Factored Quality
QC inspections, supplier audits, and product compliance for DTC brands
Factored Quality provides control inspection services to shopify merchants.
Factored Quality runs pre-shipment qc inspections, supplier audits, and compliance checks at the factory for dtc brands. Best fit for brands shipping physical product across multiple suppliers where defect rates drive returns, rework, or replacement shipping costs.
What Factored Quality does for Shopify brands
- Pre-shipment qc catches defective units at the factory before they ship
- Stops defects from becoming returns, refunds, replacement shipping & bad reviews
- Avoids paying to ship defective containers, rework on landed goods & scrapped inventory
Overview
Factored Quality sells a software platform and inspection services for quality control, supplier audits and product compliance. Brands use it to book inspectors, auditors and labs at their manufacturing sites and to keep the resulting reports and data in one place.
- Built for
- Brands that make products at supplier factories and want to run quality control, audits and compliance testing with their own team, their suppliers or Factored Quality's inspector network.
- Pricing
- Platform plans are Starter ($250 per month or $3,000 per year), Professional ($750 or $9,000) and Enterprise ($2,500 or $30,000). Inspections and audits are pay as you go on Starter, with service day packages also on Professional. Lab testing is quoted per test.
Products
- Platform Software to book inspections, store reports, build checklists, view analytics and connect to supply chain tools.
- Quality Control Inspections including in-line, pre-shipment, raw material, container loading, CPK/FAI, inventory count and inventory audit.
- Supplier Audits Social or ethical, factory and environmental audits of suppliers.
- Product Compliance Compliance, performance and reliability testing of products.
- Additional Services Sample collection, CAPA/RCA, product classification and supplier sourcing.
- AI Compliance Gap Analysis Compliance gap analysis, listed as free on all plans.
Integrations
Buyer notes
- Starter and Professional have a monthly agreement length; Enterprise has an annual agreement.
- User limits are 1-4 on Starter, 5-9 on Professional and 10-14 on Enterprise.
- Onboarding includes CSV upload and conversion of past QC and testing PDFs or Excel sheets into data.
- Support is described as covering time zones worldwide, with help on onboarding and custom checklists.
From Factored Quality's own site and Shopify App Store listings, as of 2026-10-20.
How much does Factored Quality cost?
Platform plans are Starter ($250 per month or $3,000 per year), Professional ($750 or $9,000) and Enterprise ($2,500 or $30,000). Inspections and audits are pay as you go on Starter, with service day packages also on Professional. Lab testing is quoted per test.
