USE CASE · PROCUREMENT

Check a supplier properly, before you onboard them

Company status, officers, controlling interests and insolvency history pulled straight from the public registers, gathered into one summary, and sent to the person who has to sign it off.

Best for
Procurement and finance teams
Sources
Companies House, Charity Commission
Works with
Xero, QuickBooks, your approval chain

Due diligence that depends on somebody having time

The checks are known and the registers are public, but the work is manual, so it is done thoroughly for large suppliers and barely at all for small ones.

  • Copy and paste. Company numbers are looked up one at a time, in a browser.
  • Inconsistent depth. The same check is done differently by different people.
  • No re-checking. A supplier is verified once, at onboarding, and never again.
  • Approval by email. The evidence and the sign-off live in separate places.

The register, on tap

Flomation queries the public registers directly, assembles a summary against your own rules, and routes it for approval with the evidence attached.

Every check, every time

Profile, filing history, officers, people with significant control and insolvency history, gathered in one pass for every supplier regardless of size.

Your rules, applied consistently

Flag dissolved or recently incorporated companies, overdue filings, or an officer that matches your own conflict-of-interest list.

Re-checked on a schedule

Run the same flow monthly across your supplier list and raise only what has changed since the last time it ran.

What a supplier check looks like in Flomation

A company number goes in, a decision with its evidence comes out.

  1. TriggerNew supplier requestForm, spreadsheet row or API call
  2. ActionQuery the registersStatus, officers, control, insolvency
  3. ConditionalApply your rulesClear, flag or refuse
  4. HumanApprove and createSigned off, then set up in finance

Consistent checks, on every supplier

Seconds
to run a full register check
Every supplier
checked to the same standard
Monthly
re-checks across the whole list
One record
evidence and approval together

Make the check the easy option

When the thorough version takes seconds, it gets done every time. Start with new suppliers, then point the same flow at the ones you already have.

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