X12 EDI for suppliers & manufacturers

Retail EDI compliance, without the EDI team.

EDI Flow receives your retailers' 850 purchase orders, validates and maps every SKU, then sends back 855 acknowledgments, 856 shipping notices, and 810 invoices — automatically. Built for factories, not middleware consultants.

Starter from $150/mo · 500 orders per month · cancel any time

Purchase orders
Live
Inbound 850s across your trading partners
  • PO-4471

    Nordica Retail

    Processed
  • PO-4470

    Marché Home

    Processing
  • PO-4469

    Vantage Supply

    Processed
  • PO-4468

    Nordica Retail

    Needs mapping
856 ASN sent· 1Z999AA10123456784
Speaks the documents retailers require850Purchase order855Acknowledgment856Ship notice810Invoice
The problem

One late ASN can wipe out a week of margin.

Retail EDI is unforgiving: the retailer sets the document, the deadline, and the penalty. Factories without an EDI department absorb those costs in chargebacks, overtime, and lost orders.

Chargebacks eat your margin
One late 856 shipping notice or missing 855 acknowledgment can trigger retailer compliance fines and invoice deductions — often discovered weeks later.

The hidden cost: 1–3% of revenue

Manual PO entry invites errors
Re-keying 850 line items into spreadsheets or an ERP means wrong SKUs, transposed quantities, and shipping dates that slip before anyone notices.

Every manual touch is a defect waiting to happen

Legacy EDI is priced per document
Traditional VANs and middleware charge per document, per partner, per month — before you have mapped a single SKU.

Fixed costs that scale with your success

Every retailer is a new project
New partner, new spec, new SKU list, new mapping spreadsheet. Weeks of back-and-forth pass before the first purchase order can ship.

Onboarding delays cost you the first orders

How it works

From purchase order to paid invoice — in six auditable steps.

Follow the document packet through the platform. Each step is logged, timestamped, and inspectable — so you always know what the retailer received, and when.

X12 850InboundStep 01 / 06

The retailer sends an 850 purchase order

A raw X12 850 arrives from your retail partner. EDI Flow matches the ISA sender to the trading partner, validates the envelope, and deduplicates retransmissions before anything touches your orders.

Orders land in your dashboard seconds after the retailer transmits.

What the platform does

  • Partner matched by ISA sender ID
  • Segment-level validation with readable errors
  • Idempotent ingest — duplicate 850s never create duplicate orders
Built for the factory floor

Made for the people who actually fulfill the order.

Not an integration framework. Not a developer console. A working operations tool for teams that receive retail purchase orders and have to ship against them.

Consumer goods suppliers
You ship to big-box retail and regional chains. 850s arrive as X12; your floor team works in a clean dashboard, not a raw file.

Orders and ASNs handled by operations — no EDI specialist required.

Contract manufacturers
Multiple retail customers, each with their own partner SKUs. Map each retailer's SKU once and every future order translates itself.

One mapping table per partner, reused on every order.

Apparel & footwear
High line-count POs with size and color variants. The 856 and 810 are built from the order's own lines, so totals stay in sync.

Shipped quantities and invoiced totals never drift apart.

3PL & fulfillment partners
Record a shipment by carrier and tracking number; the platform emits the 856 ASN and, when enabled, the 810 invoice automatically.

Fulfillment events become compliant documents in one step.

The platform

Everything required to trade with retail — in one place.

A complete X12 document pipeline, with the operational views your team needs to act on it. No bolt-on translator, no separate compliance archive, no spreadsheet in between.

X12 850 ingestion
Partner matching by ISA sender, envelope validation, idempotent deduplication, and readable line-level errors.
Partner SKU mapping
Translate retailer SKUs into your internal catalog once — with qualifier-aware matching and a safe re-run on stored orders.
855 acknowledgments
Generate compliant PO acknowledgments automatically, per partner, with control numbers tracked end to end.
856 advance ship notices
Carrier, tracking, weight, and package data become a complete ASN, emitted the moment a shipment is recorded.
810 invoices
Invoices are derived from the order's own lines and totals — no separate invoice spreadsheet, no re-keying.
Compliance archive
Every interchange is stored verbatim with raw X12 and parsed views, plus a per-order timeline of every state change.

Mapped in minutes

Import partner SKUs, ingest a sample 850, and see the order — no spec project.

Audit-ready by default

Raw X12, parsed views, control numbers, and order timelines are always retained.

Tenant-isolated

Organization-scoped data access, Clerk authentication, and database-backed admin flags.

Pricing

Predictable pricing. No per-document fees.

Every plan includes the full document engine — 850, 855, 856, and 810 — the compliance archive, and the order inspector.

Starter
$150/month
2 trading partners · 500 orders/mo
  • 850, 855, 856 & 810 documents
  • SKU mapping & order inspector
  • Compliance archive & audit trail
  • Automatic acknowledgments
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Most popular
Growth
$200/month
10 trading partners · 5,000 orders/mo
  • 850, 855, 856 & 810 documents
  • SKU mapping & order inspector
  • Compliance archive & audit trail
  • Automatic acknowledgments
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Scale
$300/month
Unlimited trading partners · unlimited orders
  • 850, 855, 856 & 810 documents
  • SKU mapping & order inspector
  • Compliance archive & audit trail
  • Automatic acknowledgments
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Monthly billing through Stripe · change or cancel any time · taxes may apply.

FAQ

Straight answers before you start.

Translate your first 850 today.

Bring one retailer, one SKU list, and one purchase order. EDI Flow handles the rest — from acknowledgment to invoice.