Custom Subscription Boxes
Custom candy subscription boxes turn a monthly sweet delivery into a brand experience subscribers look forward to. These printed mailer and carton formats are built to ship safely, open beautifully, and keep your candy brand front of mind every single month. Made to your size and artwork from 100 units, with the die, plates, design support and US shipping included, and a digital proof before anything prints.
Key Takeaways
iBox Factory makes custom subscription boxes from 100 boxes per size and artwork, and each new monthly artwork counts as its own 100. Reprinting the same size with new artwork adds no tooling charge, because the die and the plates are included on every run. Design support and US shipping are included, and you approve a digital proof before anything prints.
More Custom Candy Boxes we make
Every style below is made to your size and artwork, from 100 units.
Custom Packaging That Defines Your Brand
Get Your Packaging Details Right
Shipping, materials, and finishes are chosen per job so the box fits your product and your budget.
Shipping
Free shipping across the US on every order. Choose the lane on your quote: Rush (expedited production plus air freight), Standard (air), or Cost Saver (sea).
Materials
Pick the board for the job: kraft, coated paperboard, corrugated for shipping strength, or rigid chipboard for a premium unboxing. FSC-certified paper stock and soy-based inks.
Add-Ons and Finishes
Matte or gloss lamination, foil stamping, embossing, spot UV, windows, and inserts. Ask on the quote and we will price the combination.
Five Steps to Your Packaging
We handle it from the first idea to the box at your door.
Request a Quote
Tell us style, size, quantity, and printing. We come back with a written quote.
Finalize Your Design
Send artwork or work with our designers. The die and plates are included.
Approve Your Order
Check the quote and the digital proof. Nothing prints until you sign off.
Production
Printed, finished, and inspected against your approved proof.
Delivery
From about 7 business days of production, plus 2 to 5 for delivery, on the lane you chose.
Quote in Minutes
Attach artwork or a reference image if you have one. We reply with a written quote and a proof.
Subscription packaging is a scheduling problem more than a design problem. The box itself is usually a mailer that never changes. What changes is the artwork, the insert card and the contents, on a cycle that does not wait for you.
Lock the structure once, change the print
Pick one box size and hold it. A fixed size means your fulfilment station, your void fill, your insert card and your shipping rates all stay constant, and every month becomes a reprint rather than a new project. Because the cutting die and the printing plates are included on every run, changing the artwork from month to month does not add tooling charges. What it does add is proofing time, so build that into the calendar.
If your contents vary a lot in volume, resist the urge to solve it with three box sizes. Solve it with a partition or an insert tray inside one box. See insert packaging.
Planning a monthly cycle backwards
| Step | When it has to happen |
|---|---|
| Artwork final and sent | Before the production window opens, not during it |
| Digital proof approved | Production waits for your written approval, so this is the real start date |
| Production | From about 7 business days on the standard lane |
| Delivery | Add 2 to 5 days |
| Boxes in your warehouse | Before the pick and pack week, with a buffer for renewals |
Brands that run on time usually order two months ahead rather than one, and use the cost saver sea lane for the base box while keeping any last-minute seasonal version on a faster lane.
Choosing lanes to control cost
Turnaround is quoted per product across three lanes. Rush pairs expedited production with air freight and adds roughly 7 to 25 percent depending on the job. Standard moves by air. Cost saver moves by sea, and for a subscription business with a predictable monthly count it is the lane that actually changes your unit economics. Specialty imported items can run up to about 12 weeks, so anything unusual belongs in the annual plan rather than the monthly one.
The unboxing details that are worth paying for
Interior print, a tear strip, a fitted insert and a printed sleeve are the four upgrades subscription brands ask about most. All four are quoted per job. The one that changes perception most for the least money is usually a single interior color rather than full interior coverage. Whatever you pick, you approve it on a digital proof before the run.
Minimum, price and where it is made
The minimum is 100 boxes per size and artwork. Bulk pricing starts from about $0.48 per unit, confirmed in writing on your quote. The cutting die, printing plates, design support, US shipping and the digital proof are included. Manufacturing is at West Chicago in the US and Guangzhou in China, and your quote names the plant and the lane so you can see the speed and cost tradeoff before committing. If you want physical samples of the structure before you commit to a year of it, ask during the quote conversation, which is where that is arranged.
Send your box size, monthly count and artwork cadence to the quote form. For the footprints most subscription brands use, see subscription box dimensions, and for the wider program view see custom packaging for subscription boxes.
