Suppliers charge three kinds of upfront money: setup fees, security reserves, and refundable-credit deposits. Here is what each one means, and how Pure Chain's one-time $1,000 setup and integration fee works.
Deposit, setup fee, or reserve
Three things get called a deposit and only one of them comes back to you as value. A setup fee is spent, and you are buying onboarding work. A security reserve is held against the risk you stop paying, and it is returned when the relationship ends rather than consumed. A refundable-credit deposit is drawn down by your own invoices, which means you are prepaying for product you were going to buy anyway.
The question worth asking about any of them is what happens at the end. Does an unused balance come back, on what notice, and is there a condition attached such as clearing outstanding invoices first? A deposit with a clean exit is working capital. A deposit that becomes non-refundable after a period is a setup fee with a longer name.
For a new brand the practical question is which model your supplier uses and exactly what the upfront number buys. Pair it with the weekly net-7 billing cycle and you can work out exactly what a launch needs in the bank, which the fulfillment pricing guide sets out in full.
How it works at Pure Chain
Onboarding is a one-time $1,000 setup & integration fee. It covers connecting your WooCommerce store, catalog and branded-label setup, and go-live testing. It is not applied to orders and is not refundable. After it, the only numbers you pay are per-order: wholesale price, $1 per vial for your label, and a flat $15 for shipping & packaging.
Related terms
Per-vial pricing, no pack fees, shipped blind under your brand
Product at wholesale, $1 per vial to label it, a flat $15 per order for shipping & packaging, weekly invoicing on net-7. One-time $1,000 setup & integration fee to onboard; no monthly minimums, no minimum order quantities.
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