Wine Cabinet Pricing and Payment Terms for Export
No price list: the number comes from the drawing. The terms are fixed and public — a 10% drawing fee credited against the order, a 50% production deposit and the balance before shipment, quoted EXW or FOB.
Three payments, no surprises
The amount of each payment is a percentage of the order value, so it is known before the drawing. What changes between projects is the order value itself, never the schedule of payments.
| Stage | Amount | When |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Drawing fee | 10% of the order value, credited against the order | Before the CAD set and the 3D views are drawn |
| 2 · Production deposit | 50% of the order value | The order is released to the floor the day it lands |
| 3 · Balance | The remaining 50% | After the dry fit is approved, before the crate leaves |
| Shipping | Quoted separately on EXW or FOB terms | EXW collects in Foshan; FOB to the port of departure |
The drawing fee is credited against the order, so a ' project that proceeds pays it once, not twice.
What the price includes
- Drawing set
- Plan, elevation, internal structure and the measured re-draw
- 3D views
- A rendered view of the cabinet standing in your room
- Frame
- Folded stainless frame with an 18 mm sightline and a 40 mm scribe
- Interior
- Bottle cradles pitched to the shapes you buy, drawers and shelves as drawn
- Glass and doors
- Tempered or low-E glass, hinged or sliding, specified on the drawing
- Finishing
- Any of the 63 surfaces, or a colour matched to a physical sample
- Dry fit
- Every order assembled, inspected, photographed and filmed before crating
- Crating
- Panel numbering, glass in its own crate, hardware boxed by position
What it does not include
- Site measurement
- Taken by you or your builder; we do not send a surveyor
- Freight and duty
- Quoted separately on EXW or FOB, paid to your forwarder
- Installation
- By your fitter, working from our numbered setting-out drawing
- Electrical work
- The dedicated circuit, the isolator and the socket are on your side
- Building work
- Plastering, flooring, alcove forming and any structural opening
Every quotation lists these separately rather than rolling them into one figure. A price that hides the freight is easy to quote and impossible to compare.
Six things, and only six
Almost every line on a quotation traces back to one of these. If you want to steer the budget, this is where to steer it — before the drawing is issued, not after.
Measured size
Width and height drive the frame, the glass and the number of panel splits. A 600 mm cabinet and a 4,000 mm wall are not the same job in any part of the build.
Interior fit-out
A plain cradle wall is one thing; drawers, a stemware rack, a display frame and a cigar drawer each add parts and hours to the same carcass.
Finish family
A brushed or mirror stainless surface is a different process from a lacquer film, and a matched colour costs more than a code we already hold 63 of.
Cooling
Passive, integrated single zone or dual zone. The refrigeration circuit is the single largest step change in a cabinet price, and 110 V / 60 Hz for the US is standard.
Glass and doors
Tempered versus low-E laminated, hinged versus sliding, frameless versus framed. Each changes the hardware and the weight the hinges carry.
Crating and access
A basement with a lift is not a fifth-floor walk-up. Crating is sized to the longest panel the route will take, and that gets quoted from your photographs.
How to compare two quotes
Two prices for a 3,000 mm cabinet can differ by a factor of three without either being a mistake. Four questions separate them faster than a spreadsheet.
- Is the cooling named — Embraco, front-vented, 110 V / 60 Hz — or is it just “cooling”?
- Is the glass tempered or low-E laminated, and how thick?
- Is the crate included, and is the cabinet dry-fitted before it is crated?
- Which Incoterm is quoted, and is the drawing included or charged on top?
A quote that answers all four is comparable. One that answers none of them is a number waiting to grow.
Why we quote after the drawing
A per-bottle price given before anyone has seen the room is a guess dressed as a figure. The drawing takes about 48 hours once we have the photographs and the dimensions, and it is the point at which the price becomes a commitment rather than a range.
- Quote basis
- The confirmed drawing, not a size chart
- Validity
- 30 days, then re-issued at current material cost
- Currency
- USD by default; EUR on request
- Incoterm
- EXW Foshan or FOB, quoted per shipment
What buyers ask before the first invoice
Why is there no price list?
Because there are no standard sizes. A cabinet is priced from the drawing: measured size, internal fit-out, finish and cooling. The parts that do not vary are the terms — 10% drawing fee credited to the order, 50% deposit, balance before shipment.
What currency do you quote in?
US dollars by default, and the currency is fixed on the quotation so it does not drift between the drawing and the deposit. If you need euros, say so at enquiry and the quote is issued in euros.
Are the drawings included in the cabinet price?
The drawing fee of 10% is paid up front and credited against the order, so on a project that goes ahead the drawings cost nothing extra. On a project that stops at the drawing, the fee has paid for work already delivered.
What is not in the price?
Freight and duty, site measurement, installation labour, the electrical circuit and any building work. Those are quoted separately or done on your side, and they are listed explicitly on every quotation rather than left to be discovered.
How long is a quotation valid?
Thirty days from the date on it, because stainless and glass prices move. Past that we re-issue against current material cost, which is a phone call rather than a new project.
Start with the wall, not the budget
Send three photographs and the measurements. What comes back is a scheme, a drawing and a fixed price — with the payment terms already known.