GUIDES

Practical answers for sauce makers who ship glass: packing methods, bottle sizes, gift sets, advent calendars, what packaging costs and what the carriers require.

• 6 MIN READUSPS and UPS Rules for Shipping Glass Bottles of SauceHot sauce is not hazmat, but a leaking parcel will be refused and a broken one will not be paid out unless it was packed to the carrier’s standard. The rules, in plain terms.Read the guide
• 5 MIN READWhat Hot Sauce Packaging Costs at Wholesale (and How Tier Pricing Works)Boxes are priced by the tier, not the box. How the 25/50/100/250/500/1,000 tiers work, what a set actually costs to pack, and how to plan a first order.Read the guide
• 7 MIN READHow to Make a Hot Sauce Advent CalendarAdvent calendars sell out every November. Here is the whole build — bottles, box, filling, pricing and timing — for a 12- or 24-day hot sauce countdown.Read the guide
• 6 MIN READHot Sauce Gift Set Packaging: Boxes That Sell the SetGift sets are the highest-margin thing a sauce brand sells, and the box is half the product. What works, what it costs, and how to ship it.Read the guide
• 6 MIN READHot Sauce Bottle Sizes Explained: Woozy, Boston Round and Ring-NeckBottle names are confusing and the wrong box is expensive. This is the cheat sheet: every common sauce bottle, its measurements, and which pod it goes in.Read the guide
• 7 MIN READHow to Ship Hot Sauce Bottles Without BreakageGlass breaks in the mail for three reasons, and none of them is "not enough bubble wrap". Here is the method that gets a 5oz woozy across the country intact.Read the guide