# Create and qualify a vendor

Identify a company, set its criticality and add contacts.

> **Access:** vendor creation. Subject to enabled modules and your plan.

## Prerequisites and permissions

You need vendor-creation permission or appropriate administrative access, and an available vendor quota. Prepare the company name, website and a contact.

## Identify the company

1. Open **Suppliers → Créer un fournisseur**.
2. Search by name, domain or registration number.
3. Select the matching company. If none exists, choose **Créer manuellement**.
4. Check the required **Nom du fournisseur** (vendor name) and **Site web** (website) fields, then complete useful contact details.
5. Select **Créer** to move to qualification. This control and several field labels currently remain in French in the English interface; it does not complete the full creation workflow.

![Information for a fictional vendor](https://docs.cisapp.eu/images/en/vendor-info.webp)

*Check the company’s identity before creating the vendor relationship. · [Open full-size screenshot](https://docs.cisapp.eu/images/en/vendor-info.webp)*

## Qualify criticality

Choose an offered qualification mode. In manual mode, select the level matching this vendor’s impact on your business. A criticality questionnaire provides guided qualification when a suitable questionnaire is available.

![Selecting vendor criticality](https://docs.cisapp.eu/images/en/vendor-criticality.webp)

*Criticality describes the vendor’s business importance; it is separate from its security score. · [Open full-size screenshot](https://docs.cisapp.eu/images/en/vendor-criticality.webp)*

## Add contacts and access

Enter useful contacts: first name, last name, email and role. Check every address before sending invitations. If an access step is offered, assign only the necessary permissions to the relevant people and teams.

## Expected outcome

The record is accessible from the register. Check its information, link it to business activities and prepare a [vendor assessment](https://docs.cisapp.eu/en/assessments/vendor).

## If creation fails

Check the website format, required fields and quota. If the company already exists, return to search rather than creating a variation of its name.