The full network vendor list

What the All Vendors row is

All Vendors is the complete, rolled-up directory of every vendor your network uses, one tile per vendor, sorted by network monthly spend from highest to lowest. Every other row on the Vendors page is a curated cut: Top Vendors stops at the network's 8 biggest cost lines, Broadest Network Footprint stops at the 8 vendors used by the most franchisees, Renegotiation Candidates and Rate Drift only show vendors that trip a specific flag. All Vendors is the row with no cut. If a vendor has a rolled-up relationship anywhere in the network, it belongs here somewhere in the list, sorted by spend.

Think of it as the reference directory underneath the headline rows. Use Top Vendors or Broadest Network Footprint to see the biggest patterns at a glance; come to All Vendors when you're looking for a specific vendor, or want to scan the full spend order rather than just the top of it.

This is still a network aggregate, not a per-franchisee ledger. Each tile is built by summing and averaging what every franchisee using that vendor has reported, franchisees own their own vendor relationships, and HQ never sees a single franchisee's private line item here. See Vendors overview for how that privacy design runs through the whole page, and the section below for exactly how it affects this row.

Where to find it

Open Vendors from the HQ sidebar, at hq.verinode.ai/vendors. All Vendors is the last row on the page, at the bottom of a single scrolling home (there are no tabs on this page). Scroll past the hero, Local Network, Off Program, Rate Drift, Top Vendors, Renegotiation Candidates, and Broadest Network Footprint rows to reach it.

Clicking any tile in this row, exactly like every other vendor tile on the page, opens the vendor's detail overlay on top of the Vendors home. Closing the overlay returns you to the same scroll position. See Vendors overview for everything the detail overlay shows, and Comparing vendors across your network for the side-by-side compare panel you can open from inside it.

Anatomy of a tile

Every tile in All Vendors carries the same four pieces of information:

• Headline figure: network monthly spend. The vendor's total monthly spend, summed across every franchisee using it, shown as a rounded dollar figure ("$42k", "$1.2M", or a plain dollar amount under $1,000). When no vendor relationship on file carries a monthly amount, the figure reads as a dash instead of a number.
• Vendor name. The vendor's canonical name in Verinode's catalog.
• Franchisee count and category. A line reading "N franchisees" (or "1 franchisee" when exactly one), followed by the vendor's category, written in plain language rather than a raw database value (for example "Equipment Rental" instead of equipment_rental). See "Category: what 'modal' means" below for how that category is chosen when franchisees don't all agree on one.
• Satisfaction and Verinode Score. A trailing line combining, where available, the average satisfaction rating franchisees have logged for that vendor ("4.2 sat") and the average Verinode Score franchisees have computed for it ("score 7.8"), separated by a middle dot. Either figure is dropped from the line when it isn't available yet, and the line is left off the tile entirely when neither is.

Satisfaction and Verinode Score answer different questions, and it's worth reading them separately rather than as one blended number:

• Satisfaction is subjective: it's franchisees' own 1 to 10 rating of their experience with the vendor, averaged across every franchisee who's rated it.
• Verinode Score here is the average of the network's own franchisee-computed Verinode Scores for that vendor, a structured, multi-dimension read on the vendor relationship. It is a different number from the vendor's independently researched score in Verinode's research catalog, the one used elsewhere in Benchmarks and in the alternatives shown by the vendor comparison panel. A vendor can read well on one and not the other, for example a vendor your network rates highly on satisfaction but whose franchisee-computed Verinode Scores are middling because of cost position or reliability dimensions satisfaction alone doesn't capture.

Sort order and the 24-tile cap

All Vendors is sorted by network monthly spend, highest first, the same order the underlying nightly rollup query uses. Vendors with no monthly spend figure on file sort to the bottom of the list, below every vendor that has one.

The row renders up to 24 tiles. If your network works with more vendors than that, the rest are still counted in the hero's network vendor total, network spend, and satisfaction figures at the top of the page, they just don't get their own tile in this particular row. In practice this rarely matters: because the list is sorted by spend, the vendors most worth reviewing are the ones nearest the top, well inside the 24-tile window.

Category: what "modal" means

The category shown on each tile (and used elsewhere on the page, in Top Vendors, Renegotiation Candidates, and Broadest Network Footprint) is the vendor's modal category, the single vendor-type value reported most often across the franchisees using it. Most vendors get one consistent category from every franchisee that uses them. When franchisees disagree, for example if a few log the same vendor under a related but different category, Verinode picks whichever value the majority reported rather than showing a mixed or ambiguous label. A vendor with no category on file from any franchisee shows a dash instead.

The privacy boundary and cohort suppression

All Vendors respects the same cohort-privacy floor as every other row on this page. A vendor used by too few franchisees to aggregate safely, on a network of independent franchisees, doesn't appear here at all, in this row or any other. Naming a vendor used by only one or two franchisees would identify that franchisee's private spending by elimination, no matter how the tile is labeled, so Verinode withholds the row entirely rather than risk that.

Two things stay true even with vendors held back this way:

• Those vendors' totals still count toward the hero's network-wide vendor count, network spend, and satisfaction figures at the top of the page, since a network-wide sum doesn't identify anyone the way a single named row would.
• The hero notes how many vendors are being held back with a line reading "N hidden as single-franchisee," so the gap in this row's count is never silent.

As more franchisees adopt a held-back vendor, it clears the floor on its own and its tile appears in this row (and every other row it qualifies for) on the next nightly refresh, no action needed from HQ.

This guard only applies to networks of independent franchisees. Enterprises operating as a single entity across locations, where "franchisee" really means "our own branch," see every vendor's row in full, since there's no separate business to protect.

The empty state

When nothing has rolled up into the network data for your network yet, the row shows:

"No vendor relationships rolled up yet. Data appears after the next nightly aggregation."

This is the normal state for a brand-new HQ account, or for one whose franchisees haven't yet registered vendor relationships in their own IQ accounts. The whole Vendors page runs off a table refreshed once per night by the network aggregation job, so what you see always reflects last night's numbers, not a live feed. Once franchisees start logging vendors, spend, and ratings inside their own accounts, this row starts filling in on the following night's refresh, largest spend first.

How this row differs from the rows above it

The Vendors page reads top to bottom as a funnel from "what needs action" to "what's the full picture." All Vendors sits at the bottom because it's the reference layer, not a triage list:

• Off Program and Rate Drift are flagged, action-oriented rows: vendors on the wrong side of an HQ program or a negotiated rate. Their tiles carry an alert accent color to match.
• Renegotiation Candidates flags vendors with unusually wide spend variance across franchisees, another action signal.
• Top Vendors and Broadest Network Footprint are informational cuts of the same underlying data as All Vendors, just capped at the top 8 by a single dimension (spend, then footprint) and carrying the same steady, neutral tile color as All Vendors rather than an alert color.
• All Vendors is the uncapped, uncurated version of those last two: every vendor, one dimension (spend), no flag logic at all.

If you already know which vendor you're looking for, or want to see the network's full spend order rather than just its top 8, All Vendors is the row to open. If you're looking for what needs attention first, start higher up the page.

How to use it

1. 1Use the row above (Off Program, Rate Drift, Renegotiation Candidates) to find what needs a call this week.
2. 2Come to All Vendors to look up a specific vendor by name, or to see the network's complete spend order rather than just the top 8 shown in Top Vendors.
3. 3Read each tile's franchisee count next to its category: a vendor with a high franchisee count and a modest satisfaction or Verinode Score figure is worth a second look even if it never trips the Renegotiation Candidates or Rate Drift flags.
4. 4Click a tile to open its full detail overlay: cost distribution, program status, per-franchisee participation, and the option to compare it against researched alternatives in the same category.
5. 5If a vendor you know your network uses isn't showing up anywhere on the page, check the privacy-boundary note in the hero ("N hidden as single-franchisee") before assuming the data is missing.

Best-practice example

Say a regional operations lead asks whether the network has a relationship with a specific drying-equipment vendor they heard about at a trade event. Top Vendors and Broadest Network Footprint don't show it, both are capped at 8 and this vendor isn't a top spender or a top-footprint vendor yet. Scroll to All Vendors and scan down the spend-sorted list: the vendor turns up two-thirds of the way down, with 3 franchisees using it, a modest monthly spend, a 4.6 satisfaction figure, and no Verinode Score yet computed. That's enough to answer the question (yes, a handful of franchisees already use it, and they like it) without needing a flag to have tripped first. Open the tile for the full detail overlay if the conversation calls for cost distribution or program status next.

Related reading

• Vendors overview: the full Vendors page, every row, and the hero that sits above this one
• Comparing vendors across your network: the side-by-side compare panel opened from a vendor's detail overlay
• The privacy boundary: the cohort-suppression rule in full, as it applies across the Vendors page
• Standards: where vendor-approval and other conformance programs are defined
• Compliance: network-wide compliance posture across every program type, vendor and otherwise

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