About SourceVouch
SourceVouch is a worldwide directory of companies that supply other businesses: manufacturers, distributors, traders and service providers. It shows what can be checked about each company and where that comes from, so a buyer can look before getting in touch with manufacturers and suppliers.
Who is behind it, and why
SourceVouch is a product of Sapling Creations Private Limited, with an office at Government Cyberpark in Kozhikode, India. A small team of sustainability enthusiasts maintains it.
We also have a panel of sustainability enthusiasts from different countries, and a community, who check the data companies upload and review the authority that issued their documents. Company pages do not yet show which documents they have reviewed, and their review is not a guarantee.
Our aim is to make every manufacturer aware of sustainability, however small the business. A large part of the world's emissions and waste comes from how things are made, so factories and workshops can do a lot to make the world better.
That is why every company page has a place for ESG ratings, which are given by a third party assessor, sustainability reports and readiness for the EU's carbon charge on some imports, next to its products and services. An ESG rating is an outside agency's score for a company's effect on the environment and on people, and for how it is run. If we have none of these for a company, its page says so, where the owner and any buyer can see it. Once a company manages its page, it can add each one.
We are not an audit firm or a rating agency. We do not visit suppliers, inspect goods or take part in deals, so our checks do not replace your own audits, samples and references. The terms of use say what a badge means.
Where the information comes from
- Company pages: are added by the company when they create the account in the platform, or our crawlers search for the website, when a procurement manager or a user searches for a company in SourceVouch, our crawler searches the website and adds that company with its information.
- Verification checks: ten automated checks of the company's website, domain, email and registration numbers, and whether it manages its page, repeated every 30 days. Only EU VAT numbers are checked live against an official register. Other numbers are checked by format or check digits. A badge means a company passed certain checks on certain dates, not that we approved it, and results can be wrong or out of date. How suppliers are checked.
- ESG ratings, sustainability reports and CBAM data (CBAM is the EU's carbon charge on some imports): what a company states on its own website or enters itself. Ratings say which of the two they are, and anything found on a website is labelled. Reports and CBAM data without a label were entered by the company. We do not confirm what the crawler finds on a website. Data that companies upload is what the panel described above checks.
- Tenders: summaries of official notices from TED, the EU's public procurement journal, and from the World Bank. We are not affiliated with either. We copy and reformat the notices automatically and can get details wrong, so check the original, linked on each one, before you bid. The rest are tenders that buyers post here.
- Reviews: written by anyone with a signed-in account and a confirmed email address, who must confirm it is their own experience. We do not check that they bought from the supplier. A review shows the writer's name, and is marked when the writer exchanged messages with the supplier, received a quotation from it or awarded it a tender on SourceVouch. How reviews work.
Correcting or removing a page
If a page is about your company, you can claim it and correct it: sign in and choose Claim on the page. Or ask us to remove it, writing from an address on the company's domain or with other proof that you run it. You can also ask a person to review an automated check that looks wrong. The privacy policy has the details.
Complaints about your data or about content on SourceVouch go to our Grievance Officer. We acknowledge them within 24 hours and resolve them within 7 days.
For anything else, write to hello@sourcevouch.com. A person on our team decides what to do.
Legal details and contact
- Legal name
- Sapling Creations Private Limited
- Address
- Unit 2C, 2nd Floor, Sahya Building, Govt Cyberpark, KSITIL Special Economic Zone, Nellikode PO, Kozhikode, Keralam 673016
- Grievance Officer
- Anand R K, legal@sourcevouch.com
- Website
- saplingcreations.com