Supplier check

Supplier check: who you are actually buying from

A quotation tells you what the product should cost. It does not tell you whether the company behind it is a factory, a trading desk, or a name that appears on a blacklist. This checks one company: what the registry says, which of the two it is, and what the public records show.

Identity

What the business registry says about the company itself. We read the national enterprise credit register and the company's own annual filing, and put the four facts that carry a sourcing decision on the page.

• Year of establishment. A company registered last year and a company that has shipped this class of product for ten years are not the same risk, whatever the website says.
• Registered capital. The subscribed figure, and where the annual report shows it, how much has actually been paid in. Registered capital is not cash in the bank, and the page says so instead of leaving the number to imply it.
• Business scope. Read for one question: does the registration describe manufacturing (生产, 制造, 加工) or only selling (销售, 批发, 进出口)? The scope is written by the company and not audited, so it is evidence of what the company says it does, not proof of what it can build.
• Insured employees. The headcount in the social-insurance filing of the annual report. A plant with a real line declares staff; a one-person trading desk usually declares none or one.

Role: factory or trading company

The page states which one it is, and shows the evidence behind the call rather than the conclusion alone. Four things are written down:

• Whether the registered address is a production unit or an office, and whether the scope names manufacturing at all.
• Whether the company is listed as the manufacturer on its own product pages, or appears only as a seller of other brands.
• Whether the declared staff and capital are consistent with the order you are about to place.
• Whether the same address or phone number is shared by several registered companies — a common shape for a trading group presenting itself as a factory.

Where the evidence conflicts, the page says the role is unclear and sets out both readings. An unclear case is not rounded up to "factory".

Record: what the public files show

Four registers, searched by company name and by registration number:

• Business abnormality list (经营异常名录) — a missed annual report, or an address where the company cannot be reached.
• Serious illegal and dishonest list (严重违法失信名单) — the registry's own blacklist.
• Court enforcement and dishonest debtors (被执行人 / 失信被执行人) — enforcement cases, and debtors who have not paid a judgment.
• Administrative penalties (行政处罚) — fines and sanctions from market regulation, customs, tax and environment authorities.

Each entry is copied as it appears, with its date and a link to the record. A register that returns nothing is written as not found. It is not written as clean, and it is not left out.

What you get

• One page, per company: identity, role, record and the source list, on the same page as the conclusion.
• Two business days from the moment we have the company name or the registration number.
• A source link on every record. Anything that could not be opened at the source is marked unchecked, not inferred.
• If a name matches several companies and none of them is clearly yours, we come back with the candidates and ask before writing the page.

What we do not do

• No credit rating. No score, no grade, no risk band. The page reports what the registers say; it does not turn that into a number that reads like an opinion.
• No factory audit. Nobody visits the site, counts machines or verifies capacity. An on-site audit is a different job at a different cost, and this page will not stand in for one.
• Not legal advice. This is a record check, not an opinion on a contract, a dispute, or a counterparty's liability.

If a register cannot be read, or the evidence does not settle the question, the page says so. Where the answer is not there, it says not found and stops.

Price

Supplier check is $149 for one company, delivered in two business days. It is priced per company because the work is per company — it is not a fifth tier of the quote audit and it is not bundled with one. A quote audit does not include it, and it does not include a quote audit.

Checking the price instead of the company? The four quote tiers are here, from $29.