“We spent two weeks onboarding a single supplier. Something was always missing, a document here, a signature there, and nobody was sure who owned the next step. By the time they were set up, the project we’d hired them for was already behind.
Supplier Onboarding · Director of Procurement, foodservice distributor
“A compliance deadline was coming and my boss asked how many suppliers were ready. I spent a full day rebuilding the answer from email threads and still came back with ‘I’m not sure.’ I had the data. I just couldn’t see it.
Compliance Campaigns · Compliance Manager, foodservice distributor
“A supplier changed their packaging six months ago. We found out when a customer complained. The new specs and product images had been sitting in someone’s inbox the whole time. Our system still showed the old ones.
Product Data · VP of Supply Chain, retail operator
“By the time we added up a year of ‘small’ price increases, our margin had quietly moved several points. Each one looked fine on its own. Nobody was watching the pattern.
Price Changes · Category Manager, retailer
Sound familiar?
Every week we talk to procurement, compliance, and supply chain teams who describe the same problems: different industry, same story. Manual processes that worked at 20 suppliers don’t work at 200.
Three building blocks,
one outcome.
Almost everything you do with suppliers is a mix of three: a workflow, the tasks it sends out, and the conversation around them. Combine them and the process runs itself, with full visibility and a complete record.
A library of processes. Or build your own.
Start from a prebuilt workflow (onboarding, document collection, a certificate renewal, a price-change request) or build your own by dragging steps onto the canvas: forms, document collection, approvals, e-signatures, AI validation, branching. The same builder models any process between you and your suppliers, run one-to-one or as a campaign across thousands.
- Prebuilt templates for common processes, or build your own with no code
- The same workflow runs one-to-one or as a campaign
- Drag-and-drop builder with full version history
Send it to one supplier, or ten thousand.
Pick the workflow, pick who gets it, and send. Clover spawns a task for every supplier and tracks them as a group. On their side it's a guided, step-by-step task that's simple to complete. They step through and submit, and AI checks the work at the point of entry.
- Send to one supplier or your whole base in a click
- Each supplier gets a guided task that's simple to complete, no training needed
- AI validation at submission, before it hits your queue
The conversation lives inside the work
Most supplier back-and-forth happens over email, disconnected from the task it's about and impossible to find six months later. In Clover, questions get asked and answered right on the task they belong to. Your team replies in real time, the whole exchange is captured with the work, and connecting Gmail or Outlook pulls supplier email into the same place.
- Task-scoped conversations: every question tied to the exact work
- Real-time and team-aware: nothing trapped in one person's inbox
- Email pulled into context: connect Gmail or Outlook
It runs itself. And nothing is lost.
Tasks go out, suppliers respond, AI checks the work, and exceptions route to the right person. You watch completion climb across your whole base in real time, and every step, approval, and decision is on the record, one click away.
- Real-time completion across your entire supplier base
- Exceptions surface to the right person automatically
- Every decision recorded and instantly answerable
| Company | Assigned to | Completion |
|---|---|---|
NNorthwind Supply Co. |
General Management |
0%
|
AAtlas Trading Co. |
Marcus Johnson |
40%
|
Meridian Supply Co. |
Aria Turner |
50%
|
Configured for your industry,
not relabeled for it
Each vertical uses the same platform with industry-specific terminology, workflows, and compliance requirements. Not a generic tool with your industry name on it.
Foodservice
New item intake, COA tracking, allergen compliance, and FSMA 204 traceability for operators, distributors, and cooperatives.
Retail
Vendor compliance enforcement, new item setup, chargeback workflows, and product data management with accountability built in.
Manufacturing
Supplier qualification, quality certifications, corrective actions, and delivery and quality scorecards for OEMs, contract manufacturers, and their supply base.
Corporate Procurement
Vendor onboarding, insurance and compliance collection, risk assessments, and supplier records for indirect and services procurement teams.
Healthcare
Vendor credentialing, COI and certification tracking, product compliance, and supplier records for hospitals, IDNs, and group purchasing organizations.
More industries
Automotive, Cannabis, Scientific & Lab, Education, and more. If you manage supplier relationships, Clover can likely help.
Supplier Management
Manage suppliers across their whole lifecycle.
Compliance
Run a requirement across your whole base, and prove it.
Product Information
Get product data right, and keep it right.
Pricing & Transactions
Structure the transactions that move money.
Frequently asked questions
Clover is a supplier operations platform. It takes the recurring processes that run between you and your suppliers, like onboarding, document collection, compliance campaigns, price changes, and product data, and turns them into structured work that gets completed, validated, and recorded. Instead of living in email threads and spreadsheets, each process runs as a workflow that drives itself to done, with a complete decision trail behind every step.
Clover is built for teams managing large supplier bases through manual work: onboarding, compliance, and document chasing that still runs on email and spreadsheets. You've outgrown the inbox, but you don't need a $750K enterprise implementation and a team of consultants to fix it. If you're managing supplier relationships through inbox triage and shared drives, Clover is built for how you actually work.
Clover includes a supplier portal, and then goes well beyond one. Your suppliers get a clean, guided place to complete tasks, upload documents, and communicate with your team, with no training required. The difference is what sits behind it: a configurable workflow engine, AI that validates work at the point of entry, campaign management across your whole supplier base, and a complete audit trail of every decision. Most portals collect information and stop there. Clover runs the whole process and keeps the record. The portal is the front door. The platform is the building.
Typical deployments range from $10K to $100K per year depending on your supplier count and which processes you automate. That's a fraction of what enterprise procurement suites charge, and a fraction of what you're spending in labor on the manual processes Clover replaces. We publish real numbers up front, so by the time we talk, we're focused on solving your problem, not negotiating whether to share a price.
Most organizations are live in weeks, not months. Clover is cloud-based with no on-premise infrastructure and no heavy integration required. You configure your workflows, invite your suppliers, and they start completing tasks through a guided interface that requires no training. Ongoing configuration is done through the platform, not through an IT backlog.
Most tools store the current state of your supplier data and wait for someone to act on it. Clover is a system of action: a gap, an expiring document, or an exception becomes structured work that gets completed, validated, and decided. And because the work runs through Clover, every record carries its full history. Who approved an exception, what the justification was, whether the pattern has happened before, all captured in an immutable, hash-linked audit trail. That's what makes Clover's data ready for audits, AI, and real decisions.
No. ERPs manage internal operations: inventory, purchasing, accounting. Procurement suites handle sourcing and spend. Clover operates in the space between your organization and your suppliers: the collaboration layer where onboarding, compliance, document collection, and ongoing process management actually happen. Clover integrates with your existing systems through APIs and webhooks, handling the processes that live in email today.
No. Responding to your requests and interacting with your team is always free for suppliers. They complete clear, task-based requests through a guided wizard, with no clunky system to learn. Suppliers working with multiple buying organizations on Clover manage all of it from one place. Some suppliers also choose optional, paid services, like data validation, product readiness support, or direct integration with their own systems of record, but those are entirely their call. Everything you ask a supplier to do, they can do for free. And the easier it is for them to respond, the faster your processes complete.