Every company relies on vendors to some extent. Whether it's SaaS platforms, suppliers, or service providers, these relationships shape your business operations.
The eight tools below are designed to streamline various types of vendor interactions, helping you maintain strong partnerships and optimize your spend.
Softr
“Softr is so easy to use! I literally LOVE drag and drop no-code builders, but haven't seen anything so user-friendly.”

G2 rating: 4.8 (347 reviews)
Capterra rating: 4.7 (60 reviews)
Softr is a no-code platform for creating internal tools, including client and vendor portals. It connects to your existing data sources (like Airtable or Google Sheets) and lets you build customized portals without any coding knowledge.
Need a custom vendor portal up and running quickly? Softr is the perfect solution. Start with a vendor management portal template, customize it to fit your requirements, and you'll have a fully functional portal ready to go in no time.
Softr pricing
Softr’s free plan is ideal for smaller businesses or those just starting out. This plan allows you to manage up to 100 vendors at no cost. For many businesses, this may be all they need.
If your vendor network is larger, the Basic plan at $49/month accommodates up to 1,000 vendors.
The most popular choice for vendor portals is the Professional plan at $139/month — it supports up to 5,000 vendors and includes advanced features like an inbox, charts, and conditional forms.
Softr Features
- Intuitive drag-and-drop interface
- Comprehensive vendor management functionality, including order management and tracking, vendor data, etc.
- Pre-built vendor management templates
- Collaboration functionality such as an inbox, commenting, and file sharing
- Conditional logic forms and workflows
- Granular access control
- AI-powered app builder
- Vendor portals accessible on smartphones, tablets, and desktop devices alike
- Integrations with critical business tools, including Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Stripe, PayPal, and others
Beyond these core features, Softr's flexible building blocks allow you to add virtually any functionality you need to your vendor portal.
Downsides
- Like any no-code builder, Softr doesn’t offer the flexibility of a traditional development environment.
- Data sources are limited to Airtable, Google Sheets, SmartSuite, HubSpot and BigQuery
Ramp
“It allows us to quickly and accurately track our spend with each vendor on each spend program.”

G2 rating: 4.8 (1,927 reviews)
Capterra rating: 4.9 (180 reviews)
Ramp is expense management software at its core, with vendor management functionality as part of its suite of financial tools.
It actively focuses on optimizing your vendor spend, providing detailed breakdowns of your total and monthly spend per vendor. On top of that, Ramp's AI-powered Price Intelligence helps you identify potential savings by suggesting insights into whether you're paying too much for certain products or services.
Ramp pricing
Vendor management functionality is available in Ramp’s free plan. The Plus plan at $12/user/month unlocks access to advanced user roles and permissions, accounting capabilities, and procurement automation features.
Ramp Features
- Vendor tracking
- Spend reporting
- Automated accounts payable
- Renewal reminders
- Custom fields
- Centralized requests and approvals for new vendors
- AI-powered Price Intelligence
- Integrations with essential productivity software (Workday, Bomboohr, etc.) and accounting tools (Quickbooks, SAP, etc.)
Downsides
- One-way sync with Quickbooks allows to pass data from Ramp to Quickbooks but doesn't currently support data flowing in the opposite direction.
- There’s a steep learning curve.
- While Ramp integrates with popular accounting software like QuickBooks, users find integration options somewhat limited.
SAP Fieldglass
“Data segmentation is something I really like about Fieldglasss. Such a user-friendly layout makes it easy for all to understand and extract data as and when required.”

G2 rating: 4.5 (314 reviews)
Capterra rating: 4.1 (77 reviews)
SAP Fieldglass is a cloud-based platform offering solutions for sourcing and overseeing global external service providers. Simply put, it’s where businesses manage subcontractors and outsourced personnel.
SAP Fieldglass pricing
SAP Fieldglass doesn’t disclose pricing publicly.
SAP Fieldglass Features
- Services procurement
- Applicant tracking
- Onboarding
- Assignment management
- Invoice processing
Downsides
- SAP Fieldglass offers limited integration capabilities with other SAP systems.
- The user interface can feel clunky and outdated compared to more modern software solutions.
- Implementation costs for SAP Fieldglass can be high.
Tipalti
“The vendor portal is great for capturing vendor payment and tax info.”

G2 rating: 4.5 (226 reviews)
Capterra rating: 4.6 (132 reviews)
Tipalti is a comprehensive financial operations platform that includes vendor management capabilities. With it, you can streamline and automate the entire process of onboarding, managing, and paying suppliers and vendors globally.
Tipalti pricing
Pricing starts at $129/month with access to self-service onboarding for vendors, rule-based bill approvals, and integrations with leading enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs).
Tipalti’s custom plans include global multi-entity and multi-currency infrastructure, advanced approval rules for purchase requests, procurement functionality, and other advanced features.
Tipalti Features
- White-label vendor management solution
- Self-service onboarding
- Contract management
- Validation of bank account information, IRS, and VAT Tax IDs
- Two-way sync with ERPs and other systems
- Multi-currency payment processing
- Real-time visibility into vendor spending
- Native integrations with Quickbooks, SAP ERPs, Salesforce, Asana, BambooHR, and more
Downsides
- The onboarding process can be complicated.
- Tipalti doesn’t boast the most robust and flexible dashboards and reporting options.
Gatekeeper
“The ease of vendor management is what I love the most about Gatekeeper.”

G2 rating: 4.5 (59 reviews)
Capterra rating: 4.7 (70 reviews)
Gatekeeper is a vendor and contract management platform that helps businesses centralize their interactions with external vendors. It streamlines management of the entire vendor lifecycle, from initial onboarding to performance tracking.
Due to its pricing structure (see below) and features designed for managing a large number of suppliers, Gatekeeper is a great fit for medium to large businesses. Smaller businesses with tighter budgets might find it a bit expensive.
Gatekeeper pricing
Gatekeeper starts at $1,125/month with 150 suppliers and contracts and unlimited users. A self-service vendor portal is available as an add-on starting at $795/month with their Essentials plan.
The Pro plan ($2,715/month) and Enterprise plan ($4,815/month) offer advanced features like more frequent account executive reviews and centralized project management. The Enterprise plan also includes API access. Both plans offer the self-service vendor portal as an add-on for an additional fee ($1,715/month for Pro and $3,545/month for Enterprise).
Gatekeeper Features
- Centralized vendor database
- Conditional workflows for vendor approval
- Internal and external collaboration
- Contract management
- Automated onboarding
- Self-service vendor portal (add-on)
- Spend management reports
- Scheduled vendor reviews
- Over 220 third-party integrations including NetSuite, all major ERPs, and finance platforms
Downsides
- Built-in reporting features aren’t sufficient for all needs and require integration with additional third-party tools.
- Gatekeeper's pricing model is relatively high, especially for smaller businesses.
Zoho Creator
“Zoho Creator puts time, ease of use, and just the ability to focus on your creative input, right in your hands.”

G2 rating: 4.3 (172 reviews)
Capterra rating: 4.3 (154 reviews)
Zoho Creator is a low-code application development platform that allows users to build custom internal tools and portals. Its drag-and-drop interface and pre-built templates make it relatively easy to create a tailored solution for managing vendor relationships.
Zoho Creator pricing
Zoho Creator's pricing begins at $8/user/month for the Standard plan, which limits users to publishing a single app (as opposed to unlimited apps in all Softr’s plans) and integrations with other Zoho applications only.
To unlock integrations with third-party platforms and create unlimited apps, businesses can upgrade to the Professional plan at $20 per user per month.
Advanced business intelligence tools are accessible only in the Enterprise plan at $25 per user per month.
Zoho Creator Features
- Drag-and-drop portal builder
- Vendor portal template
- Vendor rating system
- Automated notifications
- Mobile app
- Integrations with Zoho’s software suite
- Pre-build integrations with Salesforce, Quickbooks, Twilio, PayPal, and other apps
Downsides
- As with most no-code builders, Zoho Creator doesn’t offer much flexibility in customizing app Ul.
- While Zoho Creator integrates with other Zoho applications, its third-party integrations can be limited.
- Users often have difficulties with API integrations.
Tip: You can also create a vendor portal or a client portal with Softr and connect it to Zoho.
Precoro
“The system allows seeing who’s spending when, where, and on what.”

G2 rating: 4.7 (144 reviews)
Capterra rating: 4.8 (214 reviews)
Precoro is a comprehensive procurement software solution that offers a full suite of features designed to streamline and automate the entire vendor lifecycle.
It helps businesses to onboard new vendors, assess and mitigate risks, capture and centralize essential information and contracts, and gain control over their orders and spending. All in all, Precoro's intuitive design and flexible features make it a great choice for small and medium-sized businesses.
Precoro pricing
The entry-level plan begins at $249 per month, providing access to vendor and contract management, automated workflows, and basic third-party integrations.
Advanced vendor management capabilities, including vendor onboarding and a self-service supplier portal, are available in the higher-tier plan priced at $999 per month.
Precoro Features
- Vendor portal
- Order management
- Contract management
- Three-way matching
- Onboarding
- Real-time spend tracking
- Supplier performance tracking
- Integrations with accounting software and major ERPs
Downsides
- Precoro lacks a dedicated mobile app.
- While Precoro's high degree of customization is definitely an advantage for many, it will feel overwhelming if you need an out-of-the-box solution with minimal setup.
- A supplier portal is only available in the highest-priced plan.
CobbleStone
“The best thing about Cobblestone contract software is its ease of use, flexibility and features.”

G2 rating: 4.8 (37 reviews)
Capterra rating: 4.8 (47 reviews)
CobbleStone is contract management software designed for enterprises. It combines contract tracking, workflow automation, flexible permission management, vendor portals, and procurement capabilities.
Perhaps the biggest benefit of CobbleStone is that businesses can start using its out-of-the-box solutions to launch fast and finetune the setup as they become more familiar with the application.
CobbleStone pricing
CobbleStone doesn’t display pricing information publicly anymore. However, their packages used to begin at $59/user/month according to Capterra.
Cobblestone Features
- Vendor selection and registration
- Inventory management
- Mobile-optimized vendor portal
- Contract management
- Access control management
- Vendor performance assessment
- Collaboration tools
- Integrations with major CRM systems, ERPs, financial systems, and others
Downsides
- The platform can feel overwhelming due to the sheer volume of information to learn and process.
- Some users have reported slow load times and occasional crashes when handling large amounts of data, though this doesn't seem to be a widespread issue.
Optimize your vendor relationships with a self-service portal
Vendor communication doesn't have to be a scattered, complex process. A well-designed vendor management portal will centralize all your interactions, freeing you to concentrate on what truly matters: optimizing costs and fostering stronger relationships with your suppliers.
With Softr, you can build a vendor management platform tailored precisely to your needs, no feature gaps or unnecessary complexities.
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