Supplier checks for wholesale buyers

Know who you’re buying from — before the money leaves.

We do the checking for you.Send us a supplier’s name and the brands they say they carry. We research them, and within 24 hours you get a written report — one clear answer, the evidence behind it, and a straight list of what we could not confirm.

New assessmentTakes about 2 minutes
Supplier nameExample Trading LLC
Websitenorthgatewholesale.com
Brands they claimBrand A, Brand B, +1
MarketplaceAmazon US
Their paperworkinvoice-april.pdf
Submit for assessment

Report back within 24 hours · the same checks on every supplier

24 hours
Delivery, every plan
5
Assessment areas
4
Verdict levels, never a score
Same
Method on every supplier

Fifteen years inside Amazon wholesale — the expertise behind every case

Amazon wholesale

How this market operates, not how it is described.

Supplier vetting

Whether a business is real, and what its records don't show.

IP risk

How brands police listings, and what that pattern implies.

Invoice review

The fourteen document fields we check on every invoice.

Account risk

What puts a selling account at risk — and what doesn't.

Brand enforcement

How a brand crackdown starts, and what it looks like beforehand.

These are the domains we assess. None of them is a promise about your outcome.

What you get

One supplier in. One report back.

  1. 1A written report, in 24 hours.
  2. 2One verdict, out of 4. Never a score.
  3. 3Every finding, with the source we got it from.
  4. 4A plain list of what we could not confirm.
  5. 5The exact questions to ask your supplier — before you pay.
1 · The problem

Suspensions rarely start with the seller.

They start upstream — with a brand, a channel, or a piece of paper that could not do the job it was bought to do. By the time it reaches you, the money is spent.

  1. Step one

    A brand decides to tighten

    Enforcement is a business decision made by someone you will never meet, and it usually applies to a whole listing at once.

  2. Step two

    The channel is questioned

    The question is where the stock came from. That answer lives with your supplier and with theirs — a chain you cannot see from a purchase order.

  3. Step three

    The consequence lands on you

    The complaint attaches to your account, not the supplier's. The stock is already yours and the payout is already held.

Where we fit, stated plainly: we cannot stop any of that, and we will never tell you a supplier is safe. What we can do is make the upstream facts checkable while the decision is still yours.

2 · What we do

5 areas. Each one states its own limit.

The same questions, asked the same way, on every supplier — what we examine at each stage, and what that stage honestly cannot conclude.

01Supplier Legitimacy

Does this business actually exist?

First question: is there a real business behind the name on that invoice? We start with public records, then look for someone other than the supplier saying the same thing. A state filing on its own means very little. Plenty of companies are registered and nobody is trading.

The limit: a missing record is a gap, not proof of anything.

What we examine
State business records · how old the website is · signs of a real premises · listings from elsewhere
What lands in your report
A straight answer on whether this is a real business, and every source we used.
02Supply-Chain Relationship

Is the brand relationship real?

The supplier says they carry the brand. We look for anyone other than the supplier saying so. Their own word is the weakest kind of proof there is, and we write it down as exactly that. A letter they wrote about themselves is still just them talking.

The limit: nobody can confirm authorization from outside — those deals are private.

What we examine
What they claim · whether the brand backs it up · trade directories · what this brand normally issues
What lands in your report
What we could confirm, what is only their word, and exactly what to ask them.
03Brand Risk

How does this brand treat resellers?

Brands leave a trail of how they treat third-party sellers. We read it — what they have done before, what they have gated, and how many sellers have come and gone on that listing over a year. A brand that has never touched a seller looks nothing like one that cleared a listing last month.

The limit: we show you the pattern, not the future.

What we examine
How many sellers are on the listing over a year · past enforcement · gating · how the brand behaves
What lands in your report
How this brand has treated other sellers, and what that does and does not prove.
04Documentation Review

Will the paperwork stand up?

A fourteen-point read of your paperwork, judged against the deal in front of you rather than ticked off a list. A missing field is not automatically a problem. What matters is whether a supplier like this, selling this brand, at this quantity, would normally leave it out.

The limit: good paperwork is not protection — a brand complaint is a separate risk.

What we examine
Fourteen document fields · whether it all matches up · whether the paperwork fits the company on file
What lands in your report
Whether the paperwork will hold up, and exactly which fields need fixing first.
05Sourcing Logic

Does the whole story hold together?

The last area checks the other four against each other. Does the price make sense for this kind of supplier? Would a company this size really carry these brands? Is the route they described the one you can actually see? Anything that does not add up gets said out loud.

The limit: we can't tell you a deal is good — only whether it's what it looks like.

What we examine
Whether the story adds up across all five areas · anything that contradicts anything else
What lands in your report
Every contradiction we found and the questions it raises for your supplier.
And you can watch it happen

Nothing is hidden while the work runs.

01

You submit

Supplier, brands, paperwork. About two minutes.

New assessment
SupplierExample Trading LLC
Brands claimed3 of 3 used
MarketplaceAmazon US
Documentinvoice-april.pdf
Credits1 used
02

The work runs

5 areas in sequence, with the deadline we are working to.

AWI-SAMPLE-00114h 12m left
2 of 5 areas complete
Brand Risk running now
Supplier LegitimacyComplete
Supply-Chain RelationshipComplete
Brand RiskResearching
Documentation ReviewQueued
Sourcing LogicQueued
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Every case, the same way

The same 5 areas, in the same order, whoever the supplier is.

DeliveredPDF attached
VerdictVerify Before Purchase
Findings9
Could not confirm3
Questions drafted3
MethodFixed, all 5 areas

Portal views are masked demonstrations with illustrative data.

See everything we check
3 · What you get

Not a score. One of 4 answers.

A number invites you to argue with it. A verdict tells you what to do next — and the level is always written out, so it reads the same to everyone.

  1. Level 1 of 4

    Source Clear

    The evidence supported this source at the time of research. Standard diligence still applies — the decision stays yours.

  2. Level 2 of 4

    Usable With Conditions

    Workable — with the stated conditions handled first. The conditions are part of the verdict, not a footnote.

  3. Level 3 of 4

    Verify Before Purchase

    Do not place a large order — resolve the listed items first. Re-submit for an updated review once resolved.

  4. Level 4 of 4

    Do Not Rely

    The evidence does not support relying on this source. The report explains what drove this.

How to read a report
4 · Why trust it

Fifteen years of reading one graph.

How a brand behaves toward third-party sellers leaves a trace. Most people look at this line and see a number. We were taught, expensively, to read the shape.

One brand, twelve months

Third-party sellers on one listing — an example

Example pattern

This is the shape we look for: a steady seller count that falls hard over a few weeks, while the price does not move.

Sellers fall away over a few weeksPrice stays flat the whole time

Illustrative example, not a real listing.

Your report carries the graph, what we think it means, and what it does not prove. We do not publish how we read it. That part took fifteen years to learn, and it is why two reports on the same evidence reach the same verdict.

  • We won't say you'll get ungated

    Gating decisions belong to the marketplace. We can tell you what the paperwork looks like and how the brand has been behaving. Nobody honest can tell you the outcome.

  • We won't say a supplier is authorized

    Authorization lives in private agreements between a brand and a distributor. We tell you what we could check ourselves and give you the questions that get proof.

  • We won't say your account is safe

    A clean invoice and a brand IP claim are independent risks. Good paperwork does not protect you from enforcement — we separate the two rather than blur them.

Our method, and its limits
5 · Pricing

Two ways to buy. Same discipline in both.

Every plan delivers in 24 hours. Every supplier gets the same checks, in the same order, whatever you paid.

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The cheapest research you’ll ever buy is the one before the wire.

One supplier, one verdict, twenty-four hours. If we can’t confirm something, we tell you that too.

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