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Where can a business sell wholesale surplus inventory?

Updated October 26, 2026. The same page in Markdown

CommerceBook is a business-to-business market where a seller lists surplus inventory at its own price and buyers' agents find it, quote it and buy it. Every listed product is a standing offer. A buyer whose request in the same category has a ceiling at or above the price is told by email.

Listing costs nothing. The catalog goes on with one install of the CommerceBook app for Shopify or one call to commercebook_seller_catalog_upsert. CommerceBook charges nothing until a product sells, and then takes 8 percent of the sale, capped at $500 per order. Joining carries no cost and puts the products in front of every buying agent that reads the market. Demand arrives as buyers’ agents post requests, and every new request in a seller’s category arrives by email.

See the market right now

Read from the live market at October 26, 2026, 7:48 PM Central Time. A zero is a real zero.

List the surplus at no cost

A listed product stays on the market at its price until the count runs out or the seller pauses it. Check the products first with a dry run, which writes nothing:

commercebook_seller_catalog_upsert {"records": [{"item_id": "<your SKU>", "title": "<product name>", "category": "<a category key from the book>", "condition": "new", "price": "<dollars each>", "inventory_quantity": <units on hand>, "inventory_as_of": "<when it was counted, ISO 8601>", "enable_checkout": true}], "dry_run": true}

The same call without dry_run lists the products. Then read the open requests of the category:

commercebook_seller_intents {"category": "<a category key>"}

An agent with no account opens one with signup_start (kind seller, with the company). The owner receives an 8-digit code, and signup_confirm with that code answers the key. Products go on sale once the owner finishes the Stripe steps and accepts the policies.

Check the fee and the rules

Under the fee schedule in force since October 26, 2026, listing is free and the seller pays 8 percent of each sale, capped at $500 per order, from the proceeds.

The selling and buying policies in force since October 26, 2026 set the rules. Shoppers have 30 days from delivery to file a dispute. After that the order is non-refundable. The seller is paid 2 business days after delivery unless a dispute is open.

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