Placing a pre-order
We’ve been in design and development for the past two years; creating, testing, refining and re-testing. Now it’s time to bring Boxi Cool™ to the homes of people around the world, but to do this, we need significant capital investment to get up-and-running.
Who knew developing a product from scratch would take so much time, energy and money! But it’s been so worth it to create such a fantastic product that we know you’ll love. We legally own our Intellectual Property and our name has been Trade Marked, we just need a little help to get through the final stages which include tooling (creating the machine to make the products) and production.
After a successful crowd-funding campaign on IndieGogo, raising over $35,000, we've proceeded with the following:
- Start engineering the moulds that create the lunchbox
- Order and test our second prototype
- Make slight refinements to the design to make it even more functional and durable.
Now we're doing the final tests on our refinements and once we are happy with them we'll hit 'go' on the tooling (think, big massive steel robots!). This stage will take approximately 4 - 6 weeks.
From there, we'll do our Quality Assurance and Specifications Checklists, in the factory, during the sampling phase. This will take approximately 1 - 2 weeks.
Chinese New Year starts January 25 and runs until February 8 - everything shuts down during this period so there will be no progress on our manufacturing during this time.
After that, it's the home straight - manufacturing will take approximately 4 weeks and then shipping approximately 4 weeks. We estimate shipment to Australia to be mid April, then delivered to you as soon as it lands.
We know this time frame isn't ideal and we were trying really hard to avoid running into the Chinese New Year by having our shipment already on the way, but because we've decided to make some more refinements now (rather than later) to make the product better, it's put us in the middle of CNY. I can assure you it'll be worth the wait to get your awesome lunchbox and I will work around-the-clock, when the shipment arrives, to get them out our door and into your door.
