A single bay reorders a case at a time and never thinks about it twice. A five-bay shop, or a chain buying for eight locations, does the same thing five or eight times, at list price, on whatever schedule the last person who ran out happened to remember. Nobody sat down and built a program. It just accumulated, one rush order at a time.
What single-case ordering actually costs
Buying a case of wheel-prep cleaner or leak detector whenever a shop runs low means paying list price every time and paying for freight every time, because freight is only absorbed when you buy by the pallet. For a shop running four or five bays, that adds up fast, and it is money that a slightly bigger order, placed less often, would keep in the till.
Our standard volume tiers step down as the order gets bigger: list price, then 10 percent off for one to nine cases, 15 percent off for ten to twenty cases, and 25 percent off buying by the pallet. Terms are net 30. Freight is additional unless you are buying a full pallet, in which case it is included.
What the Tiers Look Like in Practice
Take a shop going through two cases each of Prep N Stick Quick Dry and Bubble Check a month. Buying case by case at list price means paying freight on every single reorder. Stepping up to one pallet order twice a year drops the per-case cost at every tier and collapses that freight bill down to two shipments instead of a dozen. Ask your rep to run the actual numbers for your bay count.
Chemicals and PPE, stocked the same way
The chemical side of the program is Quick Dry for wheel-weight prep and Bubble Check for leak detection, both made in the USA, both ordered by the case. The PPE side is the Bead Biter, CHAOS Moto Pry Bar Grip, and Max Bead Breaker Grip for the pry bars themselves, and ANSI Z87.1+ rated glasses for eye protection at the bead breaker and the wire wheel. Grips and glasses get ordered by the unit rather than the case, but the same principle holds: figure out what the shop actually burns through in a quarter and place one order instead of four.
Quick Dry's edge is speed. It flashes off fast and it is free of the TCE and perc chemistry the EPA is restricting in traditional wheel-prep solvents, though it is still an acetone-based product, flammable, and should be handled and stored like one. It is not a substitute for eye and hand protection, it is one piece of the program alongside the grips and the glasses.
Building the order sheet
A shop owner sitting down to size a quarterly order for the first time usually starts with what already runs out fastest. That is almost always the wheel-prep chemical, since every stick-on weight install uses it. From there, count bays, not locations, since a five-bay shop burns product faster than a five-location chain with one bay each. Round up to the next case tier rather than ordering exact use, since the discount on the next tier up often costs less than the freight saved by not placing a second order two months later.
How do I know which volume tier makes sense for my shop?
Look at what the shop used over the last quarter and round up. A shop using three cases of Quick Dry a quarter is better off ordering ten cases twice a year at the 15 percent tier than five cases four times a year at 10 percent, once freight on those extra orders is counted.
Can I mix products on one order to hit a pallet tier?
Reach out to sales and we can walk through what a mixed pallet looks like for your bay count. The tiers are built around case volume, and combining Quick Dry and Bubble Check on one pallet order is common for shops running both.
Do grips and glasses ship with the chemical order?
They can. Since they are unit priced rather than case priced, we will quote them alongside a chemical order so a shop only has to place one purchase order instead of two.
If you are ready to price out a real order for your bay count, reach out to sales@chaosmoto.com or call 480-829-7888 and we will build the case and pallet math for your shop specifically.
