Every accepted quote pays your quoted price plus a tier bonus. Your tier also sets your payment hold, your notification wave, and your daily alert cap — four levers, one Priority Score, automatic promotion as you fulfil.
Your tier isn’t just a label — it’s a four-dimensional package that compounds. Bonus rate on every order, payment hold length, notification wave priority, and the number of alerts you see each day. Every dimension moves as you climb.
Tier-driven percentage paid on every accepted quote, on top of your quoted part price. Funded out of GoFindPart’s gross margin — nothing is ever deducted from your payout.
Time from buyer acceptance to Stripe payout. Base 48 h applies to ELITE & PRIORITY; lower tiers add +1 to +7 days based on track record.
Top tiers see new requests immediately. Wave 1 = 10 sellers, Wave 2 = 20, Wave 3 = 50. Wave 2–3 only fire if the request hasn’t already filled with 3 quotes.
How many request notifications you can receive per day. Stops alert fatigue at lower tiers; gives top-tier sellers the broadest pipeline.
The full canonical ladder, top to bottom. Tier boundaries are inclusive — cross a threshold, your tier changes overnight on the next score recalculation (hourly job). ELITE is the only tier that requires admin confirmation; everything else is automatic.
<strong>NEW SELLER · urgency-sensitive wave:</strong> Wave 2 on MEDIUM and HIGH urgency requests; Wave 3 on CRITICAL (so SLA-critical orders go to proven sellers first). Graduation is automatic on hitting the four thresholds — see the promotion section below.
Your Priority Score is a weighted blend of six operational measurements, recalculated hourly. There’s no subjective judgement, no admin scoring, no “vibe rating”. The formula is open — the weights below are canonical, fixed in code.
Cross the band threshold (50, 75, 90), and your tier updates on the next score recalculation. Drop a band, and you wait a 7-day grace period before demotion (hysteresis) so a single bad week doesn’t tank you.
NEW SELLER → STANDARD → PRIORITY are automatic the moment your score crosses the threshold. ELITE requires admin confirmation on top of the score. Hysteresis prevents whipsaw demotion. Here’s the full lifecycle in three cards.
Every new seller starts as NEW SELLER. You graduate the moment all four thresholds are met — not three, not two. Score-based tier then takes over.
ELITE is the only tier that requires a human in the loop. You become eligible when the four canonical criteria are met; admin then confirms or holds. Revocation triggers a 30-day cooldown before re-confirmation.
A single bad fulfilment doesn’t tank you. Tier boundaries use a 7-day grace before demotion (the hysteresis window). PAUSED is the only hard override — a 0–24 score stops you instantly regardless of other factors.
Order GFP-9117: SKF spherical bearings, quoted at £284.00. Seller is PRIORITY tier (score 82). GoFindPart buys the part from you at your quoted price plus your tier bonus and resells the part on to the buyer; Stripe pays out 48 hours after buyer acceptance.
The matrix shows wave timing across the urgency × tier grid. Wave 1 is always immediate — Wave 2 and 3 only fire if the request hasn’t already filled with three quotes (except CRITICAL/HIGH, where they fire anyway).
| Tier | CRITICAL | HIGH | MEDIUM |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELITE / PRIORITY | Immediate | Immediate | Immediate |
| STANDARD | +5 min | +7 min | +10 min |
| NEW SELLER | +15 min | +7 min | +10 min |
| LIMITED | +15 min | +25 min | +35 min |
| PAUSED | — | — | — |
Pick your tier, set your run-rate. The calculator multiplies gross weekly sales by your tier bonus rate to show what the bonus adds — on top of the 100% of quoted price you already keep.
Apply in ten minutes, verified in 48 hours, NEW SELLER from order one. STANDARD bonus rate (+0.5%) kicks in the moment you graduate — usually inside the first month at a reasonable run-rate.
