Add consigners and set their splits

Set your default split, add the people you sell for, give a consigner their own split, and invite them to see their shows.

Last updated Oct 12, 2026 · Applies to MellowTools Pay

A consigner is someone whose items you sell. For each show you sell for them, Pay works out their payout from their split: a percent of what the show earned.

The payout is the split of the show’s net (Whatnot’s completed earnings), after your own items on that show are taken off, plus the show’s shipping. A show that lost money pays the consigner nothing, shipping included.

Before you start

Your team is set up. See Start Pay and set up your team.
Only the team owner and admins see the Consigners page.

Set your default split

Step 1: Open Consigners and check the default split

Click Consigners in the Pay menu. The Default split box at the top shows the split every consigner gets unless you give them their own, for example 50% of net, plus shipping. A new team starts at 50%.

To change it, click Change default.

The Default split box: 50% of net, plus shipping, with the rules under it and the Change default button circled.

Step 2: Type the new default and click Save default

Type the new percent in New default split and click Save default.

The New default split box with 55 typed in it and the Save default button circled.

Step 3: Choose what happens to shows you have not paid yet

When the change would move shows you have not paid yet, Pay asks first:

Use 55% on the 1 unpaid show too (it names how many shows) changes those shows. Pay shows what you would owe before and after.
Only new shows keeps the unpaid shows at the split they have now.

Pick one and click Change split. Shows you already paid keep the split they were paid at, and shows where you set a split by hand never change.

The question Change the default split to 55%?, with the two choices Use 55% on the unpaid shows too (naming how many) and Only new shows, and the Change split button circled.

Add a consigner

Step 4: Click Add consigner

Click Add consigner at the top right of the Consigners page.

The top of the Consigners page with the Add consigner button circled.

Step 5: Type their name and pick their split

Type the name you use for them in Name.
Under Their split, leave Team default or pick Their own split and type their percent.
Click Add consigner.

If you add back someone you removed before, they come back with their history.

The Add a consigner form with a name typed in (1), the Team default and Their own split choices (2) and the Add consigner button (3).

Look after one consigner

Step 6: Read the consigner list

Each consigner has a line with:

Split: Team default or Their own split, with the percent
Owed now: what you owe them for shows not paid yet, or Nothing owed
Last paid: when you last marked a show of theirs paid
Sign-in: Signed in, Invited · waiting or No login

Click Open on a line to see that consigner.

The list of consigners with their split, what is owed now, when they were last paid and their sign-in, and the Open link on the first line circled.

Step 7: Give one consigner their own split

On the consigner’s page, the Split box shows the split they get. Pick Their own split, type the percent and click Save split. Pay asks about their unpaid shows the same way as for the default.

To put them back on the default, pick Team default and click Save split.

The Split box on a consigner page, with Their own split picked and 45 typed in, and the Save split button circled.

Step 8: Check their shows

Their shows lists every show you sold for them: what it earned (Net), Their payout, the split it used, and whether it is paid.

Each show keeps the split it was paid at. A show where you set the split by hand says set on this show.

Hollow Creek Estate's shows, each with its net, their payout, the split it used and whether it is paid.

Step 9: Invite them to see their shows

The box at the bottom, What <name> sees, is where a consigner gets their own sign-in. Type their email in Their email and click Send invite.

Once they join, they see only their own shows: what each earned, their payout and whether it is paid. They never see your buyers, your runners or other consigners. The box then shows the email they signed in with and a Remove sign-in button. While the invite is waiting, it has Resend invite and Cancel invite.

The What Maple Street Vintage sees box with the Their email box and the Send invite button circled.

If something looks different

I changed a split but a paid show did not change

That is on purpose. A paid show keeps the split it was paid at. To change it, open the show, click Mark not paid, then edit it.

A consigner says their payout is wrong

Open the show in Pay. Its Payouts box shows their split, where it came from (their split, team default, or set on this show) and the payout. Your own items on that show come off before the split. See Record a show.