Capability Profile for suppliers
Be in the filters where buyers build their shortlist.
Engineers and buyers draw up their shortlist before they contact anyone. A Capability Profile works for you at exactly that stage: buyers find you by what you can do, “Visit website” takes them straight to your own pages, and your profile prints as a fact sheet for their whole team.
Directories are where buyers start looking for someone new.
48 %
of buyers searching for a new supplier say they use supplier directories. That puts directories ahead of search engines, at 47 %. Among companies with 250 employees or more, it is 59 %.
ECC KÖLN with dotSource, “Von Katalogen zu Klicks”, March 2024, n = 284 buyers in manufacturing companies who search for new suppliers.
Quodaris is new, and we say so up front. What we can tell you is exactly what your profile does here from the day it goes live.
Three things your profile does from day one
They come from how Quodaris is built, so they work from the moment your profile goes live, on a quiet day as much as on a busy one.
Found for what you can do
A buyer ticks three boxes: CNC turning, ISO 13485, delivery to Portugal. Fill in what your company really does, and you are in the results when the boxes match.
The capability filters search Capability Profiles only, and in every result list these come before free profiles. How results are ranked
Sent on to your own website
Buyers check a new supplier on its own website, so “Visit website” is the main button on every Quodaris profile: straight to your pages, your references, your people. Anyone who would rather write first gets a contact form to the address you choose.
The button is on every level, free or paid. The Capability Profile adds the details that answer a buyer’s first questions, and the contact form.
Passed round the buying team
In Germany, the average buying group grew from nine people to eleven in a year. Your profile prints as a supplier fact sheet, with your logo, certificates, delivery countries and a QR code back to your profile. It is made for the meeting you are not in.
Every profile prints. The sheet shows what the profile shows, so the full fact sheet comes with the Capability Profile.
Buying groups: 6sense, “How European B2B buying journeys differ (and don’t) from the rest”, November 2025, 945 B2B buyers in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.
Easy for search engines and AI assistants to read.
Three out of four buyers rate AI-assisted supplier search and verification as relevant. Those systems can only repeat what they are able to read and check, so your profile gives them exactly that.
- Company data in structured form. Your VAT ID checked against VIES, your DUNS and NACE codes, your capabilities and the countries you serve, each as its own field a machine can read. Certifications stay visible text, marked as your own declaration.
- Answers in full sentences. Your FAQ block puts real buyer questions as headings and answers them in complete sentences. That is the format a machine can quote as it stands.
- A second trustworthy result for your name. Your profile is its own indexable page. It can rank for your company name, so a search for “your company + supplier” can bring up a neutral, structured profile next to your own website.
- Clean links, deliberately. Google requires paid links to be marked as sponsored, and the link to your website carries exactly that label. It keeps your domain and ours on the safe side, so ranking links are not for sale here at any price.
ECC KÖLN with dotSource, “Von Katalogen zu Klicks”, March 2024: 74 % of respondents rate “search and verification of suppliers” as a relevant use of AI in procurement.
Buyers search here freely, and that is why they come.
They search, filter and read the whole directory without signing up. What they look at stays between them and us: no listed company is ever told who viewed its profile, whatever it pays and whoever asks.
That is the audience you are paying to reach. We never sell your interest, and we never sell theirs.
Why Quodaris is built this way, and who built it, is on the about page.
Fifteen minutes, once.
We prepare your profile from public sources before you claim it. You check what we found, correct what is wrong, and add what only you know. After that, we ask you once a year whether anything has changed.
Capability Profile
Price and terms
2,000 € per year net, for the first 50 companies
2,400 € per year, net, after that. Your price never changes while your contract runs, even when our list price does.
Claiming is free. You only pay once you decide to upgrade. Everything you need to decide is on this page, and we never sell by phone.
- Billing
- Once a year, in advance.
- Term
- Twelve months, renewed automatically unless you give notice one month before the end of the term.
- Notice
- In text form. An email is enough. We remind you 45 days before every renewal.
- Payment
- SEPA bank transfer against invoice, Pay by Bank, card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.
- After cancelling
- Your profile stays visible until the end of the term, then returns to the free listing. Nothing is deleted.
Free: your company, your words.
Claim your listing and you control it: your logo, your name, your description, your links. It is free, it stays free, and it does not expire.
Wrong category? Claim your listing and fix it yourself, free of charge.
What is on the profile
Empty fields are never shown, on any level. You fill in what applies to your company and nothing else.
| Free | Capability Profile |
|
|---|---|---|
| Identity and control | ||
| Logo, display name, slogan, short pitch | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your own about text, instead of our editorial summary | ✓ | ✓ |
| Phone number, website and imprint link “Visit website” is the main button on every profile. | ✓ | ✓ |
| LinkedIn, Google Business Profile, YouTube | ✓ | ✓ |
| Badge “Claimed and managed by the company” | ✓ | ✓ |
| Company facts: address, founding year, size, ownership | ✓ | ✓ |
| Where you are found | ||
| Categories Every listing has exactly one core competence, on every level. | 1 | up to 15 |
| Capability filters in the search Free listings are found by category and country. | – | ✓ |
| Listed ahead of free profiles in results Payment affects the order. How results are ranked | – | ✓ |
| Additional supplier roles besides your main one | – | ✓ |
| What you can do | ||
| Manufacturing model, production volume, processes, materials | – | ✓ |
| Tolerances and surfaces, machinery, processed standards | – | ✓ |
| Technologies and protocols, ERP and MES experience | – | ✓ |
| Software facts: deployment model, time to market, standardisation | – | ✓ |
| How you work together | ||
| Production countries, delivery countries, spoken languages | – | ✓ |
| Incoterms, digital infrastructure, stock and delivery times | – | ✓ |
| Express delivery, own fleet, services and training | – | ✓ |
| Trust and compliance | ||
| Company and product certifications, product liability Marked as self-declared, as required. | – | ✓ |
| VAT ID, DUNS and NACE Published after we have checked the VAT ID against VIES. | – | ✓ |
| Contact and questions | ||
| Contact form to the address you choose With consent and spam protection. The enquiry goes straight to your sales team. | – | ✓ |
| FAQ block: minimum order, typical clients, purchased components | – | ✓ |
| Email address in plain text On no level, paid or free. Spam protection and data minimisation. | – | – |
| Structured data | ||
| Organization markup: name, address, logo, founding date, description | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extended markup: social profiles, capabilities, areas served, checked IDs Published after you release each item. | – | ✓ |
| Always included | ||
| Suggest an edit, report a profile | ✓ | ✓ |
| Indexable profile page | ✓ | ✓ |
| Print version with your logo and a QR code Shows what your profile shows. On a Capability Profile, that is the full supplier fact sheet. | ✓ | ✓ |
Not claimed yet? A profile we compiled from public sources shows your legal name, address, website, core competence and an editorial summary written by our team, marked as such. You can claim it at any time, free of charge.
Questions we get asked
How many buyers actually use this?
Two answers, and both belong here. The industry answer is at the top of this page: 48 % of buyers looking for a new supplier use directories, ahead of search engines.
The Quodaris answer is shorter: we are new. We say that openly, and it is the reason the first 50 companies pay a lower price.
We are already listed in three directories and it does not help.
That is exactly the point. Those directories sell the enquiries that come in. We sell visibility in the phase before the first contact, and the main button on your profile sends buyers on to your own website. Two different products, and only one of them puts a price on someone else’s curiosity.
2,400 € for a listing?
It is a fair question, so here is the honest comparison: a trade magazine ad runs once, your profile runs for twelve months and is searchable the whole time. What you pay for is a place where shortlists are made: buyers find you by what you can do, go straight on to your own website, and can take your fact sheet into their next meeting.
What happens if we cancel?
Your profile stays visible until the end of the term you paid for. After that it becomes the free listing again. Nothing is deleted, and if you come back, your data is still there.
Do we get a backlink?
You get a link to your website as the main button on your profile. It carries the sponsored and nofollow labels that Google asks for on paid links, so it passes no ranking signals. That is deliberate: directories that sell ranking links put both domains at risk. What you get on top is your own indexable profile page: it can rank for your company name, and it gives search engines and AI assistants structured information about you.
Can we test it first?
Yes, free of charge: claim your profile, look at it, decide. There is no paid trial period, because we verify every listing owner before the profile goes live.
Who guarantees that the data is correct?
We verify ownership through your company domain. Capabilities and certifications are your own declaration and are marked as such on the profile. That is more honest than any trust seal.
A free profile shows who you are. The Capability Profile shows why buyers should shortlist you.
Find your company, check what we have already put together, and take control of it. Upgrading is a decision you can make afterwards.