diff --git a/controllers/catalogueUploadController.go b/controllers/catalogueUploadController.go
index 7b0e522..fb85323 100644
--- a/controllers/catalogueUploadController.go
+++ b/controllers/catalogueUploadController.go
@@ -130,3 +130,30 @@ func (ctl *CatalogueUploadController) MarkShelved(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
 	}
 	return c.JSON(fiber.Map{"code": 200, "message": "Shelving recorded", "status": true})
 }
+
+// AttachSheet supplies the prices and opening stock for a receipt that has
+// none, so its products can still be put on a shelf.
+//
+// Needed because the receipt and the sheet used to part company. The ingest
+// service holds neither price nor stock — its catalogue is shared by every
+// merchant — so both live only in the spreadsheet, and a receipt written before
+// those rows were stored has no way to finish. Handing the file over again is
+// the only way back, and this is where it lands.
+func (ctl *CatalogueUploadController) AttachSheet(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
+	var input struct {
+		Batchid   string `json:"batchid"`
+		Sheetrows string `json:"sheetrows"`
+	}
+	if err := c.BodyParser(&input); err != nil {
+		return c.JSON(fiber.Map{"code": http.StatusBadRequest, "message": "Invalid input", "status": false})
+	}
+	if strings.TrimSpace(input.Batchid) == "" || strings.TrimSpace(input.Sheetrows) == "" {
+		return c.Status(http.StatusBadRequest).JSON(fiber.Map{
+			"code": http.StatusBadRequest, "message": "batchid and sheetrows are both required", "status": false,
+		})
+	}
+	if err := ctl.service.AttachSheet(input.Batchid, input.Sheetrows); err != nil {
+		return c.JSON(fiber.Map{"code": http.StatusInternalServerError, "message": err.Error(), "status": false})
+	}
+	return c.JSON(fiber.Map{"code": 200, "message": "Sheet attached", "status": true})
+}
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 207440c..4ba51c7 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -156,6 +156,19 @@ func main() {
 		 ON catalogueuploads (tenantid, locationid, created DESC)`).Error; err != nil {
 		log.Println("⚠️  could not add catalogueuploads scope index:", err)
 	}
+	// The sheet's own prices and opening stock, kept so shelving can happen
+	// after the browser that uploaded it is gone.
+	//
+	// Added separately from the CREATE above because the table already exists in
+	// production without it. The ingest service holds none of this — its
+	// catalogue is shared by every merchant and carries no price and no stock —
+	// so before this column the join could only be made in the tab that did the
+	// upload, and that tab is normally long closed by the time their admin
+	// releases the drop and the run finishes.
+	if err := db.DB.Exec(
+		`ALTER TABLE catalogueuploads ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS sheetrows jsonb`).Error; err != nil {
+		log.Fatal("could not add catalogueuploads.sheetrows:", err)
+	}
 
 	f := facade.NewFacade(db.DB, db.CatalogueDB)
 
diff --git a/models/catalogueupload.go b/models/catalogueupload.go
index b28349d..8ba6c54 100644
--- a/models/catalogueupload.go
+++ b/models/catalogueupload.go
@@ -59,6 +59,24 @@ type CatalogueUpload struct {
 	// the service reports, so a drop that never runs still says how big it was.
 	Rowcount int `json:"rowcount" gorm:"column:rowcount"`
 
+	// The sheet itself, as the console parsed it: SKU, price and opening stock
+	// per row, as JSON.
+	//
+	// Stored because the ingest service cannot hold it and nothing else can.
+	// Their pipeline writes the GLOBAL catalogue, which every merchant shares
+	// and which therefore carries no price and no stock; both live only in the
+	// sheet. Shelving is the step that joins the two, and it used to be possible
+	// only in the browser tab that did the upload, because that tab was the only
+	// place the parsed rows existed.
+	//
+	// That failed in the ordinary case rather than a rare one. A drop waits for
+	// their admin to release it and the run then takes minutes, so by the time
+	// there is anything to shelve the tab is usually gone — and the products sit
+	// in the global catalogue, unpriced and unstocked, with no way left to
+	// finish. Keeping the rows here is what lets the Uploads page complete it
+	// days later.
+	Sheetrows string `json:"sheetrows" gorm:"column:sheetrows;type:jsonb"`
+
 	// ── Cached from the ingest service, by whoever last polled ──────────────
 
 	Laststatus string `json:"laststatus" gorm:"column:laststatus;default:pending"`
diff --git a/repositories/catalogueUploadRepository.go b/repositories/catalogueUploadRepository.go
index da8b569..65581d7 100644
--- a/repositories/catalogueUploadRepository.go
+++ b/repositories/catalogueUploadRepository.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ type CatalogueUploadRepository interface {
 	List(tenantID, locationID, pageNo, pageSize int) ([]models.CatalogueUpload, error)
 	UpdateStatus(upload *models.CatalogueUpload) error
 	MarkShelved(batchID string, shelved, skipped int) error
+	AttachSheet(batchID, sheetRows string) error
 }
 
 type catalogueUploadRepository struct {
@@ -148,3 +149,29 @@ func (r *catalogueUploadRepository) MarkShelved(batchID string, shelved, skipped
 			"shelvedat":    gorm.Expr("CURRENT_TIMESTAMP"),
 		}).Error
 }
+
+// AttachSheet stores the sheet's rows against a receipt that has none.
+//
+// The rescue path for a receipt filed before the rows were kept, and for one
+// whose upload predates this column. The prices and opening stock exist only in
+// the spreadsheet; if the receipt was written without them, the only way back is
+// for somebody to hand the file over again.
+//
+// Deliberately not part of UpdateStatus. That call is made by any browser
+// polling the ingest service and must never touch what the console owns; this
+// one is a person supplying missing data, and the two should not be able to
+// happen by accident in each other's place.
+func (r *catalogueUploadRepository) AttachSheet(batchID, sheetRows string) error {
+	if strings.TrimSpace(batchID) == "" {
+		return errors.New("batchid is required")
+	}
+	if strings.TrimSpace(sheetRows) == "" {
+		// Empty would be stored as `[]` and read back as "this sheet had no
+		// rows", which is a different claim from "nobody has supplied them
+		// yet" — and the second is what makes the shelve button appear.
+		return errors.New("sheetrows is required")
+	}
+	return r.db.Model(&models.CatalogueUpload{}).
+		Where("batchid = ?", batchID).
+		Update("sheetrows", sheetRows).Error
+}
diff --git a/routes/uploadroutes.go b/routes/uploadroutes.go
index c634942..aac1702 100644
--- a/routes/uploadroutes.go
+++ b/routes/uploadroutes.go
@@ -29,5 +29,9 @@ func RegisterUploadRoutes(api fiber.Router, f *facade.Facade) {
 	// The other half: priced, shelved and stocked at a branch. Kept apart from
 	// /update because the ingest service confirms the shared global catalogue
 	// and knows nothing about a shop's shelf.
+	// The rescue path: hand the spreadsheet over again for a receipt whose
+	// prices and opening stock were never stored, so it can still be shelved.
+	uploads.Put("/sheet", f.CatalogueUploadController.AttachSheet)
+
 	uploads.Put("/shelved", f.CatalogueUploadController.MarkShelved)
 }
diff --git a/services/catalogueUploadService.go b/services/catalogueUploadService.go
index a90785f..99a8845 100644
--- a/services/catalogueUploadService.go
+++ b/services/catalogueUploadService.go
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package services
 
 import (
+	"strings"
+
 	"nearle/models"
 	"nearle/repositories"
 )
@@ -23,6 +25,7 @@ type CatalogueUploadService interface {
 	List(tenantID, locationID, pageNo, pageSize int) ([]models.CatalogueUpload, error)
 	UpdateStatus(upload *models.CatalogueUpload) error
 	MarkShelved(batchID string, shelved, skipped int) error
+	AttachSheet(batchID, sheetRows string) error
 }
 
 type catalogueUploadService struct {
@@ -40,6 +43,13 @@ func (s *catalogueUploadService) Record(upload *models.CatalogueUpload) error {
 		// the pipeline had it when it is in fact waiting for a person.
 		upload.Laststatus = "pending"
 	}
+	if strings.TrimSpace(upload.Sheetrows) == "" {
+		// `sheetrows` is jsonb, and Postgres rejects an empty string for it —
+		// "invalid input syntax for type json" — which would fail the whole
+		// receipt over a field nobody supplied. An empty ARRAY is the honest
+		// value: no rows were sent, so there is nothing to shelve from later.
+		upload.Sheetrows = "[]"
+	}
 	return s.repo.Record(upload)
 }
 
@@ -54,3 +64,7 @@ func (s *catalogueUploadService) UpdateStatus(upload *models.CatalogueUpload) er
 func (s *catalogueUploadService) MarkShelved(batchID string, shelved, skipped int) error {
 	return s.repo.MarkShelved(batchID, shelved, skipped)
 }
+
+func (s *catalogueUploadService) AttachSheet(batchID, sheetRows string) error {
+	return s.repo.AttachSheet(batchID, sheetRows)
+}