The buyer confirmed a 5-panel construction, planned 100 hats across four designs at 25 pieces per design, requested custom sweatband or inner tape and custom hang tags, excluded custom packaging, and planned to send final vector artwork for each design so digital mockups and the quotation could be prepared.
The trial quantity was divided by design
The buyer described the first order as a 100-piece trial across four designs. The requested quotation was to show hat production cost for 25 pieces per design, making the design-level quantity part of the planning brief rather than treating the 100 pieces as one undifferentiated total.
Construction and artwork were confirmed before quotation work
The buyer confirmed a 5-panel construction based on the current mockups. Final vector artwork for each design was to be supplied so the digital mockups and quotation could be prepared from the intended designs rather than placeholders.
Trims were included while packaging was excluded
The requested scope included a custom sweatband or inner tape and custom hang tags. The same buyer explicitly stated that customized packaging, boxes and poly bags were not required. This created a clearer boundary between product customization and packaging scope.
What this project does not prove
This record does not establish that every 100-piece order can always be divided into four designs on the same commercial terms. It documents how one buyer structured a trial-order request before the supplier's final quotation.
Project Evidence
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