🐱 July Update 3 – Production is finally starting (with a small twist!)
🐾 TL;DR – Quick Recap:
We've received good early results from new manufacturer test
We're no longer waiting for one single supplier — Delicats production starts now!
Locking orders & Charging remaining balances started
Other campaigns will move forward in parallel, each with their own manufacturer
Extra freebies + €5 credit in the next campaign’s pledge manager for delayed campaigns' backers 💖
We’re also exploring fulfillment partners to furtherly speed up fulfillment (which may limit new extra freebies)
More details 👇
Hi everyone!
We’re back with another quick but important update — and this time, we have a realchange in direction to share with you:
over the past few months, even while dealing with setbacks, we haven’t been standing still. We've been actively testing several new manufacturers by having small batches/samples made. Some of them have already shown great communication and promising quality — even if we’ve only seen very early samples so far.
🛠️ So what’s changing?
Initially (and until just a few days ago), we wanted to wait for the full production of Delidragons to finish before moving forward with Delicats (and the other pending projects), as previously said. Our plan was to test and stick to one (single) new “trusted” manufacturer, replacing the old trusted one we worked with for years.
Why? Because managing different manufacturers for the same type of product is messy — lots of back and forth, different reps, different systems, and a higher risk of errors. That’s why we had always avoided this approach until now!
But now that we've received a very encouraging first result from another manufacturer we've tested — even if it's still at a very early stage — we've decided it’s no longer worth putting every campaign in a long queue with just one partner. Instead, we’ll move forward producing our collections with multiple manufacturers in parallel (as soon as each one is confirmed with good communication/sample) — to avoid further unnecessary delays.
✅ What this means for Delicats:
We're now moving ahead!
We'll start locking orders and charging the remaining balances to officially begin production. Yay!
The estimated production and fulfillment window has also been updated — and you can see it here, along with a full timeline for our other projects:
📅 Updated Parallel Production Timeline:
🎁 To make it up to you…
Again, we know the wait has been long — longer than any of us ever imagined — and we’re truly sorry for that.
So, as a small thank-you for your patience, we’ll include extra freebies with your Delicats rewards during packaging, as many as we can manage at that time!
We're also actively looking for a fulfillment partner to help us with packing and shipping the rewards, so we can speed things up as much as possible once production is complete(though this may mean we won't be able to include extra freebies during packing, as we would if we were handling fulfillment ourselves).
🐮 If you’re joining Botanicows too — we’ve got something for you
If you decide to join our next campaign — the plant-based cow collection 🐮🌿 — we’ll also be giving a special credit to all backers of this (and other delayed) campaigns as a thank-you.
You’ll receive this as a store credit in the Botanicows pledge manager/survey after the campaign ends(sadly, the platform doesn’t allow it during the live campaign, or we absolutely would!).
👉 We’re thinking of a €5 credit per person as a small gesture — enough to partially cover shipping or help reduce your total, no matter what tier you choose — no need to claim, it’ll be automatic!
Thank you again for your incredible support and patience — we know this hasn’t been easy, and we’re doing everything we can to deliver the quality you deserve without further delay.
We're finally moving forward — and we're so excited!
