Per unit, at the quantity beside it
Every listing states a minimum order and the unit price at it. Where a product is cheaper in volume the listing says at which quantity, so the price you are quoted is the price for the amount you actually order.
Pricing
A catalogue price is published. A review is quoted.
Two things are sold here and they are priced in opposite ways. What is in the catalogue carries its price on the listing. A review does not, because the same headline service can be twenty minutes of reading or three days of it, and we would rather tell you what your request costs than average it into a number that fits nobody.
Buying from the catalogue
The price on the listing is the price you pay for the goods.
Trillions is the seller there. We buy from the supplier and sell to you, so the number beside a product is ours and not a supplier's asking price passed through.
Freight is quoted, not listed
What carriage costs depends on the mode, the destination and the size of the carton, so it cannot honestly sit on a listing. You choose the mode and the destination at checkout, the desk quotes the freight against them, and you see the total before you are asked to pay.
Duty and destination tax are yours
Unless the Incoterm you choose puts them with us, what is charged when the goods arrive is charged to you. The desk will tell you what clearing a shipment needs before it gets there.
Nothing is taken when you place an order. You pay after the desk has confirmed it with the supplier and quoted the freight, and you can cancel without charge at any point before that. The refund policy covers what happens after.
Published fees
Fees currently published for managed requests.
Where a request type carries a published fee, it is listed here. Anything not listed is still quoted after a scope review.
| Request type | Fee |
|---|---|
| Supplier check | |
| Quote comparison | |
| RFQ / sourcing | |
| Private label | |
| Import readiness |
VAT at 5% applies to the fees listed.
The RFQ sourcing fee is creditable against the order commission when an order is committed through Trillions.
What moves the price
Seven things, and we will tell you which ones applied.
- Document volume
- Four files and forty files are different jobs. Most of the work in a review is reading, and the reading does not compress.
- Language and legibility
- Documents in Chinese, Arabic or Turkish are read as sent. Photographs of printed pages take longer than the file the supplier could have emailed you.
- Registry access
- Some registries answer in minutes and some do not answer at all. Where a record cannot be reached we say so, and that changes the work rather than the finding.
- Number of quotations
- Comparing two is not twice comparing one, and comparing five is not five times. Restating them on a common basis is most of the effort.
- Urgency
- Work that has to move ahead of what is already in the queue costs more, and we will say so before it does.
- Where the supplier is
- Distance is a cost, not a detail. The address on the licence decides which registry we query and what a site visit costs to reach. A factory an hour from an auditor and one that needs two flights and a night are not the same job, so the trip is quoted rather than averaged.
- Whether a site visit is involved
- A physical audit is arranged separately, takes considerably longer, and is the only thing that closes the check it belongs to.
Included regardless of scope
What does not change with the quote.
The same twelve checks
Every review runs the same published list. A cheaper engagement is not a shorter list of checks; it is a smaller volume of documents to read against them.
Gaps listed, not omitted
What we could not check appears in the report with the same weight as what we could. Nothing is suppressed to make a report look complete.
A date on every finding
Each finding names the document it came from and the date it was read. Nothing is stated without a bound.
The limits, in writing
Every report carries the same statement of what it is not. That paragraph is not a formality and it is never removed for a larger engagement.
No automatic engagement
Submitting a request does not create a binding service agreement. Any commercial work, fee, scope, timeline, refund term, or third-party coordination must be agreed separately in writing.
Where a fee applies to a managed request, the refund policy sets out when it is refunded and how it is credited against the order commission.
Send the request and we will price it.
Send what you have and say what you are deciding. You get the scope and the cost before any work starts.