Supplier verification
Confirming that a supplier is a real, correctly identified business with valid bank details, checked against authoritative sources rather than taken on trust from an invoice.
Supplier verification is the process of confirming that a supplier is a real, correctly identified business with valid bank details, checked against authoritative sources rather than accepted on the strength of an invoice or an email. It establishes who you are actually paying before money moves.
In most finance teams, a new supplier is added from the details on their first invoice or a setup form. Nothing independently confirms that the company exists, that the person submitting the details is connected to it, or that the bank account belongs to the business named. That gap is precisely what invoice redirection and impersonation fraud exploit.
Verification closes it by checking identity and banking details against registers and bank-level confirmation, and by treating the result as something to maintain rather than file. Done once and shared, it becomes infrastructure the whole network can rely on.
Accounting Links verifies suppliers against authoritative registers and confirms their bank details, then maintains and shares that verified state across the network so buyers do not each repeat the work.
Common questions
Is supplier verification the same as vendor onboarding?
No. Vendor onboarding is the administrative task of adding a supplier to your system. Supplier verification independently confirms the supplier's identity and bank details against authoritative sources, and keeps that confirmation current.