Vendor guide

Your seat

Signing in to the vendor portal, inviting and removing colleagues, and what a seat lets you do with and without a plan.

Last updated 24 September 2026

A seat is one person's access to one vendor's account on AEC Integrations. Seats have no price and no limit on how many your company holds. What a seat can change depends partly on whether your company has an active plan, set out below.

Sign in

Go to the sign-in page and choose Continue with Google, or enter your email and choose Email me a sign-in link. Use the address your seat was granted to. There is no password.

Once you are signed in, the vendor portal opens on your company's overview. Its tabs are Vendor Overview, Profile, Products, Messages and Seats. Each product has its own tabs, including Integrations.

One account holds a seat on one vendor. If you need seats at two companies, use a separate email address for each.

How seats are granted

There are three ways to get a seat:

An approved claim. The person who claimed the listing becomes an owner of the account. See Claiming your vendor listing.
An invitation from a colleague. The person invited becomes a member.
AEC Integrations adds one at your company's request. That seat is an owner.

Owners and members can do the same things with your company's listings. The one difference is that only owners manage seats.

Invite a colleague

Owners invite from the Seats tab. Choose Invite, enter your colleague's email address, and choose Send invite. Any address works. Your colleague must sign in with the address you invited.

An invitation expires after 14 days.
Resend sends it again. You can send each invitation up to four times, a few minutes apart.
Revoke cancels an invitation that has not been accepted.
Your company can send up to 10 invitations a day.

Invited colleagues join as members. Members cannot invite others.

If your colleague's account already holds a seat at another company, the invite page says the account can't join your team. They need to sign in with a different address, and you need to invite that address.

Remove a colleague

Owners remove a seat with Remove on the Seats tab. The person loses access to the vendor portal straight away. Their account stays, as an ordinary account that can still write reviews.

You cannot remove your own seat from the portal. If you are leaving your company, ask an owner to remove you. If you are the last owner, contact us first so the account is not left without one.

If AEC Integrations removes the last seat on your company's account, your listing goes back to us to maintain. The integrations your company claimed become unclaimed, and your data flows and attestations stay on them. When your company has a seat again, claim the integrations again.

What a seat can do

With a seat alone, whether or not your company has a plan, you can:

see everything in the vendor portal,
manage seats, if you are an owner,
claim, edit, retire and add the integrations your company owns, except one delivered through a connector (Owning an integration),
add your own links to an integration at either end,
contest a detail on an integration your company does not own (Contests and protests),
maintain the catalogue of a connector product your company makes, on that product's Catalogue tab, once we have handed the catalogue to you (Claiming your vendor listing).

With an active plan, you can also:

edit your company profile and product details, including categories, trades, audiences, phases and "How teams use it",
confirm or deny data flows (Attesting an integration),
claim, edit, retire and restore an integration your company owns that is delivered through a connector, and decide contests on it (Owning an integration).

A seat never changes where your company or products appear in search or in any listing. Neither does a plan. See Plans and the account label.

If your plan ends

Your seats stay, and so does sign-in. The portal becomes read-only for anything that needs a plan. Your listings stay published, and the seat-only actions above keep working.