Services & pricing

Every rate we charge is on this page.

No "contact us for pricing" on the things that have a price. No commission from the factory. No margin buried in your unit cost. If a number has to be scoped, we tell you the band and how it gets set.

The four services

What each one costs

01 / Our brain

Factory Match Call

A shortlist instead of a search

$299

per 60-minute session

One hour with a Shenzhen-based sourcing lead, then a written shortlist of pre-vetted factories, indicative pricing, and the risks that will cost you money if you miss them.

  • 60-minute 1-on-1 call with a Shenzhen sourcing lead
  • Written summary and shortlist within 1–2 business days
  • Internally vetted factory references matched to your product
  • Indicative pricing for your target quantity
  • Risk assessment across tooling, compliance, and commercial terms

You have a product or a reference product and need to know which factory type to target before you spend anything.

02 / Our eyes

Innovation Safari

See the factory floor yourself

$299 – $499+

per day · remote from $299, on-site from $499

We walk the production line so you do not have to fly. Handheld live video through the workshop, or our partners physically beside you through the plant, the negotiation, and the translation.

  • Remote: handheld live walkthrough of the line, cleanroom, and QC bench
  • Remote: real-time Q&A with the floor manager, recorded for your records
  • On-site: a partner accompanies you through the workshop and the negotiation
  • On-site: process review, technical translation, and commercial interpretation
  • Optional innovation route through benchmark Shenzhen manufacturers

You want to see the real production environment — or you are flying in and need someone who knows which questions land.

03 / Our hands

Supply Chain Management

A China-side team without a China entity

2% – 5%

of product value · scoped and agreed per project

Your virtual COO in China. We run sampling, mass production follow-up, tooling protection, and dispute handling so the project lands on time, on spec, and without you being awake at 3am.

  • Sampling supervision and revision management through to golden sample
  • Mass production follow-up with scheduled progress reporting
  • Tooling and IP protection — moulds stay under your control
  • Purchase order, payment milestone, and contract term management
  • Dispute handling and rework negotiation, in Chinese, on your behalf

You are placing repeat or multi-supplier orders and need continuous execution, not a one-off introduction.

04 / Our safety net

Quality Guard & Consolidation

Nothing ships until it passes

Flat fee + freight at cost

fixed operations fee · carrier rates passed through unmarked

Professional pre-shipment inspection with a Green Pass report, plus a Shenzhen consolidation warehouse that merges every supplier into one palletised, single-declaration shipment.

  • AQL pre-shipment inspection before the goods leave the factory
  • Green Pass report with photo evidence, defect log, and hold or release call
  • Consolidation of multiple factories into one outbound shipment
  • Repacking, palletising, labelling, and unified customs declaration
  • Carrier rates shown at cost — around 30% saved versus shipping supplier by supplier

You are buying from more than one factory, or you have been burned by goods that did not match the approved sample.

Where the money comes from

Four revenue lines. None of them are the factory.

"No kickbacks" is easy to write and impossible to check, so here is the mechanism instead of the adjective.

01

Consultation fees paid by the buyer

02

Day rates for factory visits and inspections

03

A service fee on projects we run end to end

04

A flat operations fee at the consolidation warehouse

Factories pay us nothing. They cannot buy a place on our list, a higher position in a shortlist, or a softer inspection result. When we negotiate with a supplier on your behalf, we have no revenue of our own sitting on their side of the table.

Line three, the service fee, is still a percentage of product value — that part is not disguised. It is documented in your contract as a service fee, not a commission: a separate line you agree to first, billed to you, and never deducted from the factory's invoice. You see that number unmarked.

How buyers usually stack it

Start small, scale the engagement with the risk

  1. 01

    Start with the brain

    A $299 Factory Match Call is where almost every engagement begins. It is deliberately cheap relative to what it prevents.

  2. 02

    Add eyes when it matters

    Before a deposit on an unfamiliar supplier, spend a day looking at the actual production line.

  3. 03

    Hand over the hands

    Once the project is real and repeating, we run the China side for an agreed percentage of product value.

  4. 04

    Keep the safety net on

    Inspection and consolidation stay in place for as long as you keep shipping.

The alternative

What you are choosing between

How ShenzhenList compares with B2B marketplaces and traditional sourcing agents
CompareB2B marketplacesAlibaba, Made-in-China, 1688Traditional sourcing agentsCommission-based middlemenShenzhenListBuyer-side sourcing hub
How suppliers get in front of youThey pay for the ranking, the badge, and the ad slotWhoever pays the agent the best rebateThey pass our vetting, or they are not on the list
Who pays usThe factory — you are the productUsually both sides, and you rarely see the factory sideYou. Only you. We take $0 from factories
What you actually receiveThousands of near-identical listings to filter yourselfA quote, with the factory name withheldA shortlist, the reasoning, the risks, and the factory itself
VerificationA paid third-party audit badge, often years oldTrust the agent and hopeOur own people, on the floor, this quarter
Price transparencyListed prices are negotiating fictionMargin hidden inside the unit pricePublished service fees, factory quotes shown unmarked
After the order shipsNothing — you are on your ownRelationship ends with the transactionSame team on the next order, the next SKU, the next year
When something goes wrongA dispute ticket against a supplier you never metThe agent is negotiating with their own revenue sourceWe are structurally on your side of the table

Swipe the table sideways to compare all three.

Track record

The numbers behind the rates

On the ground
5 yrs
Operating since 2021 inside the Guangdong electronics supply chain, not from an overseas desk.
People, all in China
9
Sourcing leads, project managers, and inspectors based in the Pearl River Delta. No offshore call centre.
Factories screened
5,000+
Checked on ownership, declared capability, certification, and trading-company red flags before anyone gets on a train.
Visited in person
3,800+
Physically walked. Most of them before any client asked us to — that is what building a list nobody can buy into costs.
Overseas buyers served
300+
Hardware founders, DTC and creator brands, and established e-commerce sellers across North America, Europe, and Australia.
Commission from factories
$0
No commission, no rebate, no listing fee — from any factory, ever. Our service fee on managed projects is billed to you and never deducted from a supplier’s invoice.

Pricing FAQ

The questions buyers ask about money

One window into Shenzhen.

Tell us the product. We will tell you which of the four services you actually need — including when the answer is none of them yet.