Verified.
The shop is a registered Jamaican business. Three things are on file with us:
- Tax Registration Number — confirmed against Tax Administration Jamaica records.
- Companies Office of Jamaica record — file number on the corporate registry, name match.
- Business bank account — confirmed by penny-deposit verification before first payout.
Re-verified quarterly. If the shop’s COJ status changes or their account is closed, the badge auto-suspends until cleared.
Trusted.
The shop is real — an identifiable person operating an actual business — but they aren’t registered as a company yet. Many Jamaican IG/WhatsApp shops fall here. We confirm:
- Government-issued ID — face matches the person we speak with.
- Social-history check — IG/WhatsApp account age, post history, real customer interactions.
- Live-contact confirmation — video or voice call with us before they go live.
Trusted shops operate under closer observation in their first 90 days. A pattern of late ships, ghosting, or disputed orders suspends the badge.
If anything goes wrong.
Both tiers carry the same recourse. You paid one company — Flatbridge — not the shop. If the order is wrong, late, damaged, or never arrives:
- You contact Flatbridge — not the merchant. See the footer of any page for the support email and WhatsApp number.
- We pull the order signing, ship proof, and delivery proof from the evidence chain.
- We resolve it — refund, replace, or escalate to your card issuer with a packet of evidence on your behalf.
Full dispute policy and timelines: Returns & disputes.
Bank of Jamaica recorded an 890% rise in internet banking fraud since 2020, with documented losses over J$800M (~US$5M) by end of 2023. The typology is consistent: an IG shop with a premium offer at a thrift price, payment via bank deposit or wallet transfer (no chargeback recourse), storefront removed after payment.
Flatbridge exists because no infrastructure surfaces a green-or-red signal at the moment a buyer is about to pay. The badge does. The consolidated checkout does. The dispute path does. Whichever shop you’re looking at, the badge tells you what we checked.