By Aditya Shinde, Founder — Semperworks
Manual supplier verification in India takes between 60 and 90 minutes per supplier when done correctly. Most of the time, it doesn't get done at all — not because traders don't want to verify, but because deal pressure wins. Vetrade was built to close that gap: nine independent verification checks, running in parallel, resolved into a single report in under 60 seconds.
Here is exactly how that works.
The Problem With Manual Verification
Before building Vetrade, we verified suppliers the same way everyone else does: open DGFT, run the IEC. Open the GST portal, check the GSTIN. Search IndiaMART. Google the company name plus "fraud" or "complaint." Check if the website has HTTPS.
Each step is straightforward. Done carefully and completely, the process takes over an hour. Done under deal pressure — when a supplier is offering a good price and you don't want to lose the window — it takes five minutes, which means three of the nine checks get skipped. That's when fraud wins.
The problem isn't laziness. It's that verification is sequential, manual, and unstructured. There is no system that holds together the results from DGFT, GSTN, IndiaMART, Google Places, LinkedIn, and the news in one coherent view. Traders build a mental picture from tab-switching. The picture has gaps.
Vetrade exists to replace that process with one that is parallel, automated, and consistent — every time, for every supplier.
What Vetrade Checks
Vetrade runs eight independent verification signals for every supplier query. Each targets a different type of risk.
1. IEC Verification (DGFT)
The Import Export Code is the government registration that authorises an Indian entity to conduct cross-border trade, issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade. Vetrade checks the IEC format and confirms the registration: the legal entity name, registered address, and active status.
An IEC that doesn't match the supplier's claimed name, or that shows as suspended, is a primary red flag.
2. GST Verification (GSTN)
The 15-digit GSTIN encodes the entity's state, registration type, and taxpayer status. Vetrade validates the GSTIN against GST portal data and surfaces: legal name, trade name, registered state, business nature (manufacturer, trader, wholesaler), and registration status.
State-code mismatches — a supplier claiming to be in Maharashtra with a GSTIN registered in Rajasthan — appear here.
3. Google Places Address Match
Vetrade queries Google Places with strict name matching against the supplier's declared address. This confirms whether a registered business exists at that physical location, with name consistency and operational signals such as photos, reviews, and listed hours.
This check catches two common fraud patterns: ghost addresses (residential buildings listed as warehouse offices) and address swaps (using a real business's address without relationship to it).
4. B2B Platform Detection
Indian suppliers typically have presence on IndiaMART, TradeIndia, JustDial, and, for exporters, Alibaba. Vetrade runs slug-matched searches on each platform to confirm whether the supplier's listing exists, whether the name is consistent, and whether the listed categories match the invoiced goods.
A supplier with no B2B marketplace presence is not necessarily fraudulent — but a supplier who claims years of trading history with zero listing presence deserves scrutiny.
5. News Fraud Scan
Using the Google News engine with strict filtering (aggregator and company-profile pages excluded), Vetrade scans for the supplier name and director names in fraud, cheating, non-delivery, or regulatory-action contexts.
This check does not generate false positives from neutral news mentions — only flagged-context appearances surface in the report.
6. LinkedIn Company Page Check
Vetrade performs a site-scoped Google search to confirm whether a legitimate LinkedIn company page exists for the supplier. The check looks at page existence, listed employee count (as a sanity check against claimed scale), and director tagging.
7. SSL Certificate Check
Vetrade auto-detects whether the supplier's declared website has a valid SSL certificate. A missing or expired certificate is a weak signal in isolation; combined with other gaps, it adds to the risk picture.
8. Verification Scoring
Vetrade aggregates the above signals into a weighted composite score. The design principle here is deliberate: missing data is excluded from scoring, not penalised. A supplier with no LinkedIn page is not automatically downgraded — the absence is surfaced as a Verification Gap and flagged for the user's review.
What traders see is not a raw point total but a structured output: green lights, yellow flags, and red flags, each with a link back to the underlying source.
Why Parallel, Not Sequential
The 60-second claim is only possible because Vetrade runs all eight checks simultaneously, not one after another. Each check queries its source independently — DGFT, GSTN, Google Places API, B2B platform searches, news search, SSL lookup, LinkedIn presence — and results are aggregated once all checks complete.
Sequential verification, the way humans do it, means each step gates the next. Parallel verification means the total time is determined by the slowest single check, not the sum of all checks. That is the architectural reason the process fits inside a minute.
How Vetrade Handles This
When you run a verification in Vetrade, you enter the supplier's name and optionally their IEC or GSTIN. Vetrade resolves the entity across all eight sources and returns a verification report designed to be read in under three minutes.
The report is structured in three layers:
- Identity confirmation — does the legal name, IEC, and GSTIN all point to the same entity?
- Operational signals — does the business have a real presence (address, B2B listings, LinkedIn)?
- Risk signals — does anything in the news or data suggest fraud, complaints, or legal action?
Each flag includes the source link so you can verify the verifier. We do not ask traders to trust a black-box score — we show our work.
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Summary
- Vetrade runs eight independent verification checks for every Indian supplier query: IEC (DGFT), GSTIN (GSTN), Google Places, B2B platform presence (IndiaMART, TradeIndia, Alibaba, JustDial), news fraud scan, LinkedIn check, SSL certificate, and a composite verification score.
- All checks run in parallel, which is why the full process completes in under 60 seconds — compared to 60–90 minutes of manual verification done correctly.
- Missing data is treated as a Verification Gap, not a scoring penalty. Small or offline-heavy suppliers are not unfairly flagged.
- Strict name matching (not fuzzy matching) is used across B2B platforms, Google Places, and LinkedIn to reduce false positives.
- The output is a structured report — green lights, yellow flags, red flags — with source links, designed to be read in under three minutes.
- The goal is to inform trader judgment, not replace it.
Questions about Vetrade or the verification stack? Email support@semperworks.com