Check a Chinese Supplier: Guides and the Supplier Checker

These guides answer one question from different angles: is this supplier, and this way of paying, safe enough to go ahead? Each page names the sources behind its rules and embeds the same free checker, which lists signals from what you enter and is not an audit or a guarantee.

Tools in this group

• Alibaba Scam: Common Patterns and How to Spot Them — Check an offer against the patterns Alibaba and the FBI warn about. Nothing is uploaded and no website is queried.
• Alibaba Supplier Verification: How to Verify a Chinese Supplier — A step-by-step check for a Chinese supplier, with a tool that decodes the 18-character licence code and reads the business scope in your browser.
• Alibaba Trading Company vs Factory: How to Tell — Paste a business scope and answer a few questions to see whether the evidence points to a maker, a trader or neither. A trader is a normal kind of business.
• Alibaba Verified Supplier: What the Badge Means — Read what each badge covers, then enter what a profile shows to see which signals it raises.
• Is Alibaba Legit? — The marketplace is real; each supplier is a separate business. Enter what you see on a supplier's profile and get the risk signals, with sources.