Can the five rounds of Protective Case Sales be skipped?

Compressed, not skipped. Logging and clarification can share one call, but the output still has to be written down.

What should a buyer supply at logging?

At least six of nine fields: dimensions, quantity, colour, printing, application, target date.

Why quote a range instead of a firm price?

Tooling depends on cavity count and steel grade. A firm price before parameters freeze puts the risk on the factory.

Is the sampling fee refundable?

At 500 units it is credited in full; below that it is not.

Can anything change after sealing?

Yes, on a clock: 7 days for colour, 10 for wall, 25 for structure.

Protective Case Sales: Five Rounds from Quote Request to Sample

Quick answer: Protective Case Sales moves an inquiry through five rounds: logging, clarification, first quotation, sampling and sealed approval. The clock runs at 4 hours for a receipt, 24 for a question sheet, 48 for a three-tier price, 12 to 18 days for samples and 5 working days for a signed seal.

Protective Case Sales in Five Rounds
Round One: Logging the Inquiry
Round Two: Quotable Parameters
Round Three: Three-Tier Pricing
Rounds Four and Five: Sample and Seal
FAQ

1. Protective Case Sales in Five Rounds

Protective Case Sales is often mistaken for one quotation: a buyer asks, a seller answers, luck decides. Clean orders move in rounds. Each round does one thing, and the next opens only when that thing is finished.

Round	Input	Output	Clock
Logging	mail, drawing or call	inquiry number, buyer file	4 hours
Clarification	file and drawing	12-parameter sheet	24 hours
First quotation	confirmed parameters	three-tier price, validity	48 hours
Sampling	deposit, structure freeze	3 first articles	12 to 18 days
Seal	article and test data	signed approval sheet	5 working days

Each round consumes the output of the last, so the order cannot be shuffled. Quoting before clarification reopens tooling cost eight times out of ten.

2. Round One: Logging the Inquiry

Protective Case Sales logging pulls mails, attachments and chat threads into one sheet of nine fields: buyer and country, channel, application, outer dimensions, quantity, colour, printing, target date, existing tooling. A blank field is flagged, not guessed.

Numbers run by month, such as JH-2604-017, keeping quotation and sampling records under one reference.

Routing happens here too: recolour, modify or cut new, three routes differing threefold in price. The test is whether the cavity fits the 8 mm adjustment room of an existing tool. A 600 x 400 x 230 mm envelope with no note on wheels ships at 268 mm, the pallet drops from four layers to three and 216 units go to freight. An inquiry unanswered in 24 hours closes at under 8 percent.

3. Round Two: Quotable Parameters

Protective Case Sales clarification returns one page of 12 parameters within 48 hours, the only basis for a price; a buyer who says match your standard has clarified nothing.

Buyer says	Must be asked	What it moves
a strong case	loaded weight, drop height	wall, rib count
roughly this size	cavity length, width, depth	whether a tool is new
must be waterproof	immersion depth and time	gasket, latch count
a few hundred a year	first order, reorder plan	tooling amortisation
print our logo	method, position, colours	plate fee

Converting a cavity to an envelope adds 4.5 mm of wall each side plus 6 mm where ribs stand proud, and every hoop rib takes 8 mm off internal height. Those ten-odd millimetres decide whether the load fits.

4. Round Three: Three-Tier Pricing

Protective Case Sales quotes three tiers, never one figure, because each tier maps to a level of tooling a buyer can argue about.

Tier	Tooling	Minimum	Lead time
A recolour	800 CNY plate fee	50	15 days
B modify mould	18,000 to 32,000 CNY	300	35 days
C new mould	38,000 to 65,000 CNY	500	55 days

All tooling figures are ranges: on one 600 mm body a single-cavity and a two-cavity tool differ 40 percent in steel.

Validity is 30 days, printed with its reason: PP compound follows oil, mould steel follows the quarter. Exclusions are named too: freight, certification, printing plates, extra trials, a gap worth 4 percent on one order.

5. Rounds Four and Five: Sample and Seal

Sampling starts when the deposit lands and delivers 3 first articles in 12 to 18 days: 8 on the trial tool, 4 of shots, 6 of inspection and dispatch. Adjustments inside three trials are free; the fourth costs 1,200 CNY.

Sealing makes that article the standard for everything after. Six items carry numbers, never a note saying per sample: colour plate, grain depth, wall section, hardware, print position, gasket compression.

The sheet returns signed within 5 working days, and nothing is scheduled before it does. Say that early, or a buyer assumes silent approval and the date slips two weeks. After sealing, a colour change costs 7 days, a wall 10, a structure 25.

Conclusion

Protective Case Sales keeps its rhythm in the clock: 4 hours for a receipt, 24 for a question sheet, 48 for a three-tier price, 12 to 18 days for samples, 5 working days for a signed seal. Each round hands over one document of numbers. Run the rounds in order and Protective Case Sales stops being a gamble on price.

This article discusses only the container (case body) side of specifications and design intent, and does not cover any handling, loading or use of the contents.