What is VendorGate?
VendorGate is a data operations platform for working with vendor files and APIs. It gives you a single place to collect files from vendors, validate them against contracts, transform them into a clean standard schema, and monitor the APIs that supply them.
What you can do with VendorGate
- Collect data from anywhere using pipelines that pull from SFTP, FTP, S3-compatible storage, HTTP APIs, or databases.
- Validate file structure and content with contracts that define expected columns, data types, and business rules. Contracts support CSV, TSV, Excel sheets, JSON, XML, fixed-width, API, and database sources.
- Standardize messy vendor data into a consistent output schema using transformations with simple field mapping, step chains, expressions, or LLM-powered mappings.
- Monitor API health with independent monitors that check endpoints, response times, expected payloads, and TLS certificate expiry.
- Route results to your systems via delivery destinations such as SFTP, FTP, S3, HTTP APIs, databases, or lookup datasets.
Who is VendorGate for?
VendorGate is built for operations, data, and engineering teams that receive recurring files or API payloads from external partners. Typical use cases include supplier onboarding, invoice processing, inventory feeds, and compliance reporting.
How the pieces fit together
The typical workflow looks like this:
- Store the credentials VendorGate needs to reach a vendor system.
- Create a contract that describes what a valid file looks like.
- Build a pipeline that collects the file, validates it against the contract, and prepares it for processing.
- Add a transformation that maps, cleans, and reshapes the data into your target format.
- Send the output to its destination.
- Use API Monitoring separately to watch the health of vendor endpoints.
Each of these steps is configurable through the VendorGate application without writing code.
Next steps
If you are new, start with Core Concepts and then follow the Quickstart to build your first pipeline.