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The cheapest place to find a defect is on our bench. Imported freight sampled to an agreed standard, defects photographed and quantified, and a report you can put in front of the supplier the same day.
WSUK inspects goods at a Golden Triangle warehouse before they reach your customers: AQL sampling plans agreed with you, inbound containers checked against the purchase order, defects photographed and quantified, and a report issued the same day so a supplier claim can be raised while it still counts. Container inspection from £75, per-unit inspection from £0.45, 100% inspection quoted per job. Failed stock can be reworked on the same site — see rework and relabelling.
A defect found at goods-in costs an inspection. The same defect found by a customer costs the refund, the return carriage, the review and the repeat purchase.
Inbound containers and supplier pallets checked against your purchase order for count, condition and specification before anything is put away.
A statistically valid sample size agreed with you up front, inspected against a defect list you define — so results are comparable batch to batch and supplier to supplier.
Function, finish, labelling and packaging checked before stock goes to a retailer or a customer, because those are the checks a buyer will repeat at their gate.
Most importers inspect nothing and find out from customers. One caught batch usually covers a year of inspection.
From container arrival to a report you can act on.
Sample size, AQL level and what counts as a critical, major or minor defect — written down before the first container lands so results mean something.
The container is counted against your PO and the sample inspected against the agreed list, with every defect photographed and classified.
Pass or fail, defect counts by class, photographs and a recommendation — in time to hold the stock, raise the claim or release it.
Inspection is priced by how much of the consignment you want checked. Short-term rate card for ad-hoc and first-shipment checks; long-term contract rates for ongoing QC programmes on repeat suppliers.
Pay-per-use published rates with no commitment.
Locked-in rates on multi-year SLAs.
Counted against PO, condition checked, report issued.
Statistically valid sample against your defect list.
Every unit checked where a batch is suspect.
Indicative ranges based on standard requirements. Bespoke / hazardous / temperature-controlled goods are quoted separately. Get an exact quote for your volumes →
Containers from Felixstowe, Southampton and London Gateway reach the M1 / M6 corridor quickly — so inspection happens days after landing, not weeks.
Product inspection is checking goods against a defined standard before they reach the next person in the chain — your retailer, your marketplace listing or your customer. In a UK warehouse it usually happens at goods-in, when an imported container is opened: the load is counted against the purchase order, the condition assessed, and a sample of units inspected against a defect list agreed in advance. The discipline that makes it useful rather than decorative is the sampling plan. An AQL level and a defined sample size, with defects classified as critical, major or minor, produces results that are comparable between batches and between suppliers; one person forming an impression while unloading does not. The economics are straightforward. A defect found on the bench costs an inspection fee and possibly a rework. The same defect found by a customer costs a refund, return carriage, a review that stays up permanently, and the repeat purchase you were counting on. Most importers inspect nothing until a bad batch teaches them otherwise. WSUK inspects at goods-in, photographs and quantifies what it finds, and issues the report the same day — while a supplier claim is still live.
From first contact to live operation, our typical onboarding takes less than a week.
Volumes, SKUs, peak season, integrations. One 10-minute call is enough.
Transparent line-item pricing on a single page — no hidden fees, no jargon.
Walk the floor with our ops team. Bring your operations lead, not just procurement.
Stock in, scanning live, integrations active. Daily standups for the first two weeks.
Everything you need to know about product inspection at WSUK.
Counting the consignment against your purchase order, checking condition, and inspecting a sample against a defect list agreed with you — classified as critical, major or minor. Defects are photographed and counted, and the report is issued the same day.
AQL is an agreed acceptable quality level that determines how many units are inspected and how many defects are tolerated before a batch fails. It matters because it makes results comparable batch to batch and supplier to supplier, rather than an opinion formed while unloading.
Yes — 100% inspection is quoted per job and is worth it when a batch is already suspect or the defect is safety-related. For routine inbound, sampling from £0.45 per unit gives you most of the value at a fraction of the cost.
Container goods-in inspection from £75, AQL sample inspection from £0.45 per unit, 100% inspection quoted per job. Quarantine storage for failures is from £4.50 per pallet per week.
Same day. That matters more than it sounds — supplier claim windows are short, and a report that arrives a fortnight later has usually lost its commercial value.
It is quarantined immediately so it cannot be picked by mistake, photographed and counted for your claim, and then either reworked on site — see rework and relabelling — returned to the supplier, or disposed of with a record.
Yes, and it is worth doing. We inspect against the buyer’s own criteria — labelling, barcode, packaging, presentation — so a rejection happens on our bench rather than at their gate.
Yes. Inspection can run as a standalone service on freight delivered in for the purpose, though most clients combine it with storage so failures can be quarantined and reworked immediately.
Our inspection happens in the UK at goods-in. For pre-shipment inspection at origin you would use an inspection agency in the manufacturing country; we will tell you honestly when that is the better option.
Yes — Goods-in-Trust cover applies throughout, including quarantined stock.
| What you get | WSUK | Generic 3PL / DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Live within 24–72 hours | Yes | Rarely |
| AQL sampling plan agreed in writing | Yes | Rarely |
| Defects photographed and classified | Yes | Rarely |
| No setup fee & no minimum | Yes | Rarely |
| Same-day report while claims are live | Yes | Rarely |
| Failures quarantined and reworkable on site | Yes | Rarely |
We provide product inspection and QC across the UK’s Golden Triangle and beyond. Click your area for local information.
Tell us what you import and from whom — we will propose a sampling plan and quote it inside two hours.