Most magnet suppliers make you submit a form before they'll give you a number. That's backwards when the pricing logic is simple: unit cost drops as quantity rises, on a fixed, published curve. Here's exactly how that curve works, with real prices, not a vague "up to 30% off" claim.
The actual quantity discount
Every order runs against the same quantity tiers, and the discount at each tier is fixed:
| Quantity | Multiplier applied to base unit price | Saving vs. base |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 1.00 | Base price |
| 50 | 0.95 | 5% off |
| 100 | 0.88 | 12% off |
| 250 | 0.80 | 20% off |
| 500 | 0.72 | 28% off |
| 1,000 | 0.64 | 36% off (best value) |
That's the mechanism. What it means in real money depends on which product you're ordering, so here it is worked out against two products from opposite ends of our range: Custom Circle Magnets, our lowest-cost flexible product, and Custom Ceramic Magnets, one of our premium materials.
| Quantity | Circle Magnets (from £0.63/unit) | Total | Ceramic Magnets (from £2.63/unit) | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | £0.63 | £15.75 | £2.63 | £65.75 |
| 50 | £0.60 | £29.93 | £2.50 | £124.93 |
| 100 | £0.55 | £55.44 | £2.31 | £231.44 |
| 250 | £0.50 | £126.00 | £2.10 | £526.00 |
| 500 | £0.45 | £226.80 | £1.89 | £946.80 |
| 1,000 | £0.40 | £403.20 | £1.68 | £1,683.20 |
A few things worth pointing out in that table. First, the jump from 25 to 100 units drops the unit price by 12%, but the jump from 500 to 1,000 (double the quantity) only takes another 8 points off, from 28% to 36%. Discounting flattens out at scale rather than continuing to steepen, because most of the fixed setup cost has already been absorbed by the time you're ordering 500+.
Second, the price gap between materials doesn't close at volume, it widens in absolute terms. At 25 units, ceramic costs £50 more than circle magnets. At 1,000 units, that gap is £1,280. If budget is tight and you're ordering at scale, the material choice matters more than the quantity tier does.
A note on these numbers: the table above uses our published starting prices and the standard quantity multiplier to show you how the maths works. The live pricing table on each product page is the authoritative number, since it accounts for the specific size and variant you select, which can shift the base price up or down from the "starting from" figure. Use this table to understand the shape of the discount; use the product page for the exact figure you'll actually pay.
How to work out your own number
- Find the "starting from" price on the product you want.
- Pick your quantity, then pick that exact quantity on the product page's pricing table, not this article's, since it reflects your specific size and variant.
- If you're comparing materials, price the same quantity across two or three product pages before committing. Material cost differences are usually bigger than most people expect at volume, as the table above shows.
What actually drives the base price before the quantity discount even applies
Material. Flexible printed magnets sit at the bottom of the range. Acrylic, ceramic, wooden, and cork magnets involve additional manufacturing steps (cutting, layering, coating) and cost more per unit before any quantity discount is applied, but they also read as a noticeably higher-end product.
Print coverage. Double-sided printing costs more per unit than single-sided, since it's effectively two print jobs on one piece. Custom Double Sided Magnets start at £1.63 against £0.63 for standard single-sided flexible magnets of the same shape range, roughly 2.5x, for exactly this reason.
Shape complexity. Standard shapes (circle, square, rectangle, oval) run through standard tooling and price predictably. A bespoke die-cut shape needs custom tooling and is quoted separately rather than sitting on the standard tier table.
Why there's no separate "wholesale" price list
If you've searched for custom magnets wholesale, you're asking the same question as bulk pricing. There's no hidden lower tier that unlocks once you're recognised as a trade buyer. The 1,000-unit rate in the table above is the wholesale rate, available to a first-time buyer ordering 1,000 units exactly as much as it is to an established account.
Why the number on the page is the number you're actually charged
The most common failure point in bulk print ordering isn't the pricing table, it's the gap between the page price and the checkout price. Plenty of suppliers show a tiered price on the product page, then charge full undiscounted price at checkout because their checkout system doesn't know about tiered pricing. We fixed this by validating the exact tiered price against the order before generating any payment link. If the price can't be validated, no checkout gets created rather than defaulting to a guessed number. What you see on the page is what you're charged, including down to the exact total rather than a rounded per-unit figure that compounds into an overcharge at higher quantities.
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