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What is ODM? How does it differ from OEM?
ODM stands for Original Design Manufacturer. We provide a one-stop solution of "design + manufacturing". The key difference from OEM (pure contract manufacturing) is that ODM involves us leading the design, offering flexible intellectual property rights; OEM, on the other hand, requires you to provide the design
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What is different between Brand-Level ODM and In-Depth ODM Solution?
Brand-Level ODM solution means, you can directly select or modify our current product and branding with your brand. In-Depth ODM Solution means just share your idea and requirement, we will redesign and develop everything from ID, MD, PCB, firmware, software to final product delivery.
Summary of key differences as below:
| Property |
Brand-Level ODM |
In-Depth Level ODM |
| Customization Depth |
Shallow, Standardized |
Deep, Personalized |
| Client engagement |
Low (mainly multiple-choice questions) |
High (full participation in development) |
| Development cycle |
Short (weeks) |
Long (months or longer) |
| Cost |
Low |
High |
| Intellectual property |
ODM manufacturer |
Share through agreements or partially owned by the brand owner |
| Product uniqueness |
Low, standard |
High and |
| Client typical said or description as |
"I need an off-the-shelf product X to put my brand on" |
“I have a unique product X concept and need your technology to help me realize it.” |
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What are the core advantages of choosing our Brand-Level ODM services?
You can achieve zero R&D investment by utilizing our proven designs and technologies, significantly reducing costs, shortening time-to-market (as fast as a few weeks), and enabling flexible small-batch startups, significantly reducing market risk.
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How is intellectual property ownership handled?
This is good question. Because you select from our already exist products, we own the product intellectual property, but because customize with your brand order, you own the branding intellectual property.
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How long does sampling take? How is the cost calculated?
Depending on the product complexity, typically takes 2-6 weeks. The customize cost will be charged advance, details will be clearly listed in the quotation based on what you want to branding. However, this fee can be partially or totally deducted if a mass production order is placed later
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How much design customization or modification can we offer?
Highly flexible customization on the range of: logo print, boot screen, languages, functions parameters, colors, giftbox design, user manual, accessories, tracking platform, Android and IOS application, etc.
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What is the minimum order quantity (MOQ)?
We understand the needs of startup brands and can provide competitive low MOQ solutions to support your flexible market testing. Customize from our exist devices, the MOQ requirement from 500~1000pcs
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How do you guarantee product quality?
We have an ISO9001 standard quality management system, providing end-to-end quality control from raw materials to finished products. We can provide third-party quality inspection reports and support you or your designated institution to conduct in-production and pre-shipment inspections
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How do I select the software solution?
It depends on your current business stage, IT teams' capability and final goal.
(1) If you just start this business, consider the budget and fast reactive, we suggest use our white label platform and apps or third-party platform (most of them charge monthly fee).
(2) If concept approval want build your own brand but budget limited, customize platform and app from us or third-party (most of them accept customize as well) are good option.
(3) If your company or team has experience on mobile applications develop but not enough budget or lack of experience on platform engine, use our API is good solution to build your own brand fast but no need rent server or maintenance.
(4) If you already have a mature IT team and want all data full control by yourself, integrate communication protocol is the best way for you.
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What is the cost and process for software customize solution?
The cost no fixed but base on business cooperation contract discuss with our sales manager. The standard process is below:
(1)Discuss customize requirement details.
(2)Share necessary logo, domain name, Android and IOS accounts, etc.
(3)We start customize work, normally takes around 2 weeks.
(4)Online web platform and release apps.
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Can I request deploy the Customized Platform/Apps on our server?
Yes, if you select customize your brand based on our current platform and apps service, you can choice to run on our server or deploy to your own local server. (1) The advantages of running on our server is lower customize and no maintenance cost. (2) If deploy on your server, you have to pay extra cost for server and we charge yearly maintenance cost.
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What are the payment methods?
We typically use phased payments: a contract deposit plus full payment before delivery, or the balance upon delivery. Specific methods can be negotiated based on the order amount and the level of trust between the parties, ensuring the safety of funds for both.