Hula Global vs Sqetch

Sqetch is an open-ended platform based on a marketplace model where you can pick and choose a supplier of your choice and work directly with the supplier.
Once you choose the supplier, you are on your own.

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 – you don’t have to chase suppliers and run pillar to post to get you shipments on time.

On Sqetch, you 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.

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

Hula Global’s partner factories adhere to Hula Global Standard Code of Conduct. It doesn’t matter whether your brand is a startup brand or a large big box retailer – the code of conduct remains the same in terms of accountability.

Sqetch on the other hand is based on marketplace model. Each factory has its own
operating procedure and due to open-ended nature of Sqetch platform, it is impossible to make vendors accountable to a certain code of conduct.

Since Sqetch is an open-ended, any supplier can pay the fees and get listed. Only Basic documentation due diligence is done before getting listed on Sqetch.

Hula Global on the other hand maintains a very strong, tight knit community of vendors. The average waiting period of a supplier is 78 days from the date of application and a supplier has to clear of 128 points of validation including site visit by Hula Global’s team, before being formally inducted into Hula Global’s supplier ecosystem.

Sqetch is based on agency model where you pay in a la carte rate for each and every service that you avail whereas Hula Global is a supplier model where you pay for the goods.

Hula Global offers pricing in 3 tiers:

1. 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)

Hula Global has an in-house logistics team and can price you door-to-door cost instead of FOB pricing. This would include product cost + shipping + duties (DDP)

Sqetch on the other hand, if you choose, then you would have to depend on the logistically ability of your chosen factory or you might have to arrange on your own.

Hula Global provide PO financing to certain eligible brands from US, Canada and Western Europe. No such information is available about Sqetch regarding PO financing

Sqetch may not have any MOQs but the vendors on its platform might have. Hula Global on the other hand works with a certain specific MOQ

Sqetch 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, Sqetch 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
suprises.