How to Take Custom & Corporate Resin Orders
Custom and corporate resin orders — personalised nameplates, branded corporate gifts, wedding favours — often pay more per piece than standard retail because they can't be pre-batched. Price them with a clear brief, a deposit before starting, and a realistic timeline buffer, since custom work has more room for revision requests than stock pieces.
Based on hands-on pricing and sales experience from practising Indian resin artists across multiple cities.
How to Structure a Custom Order
- Get a clear brief first — colours, size, quantity, deadline — before quoting a price
- Quote with a buffer — custom work often takes 20-30% longer than similar standard pieces due to communication and revisions
- Take a deposit (typically 30-50%) before starting, especially for larger corporate orders
- Share a sample or mock-up for bulk corporate orders before producing the full batch
Corporate Gifting Specifics
Corporate orders (Diwali gifting, event mementos) tend to be higher-volume with a lower per-unit price than one-off custom work, but the total order value is often significant. Building relationships with local HR or admin teams, or through referral from past corporate clients, is a common way these orders arrive.
A simple WhatsApp message confirming colours, quantity, price, and deadline prevents the most common custom-order disputes before they happen.
Handling Revision Requests
Set a clear limit upfront (e.g., one round of revisions included, additional rounds charged) to avoid open-ended back-and-forth eating into your margin on custom work.