We regret to inform you that our stock of Smart Home Collection hubs has been depleted for our shade collections.

We are working closely with the hub manufacturer to replenish our stock of hubs, and will advise the restock date once it is confirmed. 

If you have a current Smart Home Collection hub on order with us, your hub will be shipped normally. 

Until our stock of Smart Home Collection hubs has been replenished, please order hubs through Rowley, or consider ordering Inspired Shades standard motor options with the Connector Hub. ​

Multiple Shades on One Headrail Maximum Width The overall maximum width for multiple shades on one headrail has been reduced from 106” to 103”. We have reduced the width for this shade style to accommodate the packaging required to ship these large shades safely. ​

We will be making a specification change for waterfall shades ordered from our Woven Wood and Natural Woven Collections.

Starting September 15, waterfall shades ordered without a liner or ordered with a light-filtering liner will include an interior valance that will be added between the shade fabric and components. 

The interior valance will hide the shadow of the shade components from being visible on the front of the shade. The interior valance is made from black-out Soft White liner fabric and is 4” long.

Because the valance is made with black-out fabric, the part of the shade in front of the interior valance will look darker than the rest of the shade when light is coming through. See examples below. ​

​We are now able to accept orders for wide width roller shades and dual sheer shades with a per order net surcharge of $150 USD/$195 CAD.
 
This has not been an easy process as UPS and FedEx both require any package over 108” to ship by cargo service, which has huge minimum charges and longer delivery times and is subject to space availability. While our express service is also subject to availability, it is a premium service, so those packages ride first and the cargo shipments wait. This is not ideal for you or us. 
 
However, we have been able to secure the ability to ship longer packages by DHL express, but with very significant surcharges per box. We feel a per box surcharge does not help you understand your costs well, so we have translated this into a per order surcharge. We regret that it is as high as it is, but we cannot get a better rate than this as the freight companies are all actively trying to discourage longer packages that cannot be sorted automatically on conveyors and are more likely to get damaged.
 
Please see below for details for each collection. 

ROLLER SHADES AND DUAL SHEER SHADES 
Roller Shades can now be ordered up to 115” wide, and Dual Sheer Shades can now be ordered up to 110” wide. Check individual fabric widths before placing shade orders.  
 
A $150 USD/$195 CAD oversized net freight surcharge will be applied on a per order basis for shades wider than 100” from these collections. For orders with multiple shades over 100” from the same collection, the surcharge will be applied only one time. 
 
Because our shade collections ship from different factories, the surcharge will be applied once for each collection on combined orders with oversized shade requests. For example, when ordering oversized shades from both the Roller Shade and Dual Sheer Shade Collections on a combined order, the surcharge will be applied for each collection. 

When placing your orders in ePIC or Touchpoint, the oversized surcharge will be applied by line item. The surcharge will appear on each line of the order that includes an oversized shade. Please note, the surcharge will be applied only one time on your final invoice, and any additional surcharges will be backed out by our order processing team.  

WOVEN WOOD AND NATURAL WOVEN SHADES  
Woven Wood and Natural Woven shades remain available to order at a 96” maximum width with no oversized freight surcharges. 
 
The overall maximum width for multiple shades on one head rail has been reduced to 106”. Woven Wood and Natural Woven shades in this style can be ordered up to the new maximum width with no freight surcharge applied.  

PRODUCT GUIDES
Our product guides have been updated to reflect this change. Visit the Franchisee Toolkit to download the most up to date product guides.

>> US Product Guide Downloads
>> Canadian Product Guide Downloads

We have placed Sanibel Flax (IN-L004) from our Woven Wood Collection on a short, temporary ordering stop as we rebuild our roll goods inventory. We will begin accepting orders again for this fabric on August 8th. 

This short ordering stop will allow the factory to weave the goods they need ahead of time for expected orders and keep this popular fabric from being on an extended stop. 

Fabric stock-outs can become extended quickly if not addressed when the issue first arrises, as we have seen from previous fabric stock-outs this year. As a result, we are working closely with our factory to monitor our roll goods to keep them in stock and plan ahead for potential stock outs.

Thank you for your patience and for allowing us to continue to improve our service! ​

​Shades from all of our collections can now be ordered with slightly wider widths. See below for details. 

Dual Sheer Shades can be ordered up to to 100" wide.

Roller Shades can be ordered up to 101 1/2" wide.

Woven Wood and Natural Woven Shades can be ordered up to 103" wide.

We will keep you updated as we continue to see improvements on width restrictions over the next several weeks.

We are excited to announce production and stock improvements from our Roller Shade and Dual Sheer Shade factories! See below for details.

SMART HOME COLLECTION MOTORS
Smart Home Collection Motors are now back in stock at our Roller Shade and Dual Sheer Shade factories. The ordering stop has been lifted for those collections.

We expect to have an update on Smart Home Collection Motor stock for our Woven Wood and Natural Woven factory next week. We will advise their restock date once it is confirmed.

ROLLER SHADE LEAD TIMES AND MAXIMUM ORDER WIDTH
The production time for Roller Shade orders has been reduced to 10 days. Production times are estimated for the time it will take your order to ship from our factory after it has been placed, and they do not include transit time for delivery.

The maximum ordering width for Roller Shades has also been increased to 101 1/2". The factory has changed their packaging to allow the additional width on Roller Shades. Please note, all other collections are still set with 98" maximum widths.

THANK YOU
Thank you for your patience as we worked through these challenges. We will keep you updated as we continue to see improvements over the next several weeks.

A specification change will take effect on July 12 for our Drapery Panel Collection.

For grommet panel orders placed on or after July 12, 3 1/2" and 6 1/2" return lengths will start at the center of the grommet rather than at the edge of the grommet. This change will allow the return to line up evenly to the wall when the panel is installed using the appropriate bracket lengths.