Service scope

Supplier verification

A fast, practical first check on ownership, trading status and operating evidence.

The cheapest check on this list and the one that removes the failure nothing else recovers from: paying the wrong company. It is desk work on records that can be looked up, so it needs no site visit and carries no travel.

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What actually happens

Establish the registered entity

The business licence and its 18-character unified social credit code, the registered Chinese name, the legal representative, registered capital and the approved business scope — checked to see whether the scope actually covers what you are buying.

Match the payee to the counterparty

Whether the account you have been asked to pay belongs to the entity on your contract, in the same registered name, character for character. A personal account, a third-party name or an offshore account for a mainland entity is reported as a finding, not a formality.

Separate the trader from the factory

Registered address against the production address you were given, and whether the counterparty manufactures or resells. Neither answer disqualifies a supplier; not knowing changes what a price means and who you can escalate to.

Record what could not be confirmed

Anything the records do not settle is written down as unconfirmed rather than omitted, because the gaps are the part you have to make a decision about.

What you provide

The company name as the supplier writes it, in Chinese if you have it
The bank details you were given, and the name on the account
The address the supplier has told you production happens at
What you intend to buy, so the business scope can be read against it

What you get back

A short written record of the entity as registered: name, code, legal representative, capital and scope
A plain statement of whether the payee, the contracting party and the negotiating party are the same entity
A manufacturer-or-reseller finding, with what it was based on
An explicit list of what the records did not settle

Cost and timing

Price: USD 99 per supplier
Travel: None. This is desk work on records.
Paid: Before the work is booked

What this is not

Not a credit check or an assessment of solvency. A registered company in good standing can still fail to deliver.
Not a judgement on good faith. What the records show is what we report.
Not a recommendation. A clean record means the entity is what it says it is, which is the floor rather than the decision.