Vendor onboarding, connected

Nine steps. One owner. No dead ends.

ClearHandoff keeps vendor onboarding moving from request to first PO—without the intake chasing or compliance-to-Legal limbo.

Clear ownership · visible wait time · automatic next steps

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Vendor onboarding

Kestral Design Co.

Request
Screen
Intake
4Review
5Contract
6Sign
7Record
8PO
9Active

Follow up with vendor

Intake packet is waiting on a W-9. Day 3 reminder sends to Maya at Kestral.

Due in 2d
$ next: move complete review to Legal
01

Everyone
in the loop

02

Bottlenecks
in the light

03

Handoffs
that happen

Built around the real breakpoints

The handoffs that usually disappear now have a next move.

Breakpoint 01 · intake stall

The packet went out. Now somebody owns the chase.

Set a named Procurement owner and a follow-up cadence before a vendor request can disappear into a shared inbox.

DAY 03

Friendly document reminder

DAY 07

Owner gets an aging alert

Breakpoint 02 · review handoff

Compliance finishes. Legal gets the work—automatically.

A completed review creates the Legal task right away, carrying the vendor record, status, and anything that needs a closer look.

Review complete Legal queued

One live process map

Know what's next—and who moves it.

Every vendor follows the same clear path. People see the current owner, the wait point, and the next action without chasing a status update.

Map your first workflow
01

Request

Need, spend, and category captured before work starts.

Requester
02

Screen

Check for overlap and route the right requests forward.

Procurement
03

Intake

Collect tax, banking, insurance, and business details.

Vendor + Procurement
04

Review

Complete risk, sanctions, and security checks.

Compliance
05

Contract

Keep the MSA, SOW, and redline loop moving.

Legal + Vendor
06

Sign

Bring the vendor and internal signer to a completed agreement.

Authorized signers
07

Record

Create the vendor record and securely enter banking details.

Finance / AP
08

PO

Issue the purchase order or enable first-invoice processing.

Procurement / AP
09

Active

Notify the team that work can begin with a ready vendor.

Requester

Less waiting, more work moving

One place for the work between the systems.

ClearHandoff coordinates the people and decisions around your ERP, AP, and contract tools. Those systems stay put; the handoffs stop getting lost.

Named owners

No shared-inbox guessing.

Aging alerts

See what is waiting too long.

Ready-to-route reviews

Compliance completion triggers Legal.

A clean audit trail

Status, documents, and next action together.

The next handoff is waiting

Give every vendor request a clear way forward.

Set the owner, make the wait visible, and keep work moving from intake through activation.

Map your workflow
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