Faster, step-by-step photo search. Sellers appear about ten seconds in, with price and minimum order; match grades and photos fill in on each card while you read, and nothing moves under you — a better order is offered with one tap. More reliable on mobile networks: every request now uses its own connection, so a search no longer stalls on networks that drop other protocols. Show different sellers: refresh now skips every listing you have already seen and brings new sellers. Explain a seller's message: in Guide → Ask, paste a Chinese message or a quote line to get it in English, what it means in trade terms, what to watch, and a reply you can send. Questions per day depend on your plan. Projects and Expert Desk work as one: every Desk request and reply shows on the project, a reply updates the lead's price, minimum order and status, and the supplier page can ask a person to confirm a seller's phone and identity. 18 new insider tips on payment, shipping, audits and export paperwork.

Photo search is dependable again: uploads no longer hang on "Uploading photo…" on slower connections, and the upload now shows how far it has got. A Guide tab for your first order from China, in three parts: • Tools: budget, landed cost, quote comparison, shipping volume, factory holidays, messages to send sellers, compliance, HS codes and Incoterms. • What sellers won't tell you: 45 things Chinese factories and 1688 sellers know and first-time buyers don't. Each one has the red flags, the line to send in Chinese, and what to do next. • News: China trade news for importers only (tariffs, freight, factory holidays, platform and export rules), updated daily, each with its source. • Ask: type a question and get an answer quoted from the guide and today's news. • Supplier pages: phone and email now also come from the seller's own website and map entry, and factories are pinned by street address.

The supplier page, rebuilt around the seller's contact details. • Contact this seller sits right under the product: phone, email, chat, website and shop as tappable rows, each saying where it came from. Where a seller publishes no phone or email on the marketplace, Sourcia now reads them from the seller's own website and says so. • Send an inquiry: fill in quantity, target price and your questions; Sourcia sends it to the seller and forwards the reply to your email (Lite and above). • Every picture — product, gallery, factory album — opens full screen with pinch-to-zoom. • "Other products from this factory" opens each product's own supplier page inside the app. • Listing and description pictures no longer repeat; prices show the currency the seller quoted in. • Photo search runs more naming rounds before settling and drops the weakest matches once enough verified ones exist. • A purchase Apple has already charged can no longer end as "purchase failed": the app checks your plan with the server and completes it.

Seller contact routes you can actually use. • Every phone number and email on a factory dossier now says where it came from and what was checked — confirmed by Expert Desk, or read from the seller's own page with the mail server verified. Numbers are formatted for dialling from abroad. • The seller's chat link, shop and contact page on the marketplace are now contact routes too. • When a seller's phone or email is not published, Sourcia says so and can ask the seller for it through Expert Desk; the confirmed contact is saved with the lead.

US shipping quotes, honest signals, and a clearer bill. • New in Sourcing tools: US shipping quote. Enter a parcel's size, weight and a US ZIP code to see USPS, UPS and FedEx rates from the forwarder's US warehouses, line by line, with the surcharges that apply and the ones that don't. • Every credit is visible: search buttons show their cost, out-of-credits opens the plans sheet, and messages say when credits refill on your own clock. • Removed the "Risk" badge and "Match %" — they reflected list position, not evidence. Results now show the match tier and brief fit only. • Factory dossier: registered company name, read date, clearer price tiers, a landed-cost shortcut, a share button, and a "before you pay" checklist. • Dark mode fixed throughout; cards, buttons and badges are readable again. • Many smaller fixes to search recovery, the Expert Desk tab, Projects focus and copy.

Every supplier now comes with a factory dossier. • Real factory identity. Sourcia opens the seller's live listing and confirms which registered company is actually behind the product, with the checks it ran shown to you. • A proper factory profile: founding year, years on the marketplace, factory type, main product line, the published company address on a map, buyer ratings, repeat-buyer and on-time fulfilment rates. • Full product detail: tiered prices, minimum order, specifications, variants and the seller's own picture gallery — all in English. • Certificates, with what each one legally attests and the official register to check it against. • Honest gaps. Facts the seller does not publish are listed as not published. Sourcia never estimates them. Contact details and email are included with Lite and above.

A simpler Sourcia with deeper supplier pages. - Supplier pages add seller-published credentials: certifications, company scale, and named partners, each clearly labelled. Nothing is called verified unless a person verified it. - More accurate factory maps: every pin says how it was found (factory address, company address as published, name match, or city-level), and more suppliers carry a mappable location. - Paid plans see the seller's published email and phone (with +86 dialling) and can copy them in one tap. - One clear action per screen across every tab, and faster checkout with one-tap Sign in with Apple. - Free landed-cost and CBM calculators, one tap from the home screen.

No product photo? You can now describe the product instead. Type what you want to source — material, size, color — and Sourcia draws a few sample product photos from your words. Pick the closest one and it searches Chinese factories exactly like a normal photo search, with the same supplier evidence labels as before. - Sample photos are clearly labeled as AI-drawn, so they are never mistaken for real supplier photos. - Drawing sample photos is free and does not use a check; the factory search that follows uses one check as usual. - Your description is kept as product notes to sharpen the match. Also includes the recent fixes since 1.0.3: factory map pins that point at the factory itself, and faster photo matching.

Faster, steadier photo search. • Your factories now appear the moment the marketplace answers — locations, match scores, and English titles keep filling in on the same screen. • Check product & factory is now two quicker, more reliable checks — one credit covers both. • Searches and checks keep running when you switch apps, and pick up where they left off when you return. • Poor-quality photos still return a full page of the closest matches, with honest labels for how strong each match is. • Factory introductions are back, and a new price bar shows what sellers typically list your product for. • Filters refine your current results instantly without spending another check, and every search is saved to Projects automatically.

Stability fixes. • Fixed a problem where photo search could sit on "Uploading photo…" and never show your factories — even when the search had already finished. Your results now appear as soon as they are ready. • Searching starts reliably right after you open the app, whether or not you have an account. No sign-in is needed to search. • Sign-in now tells you when the connection is too slow instead of spinning indefinitely. • Every progress screen now has a time limit, so the app can no longer get stuck waiting.

Sharper photo search. • Tap the product in your photo — Sourcia isolates exactly what you point at before matching factories. • An adjustable focus frame: drag and resize it yourself when a photo contains more than one object. • Cleaner subject detection means closer factory matches and fewer look-alike results. • Stability fixes.