Getting Paid

The structure

Your money is secured before product leaves your control

Every deal is structured around one principle: the supplier's position is protected before the product is beyond reach. Depending on the product and the deal, that takes one of two shapes:

• Deposit plus balance against documents. A deposit is committed up front; the balance is paid against the shipping documents, before or at the point the buyer can take the goods. The documents that release the product are the same documents the payment is tied to, so neither side can move without the other.
• Title held until payment clears. You retain ownership of the product until funds have cleared; the goods aren't the buyer's until the money is yours. If payment stalls, the product is still legally yours to redirect or recall.

Which structure applies (and the exact terms and currency) is agreed in writing per deal, before anything is packed. You see the payment terms and our disclosed commission on the same page, before you commit a single fish. There is nothing upfront on your side at any point: no deposits from you, no fees, no retainers. We earn a success-based commission when the deal completes, and not otherwise.

The timeline of a paid deal

1. Terms in writing. Spec, volume, price, payment structure, acceptance criteria and commission, agreed before packing starts.
2. Deposit or title protection in place. The security mechanism is live before the truck is booked.
3. Product ships on a documented cold chain. Temperature logs, health certification coordinated through CFIA, registration-numbered labelling, correct HS/CIQ codes. The paper trail is part of the payment security: it is what proves the lot met spec when it left.
4. Balance moves against documents. The buyer takes the goods when the money side is done, not before.
5. You are paid, we are paid. Our commission comes out of a completed deal. If there is no completed deal, there is no commission, which is why our attention stays on your deal until the money clears.

Who carries the buyer-side risk

We do. The buyer relationship is ours: we vetted this buyer in person, our partner on the ground in China manages the relationship day to day, and a dispute there is ours to manage, not yours to fight across an ocean and a language. This is the correct allocation of risk, because risk belongs with whoever controls it, and we are the ones who control the buyer side.

Rejection on arrival

The classic squeeze in this trade is a buyer rejecting on arrival to force a price cut. Deal terms are structured to protect you against it: acceptance criteria agreed up front, documentation proving spec and cold chain, and our mediation between you and the buyer. The reason our documentation discipline is obsessive is precisely so arrival is an acceptance, not an argument. A lot that left the dock provably on-spec and provably cold has very little surface for a bad-faith rejection to grip.

What we won't say

You won't find the word "guaranteed" doing work on this site unless the mechanism literally guarantees the outcome. We describe structures; you judge them. If any part of a proposed deal's payment terms is unclear, the deal waits until it isn't. And if another export partner offers you vaguer terms with a bigger number attached, we'd rather you ask them the hard questions than learn the answer with a container of your product in their buyer's warehouse.