Currawong Web
Check a China supplier against official records
Currawong Web helps buyers outside China check a Chinese supplier against records that are already on file, before an order or a payment goes out.
Free browser tools: an 18-character Unified Social Credit Code (USCI) structure and check-digit validator, and a candidate registered-name lookup for when all you have is an English trading name. Both run in your browser; the code never leaves it.
Requested reports: a person on the China side retrieves the registered record and returns it with the source, the query date, and the limits of what that record shows. A report can tell you whether the registered entity exists and is in normal status, whether the business scope covers what you are buying, whether the factory claim is consistent with the record, and whether the payee on the invoice matches the registered entity.
What it cannot tell you: whether the supplier can build your order, or whether they will ship on time. Those are not in any registry, and the site says so.
Every figure published comes from a dated run against real records, and the datasets behind those figures are public on Harvard Dataverse.
Features
USCI check-digit validator — paste an 18-character Unified Social Credit Code and see whether the structure and check digit are valid. Runs in the browser; tested against 2,149 real codes.
Registered-name lookup — start from an English trading name and get candidate registered Chinese names to check against.
Requested record retrieval — a person on the China side pulls the registered record and returns it with source, query date and stated limits.
Scope and payee comparison — check whether the business scope covers what you are buying and whether the invoice payee matches the registered entity.
Open data — the datasets behind every published figure are public on Harvard Dataverse, with DOIs.
Use Cases
A first order with a new Chinese supplier, before the deposit leaves.
An invoice where the payee name does not match the company you have been talking to.
A supplier who calls itself a factory and you want to see what the record actually says.
A trading name in English only, and no Chinese entity name to search with.
Procurement or compliance teams that need a dated, sourced record they can file.
Comments
I run this desk alone from Jinan, China. I built Currawong because the same question kept coming back from buyers: the supplier says they are a factory, the invoice names a different company, and from outside China there is no easy way to tell whether any of it is on the record. The free tools do the part a browser can do honestly - validate an 18-character USCI structure and check digit, and find candidate registered Chinese names when all you have is an English trading name. Anything that needs a live registry lookup is done by a person here and comes back with the source and the query date attached. I am deliberate about what a report cannot tell you: whether the supplier can build your order, or whether they will ship on time. Those are not in any registry, and the site says so. Every number published comes from a dated run against real records, and the datasets are public on Harvard Dataverse. Happy to answer questions about the check-digit maths or about what the Chinese registry actually exposes.
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I run this desk alone from Jinan, China. I built Currawong because the same question kept coming back from buyers: the supplier says they are a factory, the invoice names a different company, and from outside China there is no easy way to tell whether any of it is on the record. The free tools do the part a browser can do honestly - validate an 18-character USCI structure and check digit, and find candidate registered Chinese names when all you have is an English trading name. Anything that needs a live registry lookup is done by a person here and comes back with the source and the query date attached. I am deliberate about what a report cannot tell you: whether the supplier can build your order, or whether they will ship on time. Those are not in any registry, and the site says so. Every number published comes from a dated run against real records, and the datasets are public on Harvard Dataverse. Happy to answer questions about the check-digit maths or about what the Chinese registry actually exposes.
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