Our story
Built because spreadsheets weren't cutting it
Vendub didn't start as a product. It started as a problem no one else was solving well enough.
Where it started
Vendub was born inside an operations team that managed hundreds of vendor relationships — contractors, suppliers, service providers — all tracked across a maze of spreadsheets, email threads, phone contacts, and somebody's memory.
Every time someone needed a vendor, the same routine played out: dig through files, ask around the office, hope someone remembered a name. When a team member left, their knowledge walked out the door with them. Contact info vanished. Vendor history evaporated. The team was left starting from scratch.
So we built an internal tool to fix it. A shared, searchable database where every vendor, every contact, every review lived in one place. It worked. The team stopped losing information. New hires got up to speed faster. Decisions about who to hire for a job went from “who do we know?” and “who do I ask?” to a quick and easy search.
Then we realized — every company that works with vendors has this exact same problem.
Construction, manufacturing, property management, healthcare, hospitality — industries are different, but the pain is identical. Vendor information is scattered, unsearchable, and fragile. Vendub is the solution we built from the ground up as a product anyone can use.
What we believe
Principles, not platitudes
Your data belongs to you
Export is free on every plan — including Free. We'll never hold your data hostage behind an upgrade wall. If you want to leave, you take everything with you. No lock-in, no games.
Earn complexity, don't impose it
Most teams need a clean vendor list with search and contacts. That should take five minutes to set up, not a sales call and a three-week onboarding. Power features are there when you need them — they don't get in the way when you don't.
Built for the team, not just the admin
A vendor database is only useful if the whole team can access it. Reviews, search, and contacts are available to every member. Role-based permissions keep things organized without creating bottlenecks.
Ship quality, not quantity
We'd rather do four things well than twelve things poorly. Every feature in Vendub exists because someone actually needed it — not because a competitor had a checkbox. If it's in the product, it works.
The product
Simple tools, real problems
Vendub sits in the gap between “we use a spreadsheet” and “we need a six-figure procurement platform.” Most vendor management tools are either too simple to be useful or too complex to actually adopt. We're building the one that gets it right.
Our core differentiator is dead simple: tag your vendors with what they sell or do, and find them instantly when you need them. Search “fire suppression” and see every vendor that does it — with their contacts, ratings, and your team's reviews. It sounds obvious, but try doing that in a shared Google Sheet.
Vendor profiles
Names, descriptions, categories, and websites
Contacts
Multiple contacts per vendor with click-to-call
Tags
Freeform tagging for products, services, and skills
Reviews
Half-star ratings with written reviews
Search
Full-text across names, descriptions, and tags
Import / Export
Bulk operations via Excel with validation
Team roles
Owner, Admin, Vendor Admin, and Member
Organizations
Multi-org support with instant switching
Categories
Org-defined, filterable custom vendor categories
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