Yes! Lumi is free to use during your design phase. This means you can use Lumi to build specifications, save suppliers, and collaborate with Lumi Experts for as long as you need.

Once you're ready to get quotes you can start a 30-day risk-free trial to see pricing from suppliers and place your first orders.

Yes! You can pause your subscription to Lumi at any time. Your account will return to the free plan once your active orders have been fully delivered and paid, and your quote requests have closed or expired. You can restart your subscription whenever you're ready.

Yes! There are multiple ways to design packaging on Lumi:

• With your own design team, using our free resources for creating dielines and specifications
• With Lumi Experts — packaging agencies and freelance professionals that offer design and engineering services. Typically charged hourly or per project.
• With suppliers who offer design services through the quoting and collaboration tools in Lumi

Each supplier on Lumi has minimum order quantities that vary depending on the product and manufacturing process. You can search for products by MOQ or view a supplier's MOQ on their supplier profile, if they've provided them. For most products the minimums start between 1,000 and 10,000 units. Learn more about MOQs.

To join Lumi as a buyer, your company must be headquartered in the United States or Canada. Suppliers can join from any country.

Yes! Your suppliers may already be on Lumi, search suppliers to find out. If your suppliers are not yet on Lumi you can invite them to join Lumi and our team will help onboard and train them.

Yes! Lumi even centralizes the credit application process so that you can streamline negotiating payment terms with suppliers.