See the factory before you wire the deposit
One on-site day at $239: walk to the address, check the name over the gate against the licence, watch whether your kind of product is actually being made, and film the packing floor. Timestamped evidence, written report the same day or the next.
What the visit checks
On the ground: the registered name on the building against the licence, the address against the quotation, whether your product category is produced or merely traded, whether machines are warm with operators, what the packing floor cartons say.
Typical tasks: Verification visit · sample check against your spec · production progress photos · packing and labeling audit · defect documentation
What you get
The evidence: timestamped photos and continuous video where relevant, plus a short structured report: what was asked, what was seen at each stop, and a plain answer to the question behind the task. Delivered the same day or the next.
Where the line is
Scope honesty: one visit day is a verification, not a full pre-shipment inspection. A proper container-load QC is a larger, multi-person job and gets quoted individually. City pairs beyond regular coverage add travel at actual cost, itemized in the written quote before anything is booked.
- Is the name over the gate the registered name, character for character?
- Is anything actually being made here, of the kind you buy?
- Are there raw materials and work in progress, the two things a photo-only factory lacks?
- What do the cartons on the packing floor say about who they really ship for?
- Does the place survive one unplanned request on site?
A showroom is staged; the back of the factory is not. The visit is built around the five things a photo-only operation cannot fake, worked through in our factory verification checklist: the name on the building matching the licence character for character, raw-material stock and work-in-progress bins on the floor, your category actually running, export cartons on the packing floor, and the human test: one unplanned request, absorbed without drama.
What one day on location actually looks like is written up here. The documentary layer comes first for most buyers: the remote registry check at $129 shapes which questions the visit has to answer.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a factory verification visit cost in China?
An on-site day runs $239, billed from departure rather than arrival, with timestamped photos, video and a written report the same day or the next. Cross-city travel and accommodation are reimbursed at actual cost with receipts, listed separately in the quote.
Do you do full pre-shipment inspection?
Not as a one-day product. A proper inspection of a full container load is a multi-person job; if you need it, ask and it gets quoted individually. What the $239 day covers is the verification visit: does this factory exist, run, and make your kind of product.
Can you check a factory without the supplier knowing?
The visit is arranged around access the site can realistically grant, so no surprise audits are promised. If the question can be answered from paper first, the $129 remote layer covers registry, scope and document checks with no contact with the supplier at all.