A minimum order quantity (MOQ) is the smallest number of units a supplier will accept on a single order. It exists because a supplier's per-order costs, such as picking, paperwork, and packaging setup, do not shrink as the order gets smaller.
What an MOQ is really pricing
An MOQ is a supplier telling you where their fixed costs per order stop being worth it. That is legitimate on a manufacturing run, where a batch has setup cost regardless of size. It is less defensible on a pick-and-ship operation, where the marginal work of one more single-unit order is one more pick.
For a new brand an MOQ is capital risk in disguise. Committing to fifty units of a product you have never sold means you have made a demand forecast with money, before you had any data to make it with. The cost of being wrong is not the money, it is that the money is now sitting on a shelf instead of testing the next product.
It is worth separating a true MOQ from a minimum order value, which is a different constraint with the same feel, and from a monthly minimum, which charges you for a month you did not use. Read the catalog terms for which of the three, if any, applies.
Where we sit
There is no minimum order quantity on dropship supply, because a dropship order is already a single-unit pick. There is no setup fee and no monthly minimum either. The only upfront number is a $1,000 deposit, and that is held as credit against your invoices rather than charged as a fee.
Related terms
Per-vial pricing, no pack fees, shipped blind under your brand
Product at wholesale, $1 per vial to label it, postage at carrier cost, weekly invoicing on net-7. No setup fees, no monthly minimums, no minimum order quantities.
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