Stuck? Pick one.

Dashboard Search is not Google. It runs in your desktop Chrome, using a 1688 tab you already signed into.

Need: Chrome + extension + connect code, 1688 open and signed in, this Search tab kept visible. Slow PCs can take up to ~3 minutes.

Skip Search anytime: open a 1688 offer → Generate Report.

That is expected. Search and Generate use your 1688 session. We do not log in for you.

Open 1688.com in the same Chrome profile as the extension, finish login / captcha, leave that tab open, then retry.

Phone Chrome cannot run the extension.

Green = worth a paid sample of that exact SKU — not a wire-the-deposit light.

Yellow = gaps on the public page (MOQ, lead time, tiers). Tick Ask, then sample.

Red = skip unless you already know the factory. Scores are research, not an audit.

In the report, open 6 · Ask before sample. Missing items are pre-checked.

Copy A · WangWang (default) or B · Email · RFQ. Paste on 1688 yourself. We never send.

Prefer A or B next time? Set it on Account after you sign up.

Keep writes that offer into Library. Leaving Compare or closing a tab does not save it.

Look for the floating Keep bar on the report (drag the grip). Library is the keep-list — Shop notes is optional factory scratchpad.

Export CSV / Excel from Library when you are ready to sample.

Paid or free does not matter: the code links the Chrome extension to your account. Paste once, same Chrome profile.

Need it for: Dashboard Search, Keep / PDF / Excel from the extension, Compare.

Not needed for: reading the Demo, or the traffic-light lean on a 1688 page.