Build your vendor roster

Under Property Operations → Vendors, keep an account-wide roster: name, trade, phone, email, hourly rate, payment method and notes. Vendors never log in — when you assign one to a job they act through a secure, no-login link.

• Mark a vendor Priority, Normal or Do-not-call — priority vendors surface first when you dispatch a job.
• Tag vendors with service regions and filter the roster by region, so you always reach for someone who covers the address.

Message a vendor directly (a private PM↔vendor thread), keep notes, and open a vendor's page to see a full bills & estimates accounting panel for everything you've billed through them.

A vendor roster is the prerequisite for the Maintenance Order Builder's "assign a vendor" step — a few minutes here pays off every time something breaks.