Productivity · Integration
VendorPanel
Add VendorPanel to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
VendorPanel is where a buying organisation, very often an Australian council or government agency, sends a request out to suppliers and keeps a defensible record of how it chose. The pieces are approved supplier lists, the request itself, the responses that come back, and the award and contract that follow. What makes it worth embedding is the compliance shape rather than the data volume: a request has to reach the right panel, responses have to be handled evenly, and somebody has to be able to show months later why one supplier was picked. Every organisation configures its own lists, spend thresholds and approval steps, so those are per-tenant configuration and never something your code can assume. VendorPanel is merging with Unimarket into a wider source to pay platform, which is worth knowing before you scope. fastn holds each buyer's credentials and follows the API.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let each buying organisation connect their own VendorPanel account so requests raised in your product reach the panels they are permitted to use.
Create a quote or tender request from a need your product already recorded, without anybody re-entering the scope.
Read responses and the award decision back so later steps in your product use the supplier that actually won.
Map each organisation's own supplier lists, spend thresholds and approval steps as configuration, so onboarding an unusual buyer is setup and not engineering.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent reports which requests are open, how many responses each has drawn and which are about to close.
An agent drafts a request against the correct supplier list within scoped permissions, leaving the decision to a person.
An agent explains why a supplier was eligible for a request by reading the list they sit on.
Example prompt
Which VendorPanel requests close this week, and how many supplier responses does each one have?
Set up VendorPanel in 4 steps
- 01Enable the VendorPanel connector in your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each buying organisation authorise their own VendorPanel account so requests go out under their name.
- 03Map the supplier list, request, response and award fields your product uses, along with that organisation's own thresholds and approval steps.
- 04Call it from your product and expose the same connection to your agents through the MCP gateway.
Why teams use the VendorPanel integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a VendorPanel integration without building it. Your customers connect their own VendorPanel account inside your product and work their work items, assignees and due dates there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: every team configures its own fields, statuses and workflow stages. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a VendorPanel update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed VendorPanel connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you keep work items in step with what happens in your product without wiring it twice.
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How do I add a VendorPanel integration to my product?
Enable the VendorPanel connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own VendorPanel account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no VendorPanel client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own VendorPanel account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own VendorPanel account and only ever sees their own work items, assignees and due dates. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this VendorPanel integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent reports which requests are open, how many responses each has drawn and which are about to close.
Who maintains the VendorPanel integration?
fastn does. When VendorPanel changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Can my product create and update work in VendorPanel automatically?
Yes. Items can be created, updated, assigned and transitioned from your product, and changes made in VendorPanel can trigger your workflows in return.
Does it adapt to each team's own VendorPanel setup?
Yes. However a team has configured VendorPanel, whether that is custom fields, statuses and workflow stages or its own calendars and working hours, those are mapped per customer, so an unusual setup works without custom code from you.
What can I build with the VendorPanel integration?
A common starting point: let each buying organisation connect their own VendorPanel account so requests raised in your product reach the panels they are permitted to use. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the VendorPanel integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding VendorPanel does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add VendorPanel to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.