Pricing only by low-top, high-top or designer label overlooks the factors that drive labour and risk. Material combinations, soiling, ageing bonds, prints and treatment history may change the work needed on the same model. Begin with intake inspection and a material map.
Four service levels
These levels are an assessment framework rather than fixed prices. Adapt prices to your procedures, team capability and local business conditions, while stating inclusions and exclusions.
- Routine cleaning: identifiable, stable materials with ordinary surface soiling.
- Material-specific care: suede, leather, mesh, pale combinations, special finishes or colour-sensitive areas.
- Repair: recolouring, bonding, shape correction, local disassembly or other separate procedures.
- High-value risk management: limited, rare, significantly aged or previously treated shoes where mistakes carry a high cost.
Before quoting
Confirm material complexity and sensitive areas, soiling and ageing, disassembly or repair needs, value and acceptable risk, expected timing and observable improvement goals.
Avoid open-ended deep-clean promises
Without material limits, staff may apply one strength everywhere to fulfil a package promise, increasing colour transfer, separation, print lifting and matted suede. Retain the option to decline high-risk work or seek a second assessment for valuable shoes.
Connect intake to handover
Record the material map and photographs at intake, list procedures in the quote, retain abnormality records during work, and check the result with matching-angle photographs and a checklist.
Contact REBIRTH for shop training and support with service tiers, pricing and handover when adding or improving sneaker care services.