good morning, everyone!

apologies for the bit of radio silence; ive picked up another job IRL & was also on a bit of a vacation to visit my husband (who's away on a work contract), aaaand then we both proceeded to get sick 😭 so while id intended to get caught up on work during my visit, that ended up noooot really happening, haha.

i wanted to thank everyone who's filled out their survey so far! we're just missing a few stragglers at this point; if you havent filled out your survey yet, the sooner the better! if you HAVE filled out your survey, just as a reminder, shipping/tariff fees & any other pending charges on your pledge will be charged on march 31st, so please ensure that your payment method is updated and correct!

next, i'd discussed a few shipping options with you all in my last update, & I wanted to give you all a bit of an update on what i've decided to go with moving forward.

unfortunately, there is no way for me to toggle whether or not tariff charges are applied to an order based specifically on if SKUs are included in a certain order or not. shipping charges, yes, but tariff charges... sadly no.

for those of you who ordered batpacks, the idea was that i would charge purolator rate shipping to the order & turn off tariffs, allowing you to pay for tariffs directly once your items rely in the states, but theres no functionality available that would then still allow me to charge pre-paid tariffs if your order only included other pledge items and not batpacks. so, everyone would be locked into purolator shipping, which would end up being a lot more expensive for most people overall vs paying the cheaper chitchats rate with the prepaid duties.

I did consider the possibility of just shipping batpacks as a separate package for anyone who ordered one in addition to pledge items, but since you'd be essentially paying double shipping in exchange for a cheaper tariff rate, the numbers come out to be pretty similar overall since the base purolator rate is so much more expensive.

so! moving forward, i've decided to stick solely with using chitchats for now, as it's the method i'm most familiar with despite it being more expensive for those of you getting batpacks. maybe in the future, when batpacks are offered via my shopify store, i can add a bit more flexibility to the shipping methods, but my functionality in backerkit is fairly limited, so this is what we're gonna go with for now.

for those outside of the US: your tariff rules remain unchanged.

on a similar note: i got another shipment of batpacks in the other day, so i've added a limited quantity of more batpack designs for you guys to get! this includes more vampire bats, as well as the addition of brown bat and dreamy bat!

if you wanna add one of these guys to your pledge/preorder, you can still make changes to your existing pledges/preorders up until march 31st.

& lastly, i wanted to give a little update on the stretch goal pins of tangerine & cupid bat. unfortunately, it's currently looking pretty unlikely that we'll be able to unlock either of these designs. and that's okay! this was my first time trying out unlocking pins via the preorder store, and if i'd had a bit more time this past month, i would have spent a bit more time advertising and pushing the unlock goal for these pins. sadly that wasn't the case, but not to worry! i'm hoping i can add them as unlock goals in the upcoming batpack series 2 project later this year. :)

okay, i think that's it! i hope all of this is clear to everyone, & if you have any further questions about your pledge, please feel free to reach out to me directly!