Register your mill or factory
Register once and buyers who are already looking for what you make can reach you. No fee to register, no listing to subscribe to.
We are paid a success fee by the supplier only when a shipment actually happens. Registering does not make you verified. Verified is a word we use only after we have seen the evidence, and this page sets out the four levels so you can see exactly where you would sit and what would move you up one. Two forms sit behind this page, one for mills and one for factories, because the questions are genuinely different.
A serviced platform, not an auction or open bidding. Your price is never put out to a list of mills to bid against, every quote reaches the buyer through us against one written specification, and buyers and suppliers never get each other's contact details.
What registering gets you
Three things, and it is worth being plain about all three. First, a place in a list that buyers filter rather than browse: when a brand asks for one product, one certification and one market, the suppliers who answered in detail are the ones left in the result, and the ones who answered in general terms are not. Second, requests that arrive written down. A buyer's enquiry reaches you with the product, the quantity and the market already on it, so your merchandiser is costing an order rather than starting a conversation. Third, a quote that is never put out to bid. Your price goes to one buyer against one written specification, and neither side ever gets the other's contact details, so next season's order still has to come back through the same desk.
What it does not get you is the word verified. That is earned separately, and the four levels below say exactly how.
Which desk are you?
One form covers every kind of supplier and it asks you only about the areas you tick, so you never answer a question about machinery you do not own. But the two sides of this trade read the same form in different units, and each side has a page of its own saying what is asked, what is checked and how the orders run.
You spin, weave or knit
If you sell fibre, yarn, greige or finished fabric, you are answering in counts, blends, twist and construction, and so is the buyer: a request arrives here with the count, the quantity, the destination and the delivery month on it. Tick the fibre, yarn and fabric areas on the form below. The raw material suppliers page sets out what one of those requests actually contains, what the form asks about your machinery, and what happens in the days after you send it.
You cut and sew, make home textiles or supply trims
If you sew garments, make bed linen, towels or curtains, or supply trims and accessories, you are answering in products, lines, machine counts, minimums and audits, and the buyer is usually a founder run brand on a first or second production run. Tick the garment area. The garment suppliers page sets out what a brand's order looks like, what the form asks a factory, and why a brand approval you already hold is the single most useful line you can give us.
A vertical set-up belongs on both sides. If you spin or weave and also sew, tick both and read both pages; nothing on the form makes you choose one.
The form starts by asking which areas you actually run: fibre, yarn, fabric, or garments and home textiles. It then asks about those only, so a cut and sew factory never scrolls through spinning questions and a spinning mill never scrolls through t-shirts. Tick more than one if you are vertical. Inside each area sits a panel of optional detail, and every tick in it is one more way a buyer finds you when the list runs to hundreds of mills.
A person reads this, not an automated system. Expect a reply within one working day.
How far we check a supplier: four levels
The word "verified" is used loosely in this industry. Here is exactly what it means at each level, so a buyer can judge how much weight to give it, and so you know what you will be asked for. This is the one place the four levels are written out in full; the two supplier pages and the raw material desk point back here rather than repeating them.
Listed
The company exists. Registration seen, website and working contact confirmed, product range recorded.
Checked
Capacity, machinery and product range confirmed against documents, not just against a claim on a website.
Verified
Certifications seen and validated at source, export record confirmed, and references taken from buyers who have shipped.
Inspected
A third party inspection agency checks the goods on a specific shipment. Arranged on request, paid by the buyer, report sent to the buyer.
What moves you from one level to the next
Documents, and nothing else. Listed asks for the least: your registration, a phone number or an address a person actually answers, and what you make. Checked is the first level that costs you ten minutes of digging, because capacity, machinery and product range have to match a document rather than a sentence on your website, which in practice means a machinery list and a recent capacity or production sheet. Verified is the level buyers care about and the slowest to reach: every certification you claim is validated at the source that issued it rather than read off a file you sent, your export record is confirmed, and buyers who have actually shipped with you are asked to say so, which is why references are worth lining up before you need them.
Inspected is not a level you climb to at all. It attaches to one shipment, it is arranged when a buyer asks for it, a third party agency does the checking, the buyer pays for it and the report goes to the buyer. It says nothing about your other orders and everything about that one.
What we will not say about you
We will not describe you as verified until we have seen the evidence. That one sentence is the whole policy and it cuts both ways: it is why the word is worth something when it is finally used about you, and it is why no buyer can talk us into using it early.
Nor will we describe capacity we have not seen a document for, repeat a brand approval we have not confirmed, or put a certification against your name on the strength of a claim. If a certificate has lapsed, the level comes down until you send the current one. If a reference declines to speak, that is recorded as no reference rather than as a bad one.
And we will not describe you at all to somebody who has not asked. Your details reach a buyer who has a live request that matches what you make, one buyer at a time, never a circulated list.
What registering costs
Nothing. There is no listing fee, no subscription and no charge for being introduced to a buyer. We take a success fee from the supplier only when a shipment actually happens, so our interest and yours point the same way: at orders that ship, not at a long list of names.
There is also nothing to cancel. With no fee and no subscription there is no renewal date and no notice period. The only real cost is the ten minutes the optional detail takes, and that is the part that decides how often a buyer's filter finds you rather than somebody who answered in general terms.
We hold no stock, give no credit and take no escrow. The contract and the shipment run between you and the buyer; our part is the checking and the introduction.
Common questions
What does it cost to register?
Nothing. There is no fee to register, no listing to subscribe to and no annual charge. We are paid a success fee by the supplier, and only when a shipment actually happens.
How do I get described as verified?
By showing us the evidence. Registering is where it starts. Each level above it needs something specific from you, and the four levels on this page say what. We will not describe you as verified until we have seen it.
Who sees my contact details?
No buyer gets them from us. Every request comes to you through us against one written specification, and buyers and suppliers do not get each other's contact details, so next season's order still has to come back through the same desk.
Which form should I fill in?
There is one form for every kind of supplier. It starts by asking which areas you run, fibre, yarn, fabric, or garments and home textiles, and then asks only about those. If you spin or weave and also sew, tick both.