What BrandHive stands for
This is bigger than software. It's a different way to sell.
Why we exist
Selling shouldn't demand a full-time badge, and growth shouldn't demand a payroll. There are brilliant salespeople who want to sell on their own terms: parents, semi-retired reps, people building a portfolio of brands they believe in. And there are emerging brands that will never reach every shelf alone. BrandHive exists so both can win, together.
How we do it
Independence plus transparency. Agents own their book and their territory, and choose the brands they carry. Brands keep control of their catalogue, margins and customers. One shared ledger keeps every order, commission and payout honest, and we never touch the money. That's why both sides can trust the record.
What it is
Software that runs the whole relationship: orders, customers, territories, commissions and payouts for brands and independent agents across Australia and New Zealand. Free for agents, subscription for brands, and no percentage of anyone's sales.
The problem
The rep channel is how emerging brands reach shelves. And it runs blind.
Independent agents are how specialty products get into cafés, grocers and shops across Australia and New Zealand. But the system behind that relationship is broken: orders on notepads and in message threads, commissions argued over in a spreadsheet that's three versions out of date, territories managed on goodwill, payouts that land with no explanation.
The brand can't see what the channel is really earning. The agent can't see what they've really earned. Everyone is flying on trust with no instruments.
BrandHive is the instrument panel, built for both sides at once.
A sales force bigger than yourself.
Grow through independent agents: put your catalogue in their hands, give them a territory, and watch orders land with the margins and commissions already worked out. Extend your reach without extending your payroll.
Build your own patch, with brands you love.
Carry the brands you believe in, own your territory, and work when it works for you. Write orders in the field, watch your commission calculate live, and track every dollar. Free for agents.
Free to start. No percentage of your sales. Agents don't pay.
The software behind it
Run the channel. See the numbers.
A movement still needs its books kept straight. Here's how BrandHive does it.
One connected channel
One place to run it. One set of numbers to trust.
Orders, customers, commissions, territories and payouts in one ledger, not six spreadsheets and an email thread. Standing orders, templates and barcode scan keep repeat business moving; settlement pulls it all together at month end.
Transparent by default
Both sides see the same numbers, at the same time.
Agents watch commission calculate live while they write the order. You see profit after cost by product, by agent and by territory, with configurable commission tiers instead of guesswork. Both sides look at the same ledger. That's the whole idea.
How payment actually works →Built for the field, built for ANZ
Order entry that works at the counter, offline included.
Write the order with one bar of signal or none: it queues on the phone and sends when coverage returns. Visit notes with GPS, tasks and pipeline for the road. Xero integration, GST-aware, and bank payment files for AU (ABA) and NZ (direct credit).
From order to confirmed payout, on the record.
- 1Set up your catalogue and commissions.Products, price tiers and commission rules, with per-product profit modelling so you know what each sale earns you after cost, before any agent writes an order.
- 2Bring your reps on.Invite the independent agents you already work with. Each gets a free app with your catalogue, their territory, and a live view of their commission.
- 3Orders come in from the field.Agents write orders on their phone (barcode scan, reorder in seconds, offline if they have to) and see their commission calculate as they build it. You see it land the same moment.
- 4Settle, pay, confirm.Run settlement, export the payment file (AU ABA or NZ direct credit) and pay agents from your own bank. You mark it paid; the agent confirms it arrived. Both sides, on the record.
BrandHive never holds or moves money. You pay your agents directly; we keep the record straight.
How money moves
We're the system of record, not the payment rail. On purpose.
BrandHive never touches the money. Here's exactly what happens: an agent's commission accrues when an order is confirmed. The brand approves it, runs settlement, exports a payment file for its own bank (ABA in Australia, direct credit in New Zealand) and pays the agent directly. The brand marks it paid; the agent confirms it was received. If a number's off, the agent can flag it from the same screen.
No middleman holding your funds. No mystery about who owes whom. Just one shared ledger both sides can check.
The order is written.
Your agent writes the order; the commission is calculated and recorded on the spot.
The brand pays the agent, directly.
You pay your agent from your own bank account. BrandHive prepares the payment file and records what was paid. BrandHive never holds the money.
ABA / NZ direct creditBoth sides confirm.
The owner marks it paid; the agent confirms it arrived. One shared record, both sides sign off.
Money moves owner → agent, never through BrandHive. We're the ledger beside the flow.
Free to start. $99 when you grow. Agents don't pay.
Subscription only. BrandHive takes no percentage of your sales. Start free with your first agents, upgrade when the channel does.
For brands getting their channel off the spreadsheet.
For brands running a real rep channel.
For established channels with more agents and more moving parts.
Your channel is already running. Start seeing it.
Set up your catalogue, bring your reps on, and watch the first order land with the commission already calculated. Free to start.
Agents: create your free account →Join the hive when you're ready.