Wholesale Handler
Ownership and portability are answered by different clauses
Sometimes by no clause at all: a set of terms can say the data is yours in one section and offer no way to take it in any other.
The licence outlives the account
Three of the six take a licence that does not end when the contract does.
Faire's Brand Terms, section 5.1, verbatim: "you hereby grant to Faire a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use, view, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, publicly display and publicly perform (through any means necessary) your Content". Cut+Dry's section 6.3 grants the same perpetual shape over "Distributor Materials", a defined term reaching "Distributor's contact information, employee information" and "information regarding product purchasing and transactions", with one of its named purposes being "building and training Cut+Dry's machine-learning models". Upstock's clause 9.4 states that the rights under clauses 9.1 to 9.3 "will survive termination of these Terms".
None of that contradicts the ownership sentence sitting beside it. A perpetual licence settles how long the platform may keep using the copy it holds, not who owns the original. Faire's Brand Terms do not define "Content" at all, and no clause in them covers a brand's entitlement to its retailer contact details. Selling wholesale direct alongside Faire covers the commission model and the Faire Direct carve-out, which are separate from the terms read here.
Wholesale Handler's section 12 takes the opposite shape. The same sentence that grants the licence ends it: "That licence ends when your account is deleted."
Cut+Dry's distributors warrant that they will not export
Cut+Dry is the one document in the set with an express promise running the other way. Appendix A, section A5(a), scoped to its Supplier Connect data-syndication service: "Distributor represents, warrants and covenants it shall not download, export or transfer any materials or data obtained from the Platform."
Section 10.4 then states that on termination "all rights granted to Distributor under the Agreement or the applicable Order will immediately cease", while listing section 6 - the licence over Distributor Materials - among the sections that survive. Section 4.13 of its data protection addendum states that "Cut+Dry will delete and destroy Personal Information, and all copies of the same, upon expiration or termination of the applicable Order". Cut+Dry deletes rather than hands over, and no clause offers a distributor a copy on the way out.
Orderspace writes the clearest ownership sentence and deletes on cancellation
"We claim no intellectual property rights over anything you submit to the service. Your information and uploaded material remains solely yours." That is the plainest ownership language in the six. Two sections later, under Cancellation: "All of your data will be deleted from Orderspace upon cancellation, and the information can not be recovered after deletion."
The same section carries one export promise, conditional on the wrong event: "Should Orderspace cease to exist we would provide your data in CSV compatible format within reasonable timescales." A merchant who leaves gets deletion; a merchant whose supplier goes under gets a CSV.
Orderspace does publish a REST API on all four of its plans, so pulling a customer list out is possible in the product. The contract says nothing about it. The clause that grants ownership and the mechanism that delivers portability are rarely the same thing, and the first does not imply the second.
Wholesale Handler cannot export a customer list either
Section 15 of my own terms states that "you have a window to export your data before it's deleted", and the account stays recoverable for 90 days while that window runs. Taken on its own that reads as a full exit.
The product behind it is narrower. Wholesale Handler has one export route, and it produces invoice line items as a CSV - a date range, chosen columns, renamed headers, ready for an accounting package. There is no customer-list export. Customers and products come in from a spreadsheet; neither goes back out the same way. Exporting customers, orders and products from their own pages is on the roadmap and not built.
So on portability Wholesale Handler sits with Faire, Cut+Dry and Upstock rather than with BlueCart. Section 15 is a promise about a window, not about a file that holds everything.
Where it does differ is upstream of any clause. A customer invited into a wholesale customer portal is a row in the merchant's own book, reached by an invitation the merchant sends, rather than an account the platform owns and lends out. That is the half of ownership no exit clause can hand back, and it is settled when the account is created rather than when it closes.
Version dates, and which terms can be read at all
Every one of the six carries a date, which is not a given - a set of terms with no "last updated" stamp tells a reader nothing about what they are agreeing to.
Two of the six resist citation by clause. Orderspace numbers nothing: its terms are headed sections with bullets, so the ownership sentence has a heading and no number. BlueCart's SaaS terms are numbered but published under its privacy-policy address rather than a terms address, and it runs no help centre documenting an export procedure.
Choco is absent from the table for a harder reason. Its legal site publishes privacy policies and one white-label restaurant app document, and no supplier or distributor terms of service that can be read without signing. A supplier weighing it up cannot read the ownership clause before committing to the platform.
