Costing

Price a program
without the email chain.

Send one program to every factory you're considering, get their prices back in the same shape, and compare them side by side — before a single PO exists.

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Before this

Six factories, six spreadsheets, six different answers.

One quotes FOB, another delivered duty-paid. One prices the whole style, another breaks it by size. Someone re-types it all into a comparison sheet, and by the time it's finished two factories have sent revisions. Costing is that same job, done once and kept honest.

How it works

Four steps, one decision.

STEP 01

Build the program

Add your styles and the size ranges you want priced, attach tech packs and CADs, and set the date you need it in the US.

STEP 02

Pick who sees it

Choose the factories, and each one gets an email inviting them in. Your files stay in the portal, not in an inbox.

STEP 03

They price it

Every factory answers the same questions: a price per size range, currency, terms, minimum order, lead time, and a ship date.

STEP 04

You compare and confirm

One table, every factory on it. Pick one, ask for another round, or take the whole thing to Excel.

The comparison

The cheapest quote isn't always the cheapest price.

An FOB quote doesn't include duty. A delivered duty-paid quote already does. Put your duty rates in once, by country, and every bid is compared on what it actually lands at — not on whichever number was typed in the email.

  • One row per factory, one column per size range, with the best price on each row picked out.
  • Terms marked on every row, so you always know which numbers already include duty.
  • A suggested winner on landed cost, with its caveats shown — lead time and capacity stay your call.
  • See who sharpened their pencil — a revised price shows how it moved since the last round.
  • Export to Excel when you want the numbers in front of someone who isn't in the portal.

What the factory sees

Their own quote. Nothing else.

An invited factory signs in to the same portal it already uses for production, downloads the files, and fills in one form. It never sees another factory's price — or even that anyone else was asked.

  • A price for every size range, or an explicit "no quote" — so a blank is never mistaken for cheap.
  • Sealed on submit. Nobody can change a bid after it's sent, including you.
  • They can decline with a reason, and you stop chasing them.
  • Whatever file you have goes to them, and they download exactly what you sent — tech packs, CADs, spec sheets, anything.

What's inside

The parts that save the follow-ups.

Revision rounds

Ask one factory to re-quote and only their window reopens. The round they sent stays readable forever.

Chase-ups that stop

Factories that haven't answered are reminded every couple of days. Answer or decline, and the reminders end.

Buyers get a digest

Assign the buyers on a program and they get a weekday summary of what came in — and nothing at all on a quiet day.

A target per size range

Set what you're hoping to pay on each range, not one figure for the whole program. What you'd show a factory is a separate number — and what you won't stays yours.

Files where they belong

Specs for the whole package, tech packs and CADs on each style, and the cost sheets and sample photos that come back — paste them straight in from the clipboard.

One picture of the thing

Mark an image as the main one and it follows the program everywhere — the card on the board, the order it becomes, and the comparison you export.

Start from last season

Duplicate a past costing into a fresh draft, bringing its factories and files if you want them. Next year's version isn't a retype.

Numbered by season

Every costing is numbered by the season it's for, so finding last Fall's takes a second.

A deadline that holds

Past the due date it stops taking bids on its own — nothing to remember to close.

Filter the board

Narrow to a season, a status, or the buyer who owns it — and the filter is still there when you come back.

Every step on record

Published, invited, viewed, bid, revised, confirmed — with who did it and when.

Sealed by design

No factory can see another's price.

A factory can only open a program you invited it to, and only ever sees its own costing. It isn't told who else you asked, or how many have answered.

Invite only

Not invited means not visible, however the link is reached.

Sealed bids

A submitted price can't be edited by anyone.

Links, not files

Invitations carry a link. Your tech packs never leave the portal by email.

Notes stay internal

Your own notes on a costing are never shown to a factory.

It doesn't stop there

The same factories, all the way through.

The factory you confirm here is the one already on your production board, updating its own dates, drafting shipments, and having its test reports checked by AI before you file with the CPSC. One system from the first quote to the port.

Questions

Common questions

No. At quoting time a program often has no style numbers and no size breakdown yet, so both are optional. A style with no size ranges is simply priced once, as a whole.
Never by itself, and not by you either. If you want a better number, you request a revision — that closes the round it sent and opens a new one. The earlier round stays on the record exactly as submitted.
Set your duty rate for each country once. A quote where you still owe duty has it added on; a delivered duty-paid quote already includes it, so it's left alone. Everything is then ranked on what it really lands at. If you haven't set any rates, quotes are compared as quoted and the table tells you so.
No. A factory only reaches a program you invited it to, and only ever sees its own costing — not a competitor's price, not who else was invited, not how many have replied.
The people who run your production do — they create the programs and compare what comes back. Look-only accounts and your customs broker never see it at all.
Yes. Costing is part of the platform, like everything else — see pricing. Add-ons only ever cover how your order data gets in.

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