Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Options, shopping & attachments · Core

Shopping agreement

Also called: shopping deal

ELI5

An agreement authorising a producer or representative to seek buyers or partners without necessarily acquiring the underlying rights.

Used in conversation

“Please send the shopping agreement with the next rights or deal package.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Shopping agreement” in rights, contracts, finance, distribution & labour conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains who controls, pays for, approves, exploits or bears risk around a project.

Caution

Meaning and consequences may change by contract, collective agreement, territory or law. This entry is orientation, not legal advice.

Connected terms

  • OptionAn option grants an exclusive contractual right to acquire rights; a shopping agreement authorises market approaches without necessarily granting that acquisition right.
Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.