Pilates Reformer Wholesale: Allegro 2 Dimensions to Request Separately

Imagine a Monday morning when the freight forwarder asks for carton dimensions and the only figure on the desk is 94 L x 31.25 W x 15 H inches, copied from the Balanced Body Allegro 2 Reformer spec page. It looks like an answer. It is the frame including the footbar, measured with the legs fitted, listed on the same line as 239 cm L x 79 cm W x 38 cm H. The forwarder books against it, the studio floor plan gets drawn around it, and the pack data that arrives days later describes a box that matches neither. The quote is rebuilt, the pallet count changes, and the layout gets a second revision nobody scoped.

Everything below is scoped to the Allegro 2 Reformer and the manufacturer page those figures come from. None of it transfers to another model, to an OEM factory, or to a private-label build, and none of it is a supply promise from anyone. The working claim is narrower: the frame footprint with legs is a layout input, not a shipping carton and not the room a body needs around the machine. A wholesale request that folds those three into one field cannot be quoted cleanly, which is why the request itself is the thing worth fixing first.

On Day One Stop Mixing Footprint And Carton

On day one the buyer usually has one document open and three jobs to do with it. The same spec block that gives the 94 inch length also gives 148 lb (67 kg) without legs and 155 lb (70 kg) with them, which reads like freight data, so it gets typed into the shipping request beside the floor plan. The error is structural rather than careless: the page labels a frame, and the form asks for a package.

What the frame figure is good for is the layout conversation. Ninety-four inches by 31.25 inches by 15 inches is the outline of the machine with the footbar and legs fitted, and that is what a room gets measured against when you decide how many units sit along a wall. What it cannot do is stand in for working clearance, because the space a user needs depends on how the unit is placed and used, and this page does not answer that. Nor does it describe a box: carton length, pallet footprint and stack height are separate manufacturer data that have to be asked for, and no arithmetic turns one into the other.

The cost lands in sequence. A freight quote gets built on a guessed class, receiving books labor for a package that will not arrive in that shape, and the studio drawing gets approved against an outline that was accurate but incomplete. Repairing any one of those after the purchase order costs more than asking for the second and third numbers on the first afternoon, and the schedule hit is usually worse than the money.

In The First Week Build The Request Sheet

The first week is where the request takes shape, and shape matters more than wording. Put the model name and scope at the top so nothing downstream drifts, then ask for the assembled frame length, width and height with footbar and legs in place, in inches and centimeters both. For this model that answer is 94 by 31.25 by 15 inches and 239 by 79 by 38 centimeters, and carrying both unit sets on the sheet catches the conversion slips that show up later in a layout drawing.

Weight comes next, and it comes as two fields rather than one. Without legs the model is listed at 148 lb (67 kg); with legs, 155 lb (70 kg). That seven pound gap is the legs themselves, and it changes the handling and liftgate conversation at receiving, so a sheet naming a single weight has already lost information the warehouse needs.

Assembly scope is the fourth field and packaging is the fifth: carton length, width and height, pallet dimensions, units per pallet, stack height, each on its own labeled line. Add a sixth for storage hardware status, because a vertical storage decision made in month one can reopen the layout long after the first quote.

The reason to split them this hard is ownership. Frame, carton and clearance are handled by three different people, the drafter, the forwarder, and whoever signs the floor plan, and a request that says dimensions and stops returns one number nobody can assign. Ask instead for a labeled sheet, one field per line, model name and units attached, returned as a file rather than as sentences in an email body. That is the confirmation step worth enforcing: if the reply cannot be read field by field against your own lines, it is not ready to quote from.

None of this establishes a price, an MOQ, a lead time, a capacity figure, a customization right, or how a sample will perform. Those are the supplier's to state on the same sheet, as questions awaiting answers, not as numbers carried over from another brand's page and quietly treated as yours.

Before The Quote Ask What Ships Assembled

The Allegro 2 Reformer comes partially assembled. Attaching the footbar, the springs, the shoulder rests and the risers is part of putting the unit together, and transport wheels and legs are optional accessories fitted separately. For a wholesale buyer that is a receiving fact before it is anything else: somebody owns that work, space has to exist for it, and the parts have to arrive complete.

So the assembly line on the request sheet needs a written answer tied to the model you are actually buying. What sits in the carton, what is already fitted, what ships as a separate box and who does the fitting are four answers that change the labor line in a receiving plan. Assembly scope and the weight fields also have to be read together, since the difference between the 148 and 155 lb figures is whether the legs are on, which is exactly the assembly question you just asked.

Three Months Later Recheck The Storage Plan

Three months later this page can still bite. The accessory list treats the Wheel Kit and the Wall Security Strap as required together for vertical storage; the FAQ further down calls the Wall Security Strap optional.

Do not settle that by picking whichever line suits the layout already drawn. A wall strap is three things at once, a hardware line item with a cost, a fixing question for whoever controls the building, and a step in the installation, and moving between required and optional changes all three. If walls go up in month two and the answer arrives in month three, the retrofit is a different job from the plan you approved. Put the conflict into the request in plain words, quote both places, and ask for one written answer tied to the Allegro 2 specifically. The same FAQ mentions moving the unit with two people and with wheels fitted, and mentions ceiling clearance; those belong in the question list as things the manufacturer states for this model, not as an installation method you assemble from fragments. The cheap version of that conversation only exists before the purchase order.

By The End Approve The Spec Sheet

By the end of the sourcing round the deliverable is not a quote, it is a spec sheet both sides have signed. Six blocks on one sheet, the first naming the model and scope, each carrying its own unit: the assembled frame outline at 94 L x 31.25 W x 15 H inches; weight without legs and weight with legs as listed on the page; assembly scope including which accessories arrive fitted; carton and pallet data; and storage hardware status with a written answer to the required-or-optional conflict. The sample then gets approved against those same blocks, so receiving measures the delivered unit against the sheet instead of against a memory of a phone call.

The limit of the sheet is the limit of the evidence behind it: one model, one manufacturer's published page, conditions attached. It authorizes no claim about another reformer, about a factory's capability, or about a private-label specification, and it carries no price, MOQ, lead time, capacity or customization right. Those stay open items. Open items written down are visible, and visible open items are what stop a layout from being rebuilt twice.

Today's move is one email. Name the Allegro 2, list the six blocks as separate labeled fields, quote the storage conflict word for word from both places, and ask for a field-by-field reply in inches and centimeters before any sample is approved. Whatever comes back becomes the version the layout is built from, and the numbers you did not have on day one stop costing you a revision each.