Works with no signal
Source from China with confidence.
Capture items in the shop, price them in your currency, and turn a shortlist into a packing list, from your phone or your desk.
- Capture offline in the market
- Selling price as you type
- Every item kept with its shop and market
- Order lists and packing list, built for you
Coming soon
Free to start. No card needed. On iPhone, Android and the web.
No service37 captures saved on this phone
Thousands of shops. One phone.
The trip, before sourca
You walk six floors of a wholesale market in China and photograph four hundred things.
Then you get back to the hotel and try to remember which shop had the plush bear, what they quoted, and whose business card is whose. The phone is full of photos, and none of them know where they were taken.
How it works
From the market to your stockroom.
One record follows every item, from the list you plan to the carton you receive.
Before you fly
Plan the trip before you land.
Dates, a budget, a buying list with target prices, and the shops worth walking back to.
New shop
Photograph the business card.
It fills in the shop for you: name, shop number, phone, WeChat.
In the shop
Photo, name, price. Saved.
Type the yuan quote and your selling price shows straight away, at your own multiplier.
No signal
Keep capturing with no signal.
Everything is saved on the phone, and a counter shows how many captures are waiting.
Before you buy
“What did I pay last time?”
While you capture, it shows matching past buys and whether today’s quote is dearer or cheaper.
At the hotel
Open it on Wi-Fi. Everything uploads.
Captures wait safely on the phone. Open sourca on the hotel Wi-Fi and they upload, each with its shop.
Ready to order
One order list per shop.
Tick what you want. Cartons, volume and totals are worked out for you.
Back home
Receive into stock.
Every unit lands in inventory. Every stock movement is logged.
Your own card
Your own vCard, ready to share.
Your WeChat code and a contact QR any phone camera reads, one tap on the QR tab at the side of the screen.
What it does
Everything a buying trip needs. Nothing it doesn’t.
Trip money
Know the margin before you commit.
Your own multiplier and the real exchange rate. See what the shortlist costs, what it sells for, and the true margin, with freight and duty if you want them.
4 lines shortlisted · ¥1,840.00 at MOQ
LKR 184,000
Example figures. Works in any selling currency.
Photograph the business card.
It fills in the shop for you: name, shop number, phone, WeChat. It reads the card even with no signal, and the card photo is kept, encrypted.
“What did I pay last time?”
While you capture, it shows matching past buys and whether today’s quote is dearer or cheaper.
Order lists
One sheet per shop, in two languages.
Tick what you want. It becomes a printable order list for each shop, with photos, their codes and yours, and bilingual headers.
Send a buyer. Stay in the loop.
Owner, member and viewer roles. Run several businesses from one account, each kept fully separate, each with its own logo on its documents.
Phone in the market. Desktop at home.
The same catalogue, wherever you are.
Browse everything you captured by grid, table or shop. Plan trips, track committed spend, and receive orders into stock.
A packing list your forwarder can use.
A real Excel file with photos, cartons, CBM and weight totals, deposits and credits, and a brand-risk (侵权) flag.
XLSXpacking-list-OL-0001.xlsx
Your own vCard, ready to share.
Your WeChat code and a contact QR any phone camera reads, one tap on the QR tab at the side of the screen.
On your phone and your computer.
Opens 24 November: the app for iPhone and Android on the App Store and Google Play, and sourca in the browser on a computer, which you can install to your Dock or Start menu.
Why it’s built this way
Markets are concrete. Signal is poor.
A lot of what a phone expects to reach is blocked in China. So sourca doesn’t depend on it.
The phone is the source of truth.
While you’re buying, everything lives on the phone. A bad connection can never lose a capture.
Small enough for hotel Wi-Fi.
Photos are shrunk on the phone before they’re stored, so a full day of captures still uploads.
Nothing that won’t answer.
No part of the app waits on a service that may be blocked where you’re standing.
Your records are yours.
No other business can see them. Contact details, notes and photos are encrypted when stored, and support only sees your records if you approve it.
Pricing
Start free. Grow into the market.
Starter
Try it in one shop, free.- 1 business
- 50 new products / month
- 1 team seat
- CSV export
Growth
Or $10.50 a month- 3 businesses
- 1,000 new products / month
- 5 team seats
- Packing list exports
- Share products with other businesses (coming soon)
Business
Or $26.50 a month- Unlimited businesses
- Unlimited products
- Unlimited team seats
- Share products with other businesses (coming soon)
- Priority support
Starter
Try it in one shop, free.- 1 business
- 50 new products / month
- 1 team seat
- CSV export
Growth
Or $104 a year, two months free- 3 businesses
- 1,000 new products / month
- 5 team seats
- Packing list exports
- Share products with other businesses (coming soon)
Business
Or $261 a year, two months free- Unlimited businesses
- Unlimited products
- Unlimited team seats
- Share products with other businesses (coming soon)
- Priority support
Prices in USD. In Sri Lankan rupees: Growth LKR 31,000/yr or LKR 3,110/mo · Business LKR 77,500/yr or LKR 7,760/mo.
Does it really work with no internet?
Yes. Capturing an item (photo, shop, name and price) works with no signal at all. Everything is saved on the phone, and a counter shows how many captures are waiting. Open sourca on Wi-Fi and they upload.
Which markets is it for?
It’s built around buying trips to China, and the main wholesale markets come built in. You can add any other market yourself.
Is it for importers outside China?
Yes. sourca is built for importers in Sri Lanka, India, the Gulf and beyond who buy in China’s wholesale markets. Prices show in your own selling currency.
Do I need to download an app?
On a phone, yes: sourca comes to the App Store and Google Play on 24 November. On a computer, no: you will use it in your browser, or install it from there to your Dock or Start menu.
What currency does it use?
You enter the yuan price you’re quoted. sourca works out the selling price in your own currency using your multiplier, and uses the real exchange rate to show true cost and margin.
Can my buyer and my team use it?
Yes. Invite people as owners, members or viewers. Growth includes 5 seats, and Business has no limit.
What happens if I go over my monthly product limit?
You’ll see it on your usage meter. A capture is never refused and an upload is never blocked because of a limit.
Who can see my suppliers and prices?
Only you and the people you invite. Each business is kept fully separate. Sharing products with another business is coming soon. For now, only the people you add to your own business can see your records. Our support team only sees your records if you approve a request, read only and for a time you choose.
Your next trip,
already organised.
Try it in one shop, free. A short checklist takes you from sign-up to your first order list.