Community Container

Share a container.
Keep your own checks.

Not ready to fill a whole container? Share the space with other businesses shipping on the same route. Each business's order is researched and quality-checked on its own, and each business's own price comes only after that research and QC.

[x]joined

Next shared container

Route
[route]
Dates
[dates]
Minimum
[minimum space]
Counted in
businesses or cartons

Prices are never shown here. Each business gets its own price only after its own research and QC.

How a shared container works

One container. Every order checked on its own.

  1. Send your own research request

    Tell us what your business needs made. Every business in a shared container starts with its own request and its own reference number.

  2. Your item is researched on its own

    Your factory, your samples, your quality check, against your specs. Nobody else’s order is mixed into yours.

  3. Your own price, after research and QC

    Your verified quote comes only once your item has been researched and quality-checked. There’s no group price and no guess.

  4. Your goods share the space

    Your checked goods ship together with other businesses' goods. [how it works] [route] [dates] [minimum space]

What's shared, and what's only yours

Shared

  • The container space
  • The route and sailing dates

Only yours

  • Your research request and reference number
  • Your factory, samples and quality check
  • Your verified quote, after research and QC
  • Your private tracker

The next shared container

Watch the space fill, never the price

The status card counts businesses or cartons, nothing else. Prices are never shown on it, because each business gets its own price only after its own research and QC.

How it works
[how it works]
Route
[route]
Dates
[dates]
Minimum space
[minimum space]
Demo · sample data
38/60cartons

Example status card

Route
[route]
Dates
[dates]
Counted in
cartons

Prices are never shown here. Each business gets its own price only after its own research and QC.

DEMO: sample numbers to show how the card fills. Not a real container.

Fill it together

Know a business that ships from China?

Send them an invite on WhatsApp. It opens with a message ready to go, which you can edit before you send.

I'm looking at sharing a container from China with other businesses through SourceChinaDirect. Each business's order is researched and quality-checked on its own, and each gets its own price only after that. Ask them about the next shared container:

Questions about sharing

Will I see a price before I join?

No. Your price comes only after your item has been researched and quality-checked, the same as any order with us. That’s stage 4, Verified quote.

Is my order checked separately from the other businesses’ orders?

Yes. Each business’s order is researched and quality-checked on its own.

How is the shared space measured?

In businesses or cartons on the status card. We offer full containers, partial containers and refrigerated containers.

Start with your own research request

Tell us what you need made and that you'd like to share a container. We'll research it and check it, and only then give you a price.