About

About MoneyWave

MoneyWave (moneywave.me) does two things for African importers buying from China: it publishes a directory of more than a thousand suppliers, factories and wholesalers scored from public buyer comments, and it settles their invoices in local currency. As of August 2026 the directory is re-checked weekly and free to browse.

Directory — Checked about 2 months ago

Why a payments company publishes a supplier directory

Because the hardest part of paying a Chinese supplier is not the payment — it is knowing whether the person on the other end is real. We were already being asked “is this seller legit?” by people about to send money, and the honest answer required doing the work.

  • The directory is free to browse and free to search. A free account unlocks contact details.
  • A $9/month subscription unlocks the harvested buyer quotes and sentiment analysis, and funds the weekly refresh.
  • Payments are a separate product. You can use either without the other.

How we stay independent of the sellers we list

No seller pays us anything, for anything. Listings are not for sale, placement is not for sale, and no commercial relationship can raise a trust signal, remove a concern quote or change the sort order. We also do not list businesses that compete with what we do ourselves — payments and FX, and since September 2026 sourcing agents, freight forwarders and clearing agents.

  • No sponsored placement, no paid inclusion, no “featured” tier — anywhere in the directory.
  • A seller cannot appeal or buy a change to their score. Corrections are made against public evidence.
  • Payment and FX businesses are excluded by policy, not by judgement call — we would be scoring our own competitors.
  • Sourcing agents, freight forwarders and clearing agents are no longer listed, because we now arrange those services ourselves and will not rank our own competitors.
  • Trust signals are observations from public data, never endorsements. We say so on every page.

When we do arrange sourcing or shipping, we are an introducer: we connect you with a freight forwarder or a licensed clearing agent and we are not the carrier or the customs agent ourselves. A seller's score is worked out the same way whether or not they have anything to do with us.

Where the data comes from

Public posts and buyer comments on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn, sampled by an automated job that runs weekly. Every harvested quote carries the real date the buyer wrote it, read from the platform — never an approximation of when we happened to sample it.

Contact

For corrections, listing reports, press enquiries or data licensing, email us. Every listing page also carries its own report link, which pre-fills the seller so we know which one you mean.

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