Pricing · Transparent 4-tier commercial architecture

Published prices, bounded scope, no entity required

Tier 0 is complimentary. Every paid tier is published in USD, EUR and RMB, scoped by specialist hours and deliverables, and contractable through a US or Shanghai entity. Third-party costs — media, platform deposits, duties, booth construction — are never inside the fee.

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Tier 0

Complimentary Shanghai Desk & Orientation Sprint

Free 7-Day Shanghai Desk & 5-Hr Orientation

Complimentary for verified B2B companies

Included deliverables

7 days of complimentary Canxing Bldg 22F workstation & meeting room access in Shanghai
5-hour Orientation & Feasibility Sprint: 60-min strategy call + CBEC/regulatory check + high-level channel roadmap

Client inputs required

Company registration proof (B2B verification) and a named decision-maker
Product list with HS codes if known, or a catalogue we can classify from
Travel dates for the 7-day Shanghai desk (if visiting)

Excluded external costs

Travel and accommodation
Paid media or ad spend
Field surveys or paid research panels

Excludes ad spend or field surveys.

Tier 1

China Readiness & Partner Diagnostic

One-Time · 14 Business Days

$1,500one-time

€1,400 · RMB 10,800

One-time · 14 business days · 100% credited toward Tier 2 or Tier 3 if upgraded within 30 days

Included deliverables

Competitor & pricing benchmark across Tmall/JD/Douyin/RED or your B2B sector
Regulatory import pathway audit (CBEC 9610/1210 vs. General Trade / NMPA / GACC)
Shortlist of 10–15 pre-vetted Chinese B2B distributors/buyers/suppliers
90-day P&L execution plan

Client inputs required

SKU list with ingredients / technical specifications and current export price list
Existing China contacts, inquiries or distributor agreements (if any)
Target segments, price positioning and 2 competitor names you track
A 60-minute kick-off call and a 45-minute Day-10 review

Excluded external costs

Paid data-room or registry reports beyond Qichacha standard screens
Laboratory testing or regulatory filing fees
Paid media

Tier 2Most common start

China Focus Plan

90-Day Initial Pilot

From$3,800/ month

€3,500 · RMB 27,000

Monthly · 90-day initial pilot ($11,400) · €3,500 / RMB 27,000 per month

Included deliverables

Dedicated Bilingual Project Lead + fractional shared specialists (~35–45 hrs/mo)
1 Core Workstream: (A) B2B Partner & Distributor Matchmaking (30–50 targets/mo + meeting/negotiation support), OR (B) Chinese Digital Presence & RED/Douyin Seeding (Chinese web page + official accounts + 8–12 native posts/videos/mo), OR (C) Sourcing & Factory QC Representation
Complimentary Shanghai desk access

Client inputs required

One named Client Owner with a 48-hour decision SLA on pricing, samples and partner terms
Approved brand assets, product samples for the Canxing 22F showroom, and technical / marketing source files
Weekly 30-minute review call (Friday telemetry memo is written regardless)
Access to official-account registration documents (business licence, trademark certificate) for Workstream B

Excluded external costs

Paid media, KOL / KOC fees and platform advertising budgets (billed at cost, pre-approved)
Platform deposits and annual fees (Tmall Global, JD Worldwide, Douyin)
Customs duties, VAT, bonded-warehouse and logistics charges
Laboratory testing, NMPA / CIFER filing agents and legal fees

Tier 3

China 360 Growth Partner

Omnichannel Office Retainer

From$7,500/ month

€6,900 · RMB 54,000

+ Optional 5%–12% Performance Share — once baseline & attribution are agreed

Monthly · 6- or 12-month partnership · €6,900 / RMB 54,000 per month

Included deliverables

1st & 2nd Project Leads + Full 6-Dept Shared Team (~80–100 hrs/mo across Strategy, B2B Sales, E-Commerce Ops, Video/Photo Studio, UI/IT, Admin)
End-to-end omnichannel execution: CBEC store ops + offline distributor management
Canxing 22F sample showroom + permanent Shanghai desk privileges + weekly telemetry

Client inputs required

Named Client Owner plus finance contact for the monthly P&L review
Inventory plan and bonded-warehouse stock for CBEC store operations
Agreed KPI baseline and attribution rules before any performance share is activated
Monthly 60-minute steering review with both Project Leads

Excluded external costs

Paid media, KOL / KOC fees and platform advertising budgets (billed at cost)
Platform deposits, annual fees and payment-gateway charges
Customs duties, VAT, bonded-warehouse, logistics and inventory
Legal, regulatory filing and laboratory fees

Tier 4

China Exhibition & VIP Roadshow Pack

Per Event

From$6,500/ event

€6,000 · RMB 46,800

Per event · 50% deposit, 50% pre-event · €6,000 / RMB 46,800

Included deliverables

Pre-event B2B buyer/VIP invitation outreach (20–30 pre-scheduled meetings)
Booth localization or luxury hotel VIP cocktail/dinner coordination
On-site bilingual reps & video crew
30-day post-event WeCom/phone follow-up

Client inputs required

Event name, dates, hall / booth number or hotel venue, and the on-site team roster
Target buyer profile and any existing invitation list (6+ weeks before the event)
Localised collateral source files or approval to localise within the pack
50% deposit on booking, 50% pre-event

Excluded external costs

Venue hire, booth construction, furniture and AV hard costs
Hotel F&B, catering and VIP gifts (billed at cost)
Travel, visas and accommodation for the client team
Paid media or sponsored placements around the event

Excludes venue/booth construction hard costs.

Tier 1 is credited 100% toward Tier 2 or Tier 3 when signed within 30 days. Tier 2 and Tier 3 include complimentary Canxing Building 22F desk access (32+ workstations today; expansion planned Dec 2026 / Jan 2027). Tier 3's optional 5%–12% performance share applies only after a baseline and attribution rules are agreed in writing.

China Entry Pathway & 12-Month Cost Comparator

Compare WFOE, EOR hire and a shared Shanghai team on your own numbers

Deterministic: the same inputs always give the same result. Benchmarks default to MSA Asia 2026 and Shanghai figures and every assumption is editable. The output is a recommended route with key dependencies to verify — not a regulatory approval.

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Your inputs

Business type

Planning horizon

3 mo6 mo12 mo

We need Chinese VAT fapiao issued locallyContracting in RMB via the Shanghai entity (6% consulting VAT fapiao) — shifts the recommendation toward China 360 at 6+ months.Monthly paid media (USD, 0–20,000) — added to all three pathways

12-month cost comparison · USD · includes $2,500/mo media

Time to launch · 7–10 Days (vs. 10–14 Weeks for WFOE)

Benchmark

Standalone China WFOE

+ 2 local staff + small office

$158,900

Setup (one-time): $6,500
Fixed × 12 mo ($10,200/mo): $122,400
Paid media: $30,000

Benchmark

Single EOR / PEO hire

+ external freelancers

$115,500

Setup (one-time): $1,500
Fixed × 12 mo ($7,000/mo): $84,000
Paid media: $30,000

Recommended

HuaOffice shared team

China 360 Growth Partner ($7,500/mo)

$120,000

Setup (one-time): $0
Fixed × 12 mo ($7,500/mo): $90,000
Paid media: $30,000

90-day pilot (China Focus Plan × 3): $11,400

Difference vs. WFOE

$38,900

Difference vs. EOR hire

-$4,500

Recommended route & key dependencies to verify

CBEC 9610/1210 (0% duty, 70% VAT, exempt from routine animal testing) + NMPA Announcement No. 70 (July 2026) DRP evaluation for offline retail.

018-digit HS code of each SKU appears on the 2026 CBEC Positive List (1,476 codes)
02Product classification: general vs. special cosmetics under NMPA rules (special categories such as sunscreen or hair dye follow registration, not filing)
03Safety-assessment route under NMPA Announcement No. 70 (July 2026) if offline retail or general-trade import is planned
04Chinese-label and ingredient-list compliance (INCI / 已使用化妆品原料目录 check)
05Bonded-warehouse (1210) or direct-mail (9610) logistics partner and RMB 5,000 / RMB 26,000 per-order / per-year limits

A recommended route with dependencies to verify in the 14-day diagnostic — not a regulatory approval. Sources:EV-04 — source: Servix International EV-05 — source: Cisema EV-06 — source: MSA Asia — WFOE guide

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Objection & operating-model drawer

Questions your CFO & legal team will ask

Four answers written the way a finance or legal reviewer would want them: what the fee covers, who does the work, who owns what at exit, and how contracting and credits are structured. Firms such as GMA, Fiducia, WalktheChat and Dezan Shira offer real partner and channel services; the comparison is about fit, not superiority.

Card 14-way China operating model comparisonWho you pay, what you get, what you still carry

Four China operating models compared
Model & providers	What you pay	What you get	What you still carry	Best fit
Corporate / EOR adminMSA Asia · Hawksford · INS Global	Admin fee of roughly $199–$499 per employee per month plus the full salary, employer social insurance and taxes of each hire (indicative published ranges — confirm at quote).	Compliant payroll, contracts and HR administration for staff you recruit, in China, without an entity.	Recruiting, managing and directing the daily sales work yourself; single-skill hires; no studio, showroom or local manager.	You already know exactly whom to hire and have a manager who can run them remotely.
Wholesale buyout operatorKung Fu Data	$0 retainer — the operator buys your stock at wholesale and resells it.	Hands-off China e-commerce for brands with proven sell-through.	3–5 year exclusivity and wholesale margin; little channel, pricing or data control; requires established brand velocity to be accepted.	Brands with strong existing demand that want to outsource the channel entirely.
Enterprise TP / digital agencyWPIC · GMA · WalktheChat	Monthly retainers (GMA from ~$3k; WPIC ~$15k–$50k+) often plus a share of GMV, with platform deposits on top.	Comprehensive e-commerce and digital execution at scale for larger budgets.	E-commerce-centred scope; B2B distributor or offline work is usually out of scope; Tmall-scale budgets expected.	Brands committing six-figure annual budgets to flagship-store growth.
HuaOffice shared sales & execution teamHuaOffice · Canxing 22F, Shanghai	$1,500 diagnostic (100% credited) → $3,800/mo China Focus Plan → $7,500/mo China 360 Growth Partner (+ optional 5%–12% performance share once a baseline and attribution rules are agreed).	A named Project Lead, a Western Regional Lead and ~35–45 or ~80–100 specialist hours a month across 6 Shanghai departments, plus a complimentary Canxing 22F desk and showroom.	A named Client Owner with a 48-hour decision SLA; third-party media, deposits, duties and booth hard costs at cost.	$2M–$100M companies validating demand or scaling in 90-day sprints without a subsidiary.

Third-party ranges are indicative published figures as of 2026 and change; obtain written quotes. HuaOffice differentiates on a bounded 90-day scope, visible named coordination, shared Shanghai studio economics and physical Canxing 22F workspace collaboration — not on claims that others cannot do the work.

Card 2Shared team vs. dedicated capacityHow a named Project Coordinator orchestrates specialist hours

HuaOffice is not ten exclusive employees. It is a named Project Lead at Canxing 22F who plans, schedules and reports specialist hours drawn from six departments — Strategy, B2B Sales, E-Commerce Ops, Video/Photo Studio, UI/IT and Admin — alongside a Western Regional Lead in your time zone.

Capacity is published and bounded: the China Focus Plan carries ~35–45 specialist hours a month on one core workstream; China 360 carries ~80–100 hours with two Project Leads. Hours used appear in every Friday Responsibility & Progress Receipt, so you see exactly where the month went.

When a client needs a full-time, exclusive person in China, we say so — that is an EOR hire, and we will help scope it rather than disguise a shared team as dedicated headcount.

Named to you: Project Lead (Shanghai) + Western Regional Lead + Client Owner on your side
Tier 2 capacity: ~35–45 specialist hrs / month · 1 core workstream
Tier 3 capacity: ~80–100 specialist hrs / month · 2 Project Leads · 6 departments
Reporting: Friday written receipt: work done, evidence learned, active conversations, decisions needed
Shared pool: 30+ specialists across Huazong Group · 32+ workstations at Canxing 22F (expansion planned Dec 2026 / Jan 2027)
Decision SLA: Client Owner answers pricing / sample / partner questions within 48 hours

Card 3Account, asset & data ownership at exitWho owns localised files, buyer logs and platform accounts

Ownership and handover rules
Asset	Owner	Handover at exit
Localised creative & technical files (Chinese decks, datasheets, landing-page source, video masters)	Client, from creation	Full source files within 10 business days
Vetted distributor / buyer logs and Counterparty Evidence Logs	Client	Complete log incl. Qichacha screen results and conversation history
Cross-border accounts (Tmall Global, JD Worldwide, Xiaohongshu / Douyin official accounts for an overseas entity)	Client entity — HuaOffice as operator	Operator access revoked; credentials and 2FA devices transferred
Domestic accounts that legally require a Chinese entity	Client's Chinese entity where one exists; otherwise opened under a written operator agreement	Transfer or wind-down terms defined in writing before the account is opened
Canxing 22F showroom samples and demo stock	Client	Returned or forwarded at cost

Engagements run in 90-day sprints. After the initial sprint you may pause with 30 days' written notice; there are no exit fees and no minimum term beyond the sprint you signed.

The Day-90 Review Gate is agreed on Day 1 in writing, so the decision to scale, renew or pause is made against criteria you set — and you leave with 100% ownership of all localised assets, accounts and buyer lists.

Performance-share terms (Tier 3, optional) only activate after a baseline and attribution rules are agreed in writing; nothing is owed on revenue outside those rules.

Card 4Dual-entity contracting & fee credit rulesUS LLC vs. Shanghai LLC, fapiao, Tier 1 credit, what sits outside the fee

Contracting entities
	International entity (US LLC)	Shanghai Huazong Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd.
Currency	USD · EUR	RMB
Payment	Stripe, wire, corporate card	Bank transfer to the Shanghai entity
Tax document	Commercial invoice	6% modern consulting services VAT fapiao (Unified VAT Law, 1 Jan 2026)
Typical choice	Overseas HQ budgets; no China entity	Clients with a Chinese subsidiary or RMB budget that needs deductible fapiao

Tier 1 credit. The $1,500 China Readiness & Partner Diagnostic is credited 100% against the first month of a China Focus Plan or China 360 Growth Partner engagement signed within 30 days of delivery — e.g. a Tier 2 first invoice of $3,800 − $1,500 = $2,300.

What the fee covers. The HuaOffice management fee is the only amount you pay HuaOffice. Paid media and KOL / KOC fees, platform deposits and annual fees, customs duties and VAT, bonded-warehouse and logistics charges, laboratory and filing fees, and venue or booth construction are third-party costs billed at cost and only after written pre-approval.

Event pack. Tier 4 is 50% on booking, 50% pre-event. Retainers are invoiced monthly in advance; the 90-day pilot may be invoiced as one $11,400 amount on request.

Commercial FAQs

Questions we answer before the first call

01Do we need to incorporate a Chinese WFOE to sell consumer products or B2B equipment in China?

No. Overseas consumer brands can sell directly to Chinese consumers via Cross-Border E-Commerce (CBEC Customs Codes 9610 and 1210 across 1,476 HS codes) at 0% import tariff and 70% of statutory VAT (~9.1% effective tax) using their existing overseas legal entity. B2B industrial companies can contract directly cross-border or sell through vetted Chinese importers/distributors while HuaOffice operates as your on-the-ground Shanghai marketing, sales, and project management office starting at $3,800/month.

02How much does HuaOffice cost compared to setting up a Shanghai WFOE or hiring a traditional Tmall TP agency?

A standalone Shanghai WFOE with 2 bilingual staff and a small office costs $128,900 to $172,000+ in Year 1 and takes 10 to 14 weeks to establish. A traditional Tmall Partner (TP) agency requires $180,000 to $340,000+ in Year-1 retainers, deposits, and commissions. HuaOffice's 14-day Readiness Diagnostic is $1,500 (credited toward retainers), our 90-day China Focus Plan is $3,800/month ($11,400 for 90 days), and our full 6-department China 360 Growth Partner plan is $7,500/month—saving 65% to 85% in Year-1 fixed overhead.

03How does NMPA Announcement No. 70 of 2026 change China market entry for cruelty-free cosmetics brands?

Effective July 29, 2026, NMPA Announcement No. 70 of 2026 streamlines general cosmetics filing, supports cruelty-free safety assessment pathways without routine animal testing for qualifying imported general cosmetics, and removes country-of-origin prior marketing requirements for innovative China-first launches alongside CBEC 9610/1210 cross-border channels.

04Can we contract with a US legal entity or receive a Chinese VAT fapiao?

Yes. Clients can contract in USD or EUR through our international entity (with Stripe, wire, or corporate card support) or in RMB through Shanghai Huazong Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd. with a compliant 6% modern consulting services VAT fapiao under China's January 1, 2026 Unified VAT Law.