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Gallery Consignment

Every condition check filed before you leave the site.

Know where every consigned piece hangs and when it goes back, and let each artist see what they are owed.

Open your free Gallery Consignment register

Free for 25 consigned pieces, no card. See a sample consignment receipt

Free tool: next due date

Enter the date and the next one appears here.

Your customer sets this interval; no rule fixes one.

The rules, with where each one came from.

Each date this app counts and each check it runs on a save is listed here with its source and the day we last read it. Where a rule lives in a paid standard, we cite it and keep the same facts in our own layout; we never copy the standard's text or forms.

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sourced rules in this trade, each read on or after Oct 29, 2026.

Dates it counts

  1. Consignment term ends: the interval set in consignment term (days) from the received from the artist on.Set per customer; no rule fixes this interval.
    Your contract
  2. Pay the artist: the interval set in days to pay the artist (days) from the buyer's payment received on.From RCW 18.110.020 Art dealers and artists, rights, duties, liabilities (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.
    Your contract

What it checks when you save

  1. In Washington, the written consignment contract is signed before or when the gallery takes the piece, and states its value, minimum price and the gallery's commission.From RCW 18.110.030 Art dealers and artists, contract required, provisions (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.
    Warns on save
  2. A consigned piece is held in trust for the artist until it sells to a buyer.From RCW 18.110.020 Art dealers and artists, rights, duties, liabilities (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.
    For reference
  3. The money from a sale is held in trust for the artist until the artist is paid.From RCW 18.110.020 Art dealers and artists, rights, duties, liabilities (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.
    For reference
  4. In Washington, the artist is paid within 30 days of the gallery receiving the money, unless both agreed otherwise in writing.From RCW 18.110.020 Art dealers and artists, rights, duties, liabilities (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.
    For reference
  5. On an installment sale, payments go first to what is owed the artist, unless the artist agreed in writing to a split.From RCW 18.110.020 Art dealers and artists, rights, duties, liabilities (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.
    For reference
  6. The gallery is liable for loss or damage while the piece is in its hands, at the value in the contract.From RCW 18.110.020 Art dealers and artists, rights, duties, liabilities (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.
    For reference
  7. A photo of the piece is shown only with the artist named and with the artist's written consent to that use.From RCW 18.110.030 Art dealers and artists, contract required, provisions (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.
    For reference
  8. A contract clause that waives the artist's rights under this law is void.From RCW 18.110.030 Art dealers and artists, contract required, provisions (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.
    For reference

Asked, and answered from the rule.

What must a Washington art consignment contract state?

  1. In Washington, the written consignment contract is signed before or when the gallery takes the piece, and states its value, minimum price and the gallery's commission.From RCW 18.110.030 Art dealers and artists, contract required, provisions (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.
  1. In Washington, the artist is paid within 30 days of the gallery receiving the money, unless both agreed otherwise in writing.From RCW 18.110.020 Art dealers and artists, rights, duties, liabilities (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.

Who is liable for damage to consigned art in Washington?

  1. The gallery is liable for loss or damage while the piece is in its hands, at the value in the contract.From RCW 18.110.020 Art dealers and artists, rights, duties, liabilities (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.
  1. A photo of the piece is shown only with the artist named and with the artist's written consent to that use.From RCW 18.110.030 Art dealers and artists, contract required, provisions (Washington State Legislature), checked Oct 29, 2026.

What it keeps for you.

Consigned piece

Inventory number, Artist, Title, Year, Medium, and more.

Move

Moved on, From, To, Reason, Moved by, and more.

Sale

Sold on, Sale price, Buyer, Sold on installments, Buyer's payment received on, and more.

Condition check

Check, Checked on, Checked by, Condition notes, Artist's signature.

What your client receives.

The consignment receipt, as the app issues it the moment the condition check is saved: signed, dated and frozen, with what is next due. This one is filled with invented records so you can read it before you sign up.

Building owners read every report filed to them in one binder, free.

Sample Inspection Co. (fictional) · Gallery Consignment

Consignment receipt

Title 1

Consigned piece

Inventory number
IN-4100
Artist
Northgate Fabrication
Title
Title 1
Year
2

and 14 more fields

Intake

Front of the piece photographedPass
BackPass
Condition matches the artist's description or damage is notedPass
Signed contract on file with valuePass
Artist's written consent on file before any photo is usedPass
Inventory label fixed to the back or basePass

Signature

Not signed in the app; signed on paper if at all.

A recordkeeping aid. It does not certify compliance and is not legal advice.

Every name, date and number on this sample is invented.

What Gallery Consignment costs.

Free

$0
  • 25 consigned pieces
  • 1 person

Solo

$9 a monthFounders price; list $19
  • 300 consigned pieces
  • 2 people

Crew

$24 a monthFounders price; list $49
  • 2,000 consigned pieces
  • 8 people

Company

$49 a monthFounders price; list $99
  • 10,000 consigned pieces
  • 25 people

All-Access

$74 a monthFounders price; list $149
  • 10,000 consigned pieces
  • 25 people
  • The same limits in every trade
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