Vendors you no longer work with are archived rather than deleted — keeping their history and documents intact while removing them from active lists, dashboards, and coverage counts.

The Archived Vendors page

What archiving does

• Removes the vendor from active lists, the Overview portfolio, and coverage matrices.
• Keeps the full record — insurance history, documents, contracts, and notes.
• Is fully reversible via Unarchive.

Happy path

• To archive: open the vendor and click Archive in the header.
• To restore: open Archived Vendors, find the vendor, and Unarchive — they return to active lists with their data intact.

Issues & edge cases

• "Where did my vendor go?" — if a vendor vanished from active lists, they were probably archived; look here.
• Archived by mistake — just unarchive; nothing is lost.
• Don't archive to hide a compliance problem — archiving removes them from alerts, but the underlying issue (and history) remains; only archive vendors you've genuinely stopped using.
• Re-engaging an old vendor — unarchive and re-check insurance/contract dates, which may have lapsed while inactive.