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We add a percentage on top of what the factory actually charges you. The factory's invoice is the factory's invoice. Our fee sits on top, in writing, before you commit a dollar. As your cumulative spend grows, the percentage drops.
That's it. No retainer. No padded quotes. No back-channel commissions from the supplier.
You see the factory invoice and our fee on separate lines. Always. The number in the contract is the number you pay.
Spend across every project and product line counts toward your tier reduction. The more you build with us, the less we charge per dollar.
We only earn our fee when you place an actual purchase order. If we cannot find you the best product at the best terms, we do not get your business.
Standard cost-plus tiers reduce by 1% for every $500,000 in cumulative spend, all the way down to 4.5% at scale. Commodity sourcing can be quoted as low as 2.5% to stay competitive on volume goods.
Commodity exception. Pure commodity goods (high volume, thin margin categories) can be quoted as low as 2.5% to remain competitive against pure manufacturers. Quoted per project after a discovery call.
Move the slider to your projected cumulative spend. We will show your applicable fee tier and what that looks like in real dollars.
Cost-plus covers sourcing, vetting, negotiation, QC, logistics coordination, tariff strategy, and ongoing optimization. The work below is scoped and billed transparently so it never inflates your unit cost.
Industrial design, packaging design, brand assets, and technical drawings. Handled in-house by our design team and billed hourly with weekly summaries.
Mechanical, electrical, and tooling engineering through our vetted third-party network. Billed directly to you by the engineering firm. We coordinate, you control the relationship.
Scope-dependent flat fee covering CAD, sample production, iteration cycles, and golden sample validation. Quoted up front so you know the full cost before you start.
This is not a retainer. This is not a deposit you lose. If we cannot deliver the best product, from the best factory, at the best terms, you owe us nothing for our sourcing time.
We earn our cost-plus fee only when a purchase order is signed and production is greenlit. Discovery, factory vetting, and pricing comparison are at our risk.
On projects that require tooling, mold development, or golden sample production before a PO, we collect a project deposit. That money is used to pay for samples and tooling. It is not our fee.
The average Importivity client saves 31% on landed cost after our fee. We will show you the comparison against your current supplier or competing quotes, line by line, before you commit.
Manufacturers are disclosed. Contracts are in your name. If you ever want to take a supplier in-house, you can. Most of our clients don't, because the work that happens after the factory introduction is what they actually pay us for.
Most sourcing agencies use one of two structures. We built Importivity to be the alternative to both.
A capable factory is table stakes. The work that protects your margin, your IP, and your launch timeline happens after the supplier is identified. This is the work most agencies do not do, and the reason our fee exists.
We manage the sample cycle until quality, fit, and finish match the production standard you will accept. Then we lock that golden sample as the QC reference for every future run. Learn more about our QC process.
NDAs, MOQs, payment terms, tooling ownership, exclusivity, and quality clauses. Written by people who have signed thousands of these and seen what goes wrong.
IP clauses in supplier contracts, trademark registration support in production countries, and tooling ownership structured so your factory cannot turn around and sell your product to a competitor.
We negotiate with freight forwarders, consolidate shipments where possible, and surface real landed-cost comparisons across ports, carriers, and shipping modes. Explore our logistics services.
HTS classification review, country-of-origin engineering, free-trade-zone evaluation, and First Sale rule structuring. We track tariff policy daily and act before changes hit your P&L.
Single-supplier dependence is a business risk. We develop a qualified secondary factory in a different region so a quality issue, port closure, or geopolitical event does not stop your shipments. Read about our supply chain approach.
Inline, pre-shipment, and post-shipment inspections handled by our Asia operations team. We travel to Qingdao, Shenzhen, and other hubs to oversee critical production runs in person. See our quality control standards.
Manufacturers raise prices. Constantly. Materials, labor, tariffs, FX, all become reasons. We push back on every increase with data, comparable quotes, and the leverage of moving volume elsewhere.
Every quarter we review your bill of materials, supplier performance, and freight spend for further savings. Optimization is not a project. It is the relationship.
Three of them, public. Many more under NDA.
From the first sample to the final container, Importivity ran a process I could actually see. No mystery margins.
They negotiated three rounds of price increases away before they ever hit my invoice. That alone is worth the fee.
Got us from rough prototype to a launch-ready product without ever feeling like we lost control of the IP or the factory.
If something is not covered here, the consultation will get to it. We have never started a project without a buyer who fully understands the fee structure. View all FAQs.
No hard minimum, but the cost-plus model only makes sense above a certain spend. If your first order is under $25,000 we will tell you on the consultation whether Importivity is the right fit or whether you would be better off direct-sourcing for the first run.
Your tier is based on cumulative spend with Importivity across every project, every product, every supplier. Once you cross a threshold, every new PO is billed at the lower rate. The savings compound as you scale, which is the entire point.
Pure commodities (where margin is razor-thin and price is the only variable) can be quoted as low as 2.5%. This is decided on a per-project basis after a discovery call. We will not take a commodity project at a rate that erodes your margin past the point of viability.
No. It is built into the vendor agreements we sign and we audit for it. Our entire pricing model is the alternative to that practice. If you ever discover a supplier paid us anything outside of an invoiced fee, we will refund the project.
Deposits are only collected on projects that require significant tooling or golden sample production before a PO is realistic. The deposit pays the factory for samples and tooling. It is not our fee. Our fee is only earned when a PO is placed.
Yes. Manufacturer relationships are in your name from day one. Most clients choose to keep us in the loop because the post-introduction work (QC, freight, tariffs, renegotiation) is what they pay us for, not the introduction itself. But the door is open both ways.
Most clients are on a discovery call within 48 hours of submitting a sourcing request, with a sourcing strategy mapped within 7 days. Sampling timelines depend on the product, but we can often have first samples in hand within 3 to 5 weeks.
Bring a product, a target landed cost, and a quote from your current supplier. In 30 minutes we will tell you whether we can beat it, where the savings actually are, and what our fee would like over the life of the account.
No deposit, no obligation. We only earn our fee when you place a purchase order.
