Wholesale minimum order help please

[helen.broadhead]

I am just working on my wholesale order forms and I am struggling alittle with the minimum order. Its really feasible to have a minimum order in money amount for my products, so would it be ok to have a set amount say minimum order 10 products?
Do I do this for each item say minimum order 5 of each product or 10 products in total, so they can choose a selection?

I dont know what to do for the best, dont want to put anyone off but also dont want people just ordering one thing!

Any help please?

Many thanks
Helen

[NikiJ]

I'm interested to hear what others say about this as I have had a wholesale enquiry and would need to give a minimum order but not sure how much.

Sorry I can't be any help.
Niki
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[knotjustjigs]

Helen, the only advice i would give as a buyer would be don't set the ammount too high. I know when i used to by certain product from one of my suppliers they did it in 5's which i thought very reasonable but now they have put it up to 10 and it makes me think before buying.

Toniann x
www.knotjustjigs.co.uk

[Lemon]

I think it all depends tbh !! I have wholesalers who I buy from where they have a set minimum amount and provide me with 12 of each thing but a ratio of different sizes or some who you can pick and choose size, styles etc. To start with I would agree with Toniann, don't make it too high to start with. I would think because of the type of product that you are selling, which are quite costly to purchase for one item, it would be better to offer a pick and mix rather than 5 of the same product ie 5 tables. So you would need to set a minimum order amount.

HTH xx

[AmyLew22]

Not sure how much help this is, but whenever my mum used to buy wholesale they would set a minimum spend limit rather than a quantity of products...

HTH!?!

[tracey2756]

I have a minimum spend rather than a certain amount of products

[MerrilyMe]

Yeah, i'm much happier buying 2's of stuff but spending £150+ than i am buying in 5's or 10's and only buying a few lines.

[trogette]

I have suppliers with varying minimum order methods, with the stuff I wholesale I use the minimums from my suppliers (when I approached one company they said '120 items' I said 'uh, I'm not that big!' and they brought it down to 20. Phew!)

One of my suppliers caught me out recently with shipping, they have a flat rate shipping up to a certain weight but with new products you don't always know the weight and I ended up paying for 2 lots of shipping :( idiot tax on me I guess...

[sadierhianne]

All of my suppliers - i have 17 suppliers all have set amounts - some are really good at £50 minimum which means if i run out of stock of just one item i can restock for not a huge amount - i have others that are £350 + Vat and it makes it really hard if i run out of just one item - i can;'t afford to spend that amount just cause i ran out of one product.

I am talking about small items here though - you sell big stuff which has a bigger price tag so maybe work out how much a few tables and a few chairs would cost and see how much that would be - maybe do a £200 minimum spend OR some of my suppliers offer quite a low minimum but free postage if i spend over a much bigger amount.

You couldn't be seeling just one 'cause otherwise anyone could buy at your trade prices -

perosnally i'd go with a minimum spend based on what you'd be happy to sell a minimum of -

Then again maybe minimum three tables, four chairs, 6 bookends whatever is better - if 6 bookends works out cheaper than you'd be willing to offer a minimum spend for then maybe you have to think about............. hmmm

its hard init?

maybe offer a choice? can you do that?

Offer customers a choice of a minimum spend say £200 + Vat or a minimum of eg 4 chairs, 2 tables, 6 bookends or whatever. Anyone happy to spend over 200 won't be bothered and will prefer that way - those on a budget will be able to afford to purchase if they want to - helpful to new busineses.

might that work? It would mean you are terribly flexible ;-)

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[sadierhianne]

i haggle for free shipping where i can - i have been lucky with some suppliers 'cause they rememeber being new too. Or you coud offer them the choice of arranging their own postage - would make life easier for you.

I paid £30 for delivery recently - i was gutted and then they charged me 5.25 vat on the postage cost - it means that i just lost all my profit and some more on that product 'cause again i am not that big.

I love my free postage companies ;-)