Vendor pricing
Pricing
The honest version. Every vendor on Salaaz pays the same commission and gets the same marketplace surface. The optional add-on tiers buy operational tools (analytics, custom storefront, integrations), never visibility, placement, or ranking.
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The short version
10% commission per sale, all-inclusive. Three optional add-on tiers (Catalogue is free; Insight and Operations are free for your first year). No tier buys visibility, placement, ranking, or paid promotion of any kind.
The brand commitment is explicit: every vendor gets the same surfaces, the same ranking treatment, the same support response window for support tickets that require human review. The add-on tiers exist because some vendors want deeper analytics, custom storefronts, or technical integrations. Those are real services worth paying for. The brand line is: nothing about a vendor’s tier changes what shoppers see when they browse Salaaz.
The tiers
Included with every vendor
Catalogue
Everything you need to list and sell. The full marketplace surface; no part of the platform is locked behind a higher tier.
Free, always
- Product listings (no per-listing cap)
- Order management & tracking
- Inventory management
- Sales & revenue reporting
- CSV bulk import/export
- Customer reviews visibility
- Team accounts: 3 seats (owner included) with owner, manager, and staff roles
- Mobile-friendly vendor dashboard
- Email support (5 business-day response window)
Optional · analytics add-on
Insight
Analytics deep enough to make real decisions. Information only. Nothing about analytics access changes how your products appear to shoppers.
$30 CAD/month
- Everything in Catalogue
- Demand forecasting (seasonal + category trends)
- Conversion-funnel breakdown by product
- Deindividualized demand signals from public wishlists
- Editorial-traffic attribution (which articles drove visits)
- Aggregated category benchmarks
- 10 team seats
- Faster email response (2 business-day window)
Optional · operations add-on
Operations
Operational tools for vendors with technical infrastructure or complex catalogues. Includes everything in Insight.
$250 CAD/month
- Everything in Insight
- Custom storefront design tools
- REST API for inventory + order sync
- Custom integrations (Shopify, Square, accounting)
- Unlimited team seats
- Dedicated account manager
- Priority support response (same business day)
What money can’t buy here
The brand commitments at How Salaaz Works and Selling on Salaaz are explicit about what the platform refuses to sell. These cannot be unlocked at any tier or price:
- Search-result placement. No tier moves you higher in shopper search.
- Marketplace ranking boost. No tier makes your products appear before others in browse views.
- "Featured" / "endorsed" tags. Editorial endorsement is entirely unbiased, decided wholly by our editorial team, never tier-gated.
- Paid promotional campaigns. Salaaz doesn’t run promotional campaigns featuring your products in exchange for tier upgrades.
- Exclusive buyer-network access. All shoppers see all vendors. There is no gated buyer audience.
- Ad placement. Salaaz doesn’t run ads anywhere. No tier unlocks an ad surface that doesn’t exist.
- Affiliate / influencer amplification. No tier puts your products in front of paid creators or influencer programs.
If a competitor marketplace offers a vendor tier that buys visibility, the tier is selling something Salaaz refuses to sell.
The trade is real. We don’t monetize visibility because doing so would corrupt the editorial and ranking surfaces shoppers trust. That trust is what makes Salaaz worth being on as a vendor, and the math only works if the platform protects it.
Where the 10% goes
Honest economics. The 10% commission isn’t pure margin. Most of it covers operating costs that other marketplaces unbundle into separate line items:
| Goes to | Approximate share |
|---|---|
| Payment processing (Square fees) | ~3% |
| Platform operations (hosting, engineering, fraud prevention) | ~2% |
| Editorial team (writers, editors, vendor research) | ~2% |
| Vetting team (three-stage vendor review) | ~1.5% |
| Vendor support (response to inquiries, dispute resolution) | ~1% |
| Net platform margin | ~0.5% |
The breakdown above shows why Salaaz’s revenue is spread across several brand-aligned paths beyond the commission. See the platform’s full monetization strategy if you want the wider picture; the short version is that the commission is one revenue stream of several, none of which involve selling vendor visibility.
Ready to apply?
Three paths from here, depending on where you are in the decision:
- If you’ve read enough, start a vendor application. Vetting takes 2-6 weeks.
- If you want the full reference, read Selling on Salaaz first. It takes 10-12 minutes and covers vetting, editorial coverage, what we refuse to do, and who the platform is a good fit for.
- If you have a question first, write to vendor@salaaz.com. We’ll give an honest read on whether your business is likely to pass vetting before you spend the time on the application.