Paying vendors

Send payouts through Stripe, manually or on a schedule.

The Payments page is where money actually moves. It shows every vendor, what they sold this month, what's being deducted, and what they're owed.

Before you can pay someone

A vendor has to connect a payout account first. Until they do, their Payout Account column shows Not Connected and the Pay Now button stays disabled. They connect it themselves from their portal — see Getting paid.

How the payout amount is worked out

VendNex starts from the vendor's gross sales for the month, subtracts your commission, then subtracts any custom fees that apply to them. The result is the net payout.

You can override the amount before paying. The Net Payout field is editable, so if you've agreed something different with a vendor — a partial payment, a correction from last month — you can type the real figure.

Paying one vendor or all of them

Use Pay Now on a single row, or Pay All at the top to run every eligible vendor at once. Vendors who haven't connected a payout account are skipped rather than failing the whole batch.

What it costs

VendNex adds a 5% platform fee on top of the vendor's payout, charged to you. If a vendor is owed $100, you're charged $105 and they receive $100.

Automatic payouts

In Settings → Payouts you can switch from manual to automatic and pick a day of the month. On that day, connected vendors with an unpaid balance from the previous month are paid without you doing anything.

Two limits worth knowing. Automatic payouts require a Professional plan or higher — Basic is manual only. And automatic payouts currently calculate from transactions recorded directly in VendNex, not live Square sales, so if your shop runs mostly on Square you should stay on manual for now. The app shows this warning on the settings page too.