Buyer and Supplier Matchmaking

Buyers and suppliers apply through separate intake forms: buyers describe what they need, suppliers describe what they can provide. You build the forms yourself, with the questions that matter in your industry, and set open and close dates around your timeline.

Every application lands in a review queue where your team rates, approves, or declines, and acceptance or rejection notices go out in bulk. You can even hold registration until an application is approved, so nobody unvetted walks the floor. Pure Michigan Business Connect cut application review time 96% after moving the process onto Connect Space.

Each buyer gets a pick portal: vetted suppliers on one side, their selections on the other. They drag companies across, rank them, and submit. You can also show each supplier’s application answers right in the portal, so buyers choose based on what a supplier actually said they can do.

Prefer to curate? Planners can build or import the candidate list on a buyer’s behalf, and a round can be reopened when someone needs to change their picks.

Connect Space turns submitted picks into a full-day schedule: one-on-ones, small-group roundtables, and exhibit floor meetings, placed across your time slots and meeting spaces with per-person and per-room conflict checks, so nobody is double-booked.

The matrix view lays the whole day out in 15-minute increments, by participant, company, or room, and exports to PDF. When plans change on site, you can see every open slot at a glance.

Every meeting carries a real invitation with accepted and pending states, and check-in happens per meeting, so attendance is a number you report, not a guess. Before the day starts, each attendee gets their personal meeting schedule by email as a PDF.

The results show in the numbers: Pure Michigan Business Connect has averaged 90% meeting attendance and has created more than 10,000 buyer and supplier meetings on Connect Space.