New items take weeks, and still come back missing half the data.

Clover replaces the email-and-spreadsheet item intake with a structured workflow. You define the item attributes you require once, and suppliers submit everything through a guided portal with real-time validation. Items that don't meet your requirements are flagged at submission, not weeks later after manual review, which typically cuts new item setup from weeks to days.

Clover makes every attribute you need a required, validated step in your item-setup workflow. Suppliers provide it through the portal, and Clover checks completeness and format before the item reaches your team. Every change is tracked with full context: what changed, who reviewed it, and why it was accepted.

No, Clover works alongside GDSN. GDSN syndicates standardized attributes like GTINs; Clover handles everything it doesn't: specialty attributes, certifications, compliance documents, marketing images, and the workflow of collecting and validating all of it from suppliers who may not be on GDSN at all.

Validated item data flows out of Clover to your ERP and catalog through the API, so nothing is manually re-entered. Because the data is checked against your rules at submission, what reaches your systems is already complete and consistent. Your team only reviews what needs a decision rather than typing in every field.

That's exactly who the guided portal is built for. A supplier or broker completes item setup through a simple, task-based interface (upload the spec, confirm the attributes, add the images) with no training, no EDI, and no GDSN membership required. The long-tail suppliers who hold up item setup the most are the ones this helps first.

Clover validates each submission against the rules you define (required fields, formats, expiry dates, attribute completeness) and can use AI to extract and check data from uploaded spec sheets and documents. Anything that fails is returned to the supplier with a specific explanation before it ever reaches your team.