Consigning parts
How and when to consign parts to CircuitHub instead of having us purchase them, including limits on fully consigned kits and shipping responsibilities.
We know that there are some parts that our customers wish to provide themselves for a number of various reasons such as parts that are hard to source or proprietary, rather than have us purchase them. You can do this by clicking the "Consign" button in your Parts list on your Project page.
CircuitHub is a turnkey assembly service. What that means is we will purchase all of the materials for your order including bare boards and components. We have very specific requirements for how material needs to be presented to our factory and our suppliers work with us to make sure this happens. Receiving consigned material that does not follow these processes results in additional kitting time and added costs. Because of this, we cannot accept fully consigned kits from our customers. We kindly ask that you only consign parts that are not readily available in the market.
We are happy to do all material purchasing for our customers as it saves you a considerable amount of time and effort. It also saves us a lot of time because then the material arrives exactly as we expect it to and flows well with our system.
Please see these articles for additional information on parts consignment:
How to mark parts as consigned
How to consign parts to the factory
If you do wish to supply parts yourself, click "Consign part" next to the part number you will be supplying. After placing your order you will be provided with a shipping address for the parts.
Please note, when you consign a part, it is marked as consigned across all projects where it appears in the BOM. Consignment is applied at the organization level, not on a per-project basis.
Consigned parts still need to be marked as "Place" even if they are not being purchased by us. We keep track of which parts need to be fit for pick & place programming and for quoting purposes.
For consigned parts, the sender does pay shipping fees; we do not provide shipping labels. If parts are purchased by us from an international vendor the sender will also be responsible for all duties and taxes.
See Consigned part shipping for further information.
Please note that we unfortunately cannot accept fully consigned kits. See Intent of consigning parts for more details.