Guide
A free listing in three steps, buyer enquiries that reach you directly, and a buy-leads board that nobody has to pay to answer. Here is the whole mechanism.
Add your name and phone number to get started. No card, no sales call, no waiting for approval.
Learn more ›2Add the name, address and email of your company, store or business, plus the categories you trade in.
Learn more ›3A minimum of three products or services are needed for your free listing page. It publishes the moment the third is saved.
Learn more ›The threshold is not an arbitrary hurdle. A company profile with no catalogue is close to useless to a buyer: it says a firm exists but not what it can supply, so the buyer has to write and ask, and most do not bother. Three products is roughly the point at which a listing starts answering the question a buyer actually arrived with, and it is low enough that any real business clears it in a few minutes.
It also does quiet work against junk listings. Creating an account is cheap for anyone, including someone with no intention of trading; describing three specific products with grades, packing and minimum order quantities is enough friction to deter most of that without inconveniencing a genuine supplier. You can add as many more as you like afterwards, and there is no upper limit.
You get a permanent public URL carrying your profile, catalogue, location and any validated registration numbers.
Through the directory, the category and location pages, site search, and search engines — the profile is indexable and carries structured data.
Buyer messages land in your email and in your dashboard, with the buyer's own contact details attached.
Reply by email or phone. The platform is not in the middle, takes no percentage and does not meter the conversation.
The first is search: use the search box or browse by product category and location, open the profiles that look relevant, and send an enquiry from the profile page. You do not need an account to send one — only to see a supplier’s phone number, which is masked for anonymous visitors to keep the directory out of reach of contact scrapers.
The second is to post the requirement once and let suppliers come to you. A buy requirement carries what you want, how much, where it is going and, if you choose to state it, a target price. It appears on the public buy-leads board where every member can see it and respond at no cost. Your name, email and phone stay private — the requirement is public, you are not — and you decide which responses to answer.
Buyer contact details on this site are not a product. They are not sold, syndicated, or released to suppliers as 'lead credits'. A supplier who wants to reach you has to write something you find worth answering, which is the correct incentive.
| Action | Cost |
|---|---|
| Creating an account | Free |
| Listing your company | Free |
| Listing products or services, any number | Free |
| Receiving buyer enquiries | Free, and unmetered |
| Posting a buy requirement | Free |
| Responding to a buy requirement | Free — three, then ten more per business you invite |
| Appearing in category and location pages | Free |
| Commission on an order you agree | None — the platform is not party to your contract |
| Removing your listing | Free, on request, with no notice period |
EximDataProvider sells trade-data subscriptions: customs-derived shipment records, country and HS-chapter analysis, price benchmarking and the rest of the product this site was built around. The marketplace exists because the two halves genuinely improve each other — a supplier shortlist is more useful next to the aggregate trade in the same tariff line, and the data is more useful when it points at businesses you can actually contact.
Saying that plainly matters, because ‘free’ with no visible business model is usually a warning. Here the arrangement is simply that the directory is not the revenue line, and that is what makes it possible to keep it complete rather than tiered.
Profile, catalogue, logo, contact details and categories are all edited from your dashboard. You never need to touch the WordPress back end.
Learn more ›The dashboard shows which checks passed, which failed and exactly why, so a mistyped GSTIN is obvious rather than mysterious.
Learn more ›It names the specific things missing from your listing and what each one is worth, rather than showing a score with no explanation.
Learn more ›There is no approval queue. Your listing publishes automatically once you have added three products or services.
One company per account, and one listing per GSTIN. A duplicate GSTIN is refused at signup, which is what keeps the badges meaningful.
List anyway. Both fields are optional, the listing works normally without them, and you can add them later from your profile.
No. Anyone can send an enquiry. An account only adds visible phone numbers and a place to keep track of your own listings.
Yes. Company and product pages are public, carry organisation structured data, and appear in the sitemap. Member-area pages are excluded from indexing.
Yes, on request, and the listing goes with it. There is nothing to cancel and no retention period.
The difference between a listing that generates enquiries and one that does not is almost entirely specificity. Buyers search for products, not for companies, and they search in the words their own trade uses — a grade, a count, a chapter, a certification. A catalogue entry called ‘Rice’ matches nothing anyone types; ‘1121 Steam Basmati Rice, sortex cleaned, 2% broken, 50kg PP bags’ matches a real query and answers half of the first email before it is written.
The same applies to the company description. ‘We are a leading supplier committed to quality’ is present on tens of thousands of profiles and distinguishes none of them. What you make, since when, at what capacity, to which markets, with which certifications, shipping from which port — six concrete facts do more than six paragraphs of positioning, and they are also what a buyer needs in order to decide you are worth an email.
| Listing element | What buyers get from it |
|---|---|
| Specific product names with grade and packing | Whether you supply the thing they searched for |
| Minimum order quantity | Whether their order size is compatible with your operation |
| Price or a stated band | Whether you are in their range, before a week of correspondence |
| HS code on each product | Confidence that you understand the classification of your own goods |
| Photographs | That the product exists in the form described |
| Year established and capacity | Whether you can support the volume they are planning |
| Validated GSTIN and IEC | That the registration numbers are at least real numbers |
| Main export markets | Whether you have shipped to a market with their compliance regime |
Three publishes the page; it is a floor, not a target. Each additional product is another query you can match.
A catalogue with no images reads as unfinished, whatever the text says.
Category pages are how buyers browse. An unticked category is a page you do not appear on.
Positioning language is invisible. Facts are not.
An enquiry that bounces is worse than no listing, because the buyer believes they contacted you.
The dashboard names the specific missing items and why each one matters. It is short and it is accurate.
When a buyer submits the form on your profile, three things happen at once. A record is created in your dashboard under Enquiries, holding the buyer’s message, name, email, phone and stated quantity. An email goes to the address on your listing containing the same details, with the reply-to header set to the buyer, so hitting reply in your normal mail client reaches them directly. And nothing else happens — no copy is routed to a sales team, no credit is deducted, and the buyer is not simultaneously distributed to nine of your competitors.
That last point is the substantive difference from a lead-generation model. On platforms that sell leads, one buyer enquiry is typically sold several times over, which is why buyers who fill in one form receive a dozen calls. Here an enquiry goes to the one member the buyer chose. If they want several quotes they can send several enquiries, or post a buy requirement, which is the mechanism designed for exactly that.
Because the email carries the buyer’s real address, the conversation leaves the platform immediately and stays wherever the two of you prefer to have it. There is no messaging system to keep you inside, no read receipts sold back as an upsell, and no way for anyone here to see what you subsequently agree.
Three steps and a few minutes. No card, no sales call, no approval queue.