Supplier/Vendor Application

Nine fields. That's the entire ask, and a supplier can work through them in 8 to 12 minutes. In return you get a consistent record for every company that wants to sell to you: who they are, what they offer, and what it takes to order from them. Compare that with the usual alternative, a pile of unstructured intro emails with PDFs attached, and the case for a structured application makes itself. The form runs as a cover page, two content pages, and an ending page, so applicants always know where they are.

From contact details to minimum order quantity, one record per supplier

The form opens with the basics: full name, email, and company name are required, while phone number and company website are optional. A Product Category dropdown sorts applicants into Electronics, Clothing, Food, Home Goods, or Other, so you can filter the pipeline by what you actually buy. A required Products/Services Offered text area gives each supplier room to describe their range in their own words, and an optional Minimum Order Quantity field surfaces the dealbreaker number early, before anyone books a call. There's also an optional Product Catalog field; catalogs come through attached as links, so your team can open them straight from the response.

Nine answers in, one sourcing decision out

Every submission lands in your Uplup dashboard, where response analytics and per-question breakdowns show patterns across applicants: which categories dominate, how many suppliers skip the minimum order question, where the strongest catalogs sit. Export the lot to CSV when procurement wants a spreadsheet, or wire up webhooks or Zapier to push each new application into the tools your team already works in. Because every applicant answered the same nine questions, comparing two suppliers is a side-by-side read, not an archaeology project.

Bend the template to your supply chain

Everything in the template is editable. Swap the category options for the ones your store actually stocks, add compliance or certification questions if your industry demands them, or drop the fields you never look at. Your logo and brand colors carry through the whole form, so applicants see your company, not ours. The template ships in traditional multi-page mode, which suits a business application, though you can flip it to conversational one-question-at-a-time mode, turn on a progress bar, and allow back navigation. When it's ready, share the link directly, print a QR code for trade show booths, embed it on your supplier page, or place it inside a WordPress page with the Uplup plugin's shortcode. You'll find the template in the Business plan library, ready to publish in an afternoon.