About Zip
Zip is the world's leading intake-to-pay solution: one place for employees to initiate a purchase or vendor request
Zip is the world’s leading intake-to-pay solution. Providing a single platform for any employee to initiate a purchase or vendor request, Zip helps businesses gain clear and timely visibility across all purchases, while dramatically improving the employee experience.
The platform’s no-code configuration and intelligent workflows integrated across disparate systems enable businesses to automatically route requests for faster approval across finance, legal, procurement, IT, security and other teams.
Capabilities
Intake
Drive employee adoption Create a single front door for every purchase. Zip’s consumer-grade experience ensures company-wide adoption of purchasing policy and makes adopting spend controls easy for employees. Influence spend earlier Because all requests go through Zip, you’ll get early visibility into upcoming spend before it’s finalized, giving you time to shape requirements and proactively negotiate. Orchestrate your tech stack Zip sits on top of your ERP or P2P and grants requesters visibility into the open POs, invoices, and payments, without needing a license to your other systems, ever. |
Approval workflows
Shorten cycle times Create visibility for requesters and approvers so no one holds up the process. Collect all needed approval data upfront and run cross-functional reviews in-parallel to remove bottlenecks. Scale for complexity Put approvals in front of the right person automatically. Route requests to the right subteams and dynamically select appropriate approvers using queues and user hierarchies. Collaborate in one place Manage all approval tasks through a single interface. Ditch email follow-ups for in-context commenting, while allowing approvers to make decisions in their favorite integrated tools. |
Vendor management
Create a single source of truth Manage all vendor data in one system, including business information, documents, contracts, assessments, risk scores, payment methods, and vendor spend data. Centralize vendor reviews Give procurement, finance, legal, risk, IT, and AP teams one place to collaborate on vendor decisions. Centralize all data and documents for reviews and automatically schedule future tasks so everyone can stay on track. Simplify data collection Easily collect business information, contracts and documents, tax IDs, payment details, and more through an intuitive company-branded vendor portal. |
Renewal management
Proactive renewal processes Get early warnings before any renewal. Know exactly when you need to start preparing for negotiation and who you need to loop in so everyone can contribute. Make informed decisions Easily collect all performance and sentiment data needed to evaluate a renewal. Give stakeholders ample time to deliberate and a single place to collaborate on a decision. 100% renewal coverage Stay on top of all of your vendors and contractors, not just big contracts. Automatically generate renewal workflows when contracts are uploaded or requests are finalized across all purchases. |
Integrations
Quickly connect your critical tools Connect to your existing tech stack with our customer-tested, pre-built connectors. Get up and running in minutes, without a dedicated IT resource. Work with stakeholders, not against them Remove bottlenecks by letting approvers evaluate requests in their preferred tools. Zip’s bi-directional connectors seamlessly sync request information with downstream systems, all without sacrificing requester experience. Scale your process without disruption Expand and adapt your purchasing process, without disrupting employee experience. Swap out ERP connectors with ease using Zip as your fully integrated front door. |
Spend insights and analytics
Get the earliest visibility into spend Understand the full lifecycle of spend, starting from intake. Diagnose requirements early to unlock bigger savings opportunities. Break cycle time records Optimize the steps that other systems miss. Zip analyses cycle times to slash SLAs and boost productivity, so employees and approvers can focus on their work. Unlock new opportunities Report on savings through easily readable dashboards. Zip consolidates transaction data so you can track realized savings from every deal and compare committed spend to budgets. |
PO Management
Painless PO Adoption With intuitive intake, POs work. Zip’s intake-to-procure process captures essential data at the request stage, automating PO creation so employees can follow your policy without friction. Simplify AP visibility All the data finance needs flows seamlessly across Zip. Collect the right information in the request to automatically propagate accounting and payment data downstream. Unlock powerful insights Access spend and performance data that helps you control budgets. Understand your spend with line-level detail and identify actionable savings opportunities. |
AP automation
Deliver full AP visibility Zip’s intuitive intake experience centralizes purchasing workflows, so employees can track the status of any invoice or payment. Give finance leaders real-time visibility into the AP process. End manual invoice processing Intelligently scan, capture, and validate invoices with industry-leading accuracy. Zip accelerates invoice processing cycles by 50%, putting all the data finance needs at their fingertips. Expedite invoice approvals — without risk Automatic PO matching and best-in-class workflows relieve approval bottlenecks. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure invoice accuracy and make payments on time. |
Global payments
Automate payments anywhere Reduce manual processing delays and meet your vendor obligations wherever they’re based. Pay vendors in 140+ countries and 40+ currencies. Fund payments from 30+ countries. Optimize processing costs Reduce transaction and processing costs by using a wide range of payment methods. Prevent payment errors by validating and approving payment info upfront. Full financial visibility Collaborative workflows create payments transparency. Make it easy for finance to reconcile accounts and manage cash flow, whether your company has one subsidiary or 50. |
AP automation
A faster way to pay — with stronger controls Give employees an easy way to pay for one-time and recurring purchases. Configure upfront approval requirements so you can safely issue vendor cards based on price, category, or vendor. Corporate cards built for adoption Eliminate requester questions and approval bottlenecks. With intuitive intake workflows, you can streamline the purchase request experience for employees while automating GL coding and accounting processes. Get rewarded for smart spending* Create savings with cash back on purchases. Take advantage of your spend volume to create discounts with rewards generated from vendor card spend. |
Zip AI
Eliminate manual data entry Automatically extract key information from any document with built-in data integrity checks. Automate legal and risk reviews Instantly see what’s in your contracts — and what’s missing. Scan MSAs, audit reports and more for 100+ legal and security risks in seconds. Supercharge workflows Automatically embed data extraction, risk insights, and recommendations into your existing workflows — zero change management required. |
Product
Control spend at scale with ZipHQ. The world's only Intake-to-Pay platform.
Intake-to-Procure
Capture unmanaged spend and guide any employee through the purchase approval process.
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. |
Intake-to-Pay
Automate PO creation and invoice processing the modern way — by starting with intake.
De-risk P2P transformation
Ensure employee adoption of purchasing policy—without training. Zip’s consumer-grade interface delivers procure-to-pay at scale, natively integrating intake with PO management and AP automation. |
Painless PO adoption
With intake, POs work. Capture essential purchase and vendor data at the request stage, automating PO creation so employees can follow your policy without friction. |
Full AP visibility
No more email follow-ups. Automatically process your invoices with industry-leading accuracy and approve centrally so anyone can see invoice status and vendors get paid on time. |
Customer References
“Zip has helped us button up our spending and get the visibility necessary to reduce future costs.” | “Zip has allowed our finance team to better understand our spend landscape. And it’s a simple user experience for end users.” | “With Zip, our finance team has visibility into upcoming pipeline in order to negotiate, and we can scale procurement without needing to build out a large operations team prematurely.” |
Monette Quintanilla, Accounting Manager, Instabase |
Sarah Toomey, Head of Finance Operations, Guild |
Naeem Ishaq, EVP & CFO, Checkr |
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