Import Smarter With a Fully Managed Supply Chain Partner
From sourcing and factory vetting to QC, freight, tariffs, and ongoing cost optimization, Importivity gives you one clear program structure to manage your product from spec to landed inventory.
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Two pricing tracks, both disclosed in full before any work begins. No hidden margin, no buried commissions, no invented line items.
OTC & White-Label
For products that already exist and need white-labeling, rebranding, or light modification. Straight cost-plus on a tiered markup that drops as your lifetime spend grows.
- Up to $1M lifetime spend: 10%
- $1M-$2M lifetime: 9%
- $2M-$3M lifetime: 8%
- $3M-$4M lifetime: 7%
- $4M+ lifetime: 6%
- $10M+ annual spend: 4.5%
- Commodity programs: 2% ($5M+ annual volume)
Custom Projects
For custom-developed or custom-engineered products. Priced after a discovery meeting and delivered as a single fully-loaded quote. One unit price, every cost between the factory and your door accounted for.
- Unit price
- Quality control
- Freight & shipping
- Duties & tariffs
- All to-door costs
- = Your landed cost
Additional Services
Charged separately, at published rates, only when a project actually requires them.
- Prototyping: from $5,000 to a production-ready golden sample
- Design: $80/hour
- Engineering: $100-$120/hour
- Billed only when required
- Scope agreed in writing first
Pricing Questions
How your price is set
We do not hide our margin. We do not bury commissions inside your unit cost. We do not invent line items after the fact. What you pay Importivity, and exactly what it covers, is documented in writing in your engagement before we start. Pricing splits into two tracks based on the product you are bringing to market.
$150M+ in sales generated because of Importivity. 31% average client savings on landed cost, net of our pricing. 1,000+ vetted manufacturers across China, Vietnam, Mexico, India and more.
Two pricing tracks, disclosed before any work begins
Whichever track you land on, four things stay constant. Floor for new programs: a $50,000 initial order and $150,000 annual volume. Below that, we will tell you honestly on the consultation whether Importivity is the right partner or whether you would be better served running the first order direct and engaging us once volume justifies the model.
Set in writing before you commit
Your track, your markup or your quote, your deposit, and any expected additional services are documented in your engagement before any work begins. The number you sign is the number you pay.
Deposits applied, not consumed
Sample deposits cover real costs: factory shortlisting, vetting, negotiations, contracts, raw material acquisition, sampling, iteration oversight, and sample delivery. Any unused balance applies to the final payment of your first PO.
Volume rewards loyalty
The more we ship together, the lower your cost-plus markup goes. The tiers are not negotiation theater. They are the published schedule, applied automatically as your lifetime spend crosses each threshold.
Additional services priced openly
Prototyping, design, and engineering are billed separately at published rates. Scope and ceiling are agreed before work starts. No mystery hours, no surprise invoices.
The three things we charge for separately. Published rates.
Some projects need prototyping work, industrial design, or engineering input before they are ready to manufacture. When they do, you see the rate up front. When they do not, you do not pay it.
Prototyping: From $5,000
Fixed-rate fee covering everything required to reach a production-ready golden sample. Scales with product cost and the scope of work involved. Quoted at the close of the discovery meeting so you know the number before any prototyping begins.
Design: $80/hour
Industrial design, packaging design, and revision work coordinated with the factory. Estimated hours and ceiling agreed before work begins. You see the running tally, not a surprise bill at the end.
Engineering: $100 to $120/hour
Mechanical, materials, and manufacturing engineering. Range reflects the seniority of the engineer assigned to the work. Hourly rate confirmed and ceiling set before any engineering hours are logged against your project.
Everything that happens between your spec and your shelf.
Finding a factory is the easy part. The work that protects your margin, your IP, your launch timeline, and your shipments happens across six phases of the import process. The deliverables are the same regardless of which pricing track you are on. What changes is how we get compensated for them: built into the cost-plus markup on OTC programs, built into the fully-loaded quote on custom programs. Prototyping, design, and engineering are the only services billed separately, at the published rates above.
Phase 01: Strategy & Sourcing
- Sourcing strategy: We map the right country, region, and supplier category for your product. Decisions about China-direct, plus-one diversification, or nearshoring get made up front, not after a launch goes sideways.
- Manufacturer vetting: We qualify factories from our network of 1,000+ vetted partners. Capability audits, financial stability checks, compliance history, and capacity validation, before your product touches their floor.
- Cost benchmarking: We surface real comparative quotes across qualified factories so you understand where the market actually sits, not just where your first quote landed.
- Supply chain mapping: We trace upstream component and material flows so you know where the real bottlenecks and risks live, including tier-2 and tier-3 supplier exposure.
Phase 02: Development & Sampling
- Sample procurement: We manage the sample cycle until quality, fit, and finish match the production standard you will accept. Multiple iterations, factory pushback, and timeline pressure all handled by our team. Sampling costs sit inside your deposit.
- Golden sample lock: Once a sample passes, we lock it as the QC reference for every production run that follows. Your standard is documented and enforceable, not subject to factory drift.
- Tooling and mold oversight: For custom products we oversee tooling specification, ownership terms, validation, and lifecycle management so your tooling investment stays protected and your tooling sits where it should.
- Prototyping coordination: When a product needs prototyping work to reach a manufacturable spec, that work runs as a separately quoted fixed-rate engagement (starting at $5,000). You see the number before we start.
Phase 03: Contracts & IP
- Manufacturer agreements: NDAs, MOQs, payment terms, tooling ownership, exclusivity, and quality clauses. Written by people who have signed thousands of these and seen what goes wrong when they are not.
- IP protection structuring: Supplier IP clauses, trademark registration support in production countries, and tooling ownership structured so your factory cannot turn around and sell your product to a competitor.
- Non-circumvention coverage: Mutual non-circumvention frames protect the supplier relationship we developed, the pricing leverage that comes with it, and your ability to operate without supplier end-runs.
- Payment term negotiation: We negotiate deposit, milestone, and final payment terms with the factory on your behalf so your cash exposure is structured around production milestones, not blank-check prepayments.
Phase 04: Production & QC
- Production monitoring: We track production against the agreed timeline and flag slippage early. Materials sourcing, labor allocation, and line scheduling, monitored by our team on the ground.
- Inline inspection: Inspection during production catches defects before they become container loads. AQL sampling protocols and defect classification, run by people who do this every week.
- Pre-shipment inspection: Final inspection against the golden sample before goods leave the factory. Issues identified here trigger rework rather than returns.
- On-the-ground oversight: Our Asia operations team travels to Qingdao, Shenzhen, and other manufacturing hubs to oversee critical production runs in person. The factory knows we are watching.
Phase 05: Logistics & Import
- Freight coordination: We negotiate with freight forwarders, consolidate shipments where possible, and surface real landed-cost comparisons across ports, carriers, and shipping modes.
- Customs and clearance: HTS classification, documentation, and customs broker coordination so your goods clear cleanly. Errors here cost weeks and dollars; we run the playbook that avoids both.
- Tariff strategy: HTS classification review, country-of-origin engineering, free-trade-zone evaluation, and First Sale rule structuring where applicable. Tariff policy moves; we track it daily and act before it hits your P&L.
- Importer of record support: Whether you act as importer of record or we structure the program differently, we make sure the customs posture, documentation, and regulatory filings are right for your situation.
Phase 06: Optimization & Resilience
- Plus-one supply development: 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.
- Pricing renegotiation: 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.
- Continuous cost engineering: 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.
- Market intelligence: Tariff shifts, factory capacity changes, raw material trends, and competitive sourcing intelligence. We surface what matters to your program before it shows up on your dock.
A supply partner. Not a one-time consultant.
Most of our clients have been with us for years across multiple product programs. The model is built for that. The longer you ship with us, the less you pay us. The more you trust us with, the more we earn it back in price negotiation, freight savings, tariff strategy, and supply resilience.
Track and rate set in writing
Before any work starts, your engagement names which track you are on, what your markup or quote covers, what your deposit is, and what additional services we expect the project to need. No retainers running while we figure out scope.
Deposits go toward your order
Sample deposits are not a fee. They cover hard costs through sample delivery. Anything left over applies to the final payment of your first PO. For tooling-heavy products we recommend factory visits and deeper due diligence before significant tooling deposits.
Your markup drops as you grow
The cost-plus tier schedule is published. Your markup steps down 1% for every additional $1M of lifetime spend, from 10% down to 6%. Annual spend above $10M unlocks 4.5%. Commodity programs can run as low as 2% at $5M+ annual commodity volume.
Outcomes you can verify
The average Importivity client saves 31% on landed cost net of our pricing. We will show you the comparison against your current supplier or competing quotes before you commit to anything.
The choice is not where to source. It is who runs the import.
Most importers operate one of three ways. We built Importivity to be the third.
Direct Sourcing
- What you get: A factory contact. From there, sampling, QC, contracts, freight, and customs are entirely on you.
- How it is priced: No agency fee, but every hour you spend running the import is an hour off your business. Mistakes get expensive fast.
- Transparency: You see what the factory tells you. Hidden commissions and inflated quotes are common when you do not know what to look for.
- Quality control: You hire an inspection firm separately, you manage the protocol, you decide what to do when the report comes back bad.
- Tariff and customs strategy: Your responsibility. HTS classification mistakes, missed mitigation strategies, and policy changes all hit your P&L directly.
- Ongoing support: Every new product, new run, and renegotiation starts from scratch.
Project-Based Agencies
- What you get: A supplier introduction, plus maybe a few rounds of help. Then the relationship is yours to manage alone.
- How it is priced: Flat fee of $5,000 to $15,000 to find a supplier, often with hidden commissions on top. Then you pay again for every new project.
- Transparency: Agency fee is visible. The markup the agency negotiates into the unit cost on top of that is often not.
- Quality control: Often added on as a separate service, separately invoiced. Inline inspection is rare.
- Tariff and customs strategy: Typically out of scope. You hire a customs broker separately and hope the agency told you the right HTS.
- Ongoing support: After the fee is collected, your outcome is largely on you. Price increases, supplier issues, and tariff changes are yours to handle.
Importivity
- What you get: A managed import program. One partner from spec through landed product, then continuing across every PO that follows.
- How it is priced: Cost-plus markup on OTC (2% to 10%, dropping with lifetime spend) or a fully-loaded quote on custom. Prototyping, design, and engineering at published rates.
- Transparency: Markup percentage published. Deposit usage documented. Additional services priced openly by the hour or by fixed rate. No commissions buried in unit cost.
- Quality control: Inline, pre-shipment, and on-the-ground inspection included in your program. Our team is in Asia and on factory floors.
- Tariff and customs strategy: Classification, country-of-origin engineering, free-trade-zone evaluation, and First Sale structuring as part of your program.
- Ongoing support: Continuous. Renegotiations, plus-one development, quarterly reviews, and market intelligence built into the program. Markup drops as your volume grows.
Our clients build real businesses.
Three of them, public. Many more under NDA.
From the first sample to the final container, Importivity ran a process I could actually see. Markup was on the table before I signed.
They negotiated three rounds of price increases away before they ever hit my invoice. That alone is worth the partnership.
Got us from rough prototype to a launch-ready product without ever feeling like we lost control of the IP or the timeline.
Frequently Asked Questions
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