- 10,000+
- trading partner integrations
- Quick
- setups with your trading partners
- Mapping, testing and certification handled
- Any
- platform and ERP
- Including ones we did not sell you
- Every
- industry
- Manufacturing to healthcare to retail
Suppliers onboarded to partners including
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Costco -
Target -
Tesla -
Cabela's -
UPS -
Walgreens - Kroger
- CVS
Manufacturing · Automotive · Transportation · 3PL and Logistics · Healthcare · Retail · Distribution · Food and Beverage · Financial Services · eCommerce
A modern EDI platform, built to automate
Your EDI should not depend on people rekeying data or watching inboxes. ED Connect, our cloud EDI platform, combines automation and AI with people who know your business.
AI-assisted mapping
Machine-learning-assisted field mapping speeds up onboarding and replaces much of the manual configuration that used to take months.
Smart error detection
AI flags mapping mismatches and compliance problems before they turn into chargebacks, rejections, or claim denials.
Predictive alerts
Pattern-based monitoring catches order volume anomalies and late or missing documents early.
Workflow automation
Rules-based automation removes manual touchpoints, from receiving an order or shipment request through invoicing and payment.
Prebuilt adapters and connectors
Ready-made integrations for NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and QuickBooks, plus WMS, TMS, accounting, and eCommerce platforms, so documents flow into the systems you already run without custom development.
Validated before the first send
Every transaction is checked against your trading partner's actual specifications before it leaves your system.
Complete visibility. Every document. One place.
Every inbound and outbound document is stored in the ED Connect Web Portal, where you can view it in a readable format or as raw X12 or EDIFACT data. If a document is likely to fail, we hold and flag it before it reaches your trading partner, and your EDI team is alerted right away. Access it from the web or your mobile device.
Included at no extra cost, on web and mobile.
We work with any platform and any ERP
Already running EDI on another platform, or still on spreadsheets and email? Either way, we meet you where you are. Prebuilt adapters get you connected faster, and if your system isn't on the list, we'll build the connection. We also support environments we didn't sell you, and no migration is required to get help.
Integrated with the systems you already run
We manage environments we did not sell you. No migration required to get help.
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QuickBooks - IBM Sterling
- Cleo
- OpenText
- Boomi
EDI that fits how your industry works
Every industry has its own documents, partners, and compliance rules. We set up EDI for all of them.
| Industry | Typical needs |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing | Purchase orders, forecasts and material releases, supplier and customer connections |
| Automotive | OEM and Tier 1 requirements, release schedules, ship notices |
| Transportation and 3PL | Load tenders, status updates, warehouse orders and shipping advice |
| Healthcare | Eligibility, claims, and remittance transactions with HIPAA-aware handling |
| Retail and eCommerce | Retailer and marketplace requirements, ship notices, invoices |
| Distribution and Food and Beverage | Inventory, order, and invoice flows across many trading partners |
| Financial Services | Payment orders, remittance, and secure document exchange |
Choose how you want to run EDI
Best for: Customers with no ERP or backend integration.
How web EDI worksBest for: Documents flowing into your ERP with no rekeying, using prebuilt adapters.
How ERP integration worksBest for: Businesses that need EDI to work but don't want to run it.
How managed EDI worksAll six delivery models, including the hybrids, are on EDI solutions.
What brought you here?
You have a setup packet and a deadline.
Read the answer →Chargebacks, rejections, or claim denials, with reason codes nobody has traced to a cause.
Read the answer →NetSuite, SAP, Dynamics. EDI is often the piece nobody scoped.
Read the answer →Quotes are hard to compare and prices are not published.
Read the answer →An 850 that fails, or requirements that are unclear.
Read the answer →Why customers choose us
Technology is the same across providers. What differs is what happens when onboarding gets complicated or a document fails.
- You are assigned to an onboarding queue and given a portal login.
- Spec questions go to a ticket. Replies arrive in days, from whoever picks it up.
- Your unusual pack configuration is treated as an exception to be escalated.
- The go-live date slips, and the ship date does not.
Capterra and G2 reviews of SPS Commerce, TrueCommerce and Orderful: four-month implementations, "seven months and still not live".
- Someone reads your trading partner packet, not just a form.
- Trading partner specification questions are answered quickly.
- You are told what is required, including whether EDI Webforms would cost less than a full integration.
- The same team maps, tests, and validates your setup.
- You have direct phone numbers the whole way.
The delivery model described on effective-data.com and in the client testimonial on /about-us.
- The platform confirms your documents transmitted successfully. They did.
- Nobody owns the gap between "transmitted" and "compliant".
- You are pointed at reason-code documentation and left to interpret it.
- The deductions continue while the ticket is open.
Reported across competitor reviews: support "stretched very thin", "issues they ignore hoping they go away".
- Someone traces the reason codes back to a root cause in your data or timing.
- Most recurring deductions come down to ASN timing or pack accuracy, both correctable.
- The fix goes into the map, not into a list of recommendations for you to action.
- You are told which deductions are worth disputing and which are genuinely yours.
Remediation approach documented on /managed-services.
- No vendor publishes a price. Every quote requires a discovery call first.
- Quotes arrive structured differently, so they cannot be compared line by line.
- The demo shows the platform, not the implementation you will actually live through.
- Nobody tells you when you are a bad fit for them.
Audit finding: zero EDI vendors publish pricing, which is why aggregator sites own those search results.
- What EDI costs is written down and published, before you talk to anyone.
- Providers are compared honestly, including where a competitor is the better answer.
- You talk to the EDI specialist who would do the work, not a sales rep.
- If we are not the right fit we say so on the first call.
See /what-edi-costs and /edi-provider-comparison on this site.
“Not only did they have the most qualified EDI engineers; they handpicked who they sent.”
The engineer who arrived had already worked out how to move the transmissions across multiple platforms and operating systems, and knew the equipment.
Currently published on /about-us, a page almost nobody reaches.
The four documents, and where each one breaks
Almost every retail EDI relationship runs on these four. Click any of them for what it carries, and the failure it is usually responsible for.
The order itself: what they want, how much, when, and where it ships.
Where it breaksUsually fine. When it fails it is item identifiers: their UPC or vendor part number does not match yours.
Your reply confirming what you can actually fulfil, and at what price.
Where it breaksSkipped more often than any other document. Partners increasingly require it inside a fixed window, and missing it is a compliance failure before you have shipped anything.
What is physically on the truck, packed to the carton, with the label data.
Where it breaksThis is where the chargebacks come from. Most recurring EDI deductions trace to two things: a notice sent after the goods arrive, and pack-structure accuracy.
The bill, which must reconcile to both the order and the ship notice.
Where it breaksFails when it does not tie back to the 856. Quantity or price mismatches move it to a manual queue and the payment slips.
Your team
Your consultant knows your maps, your partners, and your edge cases, and you have their number. Clients tell us they value attention to detail, responsiveness, hands-on help with trading partner requirements, fewer errors and chargebacks, and ERP integration done by people who know the systems.
One call. A clear plan.
We are not the right fit for every company. When we are not, we will say so on the first call, not six months into an engagement.
Or call 847.969.9300Answered by a named EDI specialist on the same business day.