It was decided, which I pushed strongly, to keep it simple: just collect rent for the vendor spaces. This keeps DMS out of the sales stream and any involvement with sales tax, processing fees, etc. No issues of “did they report all their sales?”
This makes it very easy to keep track of monies taken in and not co-mingled with other DMS electronic payments coming through DMS. Those vendor transactions would have to be dealt with separately. The money collected is for the Maker Fellowship Fund so the money does not technically belong to DMS - it will be deposited with DMS with will hold it for benefit of the MFF. When fellowships are awarded, money is transferred on the books to DMS,
Keeps everything separate and traceable.