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About to pay a Chinese supplier? Check the entity behind the account first.
Before a deposit or balance payment, put the contract, invoice and bank beneficiary names side by side. Compare them free below. This paid check adds dated company and enforcement records for the entity you name. Matching names do not prove account ownership; resolve unexplained differences before paying.
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10 registry checks across identity and payment safety. They cover three-element identity, licences, production certificates, taxpayer status, regulator inspections, dishonest-debtor and enforcement records, penalties, terminated enforcement, consumption restrictions, bankruptcy filings. $62.10 USD. Checks run automatically after payment and can return in seconds. The order confirmation states the delivery window, which will not exceed 72 hours after payment confirmation. 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. Refund terms.
Where this sits: a free browser check first, $62.10 on this page, human portal reading from $128, and on-site factory verification from $169 per man-day. Each answers a different question — the cheaper ones do not become the dearer one.
No account. Private case link. Free registry snapshot included with any order.
What we check before you pay
The selection covers ten record checks: identity matching, licences, certificates, taxpayer status, regulator inspections, dishonest-debtor records, penalties and abnormal-operation flags, terminated enforcement cases, consumption restrictions, and bankruptcy filings. Check each result against the entity you intend to pay. Returned records do not guarantee solvency or delivery.
The classic pre-payment trap is an entity chain that quietly forks. The company you vetted, the company on the contract, the company on the invoice and the bank beneficiary can be four different names. How to compare them is set out in a free guide. This check gives you the registry side of that comparison for the entity you name.
Compare the four parties yourself, before you pay
Copy the company names from your contract, invoice and bank instruction. Compare the wording and ask for evidence of any relationship between different entities. This tool cannot verify who owns a bank account.
This runs entirely in your browser. The names you type are not transmitted, stored or logged, and we never ask for an account number. We count only that a comparison happened, never what was in it.
A comparison is not a verdict. It tells you whether the names line up. It cannot tell you whether an entity abroad exists, and it is not advice about this transaction. When the names do not line up, the next step is the supplier explaining the relationship in writing, and this free guide sets out what to ask for.
In the dated study of 106 submitted English names, 45 searches returned no rows and 54 returned exactly one. Of 84 returned rows, 11 were Hong Kong records (13.1%). One result still needs to match the Chinese name and code on the licence. Compare that entity with the contract, invoice and payee before payment. The search did not measure how buyers used its results.
How to read a missing result
An empty search result does not clear a supplier. This sample shows why the report names the record queried and the gaps alongside the results.
| Record queried | Companies with a returned record |
|---|---|
| Administrative penalties | 9 of 45 |
| Abnormal-operation records | 0 of 45 |
| Serious-illegal records | 0 of 45 |
This is a historical sample of three query types, not the contents of every payment check. Zero returned records does not prove there were no underlying issues. Check your selected items and the delivery and refund terms before ordering.
What this cannot show
- A matching identity does not mean the company is active, solvent or able to export. Status, scope and the court record are separate lines. That is why this check bundles them.
- No court result is not a payment guarantee. Records may be incomplete or delayed, and an unresolved problem may not have reached a court.
- It reads records about the entity you name. If the beneficiary on the payment instruction is a different company, that company needs its own check. A mismatch is the thing to resolve before paying, not after.
- It is not an escrow and does not touch your payment. We do not receive, hold or forward your payment to the supplier.
How it runs: no account, one private case
- 1. Build. Review the selected checks. Add or remove items and see the price before ordering.
- 2. Order. Email is optional. If you leave it blank, save your private case link: it is your way back to the order.
- 3. Track. One private link shows status, payment and the report. The order confirmation states the delivery window. If a line needs a person, we tell you and still deliver inside that window. Lines we cannot deliver are refunded in full.
- 4. Read. Read each result with its source, query date and limits. See a full specimen report.
Questions buyers ask
What should I check before paying a Chinese supplier?
Three things, in order. Match the registered entity and its current status to the company in your deal. Review the dated court and enforcement records already attached to that entity. Then reconcile the contract seller, invoice issuer and bank beneficiary. The first two are record checks. The third runs free in your browser on this page, because only you hold the payment instruction and it never needs to leave your screen.
The supplier's bank account is under a different company name. Is that fraud?
Not automatically. Affiliated export entities are common in China trade, and a third-party exporter of record can be legitimate. But it is the situation to resolve before money moves. Check the beneficiary entity itself. Ask for the relationship in writing. Treat an explanation that cannot be documented as the answer.
How fast is the check, and what do I get?
Delivery uses a private case link, with no account needed. Checks run automatically after payment and can return in seconds. The order confirmation states the delivery window, which will not exceed 72 hours after payment confirmation. Every line names its source and query date, states what the record shows, why it matters, and what it cannot show. Lines we cannot deliver are refunded in full.
A record check cannot approve a supplier, inspect goods or guarantee delivery.
For the limits of English-name matching, see the 106-name search study. A plausible search result still needs to match your supplier’s registered identity.
Related: which check each piece of evidence actually unlocks, and which it does not, is available in Español, Português, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Čeština, Magyar, Türkçe, Русский, العربية, Tiếng Việt, Bahasa Indonesia, 日本語, 한국어, ไทย.
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Official sources this page relies on
The payment lines compare who you signed with, who invoices you and who is named on the account. These are the rules behind that comparison. Links were checked on 6 September 2026.
- PBoC Order 2003 No. 5: RMB settlement account measuresWhy a company account carries the registered name.
- People's Bank of China: reply on bank account namingThe central bank's own answer on the name an account must carry.
- FBI: business email compromiseThe pattern where a payment instruction arrives changed.
- IC3: Business Email CompromiseReporting route once money has already gone to the wrong account.
This check compares names on documents you already hold. It is not a fraud investigation and it does not contact your bank or your supplier.
How we checked
Fill rates come from dated checks of chosen company codes through one paid data source. A hit is a returned record; it may be incomplete or mislinked. Last date marked for the checks: 22 August 2026. Use the date shown with each finding. A page update does not mean all checks were run again.
Use the source links. Check the dates and limits stated for each finding.