Custom Marketing Kit Boxes
Custom marketing kit boxes from 100 — corrugated mailers or rigid boxes with a die-cut insert that holds a product sample, a brochure, a card and a few branded pieces in the order you want them opened.
A sales pitch that arrives in a box and gets opened in order
- Board
- E flute corrugated mailer printed inside and out; wrapped grayboard rigid for premium kits
- Inserts
- Die-cut paperboard or corrugated platforms; foam for glass and electronics
- Full color inside and outside; matte or gloss lamination; foil on the lid
Order online
Order marketing kit boxes
Starting from $2.50 per unit
Printed to your artwork or plain, sold in runs of 100 up to 5,000 units per product online. Freight to the US, UK, Canada and Australia is inside the price.
How an online order runs
- Add the units you needThen check out with your delivery address. Add other products to the same order on the way.
- A digital proof comes backLaid on the dieline, before anything prints. Change it as often as you need.
- Pay once you approve itPay by PayPal invoice or bank transfer after you approve your digital proof, or cash on delivery in the US and Canada.
- We make it and ship it deliveredYour delivery date is confirmed with the proof, against the spec and your fill date. Freight and customs are handled on the way to you.
Another size, board or finish, or more than 5,000 units? Send the spec for a price instead. Freight by market and our terms cover delivery and remakes.
Get a price for Marketing Kit Boxes
Send the size and quantity — we reply the same working day with a price, a dieline and a date. Artwork optional at this stage.
- Free dielineThe flat drawing comes with the quote, before you commit.
- Proof before pressNothing is printed until you have seen it laid on the dieline.
- Die kept for reordersTooling is paid once. Every reorder skips straight to press.
- Quoted in four marketsUS, UK, Canada and Australia, in the delivery currency.
What usually goes in a kit
The list matters before the box does. Send every item with its size and weight, because the insert is cut around them and nothing can be swapped in later without a new die.
| Sales kit | Product sample, spec sheet or brochure, business card, a pen or a USB card |
|---|---|
| PR and launch kit | The new product, a press release, a handwritten-style note, a small gift |
| Onboarding kit | Notebook, mug or bottle, lanyard, welcome booklet, company stickers |
| Event or trade show kit | Samples in several sizes, a price list, a QR card that leads to an order page |
Planning the order things are found in
Open the lid and the first thing on top should be the message, not the packing. Most kits put a printed card or a short letter on the inside of the lid or on a loose sheet laid over the insert. The hero item sits in the center cavity, slightly raised so it can be lifted out with two fingers. Secondary pieces go to the sides, and paperwork goes underneath in a flat pocket so it is found last, once the recipient is already interested.
Printing the inside of the box costs a second print pass, and it is the part people actually look at. For the same idea aimed at creators who film the opening, see our influencer boxes built for the camera.
Mailer or rigid: what the kit is for
- A corrugated mailer box ships on its own with a label on the lid, which suits kits sent to hundreds of addresses.
- A rigid two-piece or magnetic box feels like a gift and is kept on a shelf, but it needs a shipping outer.
- A mailer printed in full color inside and out often gives most of the effect at a fraction of the freight.
- Rigid kits make sense for small, high-value lists: key accounts, investors, press.
Inserts that hold mixed items still
A kit rarely holds things of one shape. A bottle, a booklet and a card need three kinds of support, so the insert is usually layered: a die-cut paperboard or corrugated platform with cavities for the solid items, and a flat recess or a printed sleeve for the paper. Foam is used when the sample is glass or electronic and has to survive a parcel network. Our range of custom packaging inserts shows the main types.
Send one of each item, or exact dimensions and weights. The insert dieline comes back with the quote.
Small runs, several versions
Kits are ordered in hundreds, not tens of thousands, and often in versions: one for each region, a premium version for top accounts, a cheaper one for a trade show. The box can stay the same while the printed card or the lid sleeve changes, which keeps the tooling to one die and lets each version start from 100.
Getting it there in one piece
A mailer kit is closed with tear strip or tuck-in flaps and can carry a shipping label directly. A rigid kit goes inside a plain corrugated outer with a little void fill. Either way, the heavy item belongs in the middle of the insert, never against a wall, because parcel drops land on corners.
Marketing Kit Boxes — specification
The rows that are specific to this build first, then what applies to every job we run. Anything not listed is a question, not a limit — send the brief.
This build
- Board
- E flute corrugated mailer printed inside and out; wrapped grayboard rigid for premium kits
- Inserts
- Die-cut paperboard or corrugated platforms; foam for glass and electronics
- Full color inside and outside; matte or gloss lamination; foil on the lid
- Extras
- Printed cards, belly bands, tissue, branded stickers to seal
- Shipping
- Mailers ship as they are; rigid kits in a plain corrugated outer
- Minimum
- 100 kits per design; versions can share one die
On every job
- Print process
- Digital below about a thousand, offset above it. One side or both, with spot colors where a match has to hold.
- Color
- CMYK as standard. Uncoated and kraft stocks print lighter and warmer; a spot color is the only exact match.
- Tolerance
- Cutting plus or minus 1 mm, creasing plus or minus 0.5 mm, confirmed on a plain sample before the run.
- Tooling
- A cutting die per size, made once and kept. Foil and emboss dies per artwork, also kept.
- Food contact
- Food-grade board and inks where the carton touches food, with the interior left plain.
- Sustainability
- Mono-material board wherever the product allows; recycled-content and FSC stocks; no claim printed the pack does not earn.
- Artwork
- Vector PDF or AI, 3 mm bleed, 4 mm safe area, fonts outlined. We check every file and send a proof before press.
- Dieline
- Supplied free with the quote, before you commit. Yours whether or not you order.
- Sample
- A plain unprinted sample at the finished size on request, for fit and construction.
- Reorders
- Skip the tooling and go straight to press at a lower unit price.
- Lead time
- Quoted with the price against your fill date rather than promised before we have seen the spec.
- Markets
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia — priced in the delivery currency, freight included.
Boards and films we build marketing kit boxes on
A folding carton is one sheet of board, so the board is the product. These are the stocks we run for cartons, what each is good at, and where it lets you down.
Natural kraft
Unbleached folding board. Warm, hides marks, costs least. Mutes color — one or two flat colors print well, photographs do not.
250–350gsm sleeves; 14–24pt cartonsWhite SBS
Solid bleached sulfate: bright, coated, the retail carton standard. Takes accurate color and every finish. Shows scuffs sooner than kraft.
14–24ptWhite lined chipboard
A recycled gray core under a white printing face. Cheaper than SBS and slightly duller; the back of the sheet stays gray.
16–24ptKraft-look coated
A kraft face over a coated inner. The natural look with a barrier behind it — the answer where oil, grease or moisture would mark plain kraft.
14–20ptRecycled-content board
Post-consumer fiber with a gray-brown cast. Right for outers and inner components; poor for bright whites and photography.
16–22ptMicro-flute E and F
A fine corrugated layer where a carton needs structure it cannot get from board — a large panel, a heavy product, a box that ships alone.
E 1.5 mm; F 0.8 mmUncoated and textured
No clay coat, or a linen or laid grain. Print reads softer and warmer; a deboss goes deeper. Photographs do not sit well on it.
280–350gsmMetalized and pearlescent
A metallic or pearl face for a shelf that needs to catch light. Costly, and it fights a photograph — a mark or a pattern suits it better.
16–20ptNot sure which? Say what goes in it and where it is sold — the material follows from that. Our notes on recycled, recyclable and compostable cover which claims each stock can honestly carry.
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Send what you have
A dimension, a photograph beside a ruler, or the product itself. No technical drawing needed — that part is ours.
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We quote and draw
A price, a dieline and a date come back together. If a different build would suit the product better, that is in the reply too.
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Approve the dieline
The flat drawing is yours to check: which panel is the front, where the folds fall, how deep the cavity really is.
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Artwork on the dieline
You place your design on the flat we sent, or we place it for you, and you see a proof before anything goes to press.
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A sample if you want one
A plain unprinted sample at the finished size shows fit and construction — the things a drawing cannot.
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Cut, printed, shipped
The die is cut once and kept, so every reorder skips the tooling and goes straight to press at a lower unit price.
Format
Vector PDF or AI where possible. Raster artwork at 300dpi at final size, in CMYK.
Bleed
3 mm past every trim line, so a fraction of drift on the cutter never leaves a white edge.
Safe area
Keep type and anything important 4 mm inside the cut and away from every fold.
Color
Convert to CMYK before sending. Uncoated stock prints lighter; a spot color is the only exact match.
Fonts
Outline them or supply the files. A missing font substitutes silently and the proof will not match.
Barcodes
On a light, matte, unvarnished patch with the quiet zone clear — a code on gloss fails the scanner.
Not set up that way? Send it anyway — fixing a file is a short conversation, and we check every one before press. Our guide to preparing print files covers each point.
Every finish here is a decision about light on a shelf, not about luxury.
Matte lamination
Reads considered, hides marks, takes a ballpoint.
Gloss lamination
Lifts color; glares under shop lighting.
Soft-touch
Velvet in the hand; shows fingerprints in a bag.
Hot foil
Real metal leaf — the most reliable premium signal.
Emboss / deboss
Shape with no ink; works in the dark.
Spot UV
Gloss shapes on a matte field.
Uncoated kraft
Warm, natural, mutes color.
Textured stock
Texture in the paper; cannot scuff off.
Not sure which suits the shelf it sells from? Say where the product is sold and we suggest one — our notes on specialty finishes show them on real boxes.
Sizing a folding carton so the die comes out right: marketing kit boxes
Measure the product, not the box it is in now. A carton is built around what has to fit inside it, assembled — cap on, lid fitted, folded if it folds — at its widest point in each direction. Send those three numbers and say which is which.
- Length x width x height
- Internal, always. External dimensions include the board and are what the carrier measures, not what the product needs.
- Clearance
- 2–3 mm a side for a snug fit; more where an insert or void fill goes in. A carton cut exactly to the product is slow to pack and transmits every knock.
- Board thickness
- Heavier board takes internal space from the product. It matters most on small boxes, where four walls of 24pt is a real share of the cavity.
- Varies between batches?
- Glass, textiles, molded parts and cured soap all do. Measure several and build to the largest.
- Cutting tolerance
- Plus or minus 1 mm on folding board. Confirmed on a plain sample before the run.
- Units
- Metric or imperial, as long as you say which. Mixing them in one spec is where mistakes happen.
Not sure your numbers are right? Send the product dimensions rather than the box dimensions and we work the box out — the full method is in our guide to measuring for a box.
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Build your Marketing Kit Boxes in 3D
Pick a shape, type a size, choose a board and a finish. The preview on the left redraws as you go, and the spec lands with us exactly as you set it.
Frequently asked questions
Got a question about marketing kit boxes? The answers below cover what we get asked most. If yours is not here, send it with a brief, message us on WhatsApp, or call +1 503-461-4788 — we reply the same working day.
What is a marketing kit box?
A printed box with a fitted insert that delivers a product sample and printed material to a prospect, a journalist or a new employee as one planned package.
Should a marketing kit box be a mailer or a rigid box?
A corrugated mailer when the kit is posted to many addresses; a rigid box when a small list of recipients should keep it. Rigid kits need a shipping outer.
Can the insert in a marketing kit box hold items of different shapes?
Yes. The insert is layered, with cavities for solid items and a flat recess or pocket for brochures and cards.
Can a marketing kit box be printed on the inside?
Yes, and it is usually worth it: the inside of the lid is the first thing the recipient reads once the box is open.
How do I make several versions of a marketing kit?
Keep one box and one insert die and change the printed card, sleeve or lid. Each version can start from 100.
Will a marketing kit box protect a glass sample?
With a foam or corrugated cavity that holds it away from the walls, yes. Tell us the item is glass and we design the insert for parcel drops.
Can a marketing kit box ship without an outer carton?
A corrugated mailer kit can, with the label on the lid. A rigid kit should travel inside a plain corrugated shipper.
What should I send to get a marketing kit box quoted?
The list of items with sizes and weights, how many kits, whether they are posted or handed out, and how many versions.
Can a marketing kit box have a pocket for a brochure?
Yes. A brochure or letter can sit under the insert, in a printed pocket on the lid, or in a sleeve beside the product.
Are marketing kit boxes good for employee onboarding?
Yes. Onboarding kits use the same build, with cavities for a mug, bottle or notebook and a welcome booklet on top.
Can marketing kit boxes be sealed so they look unopened?
Yes. A printed sticker, a belly band or a tear strip shows the recipient that nobody opened the kit before them.
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