Platform, Data & Integrations
Vendor & Partner Hub
Sell into the platform, with verification the buyer can trust.
The multivendor side of Agrivencia: onboarding, verification, listing management, order fulfilment, settlement and performance rating for every supplier, contractor, adviser and service provider trading on the platform. Verification is the product — a buyer should be able to trust a listing without a phone call.
- 12 capabilities
- 1 linked schemes
- Offline capable
- 12
- Capabilities in this module
- 5
- Interactive tools
- 1
- Linked support schemes
- 5
- Data integrations
- 6
- Measures reported
The ground reality
What is actually happening in vendor hub in the UK
Trust and payment risk are the two reasons agricultural trade stays in established channels. Verification of business identity, insurance, certification and assurance status, combined with escrow and transaction-based rating, addresses both directly — and is the reason a marketplace can win share from incumbents rather than merely add another listing site.
Figures are as published at the time of writing. Farm policy and payment rates change frequently — verify against the primary source before relying on any number here.
In the field
Vendor hub, as it actually looks
Photography from working UK holdings alongside the interface that records it. Every frame below is a commissioned slot: the brief is stated until the photograph is taken.
Vendor Hub — a walkthrough
A working pass through vendor hub: entering the record once, and watching it appear in the evidence pack, the calendar and the scheme application without being typed again.
- 0:00 What the module is for
- 0:48 Entering the record
- 2:05 Where it appears next
- 3:20 The evidence pack
Photography slots state their own brief until the shot is commissioned, so the layout never shifts when real images arrive.
Capabilities
What Vendor Hub does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Vendor onboarding with staged verification before listings can go live
- Business, insurance, certification and assurance status verification
- Document register with expiry alerting and automatic listing suspension
Operate and monitor
- Storefront and listing management with category-specific fields
- Inventory, pricing and availability management
- Order management with fulfilment and despatch workflows
Comply and evidence
- Commission structures with transparent, published rates
- Settlement and payout scheduling with statements
- Performance rating built from completed transactions
Analyse and improve
- Dispute handling with defined evidence and escalation
- Vendor analytics on views, conversion and revenue
- Partner tiers with directory listing, co-marketing and API access
Interactive
Tools you actually use, not screens you read
These are working interfaces inside the module — maps, calculators, planners and dashboards that respond to your own holding data.
Vendor onboarding wizard with verification progress tracking
Vendor onboarding wizard with verification progress tracking
DashboardStorefront and listing manager
Storefront and listing manager
ToolOrder and fulfilment board
Order and fulfilment board
DashboardSettlement statement viewer with payout schedule
Settlement statement viewer with payout schedule
ToolVendor performance dashboard with conversion and rating
Vendor performance dashboard with conversion and rating
DashboardEnd to end
How Vendor Hub runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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1
Apply as a vendor
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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2
Submit verification documents
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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3
Pass staged verification
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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4
Build the storefront and listings
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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5
Publish once verification completes
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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6
Receive and fulfil orders
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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7
Settle and receive payout
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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8
Maintain documents and performance rating
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Who uses it
Built around four real jobs, not one generic user
Each of these people needs something different from the same record. The module is designed so none of them has to work around the others.
Input supplier
Selling products
Needs qualified demand and reliable settlement.
Contractor
Selling services
Needs bookings and verified credentials displayed.
Farm buyer
Purchasing
Needs to trust a listing without ringing to check.
Platform operations
Marketplace integrity
Needs verification enforced and expired documents to suspend listings automatically.
Schemes and funding
Support schemes this module works with
Agrivencia holds these schemes as data, so eligibility, payment rates, caps and windows update the day they change rather than at the next software release.
Rates, caps and windows change frequently and sometimes without notice. Always confirm against the current published scheme rules before applying.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Verified vendors active
- 02Listings live
- 03Gross merchandise value
- 04Dispute rate
- 05Document currency across vendors
- 06Time from application to first listing
Working view
Vendor Hub, at a glance
The numbers you would check before doing anything else in vendor hub. Each one is live against your own record, and each one tells you where it came from.
Choose a view
Verified vendors active
57
+5.0%
Listings live
7
+1.0%
Gross merchandise value
£30,537
+4.6%
Dispute rate
76 %
+5 pts
target 95%
Document currency across vendors
54
+4.0%
Time from application to first listing
42 days
−2 days
target under 38
What needs attention
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Action needed
Unverified vendor trading
prevented by publication gating
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For information
Expired insurance during an engagement
mitigated by automatic suspension on expiry
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For information
Commission opacity
mitigated by published rates shown before listing
Your farm account
One account, every holding, four nations
A UK farm business carries a different reference in every nation it farms in, plus a separate one for livestock premises. The account holds them together so nothing is re-keyed and nothing is reconciled by hand.
The identifiers the account holds together
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SBI
Applies to: England
Single Business Identifier, nine digits -
BRN
Applies to: Scotland
Business Reference Number -
CRN
Applies to: Wales
Customer Reference Number -
DAERA Business ID
Applies to: Northern Ireland
DAERA Business Identifier -
CPH
Applies to: All nations
County Parish Holding, 00/000/0000 -
VAT number
Applies to: All nations
GB followed by nine digits -
Company number
Applies to: All nations
If the business is incorporated -
Herd or flock mark
Applies to: All nations
As issued for your species
Setting it up, in the order it has to happen
- Name the business The trading name as it appears on scheme correspondence.
- Add your identifiers One per nation you farm in, plus your CPH for livestock.
- Import your parcels From the land register for your nation, or a shapefile you already hold.
- Select your enterprises This is what switches the right modules on and the irrelevant ones off.
- Invite anyone who helps An adviser acts for you with an audit trail, without becoming you.
What each tier opens
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Open
£0 free, permanently
Indicative price. Nothing on the platform takes a payment yet.
The scheme catalogue, every calculator, and the guide library. No holding data required.
- All 53 scheme profiles across four nations
- All 23 calculators, each showing its method
- The full guide library
- Deadline reminders by email
Limits One holding · No evidence export
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Most chosen
Holding
£29 per month, indicative
Indicative price. Nothing on the platform takes a payment yet.
The working platform for one farm business: records, evidence packs and the compliance calendar.
- Everything in Open
- All 84 modules against your own holding data
- Evidence packs assembled and exportable
- The four-nation compliance calendar
- Marketplace listings and enquiries
Limits Up to three holdings · Two users
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Estate
£89 per month, indicative
Indicative price. Nothing on the platform takes a payment yet.
Multiple holdings, multiple users, and the tenancy and contract-farming structures that come with them.
- Everything in Holding
- Unlimited holdings and parcels
- Ten users with per-holding permissions
- Tenancy, contract and share-farming structures
- Benchmarking against comparable businesses
- API access
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Adviser
£0 priced per client book
Indicative price. Nothing on the platform takes a payment yet.
For land agents, agronomists and accountants acting for many farm businesses at once.
- Everything in Estate, per client
- Act-for-client access with an audit trail
- Bulk deadline view across the whole book
- White-labelled evidence packs
- Client onboarding workflow
Questions answered
What people ask about Vendor Hub
Does this replace the software I already use?
Not necessarily. Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources and mainstream packages rather than insisting on replacing them. Where an incumbent does one job well, the platform connects to it; where the job spans several systems and nobody does it, the platform does it.
Will it work where I have no signal?
Yes. Field capture in Vendor Hub is offline first, storing locally and synchronising when a connection returns. Only around a fifth of UK farms report reliable signal across the whole holding, so this is a design assumption rather than a feature.
What happens when the scheme rules change?
Scheme rules are held as data rather than code, so a rate change, a cap change or a window closure is a content update that takes effect the same day. The platform also alerts you to what the change does to your own position.
Who owns the data I put in?
You do. The Farm Data Charter gives you a complete export in open formats at any time, and every instance of data sharing requires an explicit, revocable consent that is visible in your account.
Does it work if I farm across a border?
Yes, and that is one of the main reasons the platform exists. A business with land in more than one nation sees one reconciled view rather than two portals, with obligations and deadlines from both administrations in a single calendar.
Can my agronomist or land agent use it too?
Yes. You grant scoped, time-limited access per holding and per module, and you can revoke it in one click. Advisers never get a shared password or a blanket view.
What is the biggest limitation of this module?
Unverified vendor trading. Prevented by publication gating. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
Documents
Take it away with you
Everything here is printable and works on a kitchen table with no signal. Where a document asks for an email address, it says so on the button rather than after you press it.
Verification as the Product: Becoming an Agrivencia Vendor
The practical handbook for vendor hub: what the rules require, what the evidence has to show, and the mistakes that cost people money.
vendor hub — evidence checklist
Every document an audit or a claim asks for, in the order it is asked for, with the validity period of each.
vendor hub — record template
The record structure the module uses, as a spreadsheet, so a business not yet on the platform can start keeping it correctly today.
Data model reference
Entities, fields and integration points for vendor hub, for advisers and software partners.
See Vendor Hub running on your own holding
Thirty minutes, using your parcels, your schemes and your enterprises rather than a sample farm. No obligation and no sales script — if it does not fit your business we will say so.
- Free tier available
- No card required
- Your data stays yours