Find and connect with suppliers in Discover
Browse and search suppliers by category, open a company profile to read its Trust Score and ratings, keep private notes, search products, and bring the right supplier straight into a request.
What you'll learn
- Browse and search the supplier network by category and keyword
- Read a company profile: Trust Score, Verified badge, catalog, and ratings
- Keep private notes and pull a supplier into a request in one step
Finding a new supplier usually means starting from nothing. You search the web, ask a colleague who they used last year, collect a few names, and then have no real way to tell which of them is reliable. By the time a quote comes back, you still do not know whether the company behind it delivers on time or disappears after the deposit clears.
Discover is the supplier network inside VEXORS. Every company you find here is a real, registered business with a profile you can read before you ever reach out: what they supply, where they ship, how buyers have rated them, and an independent Trust Score that reflects their track record on the platform. You can browse by category, search by product, save private notes for yourself, and when you find a supplier you want, add them to a request without leaving the page.
Why this matters
The risk in sourcing is not finding suppliers. It is finding the wrong one and not knowing until it is too late. Discover puts the signals that predict a good supplier, ratings from real buyers, a Trust Score, verified documents, and a published catalog, in front of you before you commit a single hour. You qualify on evidence instead of a cold email and a hopeful guess.
Two ways to find a supplier
Discover gives you two tabs, and the right one depends on whether you are starting from a company or from a thing you need to buy.
| You are starting from | Use the tab | What you get back |
|---|---|---|
| A type of supplier (a category, a region, a name you half-remember) | Companies | A list of supplier companies you can filter, sort, and open as full profiles. |
| A specific product or service you need to price | Products | Individual catalog items from suppliers, which you can add directly to a request. |
Browsing and searching the network
Open Discover from the sidebar. By default you see supplier companies as full-width cards, with a strip of headline numbers at the top: how many suppliers match, how many of them are Verified, how many profile views you have used this month, and how many filters you have active.
There are three ways to narrow the network down to the suppliers worth your time:
- Category browser (left side): pick a category to see only suppliers who work in it. This is the single most useful filter, because a precise category is what separates "a manufacturer" from "the manufacturer who can actually make your part".
- Search: type a company name or keyword into the search box on the Companies tab to match by name.
- Filters: open the Filters panel to narrow by country, Verified status, minimum Trust Score, company size, and more. Active filters appear as removable chips so you always know what is shaping your list.
Sort by Trust Score when you want the most established suppliers first, or use a tighter category instead of a broad one. A broad category returns a large, loosely relevant pool; a specific category returns the handful who can deliver.
Narrow the network to the suppliers that fit
Pick a category in the sidebar, then refine with search and filters. The headline strip updates live, so you can see at a glance how many Verified suppliers are in your filtered set before you start opening profiles.
Open a company profile and read the evidence
Click any supplier to open its profile. The header shows the company name, a Verified badge if its documents are confirmed, and its Trust Score (shown separately for its buyer side and supplier side). Below that you will find company details, the regions it supplies, legal and compliance documents you can download, a preview of its Catalog, and ratings left by real buyers.
A "Trusted by Buyers" badge appears on suppliers with several strong buyer ratings, a quick signal of a proven track record.
Keep a private note for your own reference
On a profile you can add a Note: a free-text reminder to yourself, such as "fast on small orders, slow on custom work" or "follow up after Q3". Notes are private to your company and never shown to the supplier. They sit on the profile so the next time you or a teammate opens it, your context is already there.
Bring the supplier into a request
When a supplier is the right fit, use Invite to Request on its profile to add it to one of your active requests, or to start a new one. The supplier is invited to bid, and you skip the step of finding them again later. From the Products tab you can do the same with a single catalog item: add it straight to a request as a line to be priced.
Searching by product instead of company
Switch to the Products tab when you know the item, not the supplier. Here you search across suppliers' published catalog items and filter by price, currency, condition, lead time, minimum order quantity, warranty, brand, country of origin, and certifications. Each result links back to the supplier that listed it, and any item can be added directly to a request. This is the fastest path when you have a clear bill of items and want to see who already lists them.
Let VEXORS suggest suppliers for you
When you have a category selected and a short description of what you need, VEXORS can suggest suppliers whose catalogs best match your requirement, ranked by how closely they fit, rather than you scanning the list by hand.
AI Supplier Matching has its own guide. See Find suppliers with AI matching for how it ranks matches and brings them into a request.
What good looks like
Browsing correctly is not the same as choosing well. A strong shortlist usually shares a few habits:
- You filtered to a specific category before reading any profiles, so every supplier you looked at was genuinely relevant.
- You opened profiles and read the ratings and Trust Score, not just the company name. A 4.6 average across 18 ratings tells you far more than a polished logo.
- You preferred Verified suppliers for anything where documentation matters, and used the downloadable trade licence and tax registration to confirm it.
- You left yourself private notes as you went, so your shortlist still makes sense a week later.
- You added the suppliers you liked to a request immediately, instead of writing names on a sticky note and re-searching later.
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