Bathroom Accessories Supplied With a Shower Programme

Accessories are where a shower range becomes a range

A buyer who launches four shower heads has four listings. A buyer who launches four heads, a rail kit, two holders, a hook, a soap dish and a towel rail has a range, a shelf plan and a reason for a retailer to give the brand a bay rather than a peg. The accessories are cheap per piece, they carry the same finish, and they lift the average basket without adding a second factory to the supply chain.

That is why ZHONGHE quotes accessories alongside the shower programme rather than as a separate business. The catalog already publishes 9 shower holder codes and 2 faucet accessory codes inside its 96 model codes, and the rest of the accessory range is supplied per project. Everything in the order is ZHONGHE's own product, inspected and packed by the same team.

What ships with a shower programme

The list below is the usual content of an accessory line beside a shower range. Items differ in material and fixing rather than in complexity, so the questions to settle for each one are short: what is it made of, how does it fix to the wall, and what finish does it carry.

Fixing is the part that decides returns. An adhesive or suction fixing sells well online because it needs no tools, but it has to be matched to a real tiled wall rather than to a laboratory test panel. A drilled fixing is more secure and needs the right anchors in the box for the wall type in the destination market.

• Shower holders and brackets: suction cup, adhesive and drilled wall-mounted adjustable types
• Hooks and robe hooks, single and double
• Soap dishes, shower shelves and corner baskets
• Towel rails, towel rings and towel bars
• Tumbler, toothbrush and paper holders
• Shower drains and floor drains on request

One invoice, one carton plan, one inspection

The practical argument for buying accessories from the shower factory is administrative, not technical. One specification means the finish is approved once. One sample round means the tone of a hook is compared with the tone of the head in the same room on the same day. One inspection means a single booking with a third-party agency against a single consolidated shipment. One invoice and one set of export documents mean one payment and one customs entry.

Mixed cartons and mixed pallets are planned per order, so a first programme can carry several models and several accessory lines without a separate shipment for each. Give the quantity per item and per finish in the first message, because carton design and pallet planning follow from it, and a carton plan agreed late is the most common reason a launch date slips.

Specifying an accessory line

For each item, state the material, the fixing method, the finish, the size, the packaging format and the quantity. Say whether the item is sold on its own or bundled into a set, because a bundled set needs its own barcode, its own box and its own weight. If the range is going into a retail chain, send the planogram or the shelf dimensions with the RFQ so the packaging can be designed to fit the fixture instead of the other way round.

Accessories are also the easiest place to start a relationship with a new factory, because the tooling risk is low and many items can be made from existing molds. MOQ ranges from 500 to 2,000 units depending on the model, finish and packaging; custom packaging from about 2,000 units, and a new shape follows the usual guides of about 15 days of appearance design, 15 days of structure design, 60 days of tooling and 30 days of production. Certified options are available on request.