Supplier identity
Find the legal company behind a storefront, supplier website, or sales contact.
Guides
Supplier Risk Guides
Practical pre-payment guides for buyers who already found a supplier and need to slow down, collect evidence, and check whether the story lines up.
Start with the question blocking payment.
These guides are for buyers deciding whether to pay a deposit, sample fee, mold fee, bank transfer, or final balance. They help compare supplier identity, PI issuer, payment beneficiary, product terms, platform records, and inspection terms.
Short answer
No single badge, website, business license, or payment request proves that a supplier is safe. Use the guides to build an evidence chain before payment; use inspection, legal, compliance, or logistics specialists when those risks determine the decision.
Guide clusters
Choose the cluster that matches the risk signal.
Payment and beneficiary risk
Slow down bank transfers, off-platform payments, personal accounts, and mismatched beneficiaries.
Platform protection and order evidence
Understand where Alibaba profile signals, Trade Assurance, inspection, and evidence checklists fit.
Verify a China Supplier Found Through Its Own Website
How to identify the legal company behind a supplier-owned website before you pay.
Verify Alibaba Supplier Before Payment
What to check before you send a deposit, sample fee, or bank transfer to an Alibaba supplier.
Is This Alibaba Supplier Legit?
Twelve practical checks for buyers who are not sure whether an Alibaba supplier story lines up.
Alibaba Supplier Bank Account Mismatch
How to handle a different payment beneficiary, Hong Kong account, personal account, or off-platform request.
Supplier Wants Bank Transfer Outside Alibaba
What off-platform payment changes before you wire money to a supplier.
Trade Assurance vs Supplier Verification
Where Trade Assurance helps, where it does not, and what evidence still needs review.
Alibaba Verified Supplier Meaning
What the badge can signal, and why it should not replace a transaction-specific risk check.
China Supplier Red Flags Before Deposit
Specific warning signs to slow down before a deposit, mold fee, sample fee, or balance payment.
Verify the Chinese Company Behind an Alibaba Store
How to ask for the Chinese legal name, unified social credit code, and business license before payment.
Pre-Shipment Inspection vs Pre-Payment Risk Review
Use the right check at the right time: before money moves or after goods exist.
China Supplier Evidence Checklist Before Payment
The evidence to collect before you pay a China supplier.
Build your supplier evidence file before you pay.
Start with the free checklist, then use the $49 DIY Toolkit when you want reusable scorecards, supplier question scripts, and company-identity worksheets.