TrepStar.com prices are Lower than other on demand, short run, self publishing cd/dvd duplication companies, and and our service is better:
If you're shopping around to find a company to produce and ship your cd/dvd to your individual customers, or send any quantity
to you or your reseller, you will want to compare
our price
to theirs. Price is not the only story. You need to consider
quality as well.
Our mission is to provide the highest quality service lowest price for any quantity ordered.
We are always looking for ways to lower prices. In fact, we've never raised prices, only lowered them. We've been doing cd and dvd on demand short run fulfillment
since 2002.
There are many reasons why you may prefer TrepStar.com cdDVDfulfillment over any other.
We use the highest quality materials:
- We use the BEST blank media on the market (JVC/Taiyo Yuden). This is more compatible than cheaper discs. They cost about 2-3 times more per disc than average blank media.
We do this primarily because the best blank media is more compatible and more reliable
than standard blank media (nearly 100% compatible). Cheaper blank discs do not work as well so you'll have more customer returns (as much as 5%-10% incompatibility).
- The JVC Taiyo Yuden blank discs have a glossy finish, so the colors are vibrant, and it looks as good or better than retail quality.
Cheaper blank discs usually have a flat, matte finish, the colors look more faded, and in general, do not look as professional.
- We use only Premium CD and DVD cases. Often, a duplicator will have a low price but they use cheap packaging which cracks or breaks easily.
You end up having to redo the batch, or they up sell you to something better which raises the unit price.
Click here to learn more about our product quality.
We offer better support and features:
- Our Project Management System allows you to easily change your project. Start your project by setting up what you know. Upload what you can. We send you email giving you further instructions. Once it's all set, we
approve the project and you're ready to order. Change your project later -- graphics, title, package options, burn files. Everything can be edited. With most others,
you must have it all set up perfectly up front, spend hours uploading it, and can NEVER change it.
- You can choose to include an optional welcome letter or printed document. We print in full color to high quality gloss presentation paper. Most other duplication
companies only offer cd/dvd manufacturing and fulfillment
- Include custom text printed on the invoice. You can include a customer specific registration code or unlock instructions with each order. Most other companies
do not offer this.
- No Setup Cost - Low Unit Cost: Our system was designed to be almost fully automated. This means there is no setup costs,
and our unit price is low even for single quantity orders.
This is a key difference between an on demand, just in time, cd/dvd production and shipping company like ours, and a duplicator company that's used to a lot of
manual setup time (and cost to you). They can only make money if you order a large quantity because they're basically adding their labor/setup charge
on top of their cost per unit. This is inefficient!
- We offer voicemail phone support. Here is our contact information. Leave a message and we'll call you back and talk with you.
Many other companies do not offer phone support, especially if they have a very low unit price.
- We offer better email support. We look over your email, and a real person will respond to you within 24 hours (most cases, same day).
Our closest competitors usually direct you to their long FAQ document for most questions.
- If you have specific questions about your project, or customer reports, or issues setting up the project, we are here to help.
- If you want to automate the order process, we currently integrate with several shopping carts (more on the way).
We offer better support to YOUR clients:
Most of our clients use our service to manufacture and ship single quantity orders to individual users. While we do have clients that order larger quantities,
we specialize in one at a time, on demand, cd/dvd manufacturing, fulfillment and shipment. Sending to your individual customers creates a new set of issues:
- When an order comes into our system, if you provided your customer email, we send your customer a detailed email including available tracking information.
This let's your customer know their product is on the way (optional and free). Your customer can track their order without
ever bothering you. Most of our competition make you login to their system, find the tracking, and forward that to your customer.
- You may end up submitting a bad address to us: If so, our postage system flags the order and we contact your customer by email asking them to
help us adjust and fix the address (we'll ask you if no customer email was provided with the order). We fix the address and the customer receives their package with
minimal delays. We charge $1.00 for this service (we lose money on this). With other services, you will end up having to
reorder again AT FULL PRICE weeks later when your customer complains.
- Packages can be undeliverable: We process all mail package returns for you. Sometimes, postage is printed, the package is sent, yet it
comes back to us from the post office. We lookup the customer, and send them an email requesting their correct address if we have it.
Otherwise, we email you and ask for it. This lets your customer know there will be a delay in shipment. When they email us back, we resubmit
the order for you and resend the package. No other duplicator/fulfillment company does this for you. You'll have to hear from your angry customer
weeks later to get a correct address, and ship it again as a new order.
- Package Refused by your customer: If your customer refuses the package, we let you know (via email). We notify you so you can process a refund in any way you like.
Most other companies are not used to shipping to YOUR customers so they end up just throwing returns away.
- "Where is my package..." Customer Request: Some users email us saying they have not received the package. This is because we use OUR email address
as the replyto address when we send the shipping confirmation (optional and free). We look the receiver email up in our system, and check
the date the package was sent. We either send them an email asking them to be patient and wait a few days. If the package was lost,
we resend that package at no charge to you. No other service does this as far as we can tell.
- We help field your customer questions: We are able to field support emails from your customers in many cases.
Often, when users have problems with the product, they resort to finding the package, and sending an email to us (we put our email on the receipt/invoice).
We handle it ourselves without bothering you if we can. If not, we forward those emails to you. Most other duplicators either
ignore these emails, or do not print their email on any package so they will never help you at all.
Our project management system is better than any other:
Most companies make you fill out a form so they can quote you a price. Sometimes you fill out partial information but it's not
a system that's automated so you can't configure the project all on your own if you wish. Some companies require you download some windows
software to setup your project. You have to know all the information about your product and have all the
graphics you want prepared in advance. Once you have all this, the software reads your cd or dvd from your drive, and creates a permanent, non editable image
file of your product and uploads it to their server. While this seems nice at first, and is useful to some users, it has drawbacks.
Our project management system has these benefits most others do not:
- You can edit your project on our system. You can NOT do this with many systems. If you make a mistake in your project or want to change something as
simple as a graphic or the title or copyright date of your product, you have to redo the entire project, get a new master, new proof, and basically start over.
With our system, you can upload new images, pick different packaging options (cd case, jewel case, sleeve), upload completely different files to burn,
adjust the title, version info, publisher name, or any other small details.
- You don't need everything in place up front to use our system. Create your project on our system, enter what you know, and we guide you by sending you emails on
what to do next to get the project ready. Once your project is approved, you can order a copy to you or your customers. Don't like something about it? Change it!
Add a different graphic, change the files that are burned. We approve your project again and you can order some more. With our system, your
projects can evolve as your product evolves. With most other systems, if ANYTHING changes, you have to rebuild and upload the ENTIRE project.
For a dvd, that may take 20 hours or more!
- You have flexibility using our project system. You can upload files to YOUR server OR OURS. This means you have full control of any files that are used in
the project. This is very useful to clients that have a lot of projects and don't want to go through the entire project publishing software process
for each project. With our system, you simply copy an existing project, edit a few fields to update the location of your files and graphics,
and seconds later you have new product ready to order!
- Change packaging options easily. Want to start out shipping your product in the lowest cost simple clear vinyl sleeve (instead of a cd or dvd case)? You can
set up your project that way. Then, if you have custom graphics for a CD or DVD case, you can add those graphics, and change your product options to package it in
a CD or DVD case. The next order you take triggers our system to use your new graphics and package options.
- Simplify order automation: If you do all the work to automate your individual customer orders, the last thing you want is to do is change and
test your order automation system in any way.
If you need to change your product you can easily edit your online project with our system. With any other duplicator, ANY change to your product forces you make
an entirely new one! This means your ordering automation system needs to change to refer to that new product.
Not only is it tedious to be forced to go through the whole process again for a small modification, but you now have to update and
test your ordering system to refer to the newly created product. With our system, you can simply edit your project.
This means the product id does not change so your automated ordering system does not change either.
- We stretch or shrink your graphics to fit no matter what: If you created graphics for use on other systems, your artwork will work on ours as well
because we also use the same size packaging.
- Multi Disc Projects: We allow you to package a disc set into a single DVD case. For example, you can create a multi disc set in a single project on our system.
This set will be packaged in a DVD case that holds multiple discs. This DVD case is the same size (thickness) as a normal size single DVD case.
This means your artwork/graphics for the DVD case overwrap will not need to change.
This is beneficial because the unit cost is low, the shipping weight and volume are low, thus the total unit cost including shipping is low.
With our sytem, you can choose to make a multi disc set, or make several individual disc projects and ship them all at once to an individual customer.
You have an economical choice when you use our multi-disc option. In addition, you can have mixed media with our multi-disc sets. In other words, your set could
include 3 audio CDs along with one data CD (maybe contains documentation or other software). You can have DVDs mixed with CDs. Any combination is possible.
- Easy Reporting: You can easily search for your customer orders with our search and reports feature. Find out when an order was shipped.
Look over any tracking information available. See billing reports and pay your bill online at any time. These are just some of the features available to you
when you use our services.
If you want a system that is
robust, flexible, low unit cost, and you want to produce a
premium product, please check out our services FREE today by looking at
the
Intro Video or setting up a
free project.
