Ninth Harbor

About to wire money to a supplier you've never met?

We verify EU and UK companies against the official public registers before you pay: one source-cited report, a plain-language verdict, delivered within 24 hours.

Why buyers order this

Cross-border prepayment is where small businesses get burned: the supplier that doesn't exist, the company that was dissolved last year, the invoice with a "new" bank account. The official registers already hold the answers. We pull them, check them against what the supplier told you, and give you a straight verdict before the money leaves your account.

What you get

Supplier Verification Report

One PDF on one company, every finding cited to the official public source with a retrieval timestamp:

  • Registration status: the company exists, is active, and matches the name and number on your quote or invoice.
  • Age and filing history: when it was formed, what it has filed, whether filings are overdue.
  • Officers and control: directors and, where the register publishes it, who controls the company.
  • VAT validation: the VAT number checked against the EU's official VIES system.
  • Sanctions screen: company and officer names screened against the EU consolidated financial sanctions list, the UK Sanctions List, and the US OFAC lists, as published on the report date.
  • Cross-checks and red flags: website legal notice vs register, invoice details vs register, payee bank country vs registration country, plus a 12-point red-flag checklist.
  • A verdict: Verified, Verified with cautions, or Not verified, with the specific next steps we'd take before paying.

Coverage

Full registry verification for companies in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. For Dutch companies the delivery also includes the officially certified KVK extract, purchased for you and included in the price. VAT validation and sanctions screening cover all EU member states. Supplier in another EU country? Email us first; we confirm coverage before you pay anything.

How it works

  1. Email [email protected] with the supplier's name, country, and whatever you have: website, quote or invoice, VAT number.
  2. We confirm we can cover the company and send a payment link. No subscription, no account.
  3. You receive the full report by email within 24 hours of payment, usually much sooner.
  4. If we can't complete the material checks, you get a full refund and we tell you exactly what we couldn't confirm.

Pricing

Verification report, one company €129
Three companies (e.g. shortlisted suppliers) €297
Turnaround Within 24 hours

Fixed price, agreed before you pay: a fraction of a typical first order, and less than an hour of a cross-border commercial lawyer.

What this is not

Order a check

Email [email protected]

Prefer to do it yourself?

Every check in the report can be run by hand against the official registers, and we wrote up how: free supplier-verification guides →