For vendors

Your price. Your invoice.
Your customer.

Free to apply and to be listed. Approval is $49 a year, per management company. Communities publish RFPs. You set your own price, do the work, and invoice under your own name.

Free to applyYou set your own priceKeep your own brand
A desert-planted street median of agave, palo verde and decomposed granite; a landscaper works the bed at mid-distance, back to camera.Paid on your own invoice

Sample payout statement

Paid through Fri, Aug 7

Invoices paidJul 1 – Jul 31
  • Willow Creek HOAPool · 4 weekly visits · WO 4181–4184$1,480.00
  • Sabal PointLandscaping · common areas, 4 visits · WO 4207–4210$2,340.00
  • Heron BayPorter · clubhouse + restrooms, 8 mornings · WO 4166–4173$960.00
  • Cypress LandingGate staffing · 62.0 hrs · WO 4231$1,364.00
Invoiced this period
$6,144.00
Paid to your company4 invoices, one balance
$6,144.00

Every invoice here went out in your own name and settled into one balance across every community on it. Each of these invoices is paid straight to your company, on the bank details printed on it, and the payment is recorded here against that invoice.

Insurance

Your badge stays live for as long as your insurance does.

Your certificate of insurance — your COI — and your trade credentials come first. Once your COI and respective trade credentials are verified, you are welcome to apply to all available management companies on the marketplace. If we get within 30 days of any document expiring, we will reach out to receive an updated copy.

Required for Pool cleaning

4 documents

Certified Pool Operator (CPO) certification

Your CPO card — the certification that covers chemical handling in a public pool.

Verified

The card carries the date it expires.

You cannot propose on anything until this is verified and current.

Expires: 2/3/2027
Verified by VendoRFP

General liability COI

Certificate of insurance for general liability coverage.

Verified

The certificate, with the coverage limits a community’s minimums are checked against and the date the policy runs out.

You cannot propose on anything until this is verified and current.

Expires: 10/6/2026
Verified by VendoRFP

Workers compensation

Workers compensation insurance certificate.

Verified

The certificate covering the company’s own crew, with the date the policy runs out.

You cannot propose on anything until this is verified and current.

Expires: 11/5/2026
Verified by VendoRFP

W-9 form

IRS Form W-9. The community pays your invoice directly, on the payment details printed on it. The W-9 is on file for the times money moves through us instead — a quick payout you draw early, or a refund.

Verified

A signed W-9 carrying the company’s legal name and taxpayer number.

You can propose without this, but you cannot be paid until it is verified and current.

Verified by VendoRFP

Other documents

Not required, upload only if asked

Business license

Current and valid business license.

Verified
Verified by VendoRFP

Other document

Anything else VendoRFP has asked you for.

Missing

What it costs

You set the price. Here is every number we take.

Three numbers, then what it costs to move the money. VendoRFP charges you for these directly.

To join and be listed

Free

No membership and no setup charge. You are searchable from the day you apply.

Approval, per management company

$49/yr

About 2 business days to a decision, and 30 days to resolve anything raised.

VendoRFP+, optional

$38/mo

$418 for the year, one month free.

Moving the money

Credit or debit card

Stripe's rate for running the card. Stripe charges it to the paying community on a line of its own, and Stripe keeps it.

2.9% + $0.30
Bank transfer (ACH)

Your payout is the full amount you invoiced. Stripe's ACH processing is charged to the paying community on a line of its own, passed through at Stripe's cost.

Free
Get paid early

Take money out before its normal payment date, once the work behind it has been reviewed. $35 plus 3% of the amount you draw, charged once, on that draw.

$35 + 3%

Card and bank payment inside VendoRFP switches on when the processor is connected, and the rates above are what each way to pay costs once it does. Today your invoice goes out in your own name, and the community pays you on the payment details printed on it.

VendoRFP+ Vendor

VendoRFP+

Answer RFPs as often as you like, at any distance, plus a request form for your own website, the app your guys work from, and the VendoRFP+ Vendor badge. One subscription covers the whole company, on either plan.

$38/mo

$418 a year · one month free

  • The request form for your own website

    Drop VendoRFP’s proposal request form into your own site. A board asks you for work where they already are, on your domain, and it arrives in your VendoRFP queue with the community already attached.

  • Unlimited proposals, at any distance

    Approval puts every open RFP in front of you and carries your first 5 RFP openings. Opening an RFP reveals which community it is and what they are asking for, and that is the moment one is spent — whether or not you propose. VendoRFP+ makes them unlimited on every management company you are approved for, and lets you propose to a company however far it is from your yards, instead of only within the distance that company set.

  • The VendoRFP app for your employees

    Your employees work from the app on their phones: the stop list, the proof of the work, and the times, recorded as each stop is done. VendoRFP+ includes the app, and adding an employee turns it on for them.

  • The VendoRFP+ Vendor badge

    The VendoRFP+ Vendor mark is yours for as long as the subscription runs. Buyers see it beside your name, and it tells them you are a subscribing member rather than a vetted-once applicant.

What one approval reaches

One approval covers every community that company runs.

You get approved with the management company, and every community on its books opens up with it. Move the counts and see what that adds up to.

Say you are approved with
and each one manages

You

Your company

One profile. One set of verified documents.

VendoRFP

Approved, once per management company

We hold your verified file. Each management company reviews it and answers.

  • Management company 1

    $49 / year

    6 communities under this management company. One approval opens the RFPs they publish.

  • Management company 2

    $49 / year

    6 communities under this management company. One approval opens the RFPs they publish.

  • Management company 3

    $49 / year

    6 communities under this management company. One approval opens the RFPs they publish.

What you pay
$147 / year
Communities your approval opens
18
Per community
$8.17 / year
Approval is charged per management company. One approval covers every community that management company manages, and the ones it takes on later.

Where the work is

You compete for standing contracts at communities of every size.

Pool, landscaping, porter and amenity staffing run as standing contracts, and boards put specialty work out by name on top of them. The work brings you back to the same address.

Golden-hour aerial of a new-build subdivision: modern white-brick homes on open corner lots, young street trees along mown verges, a city skyline low on the horizon.
What you would be driving to · an example community, mapped
Aerial of a suburban subdivision — cul-de-sacs, uniform rooftops and a stormwater pond
SubdivisionsCul-de-sac curb strips, entrance medians, a stormwater pond.
A gatehouse and arm barrier at a community entrance, palms and planting either side
Gated communitiesEverything behind the gatehouse counts, and so does the entry drive up to it.
A lakeside common area with a fishing pier and lawn running down to the water
Lakeside common areasLawn running all the way down the bank to a pier.
A residential street under autumn maples with leaf litter along the curb
Seasonal streetsStreet trees, the gutter line, and the catch basin they fill each fall.

Your dashboard

The dashboard comes with the account, free.

You see every open RFP on a satellite map, with the miles from your yard on each one. Then the work you win, the money, and your documents.

Pick a trade — each one is a different dashboard

Frequent visits, each one a chemistry log. Free chlorine and pH are required every visit, because your health department is what sets the interval a public pool records at, and the dashboard asks for both before it lets you close the visit.

VendoRFP · Vendor dashboard

Example data
Active jobs4Compliance statusActive

Dispatch Board

Open board
Pending1
Pool care — weekly serviceWillow Creek HOA$120.00
Dispatched2
Pool chemistry checkLakeside Commons$110.00Pool filter backwashStonebridge Ranch HOA$140.00
In Progress1
Pool care — brush & vacuumWillow Creek HOA$135.00
Completed2Awaiting community approval
Pool opening — seasonalCedar Hollow$480.00Pool care — weekly serviceLakeside Commons$120.00

Every stop on this board is a pool of yours. Completing one needs a photo of the finished job, plus this visit’s chlorine and pH readings.

Earnings MTD

$3,140.00

22 completed this month

This visit’s report

  • Free chlorineRequired
  • pHRequired
  • Total alkalinityOptional
  • Cyanuric acidOptional
  • Water temperatureOptional

Chlorine and pH are required every visit because the health department sets that floor. A reading outside the normal band is recorded and flagged, never refused.

Compliance

  • General liability COIVerified
  • Workers compensationVerified
  • Business licenseUnder review
  • W-9 formVerified

Insurance is checked the day you propose, so keeping your documents current is what keeps you eligible.

New invoiceUpload a documentPayouts

See every open RFP on a satellite map

One pin per community, sorted by how far it is from your nearest yard. Filter by trade, by how far, and by what you can answer today.

Build your proposal on the map

See the ground the community drew, drop your own markers, say how often you come, attach photos, and price the line items.

See your week on one screen

Pending, sent out, in progress, done. Your guys check in from a phone and record the readings the trade requires.

Send your own invoices

Your numbering and your logo, locked onto the document when you issue it. Reminders go out on the schedule you set, or not at all.

Check what you are owed

What approved work has cleared, what taking it early costs before you decide, and four exports: invoices, sales tax, payouts, dispatch.

Keep your insurance and licenses on file

Every document with the date it runs out, and a straight answer per trade to the only question that matters: can I answer this today.

If you already run scheduling software and somebody who does the books, keep both. The dashboard only holds what happens on VendoRFP — the work you win here, the invoices you send here, and the documents that keep you eligible to propose.

The path

From applying to getting paid.

You stay your own boss.

  1. 01Apply

    Your trade, the area you drive, your team size. Free.

    Start an application
  2. 02Get verified

    We check your insurance and whatever your trade requires.

  3. 03Open an RFP, then propose

    RFPs go up without naming the community. Opening an RFP reveals which community it is and what they are asking for, and that is the moment one is spent — whether or not you propose. Approval carries your first 5 RFP openings.

  4. 04Do the work, record the visit

    Your guy logs the visit from his phone, with a photo of the finished work and the readings your trade requires.

  5. 05Invoice, and get paid

    You send your own invoice, under your own name and number, on the same terms as every other company here. The community reads it on one screen with every other invoice it gets, and pays you on the payment details printed on it. Record the payment on your invoices page and the invoice closes.

The difference

You win the same work with fewer phone calls.

Chasing it yourselfOn VendoRFP
How a community finds you

Word of mouth, three seasons in

Listed the day you are verified
What the community compares

Whatever each vendor chose to send

The same fields from everyone
Insurance verified before proposals

Not checked before a proposal

Every document, with its expiration
Who sets your price

You

You
Where your invoice lands

An inbox, then a phone call

On the community’s screen, with the rest
Chasing the money

Call the community manager

One screen: who owes you what
Who you work for

Yourself

Yourself

You write your own invoice either way. What changes is where it lands and who sets the terms.

Apply

Free to apply. Get verified, then propose.

It takes a few minutes on your phone. Communities near your yard see you once you are verified.

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