Vetted manufacturers list a store. Buyers find them and send enquiries through the platform.
This does not exist today.
This has not been started. There are no manufacturer stores, no vetting and no buyer enquiries in the product today. Supplier management and RFQs exist and are live, but they are private to your company rather than a public marketplace.
Anyone can list factories. The part that takes effort — and the only part worth paying for — is knowing which listings are real.
Every manufacturer carries a status set by us — pending, verified or rejected — and it is shown on the listing, not buried.
A buyer enquiry goes to the manufacturer and is recorded, so a dispute has a record behind it rather than two recollections.
On every listing. A marketplace without one is asking buyers to take the risk and carry it too.
Supplier management and RFQs are live. They are private to your company rather than a public listing, so they help with suppliers you have already found — not with finding new ones.
Whether you would list a factory or go looking for one changes what gets built first, so say which.