Consignment

The store has two completely separate consignment relationships. They share a word and nothing else. Read this page before you touch either one, so you know which set of screens you are in.

The two directions

Consignment in. A private party leaves a gun with you to sell on their behalf. You never bought it. You take it in on Receive Goods with Acquisition Type set to Consignment and a Consignment Commission %, and you owe the owner their share once it sells. The owner is called the consignor, and they get paid through ordinary accounts payable.

Consignment out. You send your own guns to a partner FFL dealer, who puts them on their rack and sells them for you. The guns stay yours, and stay on your books, until that dealer marks one sold. The dealer is called the dealer, and they get their own login to a web portal where they can see their rack and report a sale. This is the subsystem the rest of these pages describe.

	Consignment in	Consignment out
Who owns the gun	A private consignor	Your store
Where the gun sits	Your showroom	A partner FFL's rack
Who pays whom	You pay the consignor	The dealer pays you
Where you work	Receive Goods, then the register	Consignment Out, Dealer Orders
Bound book effect at handover	An Acquisition when it arrives	A Dealer Transfer disposition when it ships

The two never mix

A consignor's gun can never be shipped out to a partner dealer. The serial picker greys those rows out with the message "Consignor-owned gun cannot be re-consigned.", and the ship step refuses them a second time by serial number. This is a deliberate rule, not a bug. Settlement with a dealer runs off the wholesale dealer price, and paying a consignor's commission off that number instead of a retail sale price would silently short-pay them.

Turning consignment out on

Consignment out is a switch in FFL Settings, labeled Consignment Out. With it off, the Consignment Out, Dealer Onboarding and Dealer Orders pages show a "feature is off" shell and the dealer portal URL returns a page-not-found. The same section carries Consignment Contact Email, the address partner dealers are told to write to when the portal cannot finish something for them.

Pricing words, and the one that bites

Outbound consignment has two prices per gun, and one of them shares a name with a field used by a different part of the system. Get these straight before you edit anything.

What you see	Where	What it means
Dealer Price	The Consignment Out page and the Consignment Out Line	What the dealer owes you when this gun sells. This is the settlement amount.
MSRP	The Consignment Out page and the Consignment Out Line	A suggested retail price shown to the dealer as a reference. Optional. Nothing is billed off it.
Cost	The Item form	The item's dealer-channel price. The field is dealer_price and its Desk label was overridden to read "Cost". It is a selling price, not what you paid.
Dealer Sell Price	The Serial No form	The same idea as above, for a gun priced individually rather than by model.
Purchase Rate	The Serial No form	What you actually paid for this gun. Never used in outbound consignment math.

When you add a gun to a shipment, its Dealer Price is prefilled from the item's Cost field, or from that serial's Dealer Sell Price for a per-gun-priced item. The MSRP is prefilled from the gun's normal selling price.

Do not correct a settlement price toward Purchase Rate

Settling with a dealer at the dealer price is a deliberate decision: the dealer price is what these dealers pay. If a settlement amount looks wrong, check whether the item's Cost field or the serial's Dealer Sell Price is blank or stale. That is the field worth fixing, not the acquisition cost.

A third price exists but never enters any math. The Actual Sale Price is what the dealer optionally typed into the portal when they marked a gun sold. It is there so you can see what your guns fetch on someone else's shelf. A dealer who leaves it blank owes exactly the same amount as one who fills it in, and blank and $0.00 are stored as the same value and both read as "not recorded".

Other words you will see

At Dealer is the status of a gun that has shipped and not yet sold, been recalled, or been voided. Dispose is the action that books the bound book transfer and moves the gun into the dealer's warehouse. Recall brings a gun back. Void undoes a ship that should never have happened. Each has its own section on the pages below.

Where to go next

Page	What it covers
Onboarding a dealer	Standing up a new partner FFL and their portal login
Shipping a consignment	Building, disposing, shipping and managing a consignment
The dealer portal	What the dealer sees, and how to talk them through it
Settlement and payout	Billing the dealer, collecting, and paying a consignor

One more name collision to keep straight. The Dealer portal store page under Online channels is a different thing entirely. That is the wholesale WooCommerce store for B2B buyers. The consignment portal described here is a separate page at /consignment, with its own login and its own role.