Stickier volume
Importers who can finance inventory place the orders they want and stay with the 3PL that supports the program. The partnership creates a channel for incremental, stickier financed volume through your facility.
For US warehouse and fulfillment partners
Rhofin finances approved importer inventory while it sells down from your warehouse. You continue to store, pick and ship as usual. Program inventory leaves only against Rhofin authorization, and Rhofin pays you a separate control-service fee. You provide no financing and take no financing credit risk.
What you do: identify program inventory in your WMS, release it only against Rhofin's authorization, and report inventory daily.Everything else about your operation, your tariff and your customer relationships stays as it is.
Start with a 30-minute walkthrough of the release workflow against your WMS.
The program
Rhofin controls the cargo documents in transit and hands nothing over at arrival. Your facility becomes the controlled link between arrival and sale.
1 · In transit
Rhofin finances the shipment and holds a negotiable to-order bill of lading, so cargo release stays under Rhofin's documentary control through ocean transit.
2 · Transfer
At the destination CFS, financed cargo transfers only to an approved warehouse, identified as program inventory under the receipt you issue.
3 · Warehouse
You acknowledge that you hold the designated program inventory for Rhofin or the applicable secured party, identified in your WMS. The importer keeps selling, and your storage, handling and pick/pack tariff continues as today.
4 · Sell-down
Units leave only against a single-use Rhofin authorization issued within the agreed collateral and repayment parameters. Each authorized release reduces the controlled inventory and, where required, the financing balance.
Rhofin sets the release rules, and its platform is designed to authorize eligible releases automatically: your WMS asks whether identified units may leave and receives a yes, a no or a release token. The workflow is fail-closed on outage, with no importer-initiated or ordinary operational override. The operating overlay is a defined service, paid for by Rhofin: authenticated releases, daily inventory reporting, incident alerts, reconciliation and an auditable record. One master agreement is signed once, and importers are enrolled by notice.
Standard shipment financing
Repaid on arrival of the cargo at the destination CFS. The structure described across rhofin.com.
Warehouse sell-down period · this program
A separately approved extension per enrolled importer and approved facility. Maturity and release mechanics are governed by the warehouse financing terms while the inventory sells down under control.
Why it is worth it
Rhofin pays your control-service fee directly, from its own resources. Your ordinary tariff to the importer is unchanged.
Importers who can finance inventory place the orders they want and stay with the 3PL that supports the program. The partnership creates a channel for incremental, stickier financed volume through your facility.
A second source of payment for qualifying charges: properly documented, undisputed current charges an importer leaves unpaid are paid by Rhofin, up to the agreed cap. Charges outside that mechanism remain your ordinary customer exposure, as today.
A control-service fee on the financed balance under your control, accrued daily and paid monthly by Rhofin. It is earned whether or not the importer repays, plus a one-time enrollment fee per importer on the first funded shipment. The rate is agreed per facility in the master agreement schedule.
You provide no financing and make no credit decision. Rhofin bears the financing risk, and your fee does not depend on the credit outcome. Your ordinary commercial terms and tariff remain yours, subject to the agreed release-control and lien provisions.
Fee rates, caps and figures are set in the master agreement schedule for your facility. The protected-charges mechanism covers the agreed current charges only; it is not a guarantee of your entire receivable from the importer.
Your role
Everything below sits in a single master agreement your counsel reviews once. Any upstream custody documents are separate, and none of this touches them.
You acknowledge that you hold designated program inventory for Rhofin or the applicable secured party, identified in your WMS by shipment reference, SKU, lot, pallet and location. Physical segregation is not generally required where the financed inventory remains uniquely and continuously identifiable and release-restricted in your WMS.
Outbound release of program units only against an authenticated Rhofin authorization. Fail-closed on outage, with no importer-initiated or ordinary operational override, and a facially valid authorization is your full authority.
On program goods only, your lien is limited to recent, attributable, capped current charges. The reciprocal: Rhofin itself stands behind exactly those charges, in cash, on a fixed clock.
A daily inventory feed keyed to Rhofin references, incident alerts on a fixed clock, periodic reconciliation and the agreed record retention.
You do not fund, guarantee repayment or take credit risk on the financing, and you make no underwriting decision. Rhofin sets the release rules; your team executes authorized releases.
Risk allocation
The master agreement states the split directly. The short version, with the cap, limits and figures completed in your facility schedule.
The 60-second fit check
Getting started
Timing is driven primarily by WMS and API integration; the release workflow is designed to integrate with your WMS and is configured and tested with each facility. For larger operations, legal, insurer and infosec review run in parallel. The legal work itself is one agreement with completed schedules.
KYB, facility and licence verification, and insurance evidence.
One master agreement executed, with the lien cap, fee rate and tariff schedules completed for your facility.
WMS field mapping, the release workflow connected and tested fail-closed, and the daily feed live.
The first importer is enrolled by Rhofin notice. No separate warehouse agreement is negotiated per importer.
The first controlled transfer arrives from the container freight station, identified as program inventory.
Common questions
Become a warehouse partner
Submit your details and then choose a time for a 30-minute walkthrough of the release workflow against your WMS. No importer or shipment information is required.
Rhofin lends to the importer, secured on the financed inventory. You are the warehouse and collateral-control partner, never the lender. These terms apply every time.
Each term links to its clause in Important information, the full terms.
This is a preliminary enquiry and not an application. It creates no offer or commitment. See Important information clause 3.
Nothing on this page is an offer or commitment. Participation is subject to operating review, definitive documentation and applicable law. Platform capabilities described on this page form part of the target operating model and are configured and tested with each facility during implementation. Definitive warehouse partner terms are set out in the Master Warehouse Bailee, Collateral Control and Inventory Release Agreement and its schedules.