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Zip Intake-to-Procure

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What is Zip Intake-to-Procure?

Zip provides a place for employees to initiate a purchase or vendor request. Each request is routed for approval across procurement, finance, IT, data security, legal, and other teams, and Zip integrates into ERP and P2P solutions to create a…

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Zip is a versatile platform that has proven to be highly effective in managing diverse user requests across departments. Users have found …
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Solid UI

8 out of 10
October 12, 2023
Incentivized
We use ZIP to handle all procurement requests. It allows anyone in the Org to submit a request and then allows the requester to easily …
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Zip is an excellent product!

9 out of 10
December 02, 2022
Intake portal for all company requests. Central hub for spend data/contact documents and great flexibility on building and customizing …
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What is Zip Intake-to-Procure?

Zip provides a place for employees to initiate a purchase or vendor request. Each request is routed for approval across procurement, finance, IT, data security, legal, and other teams, and Zip integrates into ERP and P2P solutions to create a PR or draft PO. The vendor states Zip works with Canva,…

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Product Details

What is Zip Intake-to-Procure?

Zip provides a place for employees to initiate a purchase or vendor request. Each request is routed for approval across procurement, finance, IT, data security, legal, and other teams, and Zip integrates into ERP and P2P solutions to create a PR or draft PO. The vendor states Zip works with Canva, Checkr, Hopin, Zapier, CM Group, and other companies both public and private.

Zip Intake-to-Procure Features

  • Supported: Intake Experience
  • Supported: Cross-Functional Spend Approvals
  • Supported: Intake-to-Procure
  • Supported: Vendor Management

Zip Intake-to-Procure Screenshots

Screenshot of Screenshot of Zip supports ultra-configurable, parallel workflows with our no-code configuration.Screenshot of Zip also integrates with all major ticketing, CLM, GRC, and ERP/P2P solutions. Here's an example integration card for JIRA.Screenshot of Zip has an optional vendor-facing portal for the vendor to provide diligence materials, including documents, surveys, and even bank settlement information.Screenshot of Zip's vendor-facing portal includes an optional bank settlement form with an attestation.

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Zip Intake-to-Procure Technical Details

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Zip Intake-to-Procure Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)40%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)60%
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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Zip is a versatile platform that has proven to be highly effective in managing diverse user requests across departments. Users have found it invaluable for directing these requests to the relevant reviewers and approvers, ensuring efficient and streamlined processes. By providing a central hub for managing expenses and executing contracts, Zip promotes compliance and transparency in procurement-related transactions. It has greatly alleviated visibility issues for requestors and reduced cycle times for end-to-end approvals of requests and contracts. Additionally, Zip's customizable workflows and conditional logic enable users to capture relevant information and navigate necessary approval steps seamlessly. With its integrative nature, automation capabilities, and responsive engineering team, customers have successfully implemented Zip across their organizations, highlighting its wide applicability and effectiveness in transforming manual vendor onboarding into a seamless electronic experience.

Customizable Reporting Fields: Many users have found the product to offer customizable reporting fields, allowing them to tailor their reports to their specific needs. This feature has been praised by several reviewers for providing flexibility and customization options in generating reports.

Easily Adjustable Workflows: The product has received positive feedback from users regarding its easily adjustable workflows. This feature has been highly valued by many customers as it allows them to adapt their processes as needed without much effort or technical support.

Document Storage Feature: Users appreciate the document storage feature of the product, which allows them to keep all relevant files in one place. Several reviewers have mentioned that this feature enhances organization and accessibility of documents, improving overall efficiency.

Confusing User Interface: Some users have found the user interface of the system to be confusing, which has made tasks difficult for them. They have mentioned that navigating through different features and options can be challenging.

Lack of Proxying Ability: Several reviewers have mentioned that they would like the ability to proxy as another user in order to reassign approvals more conveniently. Currently, when approvals need to be reassigned, it causes inconvenience and delays in the workflow.

Limited Reporting Capabilities: Many users have expressed a desire for more robust reporting capabilities within the system. They feel that the current options are limited and would like more flexibility in generating standard and custom reports. Having comprehensive reporting features can greatly enhance their ability to analyze data and make informed decisions.

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Paul Erik Caracas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Zip Intake-to-Procure for procure to pay process. Use of Zip Intake-to-Procure will start from onboarding vendors up to payable processing.

1. Zip Intake-to-Procure helped us to eliminate manual processes such as uploading vendor invoices. It was able to pick up all the vendor invoices in our designated email.

2. Zip Intake-to-Procure also aide us in eliminating the manual process in our endorsement for approval and to treasury. Through Zip Intake-to-Procure, there is an automated notification for the users and approvers through email and Slack.
  • Integration with accounting system, specifically Netsuite.
  • All-in-one platform where you can onboard, process, and pay
  • Zip Intake-to-Procure is very user-friendly
  • Improvement in OCR
  • 24/7 Customer support
1. Vendor onboarding - Zip Intake-to-Procure is user friendly where the vendor can easily upload documents based on requirements of the company. This aide everyone to save time from reaching out to different vendors and requesting for documents.

2. Integration with various system and messaging platform. Zip Intake-to-Procure integration really fit with our needs since there is available integration with our accounting system and also with slack that we use as our main platform for communication.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to manage all new purchase requests. The platform's ability to allow conditional logic for questions and customizable workflows ensure we are capturing all of the pertinent & relevant information for each request type and enable us to only have the necessary approval steps for each request type as well. From a user perspective the platform is easy to learn and use. From an admin perspective, it was been relatively easy to pick up on how to customize the different aspects of the platform.
  • Customizable workflows
  • Ease of use
  • Reporting on request details
  • Conditional logic within workflows
  • More automation between intake form and request fields/vendor fields
  • Customizable emails
  • Complex question logic (automate responses based on other fields)
This has been a great tool for us to manage our purchase requests and approval workflows. The platform is highly customizable, which makes it work perfectly based on our internal processes. We are also working to build out vendor risk questionnaires within the platform to help consolidate the amount of tools used throughout the procurement process and provide more visibility into what is happening during our security reviews. We're excited to consolidate other processes we have within Zip Intake-to-Procure to streamline the end-to-end procurement process.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We're a mature start-up that just recently implemented Zip Intake-to-Procure to rollout a more formal Procurement tool to help with vendor spend management. Previously, we were doing it off Netsuite (our ERP tool), and there was no centralized place to provide insights on open POs, committed spend, etc. Zip Intake-to-Procure now allows us to track spend at the vendor level and tie invoices back to specific POs
  • Admin level access is easy to use
  • Helpful to see SLA times by approval org
  • Provides good visibility for PO submitters to see where their PO currently is on the approval process
  • There are some duplicated fields such as anticipated total spend vs. price line item breakdown that asks for the same thing. This is a little bit tedious
  • Does not show which invoices got processed and applied to open POs
  • Does not integrate / migrate special custom fields within Zip Intake-to-Procure into other tech stacks (NetSuite)
I think Zip Intake-to-Procure would be a good option for smaller companies that don't need a lot of custom configuration and functionality. Additionally, if invoicing visibility and details are critical to users, Zip Intake-to-Procure may not be a strong candidate.

However, Zip Intake-to-Procure is constantly working on new capabilities and rolling out new features communications via their platform, so it's encouraging to see that they are incorporating feedback and building out stronger usability.
October 12, 2023

Solid UI

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ZIP to handle all procurement requests. It allows anyone in the Org to submit a request and then allows the requester to easily track the approval flow process.
  • Good UI
  • Opens up access to everyone in the company
  • Connects to billing and allows for PO creation
  • Takes a bit of training to become comfortable making changes
  • No direct general chat box with the vendor
Well suited for companies that want to allow any employee to submit a request. ZIP can be tricky to use for employee reimbursement or unique contracts that don't necessarily have a contract tied to it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Zip for all of our purchase requests. We manage all approvals (Business Leader/Budget Owner, Finance, Legal, Security, Procurement) in the tool and also leverage it for document collection. Zip alleviated visibility issues for requestors around status of their requests and enabled us to reduce cycle times for end-to-end approvals of requests & contracts.
  • Ease of setup and use
  • Highly configurable
  • Flexible to use for different request use cases
  • High level of support and a development team that listens to customers
  • More robust reporting - ability to configure reports
  • Can improve ability to interact externally with vendors
Zip was created for the intake process and it shows. It's easy to set up and use as an admin and intuitive for submitters of requests. It has a highly configurable workflow engine that is also easy to update and change, even at a request level. It offers clear visibility into status of requests and the company continues to make improvements, both small and large. One area that I would like to see more of is the ability to create walled off sections for different use cases, like security reviews.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zip is our single entry point for all vendor contract requests. Prior to Zip, the company was using Ironclad as the intake tool which provided the necessary workflow but not the transparency or ease of use. We were able to implement Zip within 3 months and now all intake requests are visible and integrated with most of our tools that are used in the procurement process. We are currently implementing Zip Order and will be rolling out PO by early next year.
  • Customizable workflows
  • Insights tab for quick and easy view of spend and cycle time
  • Existing integrations with tools like Docusign, Ironclad, Slack, and more!
  • Missing the ability to proxy as another user. Currently, if one approver did not set up their delegation, an admin or the approver of that step must reassign each of the approvals to another person.
  • Bulk upload options for admins to update queues and subqueues.
  • Missing ability to schedule reports or the option to share a saved view with another user. It would be easier if certain filtered views can be shared with others to avoid each user having to create their own views.
Zip is great for companies that mainly purchase services (in-direct spending) and don't need access to 3rd party punch-out sites. For companies that are in the manufacturing or supply chain that require extensive breakout of purchase lines, Zip's lack of a "bulk upload" option may cause issues. Companies that also have a very strict policy on workflow access (i.e Event Marketing team should only use workflow designated for them due to the matter of the contract and urgency on the review cycle).

Zip will be a great tool for an organization that does not have a full buyer org and is working as lean with hyper-growth and constant change management.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zip Intake-to-Procure is being across the whole organization.
  • The intake form solves for what was otherwise manual for us.
  • UI is really easy to use and honestly very impressive.
  • The integrations into our GRC systems, JIRA tickets, and existing Netsuite is essential for us. Slack integration makes things even easier.
  • Needs RFP capabilities and invoicing capabilities.
Zip Intake-to-Procure’s vendor portal is really well suited for us. It manages docs and other information with regard to banks and suppliers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zip Intake-to-Procure is being used by our entire company. We used to have no single process to actually purchase anything across finance, legal, IT, etc. It was a confusing experience for employees, and we never knew what was truly in process. Zip Intake-to-Procure has thoroughly improved this process for us.
  • Zip Intake-to-Procure allows us to set up routing logic for approvals across all of our internal teams without knowing how to code.
  • It’s easy to draw lines and set up the flow correctly, kind of like Lucidchart.
  • The intake questions in Zip Intake-to-Procure are also extremely easy to set up and configure, and we can now ask only the necessary questions.
  • It would be great for Zip Intake-to-Procure to have no cross-border or FX fees for their virtual cards.
  • I would also like to see some additional ability to customize dashboards.
Zip Intake-to-Procure is great for organizations that are in the hundreds and certainly in the thousands of employees. Controlling spending and managing risk/compliance are incredibly important.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Zip was deployed to our entire organization: about 850 FTE employees. All vendor-level approvals across finance, security, IT, legal, and other teams are routed via Zip, as well as all vendor onboardings.


Eventually, it will also be used to simplify the way that we procure as well since it will be integrated directly into NetSuite.
  • Very intuitive UI with a deep Slack integration
  • Integrations into NetSuite, JIRA, CLMs, and other systems
  • Intake questions can be configured very flexibly, and easy to learn how to set up
  • Integrations into TrustArc and some other less popular systems we use
  • Improved notification configurations
  • More flexible reporting capabilities

Zip can be used for routing all vendor-level approvals for new vendors and all renewals across our organization. It can also be helpful for managing all purchases from existing vendors. For non-spend related approvals, it’s not as well suited. Zip was definitely designed for procurement workflows.

They also have a vendor management portal that links up directly to something like NetSuite for management and visibility.

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