Your First Bulk Tracksuit Order, Step by Step
By The Velocity Wear Team
A first bulk tracksuit order runs through six stages: enquiry, quote, artwork approval, optional sample, production, delivery. Production itself takes 10 to 15 working days from the moment artwork is signed off, and everything before that is governed by how quickly you reply. Sets start from $53 at the 50-set minimum, and the top and matching jogger are priced together as one unit.
What happens between the enquiry and the quote?
You send what you want made, we send a price. The quote is only as firm as the information behind it, so the first exchange is usually a short list of questions: how many sets, which sizes, what decoration, where it is going and when you need it. Answering those in the first message rather than the fourth typically saves two days.
Quantity is the biggest lever on the figure. Pricing bands run 50 to 99, 100 to 249, 250 to 499, 500 to 999 and 1,000 or more, and the reduction reaches up to 35% against the 50-set price at the top band. If your number sits just under a band edge it is worth asking for both figures — the full pricing page shows how the tiers sit relative to one another.
How does artwork approval work?
You send the logo and any additional artwork, we send back a placement proof showing where each element sits on the top and the jogger, at what size, in which colours. You either approve it or mark it up. Nothing is cut until that proof comes back signed, which is why the production clock starts there rather than at the point of order.
Vector files reproduce cleanly at any size; a logo pulled from a website will not. If the only version you have is a small image, say so at the enquiry stage rather than at the proof stage, because redrawing takes time that otherwise comes out of your delivery date. The mistakes people make at this point are catalogued in the mistakes almost everyone makes on a first clothing order.
Where does the £150 sample sit in the sequence?
Between approval and production, and it is optional. The fee is £150 and it is credited against the bulk order when you go ahead, so on a 50-set run it is effectively brought forward rather than added. What it buys is a physical garment in your fabric with your artwork on it, which settles questions a screen render cannot: how the fleece feels, how the crest sits over a seam, whether the size you chose fits the person it is for.
The trade-off is calendar time. A sample adds its own production and shipping before the main run starts. For a first order with a firm deadline, build that in from the beginning rather than deciding halfway through. Full sets are quoted on our wholesale tracksuits page and the sample is arranged from the same conversation.
What do production and delivery actually look like?
Fabric is cut, garments are sewn, decoration is applied, labels are fitted and sets are bagged and boxed. That whole sequence is the 10 to 15 working days, and it is working days rather than calendar days — a bank holiday week runs longer on the calendar than it does on the schedule. Transit to the UK, the USA or Europe sits on top of that and varies by destination.
Plan backwards from the date you need the kit in hand, not forwards from today, and leave a buffer that survives one thing going wrong. Apparel production lead times explained covers where the slack usually needs to be.
Keep one thread for the whole project rather than scattering it across several conversations. Artwork, sizes, payment and delivery all reference each other, and a decision made in a message nobody can find later is a decision that gets made twice. Everything that matters — the approved proof, the size breakdown, the final quantity — should be written down in one place that both sides can point at.
