Hula Global vs Spocket

Spocket is a Dropshipping platform where you can pick and choose a supplier of your choice and work directly with the supplier.

Hula Global on the other hand is a closed-ended platform where you don’t get the details of the factory until the PO is finally generated and in almost all cases, Hula Global is the supplier for your brand.

Hula Global is your SPOC – Single Point of Contact – irrespective of whether you are a small brand or an enterprise customer – you don’t have to chase suppliers and run pillar to post to get you shipments on time.

Spocket focusses mainly on Dropshipping including Apparel and accessories are a side category for the company. 

Hula Global on the other hand focuses on the entire spectrum of Fashion & Lifestyle products including Home Furnishing. It doesn’t have beauty and other non-allied categories as its focus area. Moreover, Hula Global focusses on scaling brands instead of brand launches.

There is no product differentiation offered by Dropshipping suppliers. Any product that is offered to you is also offered to several other Dropshipping store operators. Some minor external design tweaks are possible but the core product is commoditized and there would be zero brand recall at the customer end.

Hula Global on the other end offers production customized according to your brand and consumer requirements. When you customers receive your products – they will have a strong brand association with your product and a good quality product will enable them to have a strong brand recall post purchase.

On Spocket, you might have to do vendor management on your own. Find relevant suppliers, talk to them, evaluate each supplier based on their capabilities, complete the product development and execute the order by working closely with your chosen supplier.

Hula Global on the other hand does the entire vendor management for YOU.

Hula Global has very strong quality parameters and a very large on-ground quality team to ensure those quality standards are maintained by the partner factories at every stage of the production.

Spoket on the other hand maintains no on-ground quality team at Supplier location which means that you would have to depend on factories word of mouth on agreed quality or arrange third party inspection on your own.

Spocket pricing is based on subscription of software. You have to pay additionally for product development and merchandise.

These prices can be very high and make you uncompetitive relative to your competitors. For example a T-shirt could be priced at $10 per piece on Spocket whereas Hula Global can provide a T-shirt for the same quality under $2 per piece

Hula Global offers pricing in 3 tiers:

1. New Product development costs: $150/ Style with a minimum of 10 Styles 
2. Merchandise Cost: Unit price basis based on which PO’s are issued – usually priced as FOB: As a brand, you are provided with a detailed breakdown of all the costs involved.
3. Door-to-door Pricing: This is also known as DDP (Duty and Delivery Paid) and it includes product price + shipping + Duties: This pricing done for orders with at least 30 CBM (corresponding to one 20 FT container)

Spocket may not have any MOQs in fact you can have ZERO Inventory to start with.

Hula Global on the other hand works with a certain specific MOQ for production as well for DDP pricing.

This is the most important fine print – Spocket is just a platform and will not be liable or accountable for the quality of the products you received. At best, if there is any dispute, Spocket can ban the supplier in extreme cases.

Hula Global on the other hand is your supplier. All product quality warranties and liabilities are assumed by Hula Global.  By working with Hula Global, you can be assured that there won’t be any last-minute surprises.