How does a vendor transfer an order to another vendor, and how is it tracked?

A vendor can shift an order (or a fulfilment portion) to another vendor — vendor to vendor — when they can't or shouldn't fulfil it themselves. The reassignment is tracked end to end: ownership of that fulfilment moves to the new vendor while the history is retained, so there's a record of who held it and who took it over. The customer is unaffected by the hand-off. This keeps a…

A vendor can shift an order (or a fulfilment portion) to another vendor — vendor to vendor — when they can't or shouldn't fulfil it themselves. The reassignment is tracked end to end: ownership of that fulfilment moves to the new vendor while the history is retained, so there's a record of who held it and who took it over. The customer is unaffected by the hand-off. This keeps a marketplace resilient — if one seller can't deliver, the order can move to one who can, without the customer re-ordering and without losing the audit trail.