Intake-to-Procure

Capture unmanaged spend and guide any employee through the purchase approval process.

Customer results

PO-backed spend

IT and security compliance

Cycle time reduction

Dynamic intake

Capture all procurement requests through one tool, from purchases to contracts.

Collaborative approvals

Streamline financial, legal, IT, and security approvals to give employees complete visibility into request progress.

Full orchestration

Integrate your critical tools into Zip workflows and orchestrate your whole process from request to payment.

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Intake

Create a single front door for any procurement request. Zip's consumer-grade experience makes policy adoption intuitive for employees, so you can see spend earlier.

Approval workflows

Generate approval chains based on request details. Zip automatically loops in the right approvers and gives requesters full visibility of the process, leading to faster approvals and lower coordination costs.

Vendor management

Streamline your vendor relationships with an all-in-one solution. Create a single source of truth for vendor data, so cross-functional teams can collaborate on risk reviews and contracts.

Renewal management

Automate renewal planning. Zip automatically kicks off renewal workflows well ahead of deadline, so all stakeholders have ample time to make the right decision.

Integrations

Connect intake with your existing tech stack. Zip's pre-built connectors to popular ERP, P2P, CLM, GRC, and ITSM systems can be up and running in minutes, without a dedicated IT resource.

Spend insights and analytics

Get the earliest visibility into spend through intake. By understanding the full lifecycle of requests, teams are able to better diagnose and identify opportunities for savings.

Customer case studies

Industry

Software

Employees

1200+

“Since we implemented Zip, we can approve spend faster, we can approve it in parallel, and as a final approver, I have more confidence that we've done our due diligence during the process.”

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Ivan Markarov

VP of Finance

Before Zip

Challenging spend approval coordination across finance, legal, procurement, IT, and security teams in a scaling business
Time wasted for legal teams without a centralized contract repository
No control over upcoming contract negotiations

After Zip

Decreased approval cycle times by 88% in Zip
Cross-functional visibility into all vendor approvals
360° view of all vendor data across renewals, documents, financial transactions, security surveys, and approval history

Challenging spend approval coordination across finance, legal, procurement, IT, and security teams in a scaling business
Time wasted for legal teams without a centralized contract repository
No control over upcoming contract negotiations

Decreased approval cycle times by 88% in Zip
Cross-functional visibility into all vendor approvals
360° view of all vendor data across renewals, documents, financial transactions, security surveys, and approval history

Industry

Financial services

Employees

7000+

“We’ve been able to create earlier awareness and visibility for our sourcing needs. This allows us to rationalize new requests against existing vendor solutions, enabling cost savings. With Zip we have increased our overall visibility across the entire lifecycle from intake to order. "

Jeff Wagner

Sr. Director of Procurement Operations

Before Zip

Duplicative expenses due to vendor proliferation
Fragmented approval process
Late engagement for sourcing requests

After Zip

Rationalize requests for new spend against existing vendor solutions.
Vendors properly vetted by capturing necessary approvals in a timely and consistent manner
Dynamic approval process adopted allowing for seamless partnering with our stakeholders.
Earlier engagement with business partners to drive better decision making.

Duplicative expenses due to vendor proliferation
Fragmented approval process
Late engagement for sourcing requests

Rationalize requests for new spend against existing vendor solutions.
Vendors properly vetted by capturing necessary approvals in a timely and consistent manner
Dynamic approval process adopted allowing for seamless partnering with our stakeholders.
Earlier engagement with business partners to drive better decision making.

Industry

Cryptoeconomy platform

Employees

4000+

“Zip is key to transparency, simplification, collaboration and efficiency for our procurement process.”

Cindy Yan

VP, Global Source to Pay & Real Estate Strategy

Before Zip

Multiple cross-functional systems that didn’t fit together
Business requesters were confused about systems and process
No visibility into approval and purchase request workflows

After Zip

Cross-functional collaboration made the team more successful in negotiations much earlier in the cycle
Vendor onboarding time reduced from 44 to only 27 days
Improved spend management with aligned POs

Multiple cross-functional systems that didn’t fit together
Business requesters were confused about systems and process
No visibility into approval and purchase request workflows

Cross-functional collaboration made the team more successful in negotiations much earlier in the cycle
Vendor onboarding time reduced from 44 to only 27 days
Improved spend management with aligned POs

Industry

Observability software

Employees

3600+

“Zip enables us to provide exceptional customer care while creating much-needed process visibility and structure. It would have taken us years to achieve this on our own.”

Ed Petrush

Senior Director of Global Procurement

Before Zip

A hyper-growth enterprise organization with a siloed procurement process across disparate teams and systems
Difficult oversight and an inflated supplier base
Wasted time on manual reviews and approvals

After Zip

Intake-to-procure created the foundation for an integrated global procurement function
$375M in addressable spending and a supplier base of nearly 3,500 vendors under management.
100% compliance on payment orders of over $1K

A hyper-growth enterprise organization with a siloed procurement process across disparate teams and systems
Difficult oversight and an inflated supplier base
Wasted time on manual reviews and approvals

Intake-to-procure created the foundation for an integrated global procurement function
$375M in addressable spending and a supplier base of nearly 3,500 vendors under management.
100% compliance on payment orders of over $1K

Industry

Financial Services

Employees

430

“I never expected to hear such amazing feedback from our end stakeholders; they feel like this is a huge win. It's a time-saving improvement for them. They also appreciate the visibility they have on each individual request. They can actually track their progress and see their own cues.”

Peter Lorimer

Chief Financial Officer

Before Zip

Internal customers frustrated by the lack of transparency into the purchasing and approval process
Mature finance function and defined purchasing process but no dedicated resources to run procurement or stood up
Turned on POs in NetSuite, but rolled back due to negative business experience

After Zip

$400K+ in purchase savings from increased visibility and adoption of purchase process by stakeholders
Automated purchase intake and vendor review allow finance to run complex procurement process without hiring a dedicated team
Successfully brought POs to the business by leveraging Zip’s integration to NetSuite

Internal customers frustrated by the lack of transparency into the purchasing and approval process
Mature finance function and defined purchasing process but no dedicated resources to run procurement or stood up
Turned on POs in NetSuite, but rolled back due to negative business experience

$400K+ in purchase savings from increased visibility and adoption of purchase process by stakeholders
Automated purchase intake and vendor review allow finance to run complex procurement process without hiring a dedicated team
Successfully brought POs to the business by leveraging Zip’s integration to NetSuite

Spend controls only work when everyone adopts them

See why hundreds of companies from startups to the Fortune 500 use Zip from intake to pay.

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Intake-to-Procure

Customer results

PO-backed spend

IT and security compliance

Cycle time reduction

Dynamic intake

Collaborative approvals

Full orchestration

Explore capabilities

See what’s included

Intake

Approval workflows

Vendor management

Renewal management

Integrations

Spend insights and analytics

Customer case studies

Spend controls only work when everyone adopts them

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