How it works · Vendor marketplace
Multiple sources. One checkout. A clear split.
Some orders come from your store, some from another location, some from a supplier. Your customer sees one easy checkout. You see exactly how the money is split before it lands in your account.
The flow
Four steps from order to payout
What happens when a customer orders something that comes from more than one source.
- Step 1
Customer adds items
They pick a perennial from your store and a specialty plant from a vendor. They never see that distinction.
- Step 2
One checkout
They check out once, in one flow, with one card. They get one branded confirmation from your store.
- Step 3
Order is split behind the scenes
Each source sees only the items they need to fulfill — your store, your other location, the vendor.
- Step 4
Money is split in a set order
Tax, platform fee, vendor cost, refunds and chargebacks, then your payout. The order never changes.
Multi-source fulfillment
Some items from your store. Some from somewhere else.
BloomSites quietly handles the case where parts of an order come from different places. Your customer never has to know which item ships from where. Your team gets the items they handle. Vendors get only what they need to send.
You can mix and match sources by product. A bestselling annual you grow yourself sits next to a specialty drop-shipped tropical from a vendor, and the customer sees one simple page.
Store, location, or vendor
Pick the fulfillment source per product. Mix sources within a single order.
Vendors only see their items
Vendor notification emails include only the items they need to send.
Your team only sees yours
Your store team sees the items they're packing — not the vendor portion.
One customer checkout
The customer still sees one simple checkout.
Even when an order touches your store, your other location, and a supplier, the customer fills one cart and pays once. They get one order number and one confirmation email branded as your store.
BloomSites is the merchant of record for that payment, so the customer's card statement reads BloomSites with your store name in the metadata. You don't have to run multiple payment accounts.
One cart, one card
Customers add items from any source and pay once. No surprise extra checkouts.
One confirmation
Customers get one branded order email from your store.
Your brand, our infrastructure
BloomSites runs the payment behind the scenes; your store is the visible brand.
The split, in order
How the money is split, every time.
After a customer pays, the order goes through the same five steps in the same order. This way you always know what your payout will be before the money lands.
Illustrative example — not real settlement math
Customer pays: $80.00
1. Tax withheld
Set aside through Stripe Tax. Never part of your payout.
-$8.00
2. Platform fee
BloomSites' percentage on the merchandise subtotal.
-$5.00
3. Vendor / source cost
When a supplier fulfilled part of the order. Goes to that supplier.
-$22.00
4. Refunds and chargebacks
Netted in if any happen on this order. None on this example.
-$0.00
5. Your payout
What's left lands in your Stripe Connect balance.
+$45.00
Numbers shown are an example to illustrate the order of operations. They are not real fees, taxes, or vendor costs. Your actual fee schedule, tax rates, and vendor allocations are configured for your store.
The full operative language lives in our Commerce Terms — including the legal definitions of platform fee, vendor cost, refunds and chargebacks, and your payout.
Stripe Connect
Your payout lands in your Stripe Connect account.
The last step of the split is your payout. We send it to a Stripe Connect account you control. From there Stripe pays you out to your bank on the schedule you set up.
If your Stripe Connect setup isn't finished or verified yet, payments still process and orders still ship — but your share holds with Stripe until you finish setup. Worth completing on day one.
You own the bank account
Stripe Connect is in your name. We never touch your bank account directly.
Real payout schedule
Daily, weekly, or whatever Stripe schedule you choose during setup.
Finish Connect onboarding early
Holding payouts until Connect is verified is a real thing. Finish it before you start selling so it never bites you.
Full operative language
The legal version is in our Commerce Terms.
The plain-English version is what you just read. The operative language — definitions of platform fee, vendor cost, refunds and chargebacks, Stripe Connect requirements, and your payout — lives in our Commerce Terms.
Read the Commerce TermsReady to launch a real plant business online?
Your storefront, your customers, and a clear split when other sources help fulfill an order.