Anyone running vendor risk for a mid-sized business knows the onboarding pile never really empties. New suppliers get referred by phone, by email and, more often than procurement teams expect, by a text message from someone who just wants to get started without filling out a long form first.

Locktivity exists to bring some order to that process, giving third party risk teams one place to onboard a vendor and keep monitoring them once they're in. Its Create Vendor action is the entry point, setting up a new vendor record the moment there's enough information to start the file, ahead of the deeper compliance checks that follow.

Connected to Mobile Message through Zapier, that entry point can start from a text rather than a form. When a prospective vendor texts your business to say they're interested, a Zap can run Create Vendor straight away, opening their file in Locktivity before anyone on the risk team has manually typed in a single detail.