Seed buyer checklist: what to prepare before your first quote
A pre-quote checklist to send to your sourcing team or to SeedMatchGroup — gets you better matched offers faster.
Buyers who arrive prepared get better matched offers in less time. Use this checklist before requesting your first quote.
1. Crop and variety class
Determinate or indeterminate; parthenocarpic or monoecious; triploid or diploid.
2. Volume
In seeds (vegetable hybrids) or in kilograms (forage and field crops).
3. Target planting window
4. Growing system
Open field / tunnel / unheated greenhouse / heated glasshouse.
5. Destination country and port
6. Required resistance package
TYLCV, TSWV, Fusarium, nematodes — be specific.
7. Treatment preferences
Untreated, hot-water treated, biological-treated, conventional treated.
8. Documentation requirements
Phyto, ISTA, organic, non-GMO, fumigation.
9. Payment instrument available
LC, T/T, supplier credit, escrow.
10. Decision timeline
Send this list to SeedMatchGroup and you will get matched offers in days — see [Get a Quote for Tomato Seeds](/seo/get-a-quote-for-tomato-seeds), [Get a Quote for Cucumber Seeds](/seo/get-a-quote-for-cucumber-seeds) and [Get a Quote for Hybrid Vegetable Seeds](/seo/get-a-quote-for-hybrid-vegetable-seeds).
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