HOW WE CHARGE
Priced for the operation, not read off a rate card.
We compose pricing for each operation we run for you, from four drivers: the storage footprint your inventory occupies, the order volume we dispatch, the handling complexity each order carries, and the compliance scope your product requires. There is no standard rate card, because no two operations read the same on those four. The way to a price is a call, and what comes back is a proposal composed for the operation we would actually run for you.
WHAT DRIVES COST
Four drivers compose the price.
A rate card prices the average operation, and it either overcharges the simple one or understates the complex one. Two brands with the same order count can run very different operations: one holds bulky stock under controlled conditions, the other ships small items off a single shelf; one order carries an assembly step and an insert, another is pick, pack, and gone.
So we do not read a price off a card. We price each engagement from how four drivers read for your operation.
- Storage footprint
- How much space your inventory occupies, and the conditions it must be stored under. We store your stock to the conditions the product requires, and a product that needs more room or tighter conditions carries more of the base.
- Order volume
- How many orders we dispatch for you, and how that flow is distributed across the year. Volume sets the pick, pack, and dispatch load the base runs day to day.
- Handling complexity
- What each order asks of the floor: line items per order, the packaging specification, inserts, labeling, and any assembly step. Two orders of the same size can carry very different work.
- Compliance scope
- What your product requires before it can reach customers. For an in-scope consumer product, we can carry the European Responsible Person role under GPSR, Regulation (EU) 2023/988, and that scope is part of your operation's price.
Where a driver does not apply, it does not appear. If you have no assembly, you carry no assembly, and a product with no compliance scope pays for none.
WHERE THE PRICE IS SET
One European gate, not four price events.
The four drivers above are all priced against one operation, run from one bonded gate inside the EU. Stock clears the customs union once, then every order after it moves as domestic commerce, so the price is set here, not re-priced at every border.
Stock clears the customs union once, then every order moves as domestic commerce.
WHAT A PROPOSAL INCLUDES
What comes back from a call.
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THE SCOPE
The operations in scope, named.
Which operations your product actually needs: warehousing, fulfillment, compliance, assembly, last mile, and returns are the ones most brands start with, and the full offering runs wider. We state what is in and what is not, so your price covers an operation, not a bundle of defaults.
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THE DRIVERS, READ
How the four drivers read for this operation.
We state how storage footprint, order volume, handling complexity, and compliance scope read for your products and channels, so you can see what the price is made of.
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THE COMPOSED PRICE
Pricing composed for that operation.
We compose the pricing from those drivers, for your operation, in place of a standard card. It is complete for the scope it names.
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THE CONVERSATION
It starts with a short call.
A call covers your volume, your products, and the operations that would move inside the EU. Send us a few details and the operations team will reply.
Pricing, answered straight
What brands ask about how EFC prices an operation.
Cost on this model tracks what the product demands of the base, not how many orders ship, which is why two brands at the same order count rarely pay the same.
Why does EFC have no published price list?
Because a rate card prices the average operation, and no two brands run the average one. We compose pricing from how four drivers read for the specific operation we would run for you: storage footprint, order volume, handling complexity, and compliance scope. A card would either overcharge the simple operation or understate the complex one.
Is EFC cheaper than running our own European warehouse?
For most non-EU brands, yes, because we carry no setup cost, no lease, no local hire, and no idle fixed overhead between peaks. You pay for the operation you actually run rather than for capacity you have to build, staff, and keep busy. The proposal states what that operation costs so you can compare the two models directly.
How does the bonded warehouse change our working capital, not just our cost?
Your stock enters under a bonded customs warehouse, so duty and import VAT are not prepaid on goods that have not sold: they fall due only as each order ships. That keeps the cash a standard import would freeze against unsold inventory free to fund your business, which is a cost-of-capital effect that sits behind the four price drivers rather than a line on the invoice.
Who is the importer of record, and does that cost sit with us?
We run the bonded import inside the EFC operation with our Portuguese logistics partner, so you do not need your own EU entity or a separate broker engagement to land stock. The clearance and the bonded handling are part of the operation we price, not a cost you have to arrange and carry on the side.
How is storage billed, and what happens when stock just sits?
Storage reads off footprint and conditions: how much space your inventory occupies and what it must be stored under, so slower-moving or bulkier stock carries more of the base than fast, small-item stock. Because we hold the goods under bond, inventory that has not sold has not been taxed at the border, so it is not carrying duty while it waits.
Are returns and the compliance role priced separately?
We price them only where they are in scope. Returns read through handling complexity when you route them to the EU base, and the European Responsible Person role under GPSR, Regulation (EU) 2023/988, is part of the price only for an in-scope consumer product. If you need neither, you pay for neither.
Does the price move as our volume grows or our peak shifts?
Order volume is one of the four drivers, so pricing reflects your operation as it actually runs across the year rather than a flat assumption. When the shape of the operation changes, materially more volume, a new handling step, or added compliance scope, we read the composition again against the same four drivers.
How do we get a price, and what comes back?
A short call covers your volume, your products, and the operations that would move inside the EU, and a proposal follows. It names the operations in scope, how the four drivers read for that operation, and pricing composed for it, with what is in and what is not. Send us a few details and the operations team will reply.
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