Set up partner access
Request partner access once — the DAT Supply team reviews the request and confirms how referred projects are tracked.
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Partner with DAT Supply — for ecommerce operators
Marketplace and DTC operators managing multiple brands across one operating platform.
Who it's for
Ecommerce operators
Marketplace and DTC operators managing multiple brands across one operating platform.
How it works
Refer or co-manage a client project
Refer or co-manage, once approved
Once access is approved, submit each client project as it comes in. A catalogue order configures straight from the product page; a Formula Adaptation or a Custom Project is started the same way as when a client comes to us directly.
Co-manage through production
Stay in the loop through formulation, packaging and documentation review — or hand off once the project is placed.
Client projects that change the actives, dosage or ingredients of a reviewed catalogue formula are scoped as Formula Adaptation — a fixed-fee development stage, then a production quotation. A genuinely new formula is a Custom Project.
Why partner
One operating platform, several brands, one supply relationship
A marketplace or DTC operator running several brands from one operating platform already shares advertising accounts, a fulfilment stack and often an overlapping customer base across those brands. That structure rewards a manufacturing relationship built the same way: one relationship an operator's team already knows, rather than a fresh supplier search repeated for every brand added to the platform.
The advantage compounds as the portfolio grows. Adding a brand becomes a new project scoped against a familiar process — brief, samples, production — instead of a new vendor relationship to establish from zero, which keeps the operational overhead of each additional brand closer to the last one than to the first.
That trade-off shows up most clearly at the point a new brand is added. An operator that already has one relationship in place spends its onboarding effort on the brand's positioning and listing, not on qualifying a manufacturing partner from a standing start.
Working together
Run one brand directly, or coordinate a portfolio centrally
Two shapes fit an operator's structure. A referral: one brand team within the operator's business runs its own project directly, scoped and ordered like any single client. A co-managed portfolio: a central team stays across formulation, packaging and documentation for every brand under the platform, coordinating multiple concurrent projects through one relationship rather than treating each brand as a separate vendor search.
Both shapes share the same underlying mechanics per brand: a brief, then samples, then production. Personalisation on an existing formula sits within a defined boundary — approved flavour, colour and shape choices per SKU — while a change to actives, dosages or claims for any brand becomes Formula Adaptation (a fixed-fee change on an existing DAT Supply formula) or, for new claims or new development, a Custom Project.
Whichever shape fits a given brand, partner access covers the whole operating platform once it is requested. Every brand's project afterwards is scoped and submitted on its own as it's ready to launch.
Before referring
What to settle before the first brand's brief
An operator's first brief goes smoothly when three things are agreed centrally before it is submitted, ahead of any single brand's launch date.
- Which team owns each brand's brief. Decide whether a brand runs its own referral or sits inside a centrally co-managed portfolio, so communication routes to the right team per project.
- Who owns compliance, per brand. Label and market-compliance claims stay with whichever brand the product ships under, even inside one shared operating platform, supported by product documentation issued per order.
- A brief per brand. Even under one relationship, each brand needs its own scoped brief and shortlist rather than one request covering the whole portfolio at once.
- Partner access. Request it once for the operating platform — every brand's project after that is submitted on its own.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions — Ecommerce operators
Does one partner-access request cover every brand on our operating platform?
Yes — access is requested once at the operator level, and each brand's project is then submitted individually against its own brief, whether run by a single brand team or coordinated centrally.
Can each brand on the platform sample its own concepts separately?
Yes — every brand follows the same route of brief, then samples, then production, so each one can judge its own shortlist independently even while sharing one underlying relationship.
How does personalisation work when several brands share one relationship?
Each brand's flavour, colour and shape choices are scoped per SKU inside personalisation. A change to actives, dosages or claims for any single brand becomes Formula Adaptation (a fixed-fee change on an existing DAT Supply formula) or, for new claims or new development, a Custom Project.
Who owns listing claims when brands share an operating platform?
Each brand does, individually. Sharing advertising accounts or a fulfilment stack doesn't change which brand's name is legally responsible for its own listing claims and label compliance.
What's the first step for an operator managing more than one brand?
Request partner access once for the platform. From there, submit each brand's project as it's ready, scoped against that brand's own brief rather than waiting for the whole portfolio to align.
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Ready to partner with DAT Supply as ecommerce operators?
Partner access is reviewed by the DAT Supply team — set up once, then refer or co-manage as many projects as you bring. Commission terms are confirmed at approval; we do not publish a standing rate.