GLOBAL BUYERSCHINA SUPPLIER CHECKS
“Is this factory real? Can I pay them safely?” Start with the name and scope on its business licence. The free screen reads your text; it cannot verify the company. For dated records, check the available report options.
Self-service reports use a licensed business-information platform. An official-source recheck is a separate manual service.
Paid reports: packs from $26.55; individual checks from $4.90 inside a pack and never sold on their own. 153 registry checks; buy only the ones your decision needs. The screen and readings above stay free, so you can try us properly before spending anything. About to pay a supplier you already picked? The before-you-pay selection bundles the lines for that exact step, priced on the page. Scope and total shown before anything is charged. Your first paid report is refundable. If it leaves you unhappy, for any reason or none, tell us within 14 days of delivery and we refund it in full to the original payment method. That guarantee applies once per buyer. Your order confirmation states the delivery window, and it will not exceed 72 hours after payment confirmation. Pay from your own PayPal account, choosing Goods and Services. If a report is never delivered you can raise a dispute with PayPal over the missing item. The limits of that route are spelled out on the payment page. Compare the four routes: do it yourself, a verification firm, your agent, or this desk →
BUYING DECISIONS / 01
Do not decode a catalogue of checks. Choose the question holding up your order, see the evidence that can answer it, and keep the final commercial decision with your team.
IDENTITY / BEFORE CONTRACT
Match the Chinese legal name, registration record, contract party and authority chain before you rely on a sales name. This is the China company check people run first. A dated company record shows the reported status. Match it to the licence and contract before you attribute it to your supplier.
Company registration route →CAPABILITY / BEFORE ORDER
Separate a registered business scope from dated, order-specific evidence of people, equipment, process and capacity.
Factory capability route →DOCUMENTS / BEFORE APPROVAL
Check the holder, issuer, scope, validity and product or sample link without treating one logo as blanket approval.
Certificate evidence route →PAYMENT / BEFORE DEPOSIT
Put the registered supplier, contract seller, invoice issuer and beneficiary account into one review before money moves.
Bank account route →AFTER PAYMENT / GONE QUIET
What you can still do tonight, which records settle whether chasing is worth it, and where the dispute windows sit. No lecture about what you should have done first.
Paid-and-silent route →VERIFY / I HAVE A SUPPLIER
Use the report menu when you know the records you need: it shows current availability before a source can be selected. Or ask a person to define a dated evidence boundary. This route checks the supplier you bring. It does not choose or replace one.
Build a scoped supplier report →SOURCE / I NEED A PRODUCT
Start at the separate buying desk before any supplier-specific check. The sourcing page states Currawong's seller role, current limits and payment terms before contact. A supplier check never becomes a sourcing offer.
Find a sourcing route →EVIDENCE STANDARD / 02
Trust comes from showing the work: the source consulted, the date checked, the match logic, unresolved gaps and the decision that the evidence cannot make for you.
SOURCE RECORD / CHECKABLE
A completed check identifies what was consulted, what was visible on that date and which company identifier was used. Access failures stay visible instead of becoming a clean result.
Records originate from China's official disclosure system, the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System (GSXT). Live lookups and self-service reports retrieve them through a licensed Chinese business-information platform. The L3 tier adds a manual recheck against the official source. In our 13 August 12-country test, 11 target nodes returned 403 and one returned 521. Twelve control nodes returned 200, but only two node IDs tested both hosts. These were script responses. Browser searches were not measured. We name the source and the tier. We do not query, proxy or cache the official portals by automated means.
How the verification desk handles evidence →METHOD / BOUNDED
Not a trust badge or supplier approval. Each finding states what the record supports, what it cannot prove and what still needs buyer, inspection, testing, legal or banking review.
Read the editorial and research policy →THE GAP / 03
A factory may have production capability without an English-speaking sales team, overseas marketing or export credentials in its own name. In those cases, an intermediary may handle the export. That possibility is a reason to verify the legal and payment chain. It does not prove that any particular seller is a factory.
| Measurement | What it establishes | Frame | Taken |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registered-scope count | 197 of 264 saved records contained import-export wording (74.6%) | Saved 264-name frame; original-list checks remain open | 8 Aug 2026 |
| Change-log count | 145 of 264 had a change in the prior 12 months (54.9%); median 39 changes | Same 264 companies | 8 Aug 2026 |
| Official-source availability | Five of eight official hosts did not serve their front page | 8 hosts: 3 browser-UA rounds and one CLI request | 8 Aug 2026 |
| A mistyped code fails loudly | USCI caught all 1,080,000 tested single-character substitutions. A passing code can still be fabricated or contain other errors | 1,080,000 USCI single-character substitutions; generated codes | 9 Aug 2026 |
| Name-search result counts | 42.5% of name searches return nothing; 50.9% return exactly one row | 106 queried names; one result does not prove identity | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Report menu: source links | All 153 checks had a source set. That does not prove data came back. | 153 menu items; links to data sources | 22 Aug 2026 |
Menu check, 10 September 2026: each of the 153 checks in the saved 22 August menu had a source set. This says where a request would go. It does not show that data came back or that a buyer got a report. The old 134/153 figure could not be checked and has been withdrawn.
Whatever question you start from, the answer traces back to one of these. Every figure is dated, because registrations and source availability keep moving. If we have not measured something, the page says so.
A seller advertising as a "factory" may be a trading company. It may sit several layers away from the workshop that actually makes your product. An honest trade partner adds real value: English communication, consolidation, quality checks, logistics. The problem is not the middleman. The problem is not knowing who you are actually buying from.
Currawong starts with the buyer’s question. Screen the wording you have. Use a commercial data source only when the page shows it is available, or arrange a scoped human public-record check. A showcase is a directory of factory profiles. Ours is not open and has no launch date. We do not yet have the factory relationships it would need. If it opens, each profile will separate facts from claims, name sources and dates, and show known gaps. No profile is a guarantee of outcome.
MEASURED / 03B
On 22 August 2026 we queried a commercial platform for 45 selected company codes. These came from single-candidate name matches in our NHTSA vehicle-manufacturer study; a name match alone does not prove identity.
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Import/export credit record returned | 41 of 45 |
| No import-export credit entry returned; exporter not identified | 4 of 45 |
The query returned no import-export credit entry for four of these 45 selected codes. A missing entry does not prove no official record exists. It does not identify an exporter or show that any product reached the United States.
The names were selected from NHTSA manufacturer filings and resolved to one provider result each. A filing does not prove US sales, and one result does not confirm the entity match. This selected group cannot estimate how many factories are missing from export markets. The 45 are the same 45 companies I use throughout this site, read along different dimensions. The batch is described in the NHTSA manufacturer study.
GUIDES / 04
From first contact to final payment, each guide covers one decision: what document to ask for, how to read it, and what it can and cannot prove.
Browse all buyer guides by order stage → Not sure what the risk is called? Start with a plain-language supplier question → Read China-side verification notes →Search the official registry with the exact Chinese legal name or 18-character credit code, and match it to your contract and payee.
Five evidence layers from legal entity to this-order proof, before you rely on a factory claim.
Match every document to its legal holder, scope, validity and your actual order.
Put the registered entity, seller, invoice issuer and beneficiary in one evidence chain before money moves.
All guides: L3 human check · Instant screen · Due diligence master · Sample approval · Purchase order · QC plan · Corrective action · During-production · Pre-shipment · Payee match · Australian importers
COMMON QUESTIONS / 05
Self-service lookups use a licensed Chinese business-information platform, when that source is available. Its records originate from the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System, China Judgements Online and the China Enforcement Information Disclosure Network. The L3 service adds a manual official-source recheck by arrangement. We do not automate queries to those portals. Commercial records may lag; findings carry the retrieval date.
The screen runs entirely inside your browser and stores nothing. It reads the registered scope you paste and tells you whether the wording reads like a factory or like a trading company. It cannot confirm that the company exists. Self-service paid reports return records from a licensed business-information platform, with the source and query date. An official-source recheck is a separate manual service.
No, and that is deliberate. You get dated records, named sources and stated limits. Gaps are disclosed on the page. There is never a score or an approval. The commercial decision stays with your team, which is the only position an independent checker can honestly hold.
CONTACT / 06
Verification requests, questions about a result, or anything the guides do not cover. A person reads and answers every message. There is no bot and no autoresponder.
hello@currawongweb.com Message on WhatsApp Request a human check → Include the supplier's exact Chinese name or credit code if you already have it. WhatsApp reaches the same person as the mailbox.Each language links to a guide for that market. The topics differ, so the label names the topic. Localisation is machine-assisted with an independent meaning check; not yet reviewed by a native speaker. The rest of the site is in English.
PRIMARY SOURCES
The Chinese rules behind these checks are public. Links checked on 7 September 2026.
We do not rate platforms and we do not certify sellers. A company record shows reported registration details. Match those details to the listing, licence and contract; the record alone does not identify who controls the listing.