How we verify
“Verified” is a claim. Here is the procedure behind it.
Anyone can put the word verified on a supplier list. This page is the actual method, the limits of it, and what happens when we get a row wrong, so you can judge the catalog instead of trusting an adjective.
It comes from the supplier’s own website
Contact details are read from the manufacturer’s own contact and dealer pages, not bought from a B2B contact database. That is partly a licensing matter, because the big contact vendors forbid reselling their data and that is exactly what an unlock would be. It is also why the details are not the same rented list your competitors are emailing from.
We never overwrite a human-checked value
The automated sweep only ever fills a column that is empty. If a person has confirmed a phone number or an email, no crawler is allowed to quietly replace it later.
A junk value is treated as no value
A collected detail is only written if it clears the same usability bar the unlock gate enforces. An empty field is honest; a generic catch-all address that goes nowhere is a credit spent on nothing, so we would rather show you a blank.
Margins are never guessed
Margin ranges, MAP enforcement level and whether a brand ships direct to your customer are human-edited, never inferred by a classifier. These are the fields you are paying for. A fabricated margin would be worse than an empty one, so we leave it empty until someone establishes it.
Every row is re-checked every 90 days
Inboxes get retired, numbers get ported, and dealer pages move during a site rebuild. A supplier verified once is not verified forever, so the catalog re-checks on a rolling 90-day window, oldest and never-checked rows first.
You can see the date, not just the claim
Every supplier card and profile shows when its contact details were last confirmed, including when that was a long time ago. A directory that only shows you its good rows is a directory you cannot calibrate.
If we are wrong, you get the credit back
Report a wrong field from the supplier’s page. When we agree, the credit is refunded to your balance and that supplier goes to the front of the re-verification queue, so the next person does not hit the same dead number.
What Supplier Flow is not
Most people arriving here have paid for a supplier directory before and found the same goods they could already buy. Naming what this is not is faster than arguing about it.
Not a dropship marketplace
We do not hold inventory, fulfil your orders, or take a cut of your sales. You deal with the supplier directly, on your own terms, under your own dealer agreement. Supplier Flow is how you find and close them, not a middleman between you and them.
Not a list of resellers with the products marked up
If a "supplier" is really a reseller buying the same goods you could, they will undercut you the moment you compete. We are after brands and authorized distributors you can become a dealer for.
Not a rented contact database with a new logo
You are not paying to see rows that every competing tool licensed from the same vendor. See the first rule above for where the data actually comes from.
Not claiming a level of vetting we have not done
Where a supplier has not been checked yet, the profile says so rather than showing a reassuring badge. You should be able to tell our confident rows from our unconfirmed ones at a glance.
Check the method against the catalog
Open any supplier and look at the last-checked date before you spend anything. That is the number this whole page is accountable to.