owed what to whom can be reconstructed at any time.

Worth knowing

• A seller’s products go through your catalogue, with your taxes and your currency. The seller configures none of that.
• A seller can hold stock in your warehouse and in theirs at the same time. That is normal for physical shops that also sell other people’s goods.
• Settling (paying them) is an entry in the wallet plus a bank transfer you make outside. The system keeps the books; it does not move bank money.