Supplier's registered in Unimarket will be assigned a profile that functions as a "store". Your store establishes your company's presence in the Unimarket Supplier Directory that can be viewed by existing customers.
Existing customers are able to view your store's profile information, create purchase orders against your store, view your store's catalogs and receive invoices from you via your store.
There are a couple of ways the supplier registration process can be initiated:
- If you are invited to participate in a customer's bid, you may receive an email notification or the customer will post a public link/URL to the bid.
- A customer may invite you to join a their eMarketplace via an email link.
- If you have an existing profile and your customer is requiring to create a new profile. Avoid duplicate profiles, by ensuring the new business/trading name is not the same as the existing profile business/trading name.
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Note: If you already have a Unimarket profile, view instructions on how to link a new customer to your existing profile. |
Supplier Registration
Whichever way you begin the registration process, your action item will be to enter your company's preliminary information, establish a username and password.
This information is very important, so please:
- Insert information in all required fields marked with a red asterisk.
- Business or Trading Name field: Insert business or trading name.
- Currency field: The currency used/elected by the customer for payment disbursements (if there is no option to change). If a dropdown is present in the field, select your desired currency.
- Time Zone field: Select desired time zone. Once supplier profile is created, the time zone cannot be updated.
- Country field: Choose applicable country.
- First/Last Name fields: The first and name that will be associated with user login.
- Your Email Address field: The desired email address, to be used for user login access.
- Your Username field: Insert the desired email address keyed in email address field.
- Password field: Insert desired password and take note of the password, to access profile in the future.
- Confirm Password field: Re-type desired password.
| Note: When setting a password for your profile, please ensure the strength bar is at least moderate. |
Once completed, check the "I'm not a robot" box and > select Sign Up.
Company Profile Setup
Once your registration is successful, you will be taken to the Company Profile Setup page, to enter your company's most pertinent profile information.
Mandatory fields are identified with a red asterisk and must be completed before being able to proceed.
For U.S. Suppliers:
The first option will be to select your profile classification: Company/Organization or Individual.
- Company/Organization: Your entity (business, government, institution etc.) as a vendor.
- Individual: You are a person registering yourself as a vendor, not representing an entity such as a business, government or institution.
Once completed, a form will generate dependent upon the selected profile classification. If you choose Company/Organization, complete the following is fields:
- Company or Trading Name (Mandatory field)
- Legal Business Name (Mandatory field)
If you choose Individual, complete the following is fields:
- Company or Trading Name (Mandatory field)
- First Name (Mandatory field)
- Last Name (Mandatory field)
For AU Suppliers:
The first option will be to select your profile classification: Company/Organization or Individual.
- Company/Organization: Your entity (business, government, institution etc.) as a vendor.
- Individual: You are a person registering yourself as a vendor, not representing an entity such as a business, government or institution.
Once completed, a form will generate dependent upon the selected profile classification. If you choose Company/Organization, complete the following is fields:
- Company or Trading Name (Mandatory field)
- Legal Business Name (Mandatory field)
If you choose Individual, complete the following is fields:
- Company or Trading Name (Mandatory field)
- First Name (Mandatory field)
- Last Name (Mandatory field)
For NZ Suppliers:
The first option will be to select your profile classification: Company/Organization or Individual.
- Company/Organization: Your entity (business, government, institution etc.) as a vendor.
- Individual: You are a person registering yourself as a vendor, not representing an entity such as a business, government or institution.
Once completed, a form will generate dependent upon the selected profile classification. If you choose Company/Organization, complete the following is fields:
- Legal Business Name (Mandatory field)
- Company or Trading Name (Mandatory field)
- Business Number (Mandatory field): Usually this is your New Zealand Business Number (NZBN)
If you choose Individual, complete the following is fields:
- Company or Trading Name (Mandatory field)
- First Name (Mandatory field)
- Last Name (Mandatory field)
Add Physical/Remittance Addresses
Insert your physical address information, in the mandatory fields marked with a red asterisk.
If your remittance address is the same as your physical address, check the "Same as Physical Address" box. Your remittance name should be the name you wish your payment to be made out to (in most cases this would be the company name).
Once completed, click 'OK'.
Tax Profile (US Suppliers only)
If the customer you are connecting with requires the Tax Profile to be completed, you will be taken directly to the Tax Profile page.
Choose appropriate tax profile form (W-9, W-8BEN or W-BEN-E) > complete mandatory fields marked with a red asterisk.
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Note: If you do not have the information and need someone else in your organization to complete, you can set them up as a User under the Profile drop-down menu. For additional instructions to update your Tax Profile, refer to help article Submitting & Updating Tax Profile. |
Upload Certificates & Documents
If your customer has requested Certificates of Insurance or documents, refer to help article Managing Certificates & Documents for additional information.
Updating Payment Details
For US suppliers: For additional instructions to update Payment Details, refer to help article Updating Your Payment Details (US Suppliers).
For AU/NZ Suppliers: For additional instructions to update Payment Details, refer to help article Updating Your Payment Details (AU/NZ Suppliers).