Pricing
Clear service fees. No silent markup inside the product invoice.
Managed sourcing fees are calculated on confirmed factory product value: max(product value × agreed rate, US$999 minimum). A written quote always governs. These figures are a trial operating policy, not a public coupon.
Management fee
5%–10%
Of confirmed product value
Minimum
US$999
Per managed sourcing project
Assessment
US$399–999
May credit within 60 days
Software
Quoted
Separate from sourcing commission
What sits in the product-value base.
The default base is this project’s confirmed factory goods amount. We do not take a percentage of a mixed invoice that already includes freight, duty or our fee.
Usually in the base
- Confirmed factory product value for this order, in the quoted currency.
- The written rate, or the US$999 minimum if the percentage would land below it.
Not in the base unless the quote says so
- International freight, insurance, duties and destination taxes.
- Independent inspection, lab tests and Globesino’s own service fee.
- Moulds, samples and domestic freight — these are listed on their own line.
What you pay, split out.
Factory goods
You pay the supplier under the purchase contract. Globesino does not operate escrow or automatic payouts in this release.
Globesino fee
Usually 5%–10% of confirmed product value, with a US$999 minimum. Large, multi-SKU or long programmes are quoted separately. The minimum is not charged again for extra payments inside the same agreed project.
Approved extras
Inspection, testing, tooling, samples or freight when needed. Named partners, billed separately, approved before we incur them.
Assessment credit, in one formula.
If a paid assessment on the same brief becomes managed work within 60 days of report delivery, qualifying fees already received may be credited.
Example, not a calculator
Product value US$30,000 at 8% is a US$2,400 management fee. If a US$599 assessment was paid and qualifies for credit, the remaining fee is US$1,801. The assessment is not charged again on top.
If you stop after the assessment, you pay only that agreed deliverable. Cancellation, incomplete search and quantity cuts are settled in the quote — not by a blanket “no refunds” line.
We do not publish an automatic ladder that drops the fee when value crosses a round number. Extra SKUs, extra factories, custom work, long cycles and heavy inspection raise cost and are priced before they start. Repeat orders, added SKUs or a new product line are confirmed as the same project or a new one before that work starts — so the US$999 minimum is not charged twice by accident, and is not skipped when the work is genuinely new.
What a written quote lists.
- Client, project number, scope version and currency.
- Product-value base, rate, minimum, assessment credit and tax treatment.
- Named third-party costs, payment stages, validity and how changes are priced.
- For software: modules, content, licences, deployment, handover, acceptance and maintenance.
Software is never billed as a sourcing percentage. Public starting prices appear only after a delivery scope is attached.
Ask for a written quote after we understand the brief.
A short project brief is enough. We reply with fit, scope and whether a consultation is useful.