Financial Management That Pays for Itself

The sale is over. Customers went home happy, volunteers are exhausted but satisfied, and you made more money than last year. Now comes the part that keeps organizers up at night: making sure every consignor gets paid correctly. With 200+ sellers, each with different items at different prices with different fee structures, the math gets complicated fast.

Traditional approaches involve spreadsheets, calculators, and a lot of double-checking. Someone manually calculates each consignor's earnings, subtracts fees, and writes a check. Errors happen. Consignors complain. You spend your post-sale week debugging math instead of celebrating your success.

Consignment Helper eliminates this pain entirely. Every transaction flows through the system automatically, with fees calculated in real-time. When the sale ends, you click one button to generate payout files. The system produces bank-ready NACHA files for direct deposit and organized check lists for those who prefer paper. Hours of manual calculation become minutes of automated processing.

But financials aren't just about payouts. You need to know how your sale is performing while it's happening. Our real-time dashboards show sales totals, transaction counts, and register performance as they occur. You can identify issues immediately-a slow register, a pricing problem, an inventory gap-and address them before they impact your bottom line.

It's Sunday evening. Your sale wrapped up an hour ago, the venue is clean, and you're ready to start the payout process. In the old days, this meant a week of spreadsheet work. With Consignment Helper, you'll be done before bedtime.

You open the Payout screen and see a summary: 247 consignors, $42,847 in total sales, $34,278 in consignor earnings after fees. Everything looks right. You click "Generate Payouts."

The system produces a complete payout package. For the 189 consignors who set up direct deposit, you get a bank-ready NACHA file. Upload it to your bank's ACH system tomorrow morning, and money hits their accounts by Wednesday. For the 58 consignors who requested checks, you get an organized list with names, addresses, and amounts.

You also get detailed reports: a consignor-by-consignor breakdown of items sold and fees deducted, a summary of your organization's revenue, and a donation report for your charity partner. Everything you need for your board meeting, your tax records, and your own peace of mind.

Total time elapsed: about 15 minutes. Your consignors get paid faster, you avoid calculation errors, and you can actually enjoy your post-sale week instead of drowning in spreadsheets.