# 90-Day Re-checks | How Verification Records Age

> What is re-checked on the 90-day cycle, what triggers an out-of-cycle re-run, and what a published record carries in numbers.

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Direct answer. A verification is a snapshot, not a permanent grade. This page covers what gets re-checked, when, and what changes a published record. Key facts. 1) A factory that passed in January may be running at half its stated capacity by June, or may have changed ownership, or may have moved a product line. 2) So the cycle is published alongside the record: every published factory is re-checked every 90 days, and the date of the last check is printed on the record itself. 3) Not everything. Re-running all four gates every quarter would be theatre: registration data rarely changes within a year, and customs history is cumulative, so re-reading it adds nothing. 4) Four fields are refreshed every cycle. 5) Two fields are refreshed only when something has changed. Re-checks, and how a published record changes Direct answer A verification is a snapshot, not a permanent grade. This page covers what gets re-checked, when, and what changes a published record. Key facts A factory that passed in January may be running at half its stated capacity by June, or may have changed ownership, or may have moved a product line. So the cycle is published alongside the record: every published factory is re-checked every 90 days, and the date of the last check is printed on the record itself. Not everything. Re-running all four gates every quarter would be theatre: registration data rarely changes within a year, and customs history is cumulative, so re-reading it adds nothing. Four fields are refreshed every cycle. Two fields are refreshed only when something has changed. A factory that passed in January may be running at half its stated capacity by June, or may have changed ownership, or may have moved a product line. None of those show up in a certificate, and none of them are visible if a directory treats verification as a one-time event. So the cycle is published alongside the record: every published factory is re-checked every 90 days, and the date of the last check is printed on the record itself. A buyer can see how old the information is before deciding how much weight to give it, which is the honest arrangement — the alternative is a directory that looks equally fresh everywhere and is actually stale in patches. The 90-day re-check cycle Published day 0 day 90 day 180 day 270 day 360 re-check re-check re-check re-check A re-check runs early, off the cycle, when any of these changes: monthly capacity ownership or legal name category mix a buyer report of a failed order The cycle, and the four events that pull a re-check forward. Nothing about a published record is treated as permanent. What a 90-day re-check actually re-checks Not everything. Re-running all four gates every quarter would be theatre: registration data rarely changes within a year, and customs history is cumulative, so re-reading it adds nothing. A re-check targets the fields that move. Four fields are refreshed every cycle. Monthly capacity, because a factory that has taken on a large domestic contract is a different supplier to the one you shortlisted. MOQ and lead time, because both drift with order books and both change what you can plan. The price basis, because a factory that quietly stops quoting FOB is telling you something about how it wants to trade. And the record's own dates, so the page shows when it was last looked at rather than when it was first written. Two fields are refreshed only when something has changed. Ownership and legal entity, because a name change invalidates the gate 1 match and the record has to be re-anchored. And the category mix, because a factory that has added unrelated product lines is failing gate 2's test in slow motion. What is checked in a re-run A re-run repeats the parts of the standard that can have gone wrong. Registration is re-read against the public register, which catches a deregistered or renamed entity. Export records are extended rather than re-checked: the question is not whether the factory ever shipped, but whether it has shipped recently, since a factory that exported in 2021 and not since is a different proposition. The interview is repeated in short form — capacity, MOQ, lead time and basis — because those are the numbers most likely to have moved and the ones a buyer plans an order around. A re-run produces one of three outcomes. The record is confirmed and its review date moves forward. The record is updated where a field has changed, with the new value shown rather than the old one kept. Or the record fails and is withdrawn, which happens when the change is one of the disqualifying conditions: a deregistered entity, a category that no longer covers the claim, an inability to state capacity as numbers, or a refusal to continue the interview. Withdrawn records are not silently deleted. They leave the directory, and the count of withheld records on the directory page reflects the change, so a shrinking directory is visible as a decision rather than as an outage. What a published record carries in numbers Every published record states the same set of quantities, because a record that omits them cannot be compared with the next one. Monthly capacity in units. MOQ per colourway or size, not as a single headline figure. Lead time stated twice, once for a repeat order on existing tooling and once for a first order that needs new tooling. The price basis, FOB port or EXW factory, named rather than assumed. The reference price band for the category, with the unit it is quoted in. Where a value is unknown, the record says so instead of showing an estimate. That is a deliberate choice and it costs us something: a record with two empty fields looks weaker than a record with two invented numbers beside it. But an invented number is indistinguishable from a real one once it is on a page, and the whole point of this directory is that the difference is visible. The review date sits with those numbers rather than in a footer. A buyer reading a capacity figure needs to know how old it is at the moment they read it, not after they scroll to the bottom of the page and find a build stamp. Where this sits in the process This page is one topic out of the verification standard. The overview is How we verify a Chinese supplier , and the other topics on this page are listed there. Where to next Product catalogue Sample listings with price per unit Verified directory Factories that passed 4 verification gates How sourcing works Six steps, timing, failure modes Price benchmark Reference bands and MOQ tiers Updated 2026-09-12 Scope Fishing tackle sourcing Sources 1 cited Was this page useful? Yes, useful Not really Sources This page states our own verification standard; the confidence levels and gate definitions are ours and are enforced by the build