Guatemala Fashion Tipico | Huipiles | Skirts | Cortes Belts | Fajas

Shipping will be your biggest cost and can be the greatest time delay in delivery. Most sellers online of these products ship quantity of products to the US and then use a fulfillment house in the US to deliver the final product to the US customer. Adds about $10 to $20 per item cost of the item for shipping from Guatemala.

We suggest since you are new at this more direction to streamline the shipping process and also reduce your Inventory costs since you are talking about large quantities you might find yourself sitting on.

For our online clients in the US, they process an order using their online e-commerce store lets say, this order is connected to our systems in Guatemala, we receive the order notification electronically from their store. We then ship directly to that store’s client’s address based on US zip codes.

The product is packaged individually with that store’s packaging and labels as if it was shipped directly from the Store. Tracking is included for the client. From the time of ordering to deliver from Guatemala to the US is 9 days by US Post, FedEx or UPS is an option all depending on the how the client ordered the produce and time of delivery required.

 

If you elected to follow these suggestions then payment per item would also be electronically managed to pay the weavers per item. Which again will reduce your financial investment of inventory of products on hand. Payments are also a point you need to take into consideration, how will you pay the Weavers?

They do not have Paypal for example and have limited online skills. You also cannot just wire transfer funds to a bank in Guatemala. Banks here hold wire transfers for up to three weeks. Most weavers do not have bank accounts or trust the banks. Using our systems we collect payments at the time of order, withdraw the funds through our Guate Bank Accounts and hand-deliver the money to the Weavers.

The most important factor for us to be able to move forward is to figure out what pricing would cost for each strap to be produced. Could you give me an example of the straps you sent in the cost of the photo at the base price? If the thread count is increased what the cost would be?

We are interested in very intricate designs which I believe require a high thread count. Below are some examples of Huipiles that show the detail we’re interested in. The design aspect being intricate is not a problem, I assume you are looking for a design and style that cannot be found online from others. Which is not a problem.

As an example, if we wanted to order 600 straps, 100 of 6 different styles, what would that cost (cost per strap or is it cost per certain number?). If we wanted to order 6,000 straps, 1,000 of 6 different styles, what would that cost? Thanks so much for your help on this. This is very new to us and we’re trying to figure it all out. I really appreciate your help!

More education for you, quantity makes no difference to the Weavers. You will need to kind of let go of the American Manufacturing point of view. I will explain the production process. I go to Rosa or any weaving Co-Op we work with and ask for 600 straps, the Co-Op then asks the woman in the co-op to produce each piece. The time is, all the same, to produce 1 or 1000 as far a labor and materials are concerned as this is not an assembly line.

Yes, there would be cost-saving once we can organize production however it will not drop to a few dollars per strap.