How a Silver Moissanite Factory Actually Counts MOQ: Order Total vs. Per Design<\/h2>\n
This is the single most misunderstood point, and it decides whether 80 pieces works. On Amara Jeweiry’s FAQ-Seite<\/a>, the factory distinguishes three counting regimes:<\/p>\n Apply that to your 80-piece test. If your shortlist is stock and stock-mold custom designs, 80 pieces across three or four styles is comfortably inside every published floor \u2014 each design needs only 20\u201330 pieces, and the order total clears 30 many times over. If one design is a full OEM build, the per-design floor (50\u2013100) means your 80 pieces must concentrate: one design at 80 pieces works, and so does one OEM design at 50\u201360 plus stock designs filling the rest. What does not<\/em> work is splitting 80 pieces across four full-custom designs \u2014 each would sit at 20 pieces, below the new-tooling floor. So the answer to “which tier should I push for” depends less on the number 80 and more on how many of your designs need new molds.<\/p>\n For rings, buyers often assume every size is a separate SKU with its own minimum, the way apparel sizes sometimes are. At silver moissanite factories the usual practice is the opposite: sizes within one design share the mold, the wax, and the setting work, so they count together. Amara’s published rule \u2014 styles and sizes mixed toward the order total, and per-design floors on the design rather than the size \u2014 reflects that. A 40-piece run of one ring design spread across sizes US 5\u20139 counts as 40 pieces toward a 30\u201350 per-design floor, not five runs of 8.<\/p>\n Two practical caveats. First, confirm in writing that the per-design minimum counts across sizes rather than per size \u2014 it is the norm, but it is a quote term, not a law of physics. Second, think about the size curve itself. A test order is the wrong place to carry twelve sizes; five to seven sizes in a realistic curve (weighted toward the middle of your market) keeps each size deep enough to sell from while keeping the run simple for the factory. Extreme sizes can involve extra handwork, and whether they carry any adjustment is exactly the kind of line item to ask about rather than assume. If you are also planning engraved tags or stamped logo hardware, note Amara’s published principle that “a chain tag normally rides the jewelry purchase order rather than opening its own MOQ” \u2014 accessories generally inherit the main order’s count instead of adding a new floor.<\/p>\n The metal side of an 80-piece order is usually the easy half. The stone side is where small orders get complicated. Amara’s own article on a non-stock 4\u00d76mm marquise moissanite<\/a> walks through the mechanics: when a stone calibration is not a stock shape, the cutter’s tray minimum applies \u2014 their worked example needs 30 stones but the minimum parcel is 50, leaving 20 surplus stones that someone has to pay for. The same article gives three contractual ways that overbuy is handled: the factory absorbs it into the unit price, the buyer pays a separate stone or calibration fee, or the buyer free-issues stones and owns the minimum and the surplus. Non-stock stones also add time \u2014 the stone leg alone runs 11\u201325 calendar days, which pushes the overall build out by roughly 3\u201317 days.<\/p>\n Setting intensity matters too. A single-stone prong solitaire and a micro-pav\u00e9 band use very different bench hours, and small runs pay the full setup \u2014 plating racks, QC fixtures, and polish lines \u2014 across fewer pieces. That setup amortization, not any published tier discount, is the real source of the price difference between 80 and 300 pieces. Every stone is GRA-certified D-color VVS1 with a 3EX cut and laser-inscribed girdle per Amara’s published spec, and the factory recommends adding one to two spare stones per 30 pieces (about 3%) to cover bench breakage, which sits outside the 12-month stone-loss warranty. One compliance note for US-bound tests: moissanite is not a diamond, and 16 CFR \u00a7 23.12(b)<\/a> makes it “unfair or deceptive to use the unqualified word ‘diamond'” for material that is not diamond, while \u00a7 23.27<\/a> bars words like “real,” “genuine,” or “natural” for man-made products \u2014 so your test-order listings should say moissanite, full stop.<\/p>\n\n
Ring Sizes: Do They Count Together or Separately?<\/h2>\n
How Moissanite Stones and Setting Work Move Your MOQ and Price<\/h2>\n
![\"Jewelry](\"https:\/\/amarajeweiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/case-customer-feedback.webp\")
<\/p>\nAn 80-Piece Test vs. a 300-Piece Commitment: What Actually Changes<\/h2>\n