Tracking Your Custom AF1: What Happens After You Pay

Once your brief is confirmed and payment is settled, your pair moves through a small number of clear stages, and knowing what each one looks like removes most of the anxiety of waiting on a commission you cannot check on a factory tracking page from day one. The clock on the ten to fourteen working days described in how long a custom AF1 takes starts exactly when your brief and payment are both confirmed, not before.

For most of that window, your pair is at the bench being painted in stages, with each colour layer curing before the next goes on, which is why the process takes days rather than hours, covered fully in what paint is used on a custom AF1. There is genuinely nothing to track during this stage, because the pair has not shipped yet; it is being built, not moved.

Once the pair is finished, it is photographed before it ships, both for your own record and for the studio's portfolio, and this is usually the first moment you see your finished commission rather than only imagining it from your brief. If you asked us not to use your pair for the portfolio, that preference is respected at this stage rather than only after the fact.

From there it ships. Within Pakistan, a tracked domestic courier typically delivers in two to four working days after the pair is finished and photographed, and the tracking number is sent to you directly, usually on WhatsApp, as soon as it is available. That number is real and checkable against the courier's own system, which is exactly the kind of verifiable detail worth insisting on from any seller, covered from the buyer-protection side in how to avoid a custom AF1 scam.

For an international order, shipping runs on tracked express couriers and typically takes four to eight working days depending on destination, with import duties and taxes, where they apply, being the recipient's responsibility rather than something the studio can predict exactly for every country. The wider detail on ordering from abroad, including how sizing and currency are handled, is covered in commissioning a pair from outside Pakistan.

If you are working to a deadline, a wedding, a birthday, an event, tell us that date when you commission rather than after, because it is confirmed in writing whether it can be guaranteed before you pay, following the same principle laid out in how long a custom AF1 takes. A date confirmed upfront is a promise; a date hoped for afterward is a guess.

None of this requires you to chase us for updates. You will hear from us with a tracking number the moment your pair ships, and if anything about the timeline changes for a genuine reason, we tell you rather than let you wonder.

Tell us your date if you have one, and we will tell you honestly where your pair sits at every stage until it reaches you.