A wholesaler, importer or brand distributor
For a business that distributes or resells product from manufacturers and brands, rather than selling one item at a time.
Every seller on Surplus gets the same store page, catalogue and payouts. These are the things that are different because you registered as distributor.
You appear on the Distributors directory, which buyers browse when they are looking for supply rather than for a single item.
Your seller card and your store page carry a Distributor badge, so a buyer can tell a supplier from a shop before they click.
Two documents. Unlike an incorporated seller you are not asked for a VAT certificate.
Wholesale pricing is a separate capability an administrator grants per seller. This type is what a wholesale business usually is, never the thing that switches wholesale on.
A distributor dashboard adds the wholesale section: price lists per buyer group, the customers in each group, and the quote inbox.
Set a case price once, and every buyer in that group sees it.
These are the documents the signup form asks a distributor for, taken from the same list the form itself uses. You upload them in the last step, and nothing on your store publishes until an administrator has looked at them.
Filling the form in takes a few minutes. Approval usually takes one to two working days, and it is a person reading your documents rather than an automatic check.
Your details, your business and your location, with the documents above attached at the end.
We send a link straight after you submit. The account is not active until you have used it.
Usually one to two working days. A person reads them, and you are told either way.
Once approved, your store page is public and your listings go live as you publish them.
Pick the one that describes the business. It decides which documents you are asked for, so it is worth getting right before you start rather than after.
Running a kitchen, driving, dispatching a fleet or holding parcels are separate ways in. They are all on the join page.
Free to start, on the free plan every new seller is given. The form opens with distributor already chosen for you.
Already selling on Surplus as something else? You can apply to add distributor to your account from Business types in your dashboard. An administrator checks the paperwork for the new type before it is approved.