Termination Policy

Overview

Your access to a category can end because you stop paying, because DAS suspends you for breach, or because you simply choose to stop. Whatever the reason, the effect is the same: access to sell the brands in that category ends, fees and commission already owed don't go away, and the 5-year non-resale restriction starts immediately. This policy governs the dealer's access to a category through DAS — not the dealer's separate relationship with any manufacturer.

1. Purpose
This policy describes how a dealer's access to a product category through DAS can end, and what happens as a result. It works alongside the Fee & Commission Policy and the Non-Circumvention Policy, and doesn't override anything in those documents.

2. Termination for non-payment
If the dealer falls behind on the $29 every-4-weeks category fee or on commission owed to DAS, DAS has the contractual right to require the dealer to immediately stop selling the brands onboarded within that category, per the Fee & Commission Policy. DAS is not obligated to provide advance notice or a cure period before doing so, though it may choose to at its discretion.

3. Termination for breach
DAS may terminate a dealer's category access immediately if the dealer breaches the Non-Circumvention Policy, misrepresents information in onboarding paperwork, or otherwise materially breaches these terms.

4. Voluntary termination by the dealer
A dealer may end their access to a category at any time by discontinuing the $29 every-4-weeks fee. This is treated the same as any other end of access for purposes of this policy and the Non-Circumvention Policy — including starting the 5-year non-resale clock immediately.

5. Effect of termination
When a dealer's access to a category ends, for any reason:

• The dealer must immediately stop selling, promoting, or listing products from any brand DAS onboarded them to within that category;
• Any onboarding fee, recurring fee, or commission already paid or invoiced is non-refundable, per the Refund Policy;
• The 5-year non-resale restriction under the Non-Circumvention Policy begins immediately;
• Confidentiality obligations under the Non-Circumvention Policy continue to apply.

6. DAS may notify manufacturers
DAS may notify any manufacturer in the affected category that the dealer's authorization facilitated through DAS has ended. This notice concerns the dealer's status with DAS; it does not itself terminate the dealer's separate account or agreement with the manufacturer, which the manufacturer administers independently.

7. Per-category basis
Termination of access to one category has no effect on the dealer's standing, fees, or access in any other category the dealer maintains active access to.

8. Reapplying after termination
The dealer may not sell brands from a terminated category during the 5-year restriction period described in the Non-Circumvention Policy. After that period, the dealer would need to reapply for category access through the standard onboarding process, including payment of the applicable onboarding fee, and is not guaranteed re-acceptance.