DIYTrade vs Forestreet

DIYTrade is a web-based B2B trading platform for businesses sourcing and selling products. It describes a marketplace with over 5 million products and says more than 8 million users search for suppliers through the platform each month. Its free member service is a basic online trading offering for small and medium businesses, including a company website with a free subdomain. Members can publish company, product, and service information, using English, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese; the two Chinese versions can be converted automatically. Website customization includes adjustable content layouts, dozens of templates, and 360 color choices per template. Product catalogs support custom fields, embedded PayPal payment button code, and multimedia such as Youku and YouTube. Members can customize contact forms and add QQ or Skype chat. DIYTrade says member website information is listed on its China and international sites, with SEO support and XML sitemaps. A mobile version is designed for phones and tablets. Membership requires a legally registered company, truthful and complete registration information, and one registration per company. The service is free.

Forestreet is vendor and market discovery software for procurement professionals mapping suppliers across categories and geographies. Natural-language searches find suppliers by capability and location, with global supplier coverage listed. RapidReview lets users inspect suggested vendors’ websites within the platform, and results adapt to their review choices. Company and product details can include size, revenue, capability, and location. For supplier comparisons, its AI proposes a capability framework that users can edit without a stated limit. The ESG feature analyzes related articles across 26 risk areas for public and private companies. Forestreet also searches and indexes news sources to surface market stories, sentiment, and analysis. Users can export research data as a market report. The product is available through web and API access; API documentation describes connecting a market to an internal system with an API hook or integrating Forestreet into internal applications using an iFrame. Forestreet technology powers Beroe’s Supplier Discovery module within Beroe Live.ai. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, UK. The site directs prospective customers to request a demo and does not state a price. The demo page lists [email protected] as a contact email.