Every time your team submits a new vendor intake in Zip, someone on the security team has to be notified, a review has to be kicked off, and the result has to make its way back to procurement before anything gets approved. For fast-growing companies, this manual handoff is one of the most persistent sources of friction between procurement and security—and it often keeps third-party risk reviews stuck in spreadsheets or limited to only “critical” vendors, leaving gaps that raise overall risk.
The Drata and Zip integration helps eliminate this.
The Problem: Procurement and Compliance Don't Talk to Each Other
Most companies manage vendor intake and vendor security in separate systems. Zip handles the procurement side — intake submissions, approval workflows, spend controls. Drata handles the compliance side — vendor security reviews, evidence collection, control monitoring.
The gap between them is manual. Someone on the procurement team submits a vendor intake in Zip and emails the security team. The security team creates the vendor record in Drata and kicks off a review. Eventually they email back with an approval. The whole process takes days, sometimes weeks — and requires both teams to stay in sync across systems that don't communicate.
For companies targeting SOC 2, ISO 27001, or any framework that requires vendor due diligence, this friction doesn't just slow things down — it creates risk. Vendors can get approved for spend before a security review is complete.
The Solution: Zip × Drata Integration
Drata now integrates directly with Zip. When a team member submits an intake request in Zip for a new vendor,
Drata detects it automatically and does three things:
Creates the vendor record in Drata — no manual entry required.
Maps standard fields from Zip intake directly to the Drata vendor record, so all context carries through.
Kicks off a vendor security review according to your configured Drata program settings.
When the review is complete and approved in Drata, the status syncs back to Zip automatically. Procurement sees the approval. Vendor onboarding keeps moving. No email chains. No duplicate data entry. No vendor slips through the gap.
How It Works: Step by Step
A team member submits an intake request in Zip and selects a new vendor.
Zip detects that the vendor is new and triggers the Drata integration.
Drata automatically creates the vendor record and starts a security review based on your program configuration.
Relevant documents (SOC 2, ISO certification, bridge letters, pen test reports) are attached automatically based on your configured document type filters.
The security team completes and approves the review in Drata.
Drata syncs the approval back to Zip via webhook — immediately and at scale.
The Zip request is now cleared for approval with a verified security review on record.
What's Included in the Integration
Standard Zip vendor fields can map to Drata vendor records out of the box. Custom fields are on the roadmap for a future phase.
Vendor contact name and email from the Zip vendor contact object are automatically mapped to Drata — no manual configuration needed.
Intake data can be converted to PDF and attached directly to the Drata vendor record.
Document attachments are filtered by type (SOC 2, ISO, bridge letters, pen test) and are configurable per deployment.
Deep links to Drata vendor records are now returned directly in the Zip API response.
Setup in Drata
In Drata, go to Settings → Integrations and select Zip.
From there:
Generate API credentials with the required scopes.
Paste credentials into Zip — the integration pulls what it needs automatically.
Configure field mappings and set the default Drata User ID as vendor owner.
Select which document types should be attached per deployment.
That's the setup. Once live, the integration runs in the background — no ongoing configuration needed.
Get Started
The Zip × Drata integration is available now. If you use both Zip and Drata, connect the integration in Settings → Integrations in your Drata account.
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