Free Sourcing Tools
The same tables, checklists and calculators our team uses after 12 years and thousands of factory visits in Guangzhou. Free to use, no registration, no email walls.
Inspection Inspection Checklist
51 checks in the order you walk the factory: preparation, production, cartons, appearance, function, labels and sampling. Free, printable, no signup.
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Excel Template AQL Sampling Quick Reference
The exact sampling table importers use for factory inspections: batch sizes, sample sizes, Accept/Reject numbers (ISO 2859-1), the 4 inspection stages and how to read a result — in a ready-to-use Excel workbook.
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Rate Card Calculator China to Europe Shipping Calculator
Real door-to-door DDP/DAP rates from a contracted forwarder's rate card: enter country, postcode and weight to price 51 services, postcode zones, goods-category surcharges and remote-area fees.
Price my shipment
Excel Template Inspection Report Template
The fill-in pre-shipment inspection report professional inspectors use: report header, AQL standard, the 6 checkpoints, defect log, photo index and a signed PASS/FAIL — per ISO 2859-1.
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Online Tool Supplier Risk Assessment
Score the supplier you are about to pay across 4 dimensions — legal entity, factory substance, quality system and transaction safety. Instant risk band plus the gaps to fix before you transfer money. No signup.
Run the assessment
2-Minute Quiz China Sourcing Readiness Quiz
Answer 8 questions and get an instant readiness score plus your personal risk list — factory verification, QC, payment, logistics. See what could cost you money before you place an order.
Take the quiz
Excel Template RFQ Template
Send the same request-for-quotation file to every supplier and get comparable quotes: RFQ form, line-item specification sheet, 10 commercial clauses and the 3 questions that filter real factories.
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Lookup Tool Export Certification Lookup
Pick a product category and a market — US, EU or UK — and see exactly which certifications, directives and standards your shipment needs, each with its regulation number: FCC, CE, RoHS, REACH, UKCA, CPSIA, MDR, PPWR and more.
Look up my product
Landed Cost Landed Cost Calculator
Work out the real cost per unit: factory price, freight, duty, VAT, clearance and fees — plus margin and break-even.
Calculate landed cost
USA Shipping China to USA Shipping Cost Calculator
Four DDP door-to-door lanes — air priority, air economy, Matson express and Yantian sea freight — priced by US ZIP zone and weight band, with transit times and cargo rules.
Check USA shipping cost
UK Shipping China to UK Shipping Cost Calculator
Air, rail-truck and palletised lanes to the UK, priced by weight band and by all 22 postcode zones — with own-VAT, VAT-deferred and duty-paid terms side by side.
Check UK shipping cost
Canada Shipping China to Canada Shipping Cost Calculator
Vancouver and Toronto LCL lanes priced per CBM, a 14-zone oversized truck lane and the MG express lanes for cosmetics, food and other restricted cargo.
Check Canada shipping cost
EU Rates China to Europe Shipping Rates
Air, sea LCL, rail-truck and oversized lanes across 25 European destinations, with the 116 oversized sea postcode zones.
Check Europe rate bands
Freight Calculator China Freight Cost Calculator
Estimate the cost to ship from China to your country by sea, air or express, with rough transit times — then get a door-to-door quote.
Estimate shipping cost
Freight Class Freight Class Calculator
Enter carton or pallet dimensions and the weight as tendered to get density in PCF and the NMFC class from the 2025 density scale — plus how far you are from the next class break.
Calculate freight class
Oversized Cargo Oversized Cargo Checker
Pallets, crates and wooden cases: chargeable weight, the lane that applies, the size limits and the rate band — including the UK per-pallet delivery fee for your postcode.
Check oversized cargo
Savings Calculator Sourcing Agent Fee Calculator
Compare a transparent 5–8% commission against a hidden factory markup and see exactly how much you save on your next order from China.
Calculate your savings
PDF Guide Sourcing Agent Cost Guide
What a China sourcing agent really costs: the 3 fee models, what 5–8% commission covers, hidden markups to avoid, and the 5 questions to ask before you hire — in a free PDF.
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Excel Template Factory Audit Checklist
84 checks across nine sections — licence and identity, machines and real capacity, quality records, materials, testing, safety and the red flags — with an audit score that calculates itself.
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Excel Template Container Loading Checklist
63 checks for the last control point before the doors seal: container condition, carton count against the packing list, dunnage, the photo set and the seal record.
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Excel Template Quotation Comparison Template
Six suppliers side by side on the rows that decide an order, with landed cost per piece calculated automatically and a weighted scorecard for the non-price criteria.
Download free ExcelThe full importer toolkit
Fifteen free tools covering the whole first order: verify the supplier (factory audit checklist + risk assessment), quote properly (RFQ template + quotation comparison sheet), check compliance (export certification lookup), inspect the goods (AQL table + inspection report template), load it properly (container loading checklist) and cost it out (fee and freight calculators). All built from real project data.
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Tool images: AQL QC photo © "Digital display shows measurement tools" via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0; quiz & calculator photos (CC0, public domain).