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Mekaro

Made in Aba · Enyimba City

Discover verified Nigerian manufacturers

Search published products and field-verified suppliers in one place. Request quotes, agree a specification, and pay through an order that protects both sides.

A leather worker shaping a bag by hand at a workbench crowded with thread, knives, and offcuts. Painted on the workshop wall behind: Aba, the Heart of Leather.

What stands behind an order

Sourcing remotely from a workshop you have not visited is a trust problem before it is a logistics one. These are the four mechanisms that answer it.

  • Verified before listing

    A business is not public until verification completes. Manufacturer status is not a self-declaration — it requires evidence from the workshop itself.

  • Payment tied to the order

    Buyer funds move through approved payment partners and settle to the supplier against the order's own state — deposits and production milestones, not trust.

  • Inspected before you accept

    Quality inspection can be booked against an order. The report becomes part of the record, so an argument about quality has evidence behind it.

  • Disputes hold the money

    Opening a dispute pauses the affected settlement while it is resolved — refund, replacement, rework, price reduction, or a split release.

From first search to delivered order

The whole transaction happens on the platform, which is what makes a record of it exist — for a dispute, for a reorder, and for the supplier’s own history.

  1. Find, or be found for

    Search the catalogue by product, material, or business name. Or post what you need and let supplier matching find the workshops with the capability.

  2. Quote and agree

    Receive structured quotations you can compare line by line. Negotiate in one thread, approve a sample, and fix the specification in writing.

  3. Pay and produce

    Pay by deposit or against milestones. Follow production stages as the workshop records them, instead of asking for an update.

  4. Inspect and receive

    Book an inspection, follow the waybill to the park or the door, confirm delivery — then reorder the approved specification without starting again.

Two sides, one record

Buyers and manufacturers work from the same order, the same specification, and the same history of what was agreed.

A buyer with a clipboard reviewing folded fabric samples laid out on a cutting table in a garment workshop.

For buyers

Sourcing from Nigeria

  • Compare suppliers on consistent information — role, capability, location, lead time, minimum order — instead of screenshots and word of mouth.
  • Keep quotations, samples, approved specifications, and production updates against the order they belong to.
  • Pay through a protected order, and have somewhere to go when a delivery is wrong.
Create a buyer account
A supplier's showroom: rolls of fabric ranked along the wall and folded stock stacked on the counter.

For manufacturers and suppliers

Selling from your workshop

  • Reach buyers outside your market with a profile that proves what you make, rather than a catalogue of claims.
  • Send structured quotations, track material and production costs, and price a custom order from what it actually costs to make.
  • Receive protected settlement, and build a transaction history that is worth something the next time you need financing.
List your business

What a verification badge actually means

“Verified” is worth nothing unless it says what was checked. Every public badge on Mekaro names its own check, and verification records expire and are re-examined rather than being granted once.

A field officer with a clipboard working through a checklist in a footwear workshop, sewing machines and racks of finished shoes behind them.
Identity
A government-issued identity behind the business, matched to the person operating the account.
Bank account
Ownership of the account that receives settlement. A name mismatch is reviewed, not waved through.
Location
A real address at real coordinates, and a business that reports it when the address changes.
Workshop
A field officer works a standard checklist on site: equipment, staff, and production actually happening.
Role
Whether a business is a manufacturer, brand, wholesaler, retailer, or sourcing agent — the distinction a buyer is most often misled about.
Browse verified suppliers

Start with a search

Browsing needs no account. You will need one to request quotes, agree a specification, or list a business.