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The POSitive Consignment feature may not be flexible enough for your type of business.  

An alternative option is to treat the consignor as a vendor and receive product through purchase orders.  All products from the consignor are assigned under a specific category or department for the consignor.  

For example, with Sally Smith as the consignor, create a department named Consignments and a category named Sally Smith.

You can run inventory counts and sales reports on just the Sally Smith category.

When running a Valuation Report, choose a Query to exclude the Sally Smith category.