The vendor side — onboarding, payouts, communication
Antique-mall vendor management is the operator's half of a two-sided bargain: onboard dealers cleanly, track every booth's sales, pay out the right number on time, and give vendors enough visibility that they stop calling the counter to ask what sold. This collection covers that whole surface.
Vendors are not employees and they are not customers — they're seventy independent businesses that chose your roof. The mall wins when they sell more, which makes vendor management less about control and more about removing friction: a booth login that shows a dealer their sales the moment the register rings, settlement statements that survive an audit, and payout math nobody has to take on faith. Every hour your best dealer spends wondering whether Saturday was good is an hour they're not out sourcing inventory.
The two pieces here are the deep end of the subject. The vendor-management guide covers booth logins, consignment math, and end-of-month settlements done right — the operational spine of the relationship. The vendor-portal piece covers what booth-owner self-service should actually do in 2026, and where portal features cross the line from useful into gimmick. Both are written for the operator, because in this trade the operator is how good tooling reaches the vendor.
Vendor management sits on top of the money side — splits, fees, and settlement math get the full-numbers treatment in the money hub — and it shows up as concrete register workflow in the operations hub. If you're evaluating software specifically for its vendor features, the buyer's guides in the tech hub compare portals head-to-head.
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What an antique-mall vendor portal should actually do — best practices for booth-owner self-service in 2026
A vendor portal exists for one reason: so the office stops answering the same five questions every Saturday. Here's what every portal should include, what the great ones add, and how to tell a real portal from a slide deck before you commit.
Vendor management for antique malls — booth logins, consignment math, and end-of-month settlements done right
Per-vendor logins with read-only sales views, configurable consignment splits, and automated end-of-month settlement statements — the small dignities that keep a 70-booth roster happy and renewing.
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The money side of running an antique mall
The money side of an antique mall is three ledgers at once: what customers pay at the register, what vendors are owed after splits and booth rent, and what the operator actually keeps after card fees and sales tax. Most industry writing skips the numbers. This collection is the numbers.
Antique-mall operations — playbooks, layout, settlement
Antique-mall operations is the day-to-day work of running a booth-based consignment floor: laying out booths, managing the shared register, ringing sales across dozens of split arrangements, and settling with every vendor at month-end. Done well, it is quiet. Done badly, it costs you dealers, walk-in traffic, and margin — usually in that order.