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HOTEL GROUPSVENDOR MANAGEMENT

Hotel Vendor Management That Works the Same Way at Every Property

One approved vendor list, one approval chain, and assignment that happens without anyone finding a phone number. When a contractor is deactivated at group level, no property can dispatch them by accident.

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The Problem

Every Property Has Its Own Rolodex

Vendor management at group scale usually means four separate vendor lists, four approval habits, and no way to see any of it together.

The List Lives in People's Phones

The plumber's number is in the maintenance manager's contacts. When they leave, the relationship leaves with them, and the next person starts calling whoever answers.

Deactivated Vendors Keep Getting Work

A contractor loses their insurance and gets removed from the group list. Two properties never hear about it and keep dispatching them, which is exactly the exposure the list was meant to prevent.

Approval Means Something Different Everywhere

One property needs the GM to sign off anything over a threshold. Another does it verbally. Group has no way to tell which property is which until something goes wrong.

No Record of What They Actually Did

Work gets done, the invoice arrives, and there is no linked record of what was asked, who approved it, or whether it was completed. Disputes become a memory test.

How It Works

One List, One Chain, Every Property

Vendors are group-level records. Assignment, access, and approval all resolve against them, so the rules hold everywhere without anyone enforcing them.

Assignment Resolves Against Real Vendors

The agent assigns by name against active vendor records. It cannot invent a contractor, and it cannot assign to one you have deactivated, because the lookup simply returns nothing.

Approval Chains That Actually Run

Approve and reject are explicit steps on every task, so the chain you designed is the chain that executes. Configure it per category, per property, or per amount.

Access Without the Front Desk

Contractors get a door code scoped to their work window, issued when the job is assigned and retired when it closes. No keys handed over, no code that outlives the job.

Deactivate Once, Everywhere

A vendor removed at group level immediately stops being assignable at every property. Insurance lapses and contract terminations propagate instead of relying on an email nobody read.

Activity by Vendor Across the Group

How much work each vendor got, at which properties, and how it closed. Unusual purchase-order volume against one supplier surfaces on its own.

Photo Evidence on the Record

Before and after images attach to the task itself, so the completion record and the invoice have something behind them when a charge gets questioned.

Integration

Connected to Access, Finance, and the Work Itself

A vendor record is only useful if it reaches the door, the ledger, and the job.

Smart Locks

Access codes issue and retire against your lock provider, scoped to the room and the window the vendor needs.

Purchase Orders and Bills

Vendor activity links to the purchase orders and bills in your accounting system, so what was done and what was charged sit next to each other.

The Ops Board

Assignment, approval, rejection, and completion all happen on the same board your properties already use for work orders and housekeeping.

Implementation

Consolidate the Lists First

Most of the value shows up the moment four vendor lists become one.

  1. 1

    Pull the Lists Together

    Each property's vendors come in and get deduplicated. This step alone usually surfaces contractors nobody realized were still being used.

  2. 2

    Set Categories and Coverage

    Which vendor covers which work category at which properties. The agent can only assign inside that map.

  3. 3

    Configure Approval

    Set the chain per category and threshold. Start stricter than you think you need; loosening later is easier than explaining a surprise.

  4. 4

    Turn On Access Issuing

    Scoped door codes for contractors go live once assignment is trusted. This is the step that removes the front desk from vendor visits entirely.

SECURITY/ ENTERPRISE-GRADE

Built for Enterprise-Grade Security and Privacy

SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and GDPR. Access codes are scoped and time-limited, approvals are attributed, and every assignment, issue, and revoke is logged with the actor and the reason.

SOC 2 Type II compliance seal

SOC 2 Type II

Ensures secure handling of customer data that flows through our agents.

Enterprise security lock

Enterprise Security Controls

End-to-end encryption, role-based access, PII protection, and audit logs across the platform.

HIPAA compliance seal

HIPAA-ready

Supports HIPAA workflows with safeguards protecting sensitive data.

[01] FAQ/ KNOW BEFORE YOU GO

Common Questions About Vendor Management

Need clarity? Start with these frequently asked questions.

Yes. Vendors carry coverage, so a local contractor can be scoped to one property while national agreements apply across the group. What changes is that every one of them is on a list somebody owns.

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