Factory check in China

What this service is

A factory check is a visit by our employee to the supplier before the order is placed, to make sure that behind the nice website and catalog stands a real production, not an office with a couple of managers. We come to the address, look at the line with our own eyes, take a photo report and deliver a verdict on the supplier's reliability.

Most competitors offer a remote check — by documents and photo requests 'without leaving Moscow.' We work differently: we have a team in Guangzhou, and we physically go to the factory. Often it's exactly on-site that a 'factory' turns out to be a reseller trading company with no production of its own. From photos and chat, you can't see this.

Why check the factory before the order

Checking the goods after manufacturing is fine, but late: the money is already with the supplier. A check before the order removes risks that would otherwise surface when changing anything is already expensive:

• The 'factory' turns out to be a reseller. At the address — an office with a few staff, while the production is someone else's or doesn't exist at all. Higher price, lower accountability, quality control impossible.
• Production can't handle your volume or quality. There's a line, but the capacity and equipment don't match what was promised verbally.
• The factory isn't suitable for official import. No export license, can't accept payment from Russia, document problems — and the legal shipment falls through after the prepayment.
• The supplier is unreliable as a company. Problems with the business license, registration, bank accounts — things visible only on a check, not from a catalog.

It's cheaper to find out the factory isn't who it claims to be before the money transfer — not after, when the goods are already paid for.

How we check the factory

1. Preliminary document check. Before the visit we check the company through open sources and China's state registers: business license, registration, charter capital, legal representative, real line of business.
2. In-person visit to production. Our employee goes to the factory and looks at the line live — whether it's real production or a showcase office.
3. Photo report from the production line. We photograph the shop floor, equipment, products, warehouse — you get visual confirmation, not words.
4. Tough questions — face to face. On-site we ask the supplier direct questions they usually dodge in chat: real capacity, timelines, who owns the production, how they handle export.
5. Suitability check for official import. Separately we check what's critical for a legal shipment to Russia: whether there's an export license, which banks payment from Russia goes through, whether the documents and accounts are in order.
6. Reliability verdict. We bring it all into a conclusion: whether it's a real factory, whether you can work with it, whether it's suitable for official import — and help place and agree the order while personally on-site.

What you get

• A clear answer: real production or a reseller.
• A photo report from the production line — visual confirmation of capacity.
• A verdict on the supplier's reliability as a company (license, registration, accounts).
• Confirmation that the factory is suitable for official import (export license, payment from Russia).
• An order placed and agreed with our employee personally present on-site.

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