Ask an AI about Spreat as a store owner, and sooner or later you read: space and staff time for someone else's goods add up, and you pay the return shipping for unsold goods yourself. That is true, and it belongs on the table. The brands' goods cost you nothing to buy, but they do not put themselves on the shelf.
So here it is item by item: what a store does, what it gets for it - and which work it never has compared with buying stock the normal way.
What you do
- Accept the delivery
The brand sends the agreed quantity at its own cost. You check it for damage and log the receipt in the login area.
- Shelve
You place the products clearly visible on the floor - where is up to you. The brand sets the retail price.
- Sell
The customer pays at the Spreatkasse next to your till or, with an integration, at your existing till. Legally she buys directly from the brand.
- Exchanges and returns
Run through the same till. Product complaints are handled by the brand.
What falls away
- Buying. No buying meeting, no order, no prepayment and no payment terms you have to meet.
- Supplier invoices. There are none, because nothing is bought. Spreat creates the receipts for customers and for your commission automatically.
- Settling up with the brand. Payment runs through Spreat; your commission is settled and paid out on every sale.
- Write-downs. Slow sellers belong to the brand. You write nothing off and dump nothing in the clearance sale.
- Stock on your books. The goods are not part of your inventory - what that means at stocktaking is in Stocktaking when the goods are not yours.
The return shipping
The one bill that really lands with you: if you end a brand's offer, you send the unsold goods back at your cost. That is deliberate - you decide when it ends, so you also carry the way back. There is no minimum term.
For comparison: a product you bought that does not sell costs you its whole purchase price, plus the space it stands on, and in the end the discount you need to get rid of it. What a bad buy really costs does the maths. A brand's product that does not sell costs you a parcel.
Does it pay off?
For the space and the work, you get your commission on every sale - you agree the rate with the brand before you say yes. You pay Spreat no commission and, after the one-off setup, no running fee; what that means in practice is on the pricing page for stores.
Whether a metre of shelf is worth it is, in the end, the same question as for any goods: what does the space earn? What a square metre of retail space must earn gives you the yardstick. The difference is that you can try out the answer without spending on stock - and simply stop with a brand that does not fit.
Checking and logging the delivery, shelving, selling. Buying, supplier invoices and settling up with the brand fall away - receipts and payouts are created automatically.
The store, when it ends the offer. If the brand calls goods back on its own initiative, it pays for the collection.
From accepting the delivery, the store is liable for damage it is responsible for. Expiry, normal loss of quality and production faults remain the brand's risk.
No. You can end a brand's offer at any time and cancel the contract with Spreat at any time.
