01
Verify
We check the firm, its professional credentials, tax information, and supporting evidence.
Your trade program, without the application backlog.
Object & Order handles trade verification, onboarding, and resale certificates. Your brand keeps its own approval rules and customer relationships.
Trade program operations
One application. Your rules.
Firm identity
Verified
Professional practice
Reviewed
Resale certificate
Current
Trade application
Ready
The brand keeps final approval.
Ready-to-buy firms should not wait days for an approval.
Applications sit in inboxes. Documents arrive incomplete. Certificates expire without anyone noticing. Object & Order handles the operational work so your team can focus on the relationship and the sale.
From application to active trade account
02
Approve
You define what is required. Clear applications move forward; exceptions return to your team for review.
03
Onboard
Approved firms receive the right account status, trade pricing, and tax treatment for your program.
04
Stay compliant
We keep certificate records organized, monitor expiration dates, and request updated documents when needed.
What we verify
01
Business identity
- Business entity and EIN
- Business status and firm details
02
Tax information
- Sales tax ID
- Resale certificates for applicable states
03
Professional standing
- Professional memberships
- Licenses where required
- Trade references
04
Design practice
- Website and online presence
- Portfolio or professional social presence
- Press and showhouse participation
Your rules decide who gets in.
A textile house and a furniture atelier do not need the same application. Set required criteria for your program, choose which qualified firms can move through immediately, and keep exceptions for manual review.
- Require the evidence that matters to your brand
- Use different paths for different kinds of firms
- Keep final control over every approval
Approval rules
Your trade program
Active
Required for approval
All must pass
EIN verified
Required
Resale certificate current
Required
Flexible approval path
Any one can pass
Website confirms a design practice
Professional membership verified
Three verified trade references
Anything else Send to manual review
Resale certificates that stay current.
Object & Order helps collect the correct certificate, checks it for missing information, records its status, and follows up before it expires.
- Organized by firm, vendor, and state
- Expiration dates monitored
- Expired exemptions removed until renewed
Texas
Resale certificate
California
Resale certificate
New York
Resale certificate
Current
Firm
Westbourne Interiors
Sales tax ID
Verified
Vendor
Atelier Foundry
Valid through
December 2027
Verified and ready for audit records
Bring the trade clients you already have.
Import your existing roster and certificate records without making established firms start over. We identify missing or expired documents and follow up where needed.
Infrastructure, not a marketplace.
Your brand owns the trade relationship, pricing, and commercial rules. Object & Order handles the repetitive verification and compliance work behind the program.
Questions
Usually. In the interiors trade, the program typically combines professional eligibility, trade pricing, and resale tax exemption for firms buying on behalf of clients.
It is the work of collecting the right certificate for a firm, vendor, and state; checking that it is complete; tracking expiration; and requesting a replacement when it lapses.
No. Your brand defines the requirements. Qualified firms can move through quickly, while exceptions remain available for your team to review.
The designer provides their firm and tax information once, supplies any evidence your program requires, and sees the status of their application.
No. Existing clients can be imported with their current account and certificate records. We only follow up where information is missing or no longer current.
Tell us how your trade program works today: what you require, who reviews applications, and where the process slows down. We will map the first version with you.
Start a conversation
Take the application backlog off your team.
Tell us how your trade program works today and where it slows down. We’ll follow up directly.