We support luggage and travel-goods brands through product development, factory selection, production management and quality control. You contract the factory directly, see its invoice in full and work with one team from the first specification through repeat production.
A strong concept can still be delayed by repeated sampling, inconsistent bulk production, missing compliance records or an unclear warranty plan. These costs rarely appear in the first quotation, but they affect the launch date, landed cost and customer experience.
Six months of Alibaba messages, samples that arrive wrong, and no way to tell a real factory from a trading company with a nice showroom.
You need 300 units to test a market. Every factory you find wants 1,000. So you either over-commit capital or abandon the product.
A beautiful sample proves somebody can make one good unit. It says nothing about a run of 500. Different operators, different material lots, and a defect rate you only discover once the goods have landed in your 3PL.
A retailer or marketplace asks for a social audit, a chemical test report, or traceability documentation — and nobody can produce it in time.
You are quoted a unit price with no breakdown. Somewhere inside it is a margin you are paying for the privilege of not knowing who actually makes your product.
Time zones, language gaps, and a factory rep who answers "yes" to everything — then delivers something you did not ask for.
We translate the product idea into specifications, factory decisions and production controls that remain consistent after the approved sample.
Each stage is managed against the same brief, cost target and quality standard, so important decisions are not lost between separate service providers.
Concept to tech pack: structure, hardware, materials, tolerances, and the drawings a factory can actually build from.
Shells, linings, zippers, wheels, handles and hardware — specified, costed and traceable to their source.
Factory selection, capacity planning, production scheduling and line allocation matched to your volume.
Incoming, in-process and pre-shipment inspection against AQL, with photo-documented reports you can act on.
Freight, consolidation, documentation and customs clearance — with the HS classification done correctly the first time.
Factory audits, chemical and physical testing, and the documentation retailers and marketplaces require.
Defect analysis, corrective action at the factory, and a post-season review that lowers cost on the next run.
Product development, supplier management, production scheduling, compliance, quality, logistics and after-sales — all handled, all documented. You design and sell.
Crowdfunding proves people want your bag. It does not build one. Most funded hardware and bag campaigns that ship late do not miss their date because the design was wrong — they miss it because tooling, sampling rounds and compliance testing were never scheduled with a realistic buffer.
We would rather quote you a longer date and hit it than a short one and spend a year answering comments. If your campaign promised a month, we tell you early — not in week eleven.
Development, tooling and first samples can start while the campaign is still running. That overlap is usually the difference between shipping on schedule and shipping an apology.
REACH, CPSIA and Prop 65 testing has a calendar of its own. Booking it during development means your first shipment clears customs instead of sitting in a bonded warehouse.
Every engagement opens a private workspace at myluggagepro.com. Development progress, inspection reports, certificates, spare parts and your compliance calendar live in one place — current, instead of reconstructed from email threads the night before a customer asks.
Illustrative layout — your workspace is built around your own programs, SKUs and factories.
Every file is delivered twice over: as a quality record for your team, and as evidence you can publish to your own customers. Sizer measurements, test reports and repair guides are the things a DTC brand is most often asked to prove and least often able to.
Most sourcing partners make their money in the gap between what the factory charges and what you are billed. We removed the gap and replaced it with a disclosed commission.
We are paid for the work, not for the spread. If the factory price drops, your cost drops — your commission does not quietly absorb the difference.
We spent our careers inside the brands you are trying to build. The value we bring is not a factory list — it is knowing which question to ask before the mistake gets manufactured.
Daniel Wang · Founding Partner, PreLuggage · 30 years brand-side in luggage — supply chain, quality and compliance
Share the product idea, target cost, expected volume and current stage. We will outline what needs to happen next and whether we are the right team to help.