The Dashlane alternative for vendor credentials
Dashlane's answer for someone outside your company is a link that dies after one view or 24 hours, that you cannot re-time and cannot take back. A contractor engagement is not one view.
Dashlane shares an item or a Collection with people inside it, and sends a fixed, unrevokable link to everyone else.
Here, an outside person gets a credential, for a window you choose, that you can withdraw at any time.
One view, 24 hours, no take-backs
Dashlane is a strong password manager, and it does something a lot of comparison pages will not admit: it logs password reveals. Their Activity Log records when a member “copies details or reveals sensitive fields”. If you read otherwise anywhere, including here, stop reading that page.
The gap is the contractor. Your contractor does not use Dashlane, and you are not going to buy them a seat at $8 a month to hand over one login. So you reach for the link. And the link, in Dashlane's own words, “expire[s] after one view or 24 hours”, and “you can't change when the link expires, and you can't revoke access after the link is sent” .
Read that last part again, because it is the whole page. A six-week engagement does not fit in one view. And the second the link leaves your hands, it is gone: wrong person, wrong credential, wrong moment, it does not matter. There is no undo.
So teams do the other thing instead. They add the contractor to a Collection, which is a “folder”, and hand over everything in it, permanently, because now revoking is a task somebody has to remember.
Side by side, in their own words
Every claim below about Dashlane is a quote from Dashlane's own documentation, linked so you can check it yourself. Scoped to the job you came here for: giving an outside person access to a credential you own.
| Dashlane Business | Vendor Access Vault | |
|---|---|---|
| The unit of access | An item, or a Collection. Collections are Dashlane's folder for grouping logins and sharing them as a set. “Collections are like folders.”Source: their documentation | A single credential, granted to one person, for one window of time. |
| How access begins | The owner pushes it out. A member shares a login from their own vault and picks a permission level for the recipient. “A member shares a login from their vault”Source: their documentation | The person who needs it asks for it, with a justification and a duration. An admin approves. Until then, nothing is visible. |
| Sharing with someone who does not use Dashlane | A link that expires after one view or 24 hours. You cannot change that window, and once you have sent it you cannot take it back. “At this time, you can't change when the link expires, and you can't revoke access after the link is sent”Source: their documentation | You choose the window, and you can revoke a grant the moment you change your mind. The credential never leaves the vault. |
| Logging when someone reveals a password | Yes. The Activity Log records a member revealing a sensitive field, and it holds the last 15 months of history. “A member copies details or reveals sensitive fields for items in their vault, like logins, credit cards, bank accounts, secure notes, and secrets.”Source: their documentation | Every reveal is written to an append-only log with the actor, timestamp, IP and user agent, and tied to the approval that authorised it. |
| Cost for a team of ten | $8 per user per month billed annually, so about $960 a year for a team of ten. Their pricing page offers a 14-day trial. “$8 Per user/month billed annually”Source: their documentation | Free while we build it. Every feature, unlimited team members. |
What replaces the link
- The contractor requests one credential, with a justification and a duration that fits the actual engagement.
- An admin approves or denies. Until then, nothing is visible.
- On approval they can reveal it, and every reveal is written to an append-only audit log with the actor, timestamp, IP and user agent, tied to the approval that authorised it.
- You can revoke it at any point, and if you do nothing it expires on its own anyway.
- Offboard the vendor and every pending request against its credentials is denied in the same transaction.
See sharing credentials with contractors or the security model.
Common questions
- Does Dashlane log when someone views a password?
- Yes. Dashlane's Activity Log records when a member copies details or reveals sensitive fields for items in their vault, and it keeps 15 months of history. Do not believe a comparison page that says otherwise. The difference is what the log can prove. Because every reveal here happens behind an approval, our log ties the reveal to the person who authorised it, not only to the person who opened it, and it is append-only for the life of the organisation.
- Dashlane can share with people outside the company. Isn't that the same thing?
- It is close, and it is where the difference bites. Dashlane's link for non-Dashlane users expires after one view or 24 hours, which is a sensible default. But in their words, you cannot change when the link expires, and you cannot revoke access after the link is sent. A contractor engagement is rarely one view or one day, and if you send the wrong thing, you cannot pull it back. Here you choose the window, and you can revoke a grant instantly.
- Do we have to drop Dashlane to use this?
- No. Dashlane is where your employees' own logins belong. What we replace is the Collection you shared with a contractor, or the link you sent them because the Collection felt like too much.
- Do you have SSO and SOC 2?
- Both are on the roadmap. Dashlane has them today. If your procurement process requires a SOC 2 report right now, we are not there yet.
- What does it cost?
- Nothing. Free while we build it, with every feature and unlimited team members.
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