How and when you get paid

Proof of delivery is not paperwork you can skip — it is the event that starts everything downstream. A proof-of-delivery record is required on every handover, on every order, regardless of value. For a buyer collection you scan the buyer’s QR code, the camera opens, and a photo must be taken before the collection will confirm. For courier deliveries, GoFindPart captures whatever proof the carrier provides.

The field kit works offline, too — a dead-signal loading bay doesn’t block the handover. The photo and scan queue on the device and sync the moment you’re back on network.

Until that handover is proven, the buyer’s confirmation window can’t open and the payout clock can’t start. Capturing a clean POD is therefore directly in your interest twice over: it moves the order toward getting you paid, and it is your strongest evidence if a buyer later disputes receipt.

You will notice you never raise an invoice yourself — one appears in your account, already correct. That is self-billing, and the document is a Recipient-Created Tax Invoice (RCTI). Because GoFindPart is buying the part from you, GoFindPart raises the matching invoice on your behalf rather than making you re-issue a figure it has already calculated to the penny. You authorise this once, when you onboard.

• You don’t raise your own VAT invoices for platform sales — the self-billed invoice is the valid VAT invoice for both sides.
• These self-billed invoices are your sales invoices for VAT — keep them for your records.
• VAT-registered: the invoice shows the VAT reverse-calculated at 20%. Not VAT-registered: the sale is outside the scope of VAT, with no VAT line.
• Your invoices live in the app as read-only PDFs, with Go Find Part Limited as the counterparty — never the buyer’s identity.
• Tell GoFindPart within 14 days of any change to your VAT status, number, name or address.

It is a long-established, HMRC-recognised arrangement (Notice 700/62). For the full explanation, read self-billing and RCTIs explained.