Business referrers

Who brought the consignment?

Many consignments arrive through an intermediary: a dealer, an expert, a lawyer or a regular client who recommends your house. Selloff calls them brokers, or business referrers, and rewards them with a share linked to the consignment's results.

Set on each consignment

Any contact can be flagged as a consignment broker. On a consignment, you pick the referrer and enter their commission percentage next to the consignor's own terms. The contact record of the referrer then shows every consignment they introduced in an "As broker" section, and the contact list can be filtered to show referrers only.

How the commission is calculated

A house-wide setting defines the base of the calculation:

• the total of sold lots, the default, or
• the total vendor commission earned on the consignment.

For each sale, the broker commission report breaks the figures down by referrer, consignment and currency: number and total of sold, paid, unsold and returned lots, the commission due, and the part already payable, in proportion to what buyers have paid. Download it as a PDF for one referrer, one currency or all of them, and use it to settle the referrer or to answer their questions.

Stays consistent after the sale

When a sold lot from a referred consignment is returned, Selloff warns that the referrer's commission is affected. Referrer placeholders in your receipt and consignment templates let you mention the arrangement in the documents you choose, and the referrer can be added to the consignment's email recipients. See also consignor management and consignor settlements.