The Shopify App Store lists 82 results for "consignment" as of August 2026, of which about nine are actually consignment or vendor-payout tools; they all tag a product to a consignor, apply a commission rule when it sells and produce a payout figure, usually with a consignor login. Prices run from $9.99 a month (Visceral Consignment) to $339 (Aravenda), and the most-reviewed is Multi Vendor - Puppet Vendors at $49 to $599. None of them does the part a UK luxury reseller needs most: a serialised one-of-a-kind stock record, an authentication record on the item, the VAT margin scheme stock book, or a Xero or Sage export that separates the consignor's share from your commission. For a clothing consignment boutique on Shopify an app is enough; for watches, bags and jewellery under UK VAT it is the front half of a system.
The apps, side by side
All prices are in US dollars because Shopify bills app charges in USD. Figures are from each app's Shopify App Store listing on 19 August 2026.
| App | Price per month | Trial | Consignor portal | Payout method | Developer base | Launched |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consignify | $15 / $25 / $35 (Small, Medium, Large Shop); 17% off annually | 60 days | Yes, white-label; consignors can create products on Large | Payout records and statements | Cambridge, UK | Aug 2025 |
| Vendor Payout - Consignment | $30 / $70 / $150 (5, 25, unlimited vendors) | 7 days | Yes (orders, reports; products and inventory on higher plans) | Calculated payouts; method not stated | Robert Banh | Sep 2014 |
| Circle Hand for Consignment | Free to install; charges billed externally by Circle-Hand UG | Not stated | Yes, real-time | Automated payouts and receipts; integrated POS | Berlin, Germany | Dec 2023 |
| Multi Vendor - Puppet Vendors | $49 / $119 / $249 / $599 (25, 100, 400, 400+ vendors) | 14 days | Yes, dedicated dashboards | PayPal and Stripe; Shopify POS tile from Growth | Panther Commerce | Mar 2020 |
| Visceral Consignment | $9.99 / $39.99 / $59.99 (3 consignors, unlimited, all features) | 14 days | Yes, branded; consignors can submit products | Payout and commission rules; report export | Visceral Apps | Jul 2019 |
| ConsignCloud (Shopify app) | $139 / $189 | 14 days | Yes | ACH payouts (US); in-person payments | ConsignCloud | Apr 2021 |
| CollabPay: Multi Vendor Payout | $19 / $39 / $59 / $79 (3, 10, 50, unlimited collaborators) | 14 days | Yes | PayPal, Stripe; bank and card on Premium and Plus | Shark Byte, Inc | Jan 2022 |
| Payvenda: Vendor Payouts | Free (5 vendors, 20 orders/month) / $40 / $80 | 14 days on paid | Yes on paid plans | Scheduled weekly or monthly, email notification | CodeFidea | Jun 2025 |
| Aravenda Consignment Software | $289 / $339 (Advanced, Pro) | Not stated | Yes | Disbursement ratios, ageing | Resale Global, US | May 2021 |
| Milleso (our product - see disclosure) | £99 (Counter) / £249 (Trade) ex VAT; one month free | - | Consignor statements | Consignor and memo payouts from completed sales | UK | - |
Disclosure: Milleso is our product, so weigh that row accordingly. It is not a Shopify app; it is a UK back-office system that pushes stock to a Shopify channel and pauses the listing when a piece leaves the building. It is listed because the question "best consignment app for Shopify" is usually asked by someone who needs the capability, not the install method. Where it does not fit: no US sales tax, no multi-store yet, no built-in card terminal beyond the Dojo integration, nothing for furniture or vendor-mall consignment.
What do the Shopify consignment apps actually do?
The same four things, with different limits.
Link a product to a consignor. Every app lets you tag a Shopify product or variant to a vendor or consignor, either through Shopify's vendor field or the app's own record. Consignify, Visceral and Puppet Vendors let the consignor create or submit the product themselves.
Apply a commission rule. Fixed percentage, per-consignor rate, per-product rate, and in Visceral's and Puppet Vendors' case conditional rules (by price band, category or date). This is where "tiered by price" - 50% on a £200 dress, 20% on a £6,000 bag - is either supported or not. Check the rule builder before you pay; the listings differ on whether rules can depend on price.
Produce a payout. All of them calculate what is owed per consignor for a period. Puppet Vendors and CollabPay push the money via PayPal or Stripe; ConsignCloud does ACH, which is US bank transfer; Payvenda schedules and emails; Consignify, Vendor Payout and Visceral produce the statement and leave the bank transfer to you. For a UK shop paying by Faster Payments from a business account, the statement is what matters, and the "automatic" payout via PayPal is a cost (PayPal fees) rather than a feature.
Give the consignor a login. Almost all of them. The portal shows their items, sales and balance, which removes the Monday-morning "has my bag sold" emails. White-labelling is on the higher plans.
Circle Hand adds an integrated POS and AI item creation; Puppet Vendors adds order splitting for multi-vendor marketplaces; ConsignCloud and Aravenda are full consignment back-offices with a Shopify connector rather than apps built on Shopify.
What can a Shopify consignment app not do for a UK luxury reseller?
This is the part every US roundup misses, and it is the difference between a clothing boutique and a watch, bag and jewellery reseller.
| Requirement | Shopify + consignment app | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| VAT margin scheme | Not addressed. Shopify applies a VAT rate to the price; none of the nine listings mentions the margin scheme or a stock book | If you sell consigned second-hand goods in your own name, the margin scheme is how you avoid paying VAT on the whole price - see consignment accounting and VAT. Sections 4 and 5 of VAT Notice 718 have the force of law, and the stock book has to exist somewhere |
| Agent vs principal | Not addressed. The apps assume the shop is the seller of record | The VAT treatment of every sale depends on it |
| Serialised one-of-a-kind stock | Shopify is SKU plus quantity. One-of-a-kind means one product per item with quantity one, and the app inherits that | A Submariner is not a SKU. Serial, condition, box and papers, intake cost and consignor belong on one record |
| Authentication record | None of the listings mentions it | The certificate and its reference need to sit on the item, not in email - see how to authenticate designer handbags |
| All-in cost per piece | Commission only | Platform fees, authentication, cleaning and postage per item are what tell you whether the consignment made money |
| Xero or Sage export | Not listed by any of the nine. Shopify's own Xero and Sage integrations post sales, not consignor liabilities | The consignor's share is a liability, not revenue; a sales-only feed overstates your turnover |
| Memo (goods out on approval to a trade buyer) | None | Standard in the watch and jewellery trade |
| UK pricing and support | Consignify is Cambridge-based and bills in USD via Shopify; Circle Hand is Berlin; the rest are US. No listing states UK support hours | Time zones and VAT questions |
| Cash threshold monitoring (HVD) | None | £10,000 in cash, including linked payments, triggers High Value Dealer registration |
None of this is a criticism of the apps. They were built for a US consignment boutique selling clothes at quantity one per product on a platform that charges sales tax on the full price. That is what they do.
When is a Shopify app enough?
When all of the following are true: you sell clothing and accessories rather than serialised pieces; you are either below the £90,000 VAT registration threshold on your commission or you are a true agent accounting for VAT on commission only (in which case the margin scheme is irrelevant); your consignors are happy with a portal and a monthly statement; and your accountant is content to take Shopify's sales feed and post the consignor liability as a manual journal.
In that case: Consignify at $15 to $35 with a 60-day trial and a UK developer, or Visceral at $9.99 to $59.99 with a strong rule builder, are the obvious first tries. If you also run a multi-vendor marketplace (brands, not consignors), Puppet Vendors at $49 upward is the better fit. ConsignCloud and Aravenda are full systems at $139 to $339 a month - at that price compare them against the dedicated consignment systems rather than against apps.
When do you need a real system?
When any of these is true: you sell watches, handbags over four figures or jewellery; you issue receipts in your own name and are VAT-registered, so the margin scheme applies; you take memo stock; you need the consignor's payout, the authentication record, the intake cost and the platform fees on one record; or your stock goes out through more than one channel (Shopify plus eBay, Chrono24, a shop counter) and must come off all of them the moment it sells.
At that point Shopify is a channel, not the system of record. The system of record holds the serialised item and its consignor, decides the VAT treatment at intake, lists the item to Shopify (and eBay, and Chrono24) and pauses it when it sells or goes out on memo, builds the margin-scheme stock book from the same record, and exports to Xero or Sage with the consignor liability separated from your commission. Our UK consignment software comparison covers that category, including Milleso with the same disclosure as above.
Shopify's own costs, for completeness
Whatever app you add sits on a Shopify plan. UK pricing as of August 2026: Basic £25 a month (£19 billed annually), Grow £65 (£49 annually), Advanced £344 (£259 annually), Plus from £1,800. Online card rates on Basic are 2% + 25p, in-person 1.7%. Shopify POS Pro, if you want the full till, is £69 per location per month. So a Basic store with Consignify's Small Shop plan costs about £25 plus $15 a month before card fees, and a Grow store with POS Pro and Puppet Vendors' Growth plan is £134 plus $119.
What we could not verify
- Which apps support price-band commission tiers. The listings describe "flexible" or "dynamic" rules without specifying price as a condition. Test in the trial.
- Circle Hand's external charges. "Free to install" with charges billed outside Shopify; the amounts are not on the listing.
- Aravenda's trial and Vendor Payout's payout methods. Not stated on the listings.
- Any app's UK support hours. None published.
- Whether Shopify has added any margin-scheme setting for UK merchants. We found none in the pricing or tax documentation we checked; confirm with Shopify if it matters to you.
Sources
- Shopify App Store - search "consignment" - 82 results, 19 August 2026
- Consignify, Vendor Payout - Consignment, Circle Hand for Consignment, Multi Vendor - Puppet Vendors, Visceral Consignment, ConsignCloud, CollabPay, Payvenda, Aravenda - Shopify App Store listings
- Shopify UK pricing
- The Margin and Global Accounting Scheme (VAT Notice 718) - GOV.UK
- VAT guide (VAT Notice 700) - section 22 - GOV.UK
This is general information, not tax advice, and it is not a quotation. App Store prices and plan limits change without notice and are billed in US dollars; verify on the listing the day you install. VAT treatment of consignment sales depends on your agreement and invoicing - take it to your accountant.
Milleso is our product. It holds consigned and memo pieces as serialised stock with the consignor, split, authentication record and VAT treatment decided at intake, lists them to Shopify, eBay and Chrono24 and pauses the listing when the piece leaves, produces the consignor payout statement, and exports to Xero and Sage. Counter plan £99 a month, Trade plan £249 a month ex VAT, one month free, migration done for you.