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Vendor onboarding

Vendor document collection without email attachments

Collect W-9s, certificates, contracts, and questionnaires into the vendor profile with validation before acceptance.

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The common problem

Vendor documents arrive as unlabeled attachments that must be renamed and filed manually.

  • Filenames do not map to vendor IDs
  • Versions overwrite each other in shared drives
  • Validation happens after documents are already used
  • No single download for audit packets

How vendor onboarding works

Define

Set the documents and attestations each vendor type must complete before they are approved to work or get paid.

Collect

Send a single portal link so vendors upload W-9s, insurance, contracts, and questionnaires in one place.

Approve

Review completeness, assign owners, and release vendors to AP and operations with a dated audit record.

Benefits

  • One portal instead of scattered email threads
  • Checklists tied to vendor type and spend tier
  • Status visibility for procurement, AP, and risk
  • Evidence packet for internal and external audits

Workflow

Operationalize vendor document collection

Keelstar gives your team a repeatable workflow for vendor document collection without email attachments. Requests, submissions, and reminders stay on the vendor record instead of scattered inboxes.

Audit readiness

Controls auditors expect

Every action is timestamped so you can show who requested documentation, when it arrived, and what changed on re-collection.

  • Branded outbound requests with reminder cadence
  • Validation before documents enter the vendor file
  • Exportable history for tax, insurance, or payer reviews

Who it's for

  • Procurement building repeatable onboarding playbooks
  • AP teams that should not pay non-compliant vendors
  • Risk teams consolidating W-9, COI, and questionnaires
  • Growing companies outgrowing email-based vendor setup

What good looks like

  • Checklists differ by vendor type and spend tier
  • Vendors submit through one branded portal link
  • Internal owners are assigned for each onboarding stage
  • Incomplete packets cannot be marked approved
  • Onboarding evidence exports as a single packet

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FAQ

Vendors and employees typically complete tasks through secure links. Your internal team manages workflows inside Keelstar.

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