For interior designers: how to refer a client to procurement

Interior designers get asked about furniture sourcing constantly. It's part of the job. But managing procurement — suppliers, purchase orders, lead times, delivery coordination — is a separate job that many designers don't want to take on, or don't have the supplier relationships to do well.

DAF is a procurement firm. We handle the sourcing end. If you have a client who needs furniture and you're not managing the procurement yourself, you can refer them to us.

What the referral looks like

You send us the client's name and email. That's it. We reach out, handle the brief, draft the plan, manage sourcing, and deliver.

You get 20% of our service fee when the project closes. No tracking links to manage. No invoices to chase. We pay you when the project closes.

On a $60,000 project at supplier cost: our fee is $12,000. Your referral cut is $2,400 — for one email.

How the fee works

Our fee is 20% of supplier cost. Your referral fee is 20% of that — so effectively 4% of the total supplier cost of the project.

• $30,000 supplier cost project → $6,000 DAF fee → $1,200 referral
• $50,000 supplier cost project → $10,000 DAF fee → $2,000 referral
• $100,000 supplier cost project → $20,000 DAF fee → $4,000 referral

The average residential furnishing project in our pipeline has run $45,000–$70,000 at supplier cost. Most referral fees land between $1,800–$2,800.

What stays yours

The design relationship is yours. We don't pitch design services to your clients. We handle procurement — sourcing, orders, logistics, delivery — and refer back if they need anything beyond that.

Some designers use us as a permanent arm of their sourcing workflow: they spec the room, we source it. Others refer clients who are furnishing independently. Both work.

What we need from you

• Client name and email — we'll reach out directly
• Optional: budget range and room type, if you know it
• Optional: any style direction or existing specs

You can fill out the referral form on the site or email us directly at hello@davidandrewfurniture.com with the client's contact details.

If you want to talk through how this would work for a specific client or project, email us. We can walk through what the plan would look like and whether procurement makes sense for the scope.