Three checks that all get called verification
Marketplaces in Bangladesh use the same word for three unrelated things. Distinguishing them is most of the work of not getting burned.
- Identity verification — the platform confirmed a human is who they claim, typically against a national ID. It says nothing about whether they will ship what they described.
- Registry reconciliation — a record was matched against a government register of exporters. It confirms the firm exists as a filed legal entity; it does not confirm capacity, quality or that the firm is currently trading.
- Transport and provenance verification — the data itself was retrieved over a connection whose certificate identity was pinned and recorded, so a reader can tell whether the numbers came from the source they claim.
What this directory verifies, precisely
Of the records reconciled against the upstream exporter register, 100 carry a canonical registry id and 15 did not appear in the latest pull. Those 15 are held in a review queue rather than deleted, because absence from a single pull is not proof of delisting.
Product catalogues are a separate claim again. 269 products across 70 exporters were retrieved upstream on 2026-08-02 with supplier-supplied photographs. Exporters with no upstream catalogue show a generated illustration, badged as such, and are excluded from those coverage counts. Nothing in this portal fabricates an HS code or an SKU.
The Data Provenance page records the certificate fingerprint and public-key pin the upstream pull was made against, and can re-derive both on demand. That is a claim about the data path, not an endorsement of any listed firm.
What a consumer marketplace can verify that a B2B directory cannot
Identity checks and behavioural fraud scoring genuinely work at consumer scale, because the platform sits between the two parties and sees the whole interaction: pricing against local comparables, listing text against known scam scripts, seller history across transactions. A static directory of exporters has none of that signal and should not pretend otherwise.
The inverse also holds. A consumer marketplace cannot tell you whether a firm is a filed exporter with a registry id and a product catalogue, because that data lives in a government register it never touches.
How to read any badge
Ask three questions. What exactly was checked? When was it checked? And what happens to the badge when the check fails — does it disappear quietly, or is the failure recorded somewhere you can read? A verification system that cannot show you its misses is marketing.