Custom stuffed animals toys is always a cost-effective and great way to boost your brand activation, a soft cuddle toy was very ideal for just about any industry. So here’s what we’d like to share with you some frequent questions about custom plush manufacturing.
Why there is sampling cost when custom plush?
Firstly, experienced designers’ salaries were all very high in the plush toy industry. Even for a simple design, from the basic designing, patterning, fabric & sourcing, sewing, cottoning, prototyping, these procedures will take the designer a couple of days to do.
You could see the “SUN DAY” plush example below. Before the final sample was approved, we took a couple of weeks to communicate and revise. But all effort was worth it when our client placed the 5000 quantities in the initial order.
Most of the time, our factory made samples was just for supporting our clients to develop get potential projects. We didn’t add any profit for the sample cost.
Minimum Order Quantity For Custom Soft Toys
Quantity certainly was an important factor for evaluating the unit cost. The bigger quantity is, the material and labor cost is lower. Paradoxically, some clients need a small quantity to test the market in the beginning, that’s why we offer 500 MOQ for custom stuffed toys projects, instead of 1000.
Materials: Some projects request special fabrics & certain colors, in this way. It will require the fabrics supplier to produce and dye to meet your requirements, such additional labor and production cost certainly will cause MOQ limit.
Different Prices Of Soft Toy From Suppliers?
Generally, the offers from different factories will have around 5%-10% tolerance, if there were large gaps in the quotes, please consider the below factors:
- The types/ weights of fabrics options for your custom soft toys can affect the durabillity of your bulk stuffed animals. Like the most common fabrics: super soft there are 180g, 200g, 220g, 300g, 380g, with 1mm 2mm 3mm 5mm pile length. Different weights might have much difference on the quality, hand-feeling and durability. therefore, it’s importance to confirm details your plush toys manufacturer before ordering.
- Factory size: If you choose the very large scale plush toys factory, you willknow their MOQ was high, normally 5000 at least. Meanwhile, the higher internal managing cost causing the unit cost more expensive than competitors, but if you choose the supplier in the “family workshop” type, except the quality is loosing control, actually the after-sales support is imperfect.
Therefore, we suggest you evaluate your soft toys manufacutrer’s service support & reputation before cooperate. Price didn’t mean everything, sometimes working with companies oversea has always been a gamble with things like communication and details, especially around the holiday seas and Covid.
What Details Are Needed If I’d Like To Get A Quote?
- Picture of the object that you want to turn into the plushies, or artwork, screenshot, any of them is workable. Or if you already have sample on hand, we can replicate directly.
- Further advise the required size for your plush mascot toy, intended order quantity.
- Detailed requests if needed.
