For US warehouse and fulfillment partners

Keep the fulfillment. Get paid to control release.

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

Collateral control, continuous from ship to shelf.

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 holds the bill of lading

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

Cargo moves only to an approved facility

At the destination CFS, financed cargo transfers only to an approved warehouse, identified as program inventory under the receipt you issue.

3 · Warehouse

You hold it for the secured party

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 on authorization

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

A service you are paid for, not a customer you underwrite.

Rhofin pays your control-service fee directly, from its own resources. Your ordinary tariff to the importer is unchanged.

1

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.

2

Protected warehouse charges

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.

3

Control-service fee

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.

4

No financing credit risk

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

One agreement. Four duties.

Everything below sits in a single master agreement your counsel reviews once. Any upstream custody documents are separate, and none of this touches them.

Hold as bailee

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.

Release on authorization

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.

Limit your lien, for value

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.

Report and alert

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

Liability, allocated in plain terms.

The master agreement states the split directly. The short version, with the cap, limits and figures completed in your facility schedule.

Your exposure
  • Contractual liability is capped under the master agreement, with customary carve-outs for unauthorized releases, deliberate control breaches and misconduct. Consequential loss is excluded on both sides.
  • You maintain your warehouse legal liability, bailee and CGL cover at the agreed limits in the master agreement.
  • Your ordinary customer credit exposure for charges outside the protected-charges mechanism remains yours, as it is today.
Rhofin keeps
  • All credit and underwriting risk of the financing. Your fee is paid whichever way the credit goes.
  • No additional first-party cargo insurance requirement on you. Rhofin does not designate goods to your facility unless qualifying all-risks cargo cover is in force, and you may rely on Rhofin's per-shipment designation without inquiry.
  • Storage charges that accrue during a release freeze caused by Rhofin's own platform outage.

The 60-second fit check

Would your facility work with Rhofin?

Getting started

A typical implementation target: four to six weeks.

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.

01

Verify

KYB, facility and licence verification, and insurance evidence.

02

Sign

One master agreement executed, with the lien cap, fee rate and tariff schedules completed for your facility.

03

Connect

WMS field mapping, the release workflow connected and tested fail-closed, and the daily feed live.

04

Enroll

The first importer is enrolled by Rhofin notice. No separate warehouse agreement is negotiated per importer.

05

Go live

The first controlled transfer arrives from the container freight station, identified as program inventory.

Common questions

What warehouse partners ask first.

Do we finance or underwrite the importer?
No. You provide warehouse and collateral-control services. You do not fund, guarantee repayment or take credit risk on the financing; the financing and credit decision sit with Rhofin and the applicable Lender. Your ordinary charges to your customer remain your own commercial relationship.
Is this the same as Rhofin's shipment financing?
It is a separately approved extension of it. Ordinary Rhofin shipment financing is repaid on arrival of the cargo at the destination CFS. Where Rhofin approves a warehouse sell-down period for an enrolled importer at an approved facility, the financing continues while the inventory sells down from your facility, and maturity and release mechanics are governed by the warehouse financing terms.
What actually permits a unit to leave?
A 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, so your customer's normal fulfillment workflow continues on top of it.
Do we change our ordinary warehouse tariff?
No. Your storage, handling and fulfillment tariff remains between you and your customer, invoiced as today. Rhofin's control-service fee is separate and paid by Rhofin from its own resources.
Do the goods have to be physically segregated?
Not generally. Physical segregation is not required where the financed inventory remains uniquely and continuously identifiable and release-restricted in your WMS, subject to the agreed requirements.
What if Rhofin's system is unavailable?
The default is fail-closed: program units wait until the authorization workflow is available, with no importer-initiated or ordinary operational override. The master agreement provides a tightly controlled exception process for legally mandated or emergency actions, with immediate notice to Rhofin. Storage charges that accrue during a freeze caused by Rhofin's own platform outage are borne by Rhofin.
What happens if the importer does not pay us?
Your normal contractual claim against the importer remains. In addition, the master agreement provides a Rhofin payment mechanism for qualifying, properly documented, undisputed current charges, up to the agreed cap. Charges outside that mechanism remain your ordinary customer exposure.

Become a warehouse partner

Tell us about your facility.

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.

Key terms

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.

Your role.
You do not fund the financing, guarantee its repayment or take credit risk on it, and you do not act as the importer's adviser. You acknowledge that you hold designated program inventory for Rhofin or the applicable secured party and release it only against Rhofin's authorization. Clause 14
Maturity and the sell-down period.
Ordinary Rhofin shipment financing is repaid on arrival of the cargo at the destination CFS. Where Rhofin approves a warehouse sell-down period for an enrolled importer at an approved facility, maturity and release mechanics for that shipment are governed by the warehouse financing terms instead. Clause 14
What permits a release.
Inventory is released only within Rhofin's agreed collateral and repayment parameters. Each authorized release reduces the controlled inventory and, where required, the financing balance. Clause 14
Rhofin pays you, not the importer.
The control-service fee, any enrollment fee and any protected-charges payment come from Rhofin's own resources under the master warehouse agreement. None is charged to the importer, and the arrangement is disclosed to the importer. Clause 14
Protected warehouse charges.
Rhofin stands behind qualifying, properly documented, undisputed current charges up to the agreed cap. Charges outside that mechanism remain your own customer credit exposure. Clause 14
Client introductions.
If you introduce a customer to Rhofin, obtain the importer's prior written consent before sending its information. Clause 14

Each term links to its clause in Important information, the full terms.

The full terms

Important information

14 clauses. Version 2026-08-12.1, effective 12 August 2026.

  1. 1. Who we are. Rhofin Inc. is a nonbank commercial finance company, not a bank. Rhofin does not accept deposits or hold customer funds.
  2. 2. Business use only. All financing described is commercial financing extended to business entities for business purposes. It is not available for personal, family or household purposes, and is not available to sole proprietorships, general partnerships or individuals.
  3. 3. Nothing here is an offer. Nothing on this website is an offer or commitment to extend financing or to purchase a receivable. Submitting the form is a preliminary enquiry, not an application, and no credit check is run at that stage. Any transaction is subject to eligibility, verification, credit approval, required disclosures, definitive documentation and applicable law. Those documents govern. Nothing on this website varies them.
  4. 4. Who provides the financing. During Rhofin's current limited-release phase, inventory financing may be provided directly by Rhofin, Inc. from its own balance sheet. Rhofin, Inc. is a nonbank commercial finance company and is not a bank. Rhofin does not accept deposits. The legal lender applicable to each transaction is identified in the definitive financing documents. Rhofin, Inc. may also provide the technology platform and act as servicer, administrator, agent or collateral agent, as specified in those documents. Financing is offered only where permitted by applicable law. Rhofin finances US incorporated businesses only. Availability varies by state. Financing requires the shipment to move through a participating logistics provider.
  5. 5. Figures are examples. Figures shown are illustrative examples, not quotations. Your amount financed, annual percentage rate, total cost and repayment date are set at approval and disclosed to you in full before you commit.
  6. 6. Pricing. Financing is priced per transaction. Rates start at 1.45% per 30 days on the supplier balance advance, and your rate depends on your credit profile, the shipment, the route, the supplier and the jurisdiction. Your amount financed, annual percentage rate, total financing cost and repayment date are set at approval and disclosed to you in full before you commit. There are no origination, arrangement, documentation, wire, platform or monthly fees. Eligible ocean freight is advanced at no financing charge and repaid at face value. A default margin applies to amounts unpaid from the sixth day after the maturity date, at the rate stated in your documents before you sign. Pricing may vary by state where required by applicable law.
  7. 7. What the financing is. Rhofin extends a secured commercial loan against a specific shipment. Rhofin holds the bill of lading and takes a purchase money security interest in the specific financed goods and their identifiable proceeds, as described in the definitive transaction documents and applicable UCC filings. Rhofin holds a negotiable to-order bill of lading with telex and express release disabled. The cargo is released only against Rhofin's release instruction, under a procedure agreed in advance with the responsible logistics provider. The financing is full recourse, so if realising the cargo does not cover the amount owed you remain liable for the shortfall. If an amount stays unpaid Rhofin may sell the financed cargo, and has committed to use commercially reasonable efforts to complete a disposition within 90 days after maturity, subject to the exceptions in your documents, including legal process, customs or regulatory holds, casualty, general average, salvage, the absence of a commercially reasonable market, and your own acts or omissions. Repayment falls due on arrival of the cargo at the destination CFS, or on availability for collection where the shipment moves as a full container load, or on the earlier date on which the goods are sold or released to you. If you sell the goods you must prepay from the proceeds. Where cargo is released to you before payment, you hold the goods and their sale proceeds in trust for Rhofin, must keep the proceeds identifiable, and may be required to route them through an account Rhofin designates. Where your documents do not require cargo insurance, you bear the risk of loss, damage or destruction from any cause, and no such event reduces or suspends what you owe. Any additional credit support is set per facility and stated in your documents before signing.
  8. 8. What is not financed. Duties, taxes and other government charges, demurrage, detention and storage are not financed and remain your responsibility, as they would be without financing. Where Rhofin pays a logistics charge to obtain release of your cargo, that amount is added to what you owe and bears interest at the rate applicable to advances. A customs detention, seizure or withhold release order does not suspend your obligation to repay.
  9. 9. Out of scope. Commodities, seasonal goods and fungible bulk, goods not identifiable by container and lot marks, perishables, hazmat, pharma, alcohol, tobacco, weapons, sanctioned or high UFLPA risk supply chains, overland cargo from Canada or Mexico, businesses in serious financial distress, and importers shipping fewer than about four times a year. Approved lanes and approved suppliers only.
  10. 10. Using an earlier receivable for a later shipment. With Rhofin's prior written approval for each receivable, Rhofin may purchase an eligible receivable arising from an earlier delivered batch under the Master Receivables Purchase Agreement. A receivable is eligible only if it arises from completed delivery supported by proof of delivery, is undisputed, legally enforceable and free from set-off or deduction, has not previously been sold, assigned or encumbered, and is owed by a buyer approved by Rhofin within the applicable ageing and concentration limits. The purchase price may be paid to you or applied toward the amount due under a separate inventory-finance transaction. To the extent the purchase price is applied to the inventory-finance transaction, that amount is treated as paid when the receivable purchase is completed and is not conditional on Rhofin later collecting from the buyer. Rhofin may notify the buyer of the purchase and direct the buyer to pay Rhofin. If Rhofin does not accept the receivable for purchase, the inventory-finance transaction must be settled in cash. Following a purchase, you remain responsible only for the seller-risk events and exclusions set out in the Master Receivables Purchase Agreement. Rhofin does not continuously finance the same goods between cargo release and proof of delivery. This clause does not apply where you are named as a Protected Client under a partner agreement between Rhofin and your factoring company. In that case Rhofin does not purchase your receivables during the applicable protection period, and an inventory-finance transaction is settled in cash, which you may fund from availability under your factoring facility at your request and with your factor's approval.
  11. 11. Your existing lenders. Rhofin is designed to sit alongside an existing bank facility. Where another lender holds a security interest in your inventory, funding is conditional on a lien search showing no competing interest, or on a subordination, release or estoppel acceptable to Rhofin. You must identify that lender so Rhofin can send the UCC notice the law requires before you take possession of the goods. Most bank facilities also restrict additional indebtedness and additional liens. Whether Rhofin financing is permitted under your own facility documents is for you and your lender to confirm.
  12. 12. Law and forum. Your transaction documents are governed by New York law. The state and federal courts in Manhattan have jurisdiction. You and Rhofin waive trial by jury. Payments are made in full without set-off or counterclaim.
  13. 13. No advice. Nothing on this website is legal, tax, accounting or financial advice.
  14. 14. Warehouse partners and program inventory. Warehouse and fulfillment partners are not lenders, do not fund or guarantee any Rhofin financing, take no credit risk on the financing and do not act as the importer's adviser. A warehouse partner acknowledges that it holds designated program inventory for Rhofin or the applicable secured party and releases it only against Rhofin's authorization. Ordinary Rhofin shipment financing is repaid on arrival of the cargo at the destination CFS, as described in clause 7. Where Rhofin approves a warehouse sell-down period for an enrolled importer at an approved facility, maturity and release mechanics for that shipment are instead governed by the definitive warehouse financing terms, and inventory is released only within Rhofin's agreed collateral and repayment parameters, with each authorized release reducing the controlled inventory and, where required, the financing balance. Rhofin pays any control-service fee, enrollment fee and protected-charges payment from its own resources under the master warehouse agreement; none is charged to the importer, and the arrangement is disclosed to the importer. Rhofin's payment protection covers qualifying, properly documented, undisputed current charges up to the agreed cap; charges outside that mechanism remain the warehouse partner's own customer credit exposure. If a warehouse partner introduces a customer to Rhofin, the introduction requires the importer's prior written consent to the disclosure of its information to Rhofin.

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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.