Bulk abaya orders and wholesale price breaks

At 100, 300 and 1,000 pieces. Those are the steps and they do not move based on how the conversation goes.

It depends far more on fabric than on quantity. Everything starts from AED 90 at the entry band and comes down from there. Send the styles and the forecast and you get a firm figure per style.

Because it would be a lie. A plain everyday abaya and a fully lined embroidered one at the same quantity are not close in cost. We publish the structure instead, which is more than anyone else in this category does.

On the whole order. Five styles at 200 pieces each is a thousand piece order and it is priced as one, which is usually a pleasant surprise for buyers expecting otherwise.

We will tell you that twenty more pieces crosses a step, and what that is worth. Then it is your call. What we will not do is quote the lower band without mentioning it.

Not as a policy. If you have a cheaper quote, send it and we will tell you honestly where the difference is coming from. Usually it is fabric weight, lining or the finishing, and sometimes it is a genuinely better price.

18 to 35 working days depending on quantity and complexity, quoted exactly when your slot is booked. Freight is on top.

It moves through the year. Ask for your window and you get a straight answer, including if the answer is that we cannot take it.

Enough for the orders on this page, and we will tell you plainly whether your volume fits the production schedule rather than taking a booking we cannot hold.

In the weekly update, as soon as it becomes likely rather than when it becomes certain. Late news is the actual complaint buyers have, more than lateness itself.

The whole region gets busy in the run-up and hours change over Eid itself. Book early for that window. If you come to us eight weeks out for a Ramadan delivery we will be honest about whether it fits.

Sometimes, on catalogue styles in stocked fabric. It usually means overtime, which costs money, and we will quote that rather than absorbing it and cutting a corner somewhere you cannot see.

We buy fabric for the whole run from one dye lot before cutting. Where a single lot cannot cover the quantity, you are told before production and given options.

Split the run so each lot ships to a different destination or drop, so two shades never hang together. Or wait for the mill to produce a bigger lot. Both are your decision, not ours.

We dye a lab dip first and send it for approval. Once you approve the swatch it becomes the reference the bulk fabric is checked against.

A written measurement sheet with tolerances, a sealed sample, and measurement checks between batches. Drift is caught at the batch it starts in rather than at final inspection.

It is remade or credited where the fault is ours. Because checks happen between batches, a problem normally costs a few hundred pieces of rework rather than the whole run.

From photographs. We inspect every order against your spec sheet and send you photos of the finished pieces and the packed cartons before you pay the balance. Nothing ships until you have seen them.

The same structure as everywhere else on this site: a 50–60% deposit to start, and the balance on dispatch, against photos of your packed cartons.

That is normally how it works. The deposit covers the run, then each drop is invoiced as it ships, which is the main cash flow reason to stage in the first place.

Not for a first order. After a few completed orders it is a conversation worth having, and it is a conversation, not a form.

For large orders, yes. They cost both sides money and time, so for most volumes a straightforward deposit is simpler for everyone.

Fabric, mostly. On a volume run the cloth is bought up front, which is where the money goes before a single garment is sewn.

Yes. Every carton is photographed packed and sealed and the balance invoice goes out against those photographs.

Before cutting, usually yes. After cutting, no, because cut fabric cannot be uncut. This is why we push hard on getting the curve right at booking.

Only if the fabric has not been bought, which on a volume order means very early. Later drops in a staged delivery are more flexible than the first.

Before fabric is bought, with the deposit mostly intact. After that, the cloth is spent whether it becomes garments or not. We will always try to find a use for it rather than simply keeping your money.

Tell us instead of going quiet. Slowing later drops, holding stock longer or switching a later drop to a different colour are all things we have done. Taking stock back is the one thing no manufacturer can do.

Sometimes, but not usually at the same price, because the fabric for the original quantity is already on the floor and a second buy may be a different lot. We will tell you what it costs and what the colour risk is.

You commit the whole quantity, which sets your price, then take it in two or three drops on dates you choose. Available from 500 pieces, and storage while staged is free.

Sea for planned volume, air for replenishment. Often a split is best: a small air shipment to open your floor set while the sea consignment follows.

Yes. One production run can be split into separate consignments, each documented properly. Tell us at quoting so the freight is costed correctly.

Your choice between DDP and DAP, and we quote both. At volume the difference is large enough to be worth comparing carefully.

Commercial invoice, packing list, carton manifest, certificate of origin where required, and the inspection record for your run.

Yes, and it needs planning. Carton labelling and packing requirements are strict and non-compliant cartons get rejected. Send us the spec at booking rather than at dispatch.

One named person who knows your order and follows it from fabric to carton. Not a rotating inbox, and not someone who has to go and find out what is happening.

Through the weekly update, with photographs as your order is made. Your cartons are photographed packed and sealed before you pay the balance, so you see the finished run before the money leaves.

A design we develop with you is not sold to anyone else. Full category exclusivity is a different commercial conversation and depends on the volume behind it.

Yes, and we are equally happy dealing with you directly. We do not price differently depending on which route you come through.

Ask us for the current list rather than trusting a logo on a website. If a specific audit or certificate is a requirement for your buyer, tell us early, because some take months to arrange.