Sports Bags, Caps & Accessories Manufacturer for Startup Brands

An accessory line from the factory that already makes your garments

Most startup brands add accessories in the second drop and discover that the cap supplier, the sock mill and the bag factory each have their own minimum, their own artwork rules and their own shipping date. ZipaSports removes that by manufacturing bags, caps, socks, gloves and wristbands in the same Sialkot, Pakistan facility that produces the brand's hoodies, kits and activewear, so one artwork file, one Pantone sheet and one delivery cover the whole line.

The accessory ranges are listed on the sports bags, travel and utility bags, caps and headwear, socks and gloves and team accessories pages. Each item is made to order in your colours with your logo; nothing is stock with a label sewn in afterwards.

The minimum is 20–25 pieces per design, lower on request, and there is no MOQ limit once your brand is established. A brand can launch with accessories alone, add them to a garment order, or run them later as a top-up, and the same rules apply in each case.

What counts as one design when the minimum is 20–25 pieces

Accessories confuse the MOQ question more than garments do, because a cap has no size run and a sock has three. The rule at ZipaSports is the same for every item: one style, in one colourway, with one artwork, is one design.

A three-colour cap launch is therefore three designs and three minimums. If that is too much stock for a first drop, ask for a lower quantity on request; small first runs are accepted when the artwork is shared across the colourways.

Bags: 600D polyester or 420D nylon, and what to specify

Kit bags, duffles, backpacks and drawstring gymsacks are cut from 600D polyester or 420D nylon with a reinforced base and reinforced stitching at the handle and strap anchors. 600D polyester is the standard for a kit bag or duffle that gets thrown into a car boot; 420D nylon is the lighter option for a backpack or gymsack. Laminated fabric for wet-weather bags and GRS-certified recycled polyester are available on request.

Beyond the shell, a bag brief needs the details that a garment brief does not: the dimensions you want, the number and position of compartments, whether there is a ventilated shoe or wet pocket, padded straps, a laptop sleeve, the zip style and the colour of the zip tape and pullers. If you have a reference bag, photograph it from four sides and mark the changes.

Logo options on a bag are embroidery on the end panel or front pocket, screen print or heat transfer for larger flat graphics, a sublimated polyester panel for an all-over pattern, and a woven or PU patch. Pantone references are matched for the shell fabric as closely as the dye lot allows, so approve a swatch with the sample before bulk.

Caps: embroidery on the front, heat transfer or DTF on the side

A cap is the accessory most startups launch first, and the decoration decides how it reads. ZipaSports embroiders on multi-head machines and applies heat transfer and DTF in-house, so a cap can carry more than one method. The table shows what goes where.

Styles include structured 6-panel, unstructured dad cap, snapback, trucker mesh, 5-panel, bucket hat and beanie, with snapback, strap-and-buckle or hook-and-loop closures. Send the logo as a vector file; embroidery digitising is done in the studio and shown in the 24-hour mockup with stitch direction marked. A woven label on the inside sweatband finishes the cap as your own product.

Socks, gloves and wristbands: the small items that fill a bundle

Socks, gloves and wristbands are the pieces a brand uses to build a bundle or a gift-with-purchase, and they follow the same 20–25 per design minimum as everything else.

Sublimated socks are knitted in a polyester-cotton-spandex blend and printed all over, so a repeating pattern, a logo on the calf or a colour-blocked crew is possible in one run. Crew, quarter and knee lengths are available, with the size range typically split S, M and L across the run. Because sublimation only takes on polyester, the printed face is polyester-rich while the footbed keeps cotton for comfort; ask for a knitted-in logo instead if you prefer an unprinted sock.

Gloves cover training, cycling and riding styles, with the brand mark embroidered on the back of the hand or printed on the wrist tab; sizes run across the order like a garment. Wristbands and headbands are knitted in your colour with an embroidered or woven logo and are the lowest-effort accessory to add to a first drop.

Each of these ships in the same box as your garments, packed and labelled per SKU, so a bundle can be assembled without a second delivery.

One order, one shipment: adding accessories to a garment run

When accessories join a garment order, ZipaSports runs them on parallel lines. Sublimated socks and printed bag panels go through the same large-format print floor as the jerseys; caps go to the embroidery heads; bags are cut and sewn on the heavy lockstitch lines. The whole order is planned to one dispatch date, and the slowest item sets that date, which is usually the bag because of its component count.

The practical benefits for a startup are administrative. There is one mockup round covering every item, one Pantone sheet, one sample shipment, one commercial invoice and packing list for customs, and one courier consignment. Accessories add volume rather than weight, so a founder should expect the bag portion to drive the courier cost; sea freight at 3–6 weeks becomes worth considering only for a large bag order.

Deadlines align the same way as a garment-only order: bulk production is 15–25 business days after the last item in the order is approved, or 7–12 days on express at additional cost. If the caps are approved on Monday and the bag is still in revision, the clock starts when the bag is signed off, so settle the most complex item first.

Labels, tags and packaging that make an accessory yours

An unlabelled cap is a blank; a labelled one is your product. ZipaSports supplies the full private-label set on accessories, listed on the labels, tags and packaging page and the private label page.

• Woven labels sewn into the cap sweatband, the bag's inside pocket or the glove cuff.
• Printed size and care tags on socks and gloves, with fibre content wording for the UK, USA, EU, Canada and Australia.
• Hang tags with your string or plastic tag pin, applied at packing.
• Branded polybags per unit, and printed boxes for a bag or a bundle.
• Sock packaging bands and cap stickers on request.

Send label artwork as vector files with the Pantone thread or print colours marked. Woven labels are shown in the 24-hour mockup alongside the product so the whole item is approved once. Your artwork is not reused for another buyer. Care wording is your responsibility to confirm for each market; ZipaSports prints what you approve, and keeps the approved label file on record so reorders match the first run exactly.

Timeline and delivery to the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Europe

The lead times for accessories are the confirmed ZipaSports lead times; a bag order is planned to the same calendar as a garment order.

Export documents (commercial invoice, packing list, certificate of origin) travel with every consignment. Import VAT and duty are payable by the importer on arrival unless otherwise agreed; note that bags, caps and socks may fall under different tariff headings from garments, which the import duties guide and the shipping policy explain. Country detail is on the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and EuropeIrelandNew ZealandUAESaudi Arabia pages.

What to send us, and the guarantee on every item

The brief for an accessory line is shorter than a garment tech pack but has a few items a garment brief lacks. Send these and the mockup comes back within 24 hours.

Quality Guarantee: if any item arrives with a manufacturing defect, we remake it free of charge; the remake goes into production within 3 days of your report. Wrong embroidery against the approved mockup, open seams, a missing trim or a wrong quantity all qualify; wear-and-tear and minor dye-lot shade do not. Report with photos and the order reference within 7 days of delivery. Terms are on the quality guarantee page.