Can I compare offers on more than unit price?

Yes. Bids come back against the same items and terms, and you can fold freight, duty, and minimum quantities into the request and your scoring criteria, so the comparison reflects landed cost, not just the headline number.

Can I buy and sell from one account?

Yes. A single dual-role account sources as a buyer and gets discovered and responds as a supplier, and one trust score builds from your activity on both sides.

Does VEXORS handle payment or shipping?

No. VEXORS covers sourcing through award and keeps the decision record. Freight, settlement, and the commercial transaction happen directly between the parties, off the platform.

What does VEXORS cost a trading company?

Start free and run real requests on the free plan; paid plans add capacity and advanced tools. Responding to requests as a supplier is free forever, so the selling side of your business costs nothing to operate on the network.

We trade across many categories. Does that fit?

Yes. Requests and supplier discovery are organized on the UNSPSC category taxonomy, which spans commodities to finished goods, so a trader working ten categories runs them all from one account rather than ten niche platforms.

How fast can a request turn around?

As fast as you set the deadline. Invited suppliers are notified immediately, clarifications run inside the request, and bids are comparable the moment they arrive, so a routine sourcing round can close in days without a single reconciliation spreadsheet.

Can suppliers quote in different currencies on the same request?

Every bidder on a request quotes in the currency you set for it, overseas and local suppliers alike, so their quotes sit side by side on your request's own lines instead of in separate email threads, with nothing to convert by hand.

How do I compare quotes with different Incoterms, pack sizes and lead times?

Set the Incoterm, pack size and lead time you expect as required fields or questions on the request itself. Every bidder answers against the same fields, so the differences sit in the comparison rather than buried in a paragraph you re-read for each quote.

What happens if a supplier leaves a line unpriced?

It is counted back in at your estimate or the median of the other quotes before bids are ranked, so a quote is not rewarded for what it left out. It is part of the AI evaluation on every plan.

Can VEXORS catch a supplier padding a rate?

On any line with three or more prices, each rate is checked against the median of the others, and a rate far from it is flagged with its ratio, for example 0.35x, so it is visible before you award, not after.

Can I require a certificate of analysis or conformity before a bid counts?

Yes. Add it as a required question or document on the request. A bid missing it is visible the moment it comes in, so you are not discovering a missing certificate after the deadline has already closed.

Do overseas suppliers need an existing VEXORS account to quote?

No. An invited supplier registers free from the invitation and prices the request in a browser or on a phone, wherever it is based, in English or Arabic. Responding to a request as a supplier is free on every plan.

For trading & distribution

One request to every supplier, one comparison on landed cost

Publish a structured request for the goods you need to resell: item, quantity, unit, the certificates you require, and the pack size, Incoterm and lead time you're buying against. Invite your local and overseas suppliers, and their quotes come back against the same lines, in the currency you set, so you compare landed cost instead of five different email formats.

No card to start. Your first request goes out in minutes.

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What is structured sourcing for traders?

For trading and distribution, structured sourcing is one place to buy and to sell. You publish structured requests to source goods, widen the supplier base beyond the handful you already deal with, and compare bids on the same items and terms so you read landed cost rather than the headline unit price. From the same dual-role account you list a catalog and respond to buyers' requests, with one trust score working on both sides. VEXORS covers sourcing through award; freight, settlement, and the commercial transaction happen between the parties.

One structured request, local and overseas suppliers alike

State the items, quantities, units and the certificates or datasheets you require once, then invite the suppliers you already use plus new ones by category, whether they sit down the road or across a border. Every quote answers the same request, so nothing depends on how well an email got read.

Compare on landed cost, not headline price

Structured bids line up against identical items and terms, and you can capture freight, duty, and minimum order quantity in the request so AI scoring ranks on total cost to you, not the lowest unit line.

AI evaluation, and a named approval on every award

Every bid is scored against the commercial and technical criteria you set, with the reasoning next to each score, so a recommendation reads like a memo, not a black box. The award stays your decision, and who approved it is on record.

Trading on VEXORS, in practice

The request

State the currency, the Incoterm and the pack size once

A trading company's real cost lives in details an email buries: the Incoterm a supplier assumes, the pack size a factory ships in, the certificate a customs desk will ask for. On VEXORS you set these as fields and required questions on the request itself, so every supplier, local or from overseas, answers against the same structure instead of describing its own terms in a paragraph you have to parse. A missing certificate or an unanswered field shows before the deadline, not after the shipment lands.

Item, quantity, unit and grade or specification stated once
Incoterm, pack size and lead time as required fields, not free text
Certificates and datasheets requested as questionnaire items
Local and overseas suppliers invited to the same request

The comparison

Every quote, in your currency, on the same lines

Every supplier quotes in the currency you set for the request, and VEXORS keeps every bid against the buyer's own lines, so an overseas mill and a local stockist sit on the same request, in the same currency, rather than in two separate email threads. Set your commercial and technical weights, say sixty against forty, and every bid is scored with the reasoning shown beside it, so the number you rank on already reflects Incoterm, pack size and lead time, not just the price a supplier chose to lead with.

Every bid in the request's currency, against the buyer's own lines
Commercial and technical criteria weighted the way you choose
A score and a written reason beside every bid
A recommendation, with the award staying your decision

Levelling and rate checks

The cheapest quote is not always the cheapest

A supplier who leaves the hardest item unpriced looks cheap until that gap is filled. VEXORS counts an unpriced line back in at your estimate or the median of the other quotes before ranking, so a quote is not rewarded for what it left out. On any line with three or more prices, a rate far from the median is flagged with its ratio to the group, so a padded number stands out before you sign, not after the shipment is invoiced.

Unpriced lines counted back in before ranking, not counted as zero
A rate flagged with its ratio to the median, for example 3.5x
Ranking runs on the levelled total, not the as-quoted one
The same check runs on every line with enough prices to compare

Terms and the record

Exceptions costed, contradictions caught, and a record that holds

A supplier who wants forty percent up front instead of your usual ten is stating a cost, not just a preference, and VEXORS lists every exception to your terms and costs the ones that carry money at your cost of funds. A technical answer that contradicts the price it sits beside, or a bid still priced against a superseded revision, is flagged before the award. A clarification a bidder raises is answered once and published to everyone bidding, and every score, reason, revision and named approval stays with the request afterwards.

Payment and delivery exceptions listed, and costed where they carry money
Contradictions between a bid's answers, prices and terms flagged
One answer to a clarification, published to every bidder at once
Scores, reasons, revisions and named approvals kept with the request

Terms, checks and the record

Exception to your termsCosted

Bidder D asks for 40% advance against your standard 10%

Contradiction flagged: Bidder A's lead time answer does not match its own delivery schedule

Clarification on pack size answered, published to all bidders

Revision 2 issued after a quantity correction

Prices valid until 20 November

Procurement manager: approved

Every score, reason, revision and approval stays with the request.

Side by side

By email vs one structured request

By email vs one structured request
	By email and spreadsheet	VEXORS
Comparing currencies	Convert each quote by hand, or compare face-value numbers that are not actually comparable	Every bid comes in the currency you set, lined up against the same request
Incoterms	FOB, CIF or EXW, stated in a sentence and easy to miss	Incoterm is a required field on the bid, visible in the comparison
Pack sizes and units	25 kg bags, drums and bulk tonnes compared by eye	Quantities and units are fixed on the request; every bid answers to them
Lead times	Promised in an email, forgotten by the time you decide	Lead time is a tracked field, shown beside price at comparison time
Unpriced lines	A blank cell reads as zero and can quietly win	Unpriced lines are priced back in at your estimate or the median before ranking
Outlier rates	A padded rate hides inside a long list of items	A rate far from the median is flagged with its ratio
Payment and delivery terms	Exceptions stated once, in prose, easy to miss on line four	Every exception to your terms is listed, and costed where it carries money
The decision record	Scattered across email threads and a spreadsheet	Scores, reasons, revisions and named approvals stay with the request

Comparing currencies
By email and spreadsheet
Convert each quote by hand, or compare face-value numbers that are not actually comparable
VEXORS
Every bid comes in the currency you set, lined up against the same request
Incoterms
By email and spreadsheet
FOB, CIF or EXW, stated in a sentence and easy to miss
VEXORS
Incoterm is a required field on the bid, visible in the comparison
Pack sizes and units
By email and spreadsheet
25 kg bags, drums and bulk tonnes compared by eye
VEXORS
Quantities and units are fixed on the request; every bid answers to them
Lead times
By email and spreadsheet
Promised in an email, forgotten by the time you decide
VEXORS
Lead time is a tracked field, shown beside price at comparison time
Unpriced lines
By email and spreadsheet
A blank cell reads as zero and can quietly win
VEXORS
Unpriced lines are priced back in at your estimate or the median before ranking
Outlier rates
By email and spreadsheet
A padded rate hides inside a long list of items
VEXORS
A rate far from the median is flagged with its ratio
Payment and delivery terms
By email and spreadsheet
Exceptions stated once, in prose, easy to miss on line four
VEXORS
Every exception to your terms is listed, and costed where it carries money
The decision record
By email and spreadsheet
Scattered across email threads and a spreadsheet
VEXORS
Scores, reasons, revisions and named approvals stay with the request

Source from more suppliers, and sell to more buyers

Run structured RFQs to source goods, widen your supplier base to protect margin, and compare offers on landed cost so the lowest unit price is not the default winner. Then use the same account to list a catalog and win buyers' requests as a supplier.

Protect margin with a wider supplier base

Discover suppliers by category and by what they actually offer, not just the few in your contacts, and invite them onto your exact requirement, so wider competition works for you.

Buy and sell from one dual-role account

Source as a buyer and get discovered as a supplier from the same account and catalog, with a single trust score that builds from every deal on either side.

Common trading use cases

Sourcing the same goods from several suppliers and comparing them on landed cost.
Finding alternative suppliers to protect margin when a price or a supply line moves.
Listing a catalog and responding to buyers' requests as a supplier between buying runs.
Building one portable trust score that works whether you are the buyer or the seller.

Margin lives in the comparison

A trading business is a spread, and the spread is won by whoever compares more real offers in the time available. Email caps that number: every additional quote is another thread to chase, another format to reconcile, another chance to mis-read a term. The trader who buys from the same three suppliers because comparing five is too much work is paying an invisible tax on every deal, and the counterparty risk of a new supplier found on a marketplace listing is carried on instinct alone.

Structured requests, and a storefront on the same account

On VEXORS a sourcing request states the items, quantities, and delivery terms once, and every offer comes back against that structure, so landed cost is readable across five bids as easily as two. The same account works the other direction: list a catalog, get discovered by category, and respond to buyers' requests as a supplier. One company, one trust score, built from completed deals on both sides of the book.

Reputation compounds faster than a contact list

Every completed deal adds a rating and strengthens a trust score that new counterparties check before they commit, which is precisely the credential a trader needs to open doors beyond the existing network. The record works defensively too: what was requested, what was offered, and what was awarded is documented per deal, so a dispute becomes a lookup instead of a memory contest.

Built for trading and resale sourcing

General trading companies

Sourcing several product lines from a mix of local stockists and overseas mills or factories, and needing one place to run every category's requests rather than a platform per commodity.

Import and re-export businesses

Comparing overseas quotes against local stock on landed cost, with the certificate of origin, packing details and Incoterm as required fields rather than a paragraph to re-read.

Procurement teams inside a trading house

Running recurring sourcing rounds where more than one person is involved, and needing named approvals and a record finance can check without asking around.

How it works

From request to award in four steps

Publish a request

List the goods with quantities, units, and the terms that decide total cost.

Invite and discover suppliers

Bring your own and find new ones by category across the network.

Evaluate every bid

Fifty bids evaluated, compared and scored in seconds, on landed cost, terms, and compliance, not just the headline price. The reasoning comes with it.

Award and build both sides

Award, rate, and grow one trust score that works whether you are buying or selling.

Structured RFQs, RFPs and RFIs, AI evaluation with levelling and rate checks, clarifications and the record run on every plan, including the free Explore plan, with the AI credits each plan includes. Questionnaires, saved templates, approval workflows and the construction BoQ workflow are part of the Scale plan.

Trading sourcing questions

The same account that sources also lists a catalog and can respond to buyers' requests as a supplier, building one trust score from both sides of the business.

Download the free RFQ template

Real .docx files in English and Arabic. No watermarks. Edit and send.

Source and sell on VEXORS

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