Combined Quantity Pricing

💰 How to Leverage Volume Across Production, Factory Cards, and Accessories

⚖️ Summary of Rules

🧭 Overview

This applies differently across:

• Production Badges
• Factory Cards
• Custom Printed Badge Holders

Understanding how quantities can (and cannot) be combined is critical to maximizing cost efficiency.

🖨️ Production Badges

📊 How Pricing Works

Production badge pricing is based on the total number of badges ordered within a single order, regardless of the number of designs or if specific card technologies are being utilized (more on that below).  

👉 All badge counts are combined to reach the best pricing tier

💡 Best Practice

The initial order is often the best opportunity to maximize pricing.

Example:

• Rebadge project: 500 employees
• Ongoing Badge Requests: may average 100-200 new hires/replacements per year
• Strategic order:
  • 1000 badge credits
  • 100 ship credits

This allows the customer to:

• Reach a lower pricing tier upfront
• Avoid higher per-unit costs on smaller future orders (100–250 badges at a time)
• Remember that prepaid credits do not expire, and can be used as frequently or infrequently as necessary.

⚙️ Technology Rules

• Standard technologies (e.g., eXpressPROX™, barcode, magnetic stripe) → ✅ Counts can be combined
• RFID card stock (non-standard types such as HID iCLASS) → ❌ Cannot be combined across line items

👉 Important distinction:

• Badge print counts (MPPB-PDX) → ✅ Combined
• Card stock quantities → ❌ Based on exact units ordered

🔧 Additional Notes

• Finishing codes and similar production elements follow the same combined quantity logic
• Design count does not impact pricing tiers—only total unit volume matters

📎 Reference:  Production Pricing Workflow

🏭 Factory Cards

📊 How Pricing Works

Factory card pricing follows a similar structure with stricter rules.

✅ When Quantities CAN Be Combined

Quantities may be combined only when all cards share identical specifications, such as, but not limited to examples shown below:

• CR-80 size
• 4/1 print
• PVC material

👉 If specs match, total units can be combined to reach pricing tiers. 

❌ When Quantities CANNOT Be Combined

You cannot combine different product types to reach a pricing tier.

Example:

• 250 Buddy Badges + 250 CR-80 cards
  → ❌ Cannot be combined to reach 500 pricing
  • (because these are two separate card specifications)
  → Each priced at 250 units

🔢 Minimum Orders & Design Rules

• Typical factory minimum: 100 cards
• Can be split across designs:
  • Example: 100 cards = 4 designs of 25 each
• Requires design change fees:
  • 4 designs = 3 change fees

👉 This same structure applies at:

• 250 units
• 500 units
• 1000+ units

💡 Key Principle

Higher total quantities = lower unit cost,
as long as:

• Specs match
• Design change fees are applied correctly

📎 Reference: Factory Card Pricing Process

🪪 Custom Printed Badge Holders

📊 How Pricing Works

Badge holders do not follow combined quantity pricing rules.

⚠️ Key Rule

• Quantities are priced per individual item only
• No combining across products or designs

💡 Volume Discount Opportunity

• Discounts may apply only when:
  • Single item quantity exceeds 5,000 units

📎 Reference: Badge Holder Pricing Process
 

🧠 Key Takeaway

Combined Quantity Pricing is a strategic advantage—but only when applied correctly.

• Production badges offer the most flexibility
• Factory cards require strict spec alignment
• Badge holders are volume-driven per item only

👉 The best pricing outcomes occur when orders are planned holistically, not transactionally