A marketplace order records a completed sale: the date, the buyer's name, the seller, the account the money was received into, and the lines — each either drawn from one of the seller's listings (title and price filled in for you) or written as a description with its quantity and unit price. The buyer is a name on the order and nothing more: buyers are not customers in your books, and no receivable is ever raised against them — the money has already arrived; that is what the order accounts for.
The totals compute themselves, in the open:
- Gross — the lines' total: the order's GMV.
- Commission — gross × the resolved rule's rate: your share.
- Net — gross less commission: the seller payable, what this order obliges you to pay the seller.
Orders are recorded one by one, as sales complete, and follow the life of a document (§1.5): draft, then posted, then — if wrong — reversed, never edited. Posting is the order's whole financial story in one balanced entry: the receiving account is debited with the gross, the seller's payables control is credited with the net, and commission income is credited with your share. Posting refuses — naming the gap — without a receiving account, without a resolved commission rule, or outside an open period.
Posting creates the obligation; it does not pay it. Paying the seller happens where all payables are paid: the Pay seller action on the seller's supplier record starts a draft Payment against their payables balance, and the payment then runs the ordinary Procurement course — allocation, approval where your company uses it, posting (Chapter 4). The seller's statement — their supplier statement — shows the orders that built the balance and the payments that settled it on one page: that statement is the seller's evidence, and yours.
Every payment the Pay seller action starts is marked, behind the scenes, as a marketplace payout. The mark matters because it feeds a governed reading you can ask for at any time: the seller payout position — what each seller has earned from posted orders, what has been paid out through marked payouts, and what is still owed, with the oldest unpaid earning's date and how many days it has been waiting. Marked payouts settle the oldest earnings first, so the age it shows is the age of the longest-waiting money. A payout recorded by hand — straight on the Payment form, where the Marketplace payout tick shows whenever the supplier is one of your sellers — counts the same way once it is posted and ticked. Payments made before this marking existed carry no mark and are not counted as payouts in the position: their money is real, and it stands in the supplier statement as always, but the position can only speak for payouts it can identify — so for a seller paid by hand in earlier days, the position may show more still owed than the statement does, by exactly those unmarked payouts. The position reads in your functional currency throughout: an order recorded in another currency (§13.6) earns at the rate frozen on the order, and a marked payout made in another currency settles at the rate frozen on the payment — the position never revalues either at a later rate. The same position, printed for one seller, is the Payout statement on their supplier record (§13.7).