The thread between you and every retailer. HeddleGrid turns the gnarliest X12 into clean, structured orders — and onboards a new trading partner in days, not weeks. No setup fees. No professional-services tax.
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If you sell into big-box retail, EDI is mandatory, brittle, and expensive. The incumbents charge you to feel that pain slowly.
The hard part of EDI was never the syntax — it's the partner-specific map. We hand that to AI, with a human approving the result.
Upload the retailer's EDI implementation guide and a few sample files. HeddleGrid reads every segment, qualifier, and code list.
HeddleGrid generates the full canonical mapping plus validation rules in hours, with fixtures from your real samples. Your analyst reviews and approves.
AS2 or SFTP, control numbers, 997s, resends — handled. Orders flow in as clean data; acks, ASNs and invoices flow back out automatically.
Once a partner is live, documents flow both directions automatically. You only ever touch clean data; HeddleGrid speaks EDI on both ends.
Every partner maps to one canonical model, so you build your integration a single time and it works for partner #2 and partner #20 with no new code. And because mappings are reusable, common retailer formats are often already mapped — so your next partner can be live almost immediately.
The unglamorous, error-prone plumbing of EDI — managed end to end.
AS2, SFTP & VAN — endpoints hosted, certificates generated and rotated for you.
Interchange/group numbering and duplicate detection — never a dropped or double-sent document.
Sent for everything inbound, reconciled for everything outbound — automatically.
Every document checked against the partner's rules before it leaves the building.
Anything that fails lands in one guided worklist with a plain-language fix.
Automatic retries on delivery, and one-click replay of any document or event.
Most "EDI" products are a thin skin over someone else's translator and someone else's network. HeddleGrid owns the whole loom — so onboarding, correctness, and pricing are ours to fix, not a vendor's to gatekeep.
Generic EDI treats your purchase order like any other row of data. HeddleGrid knows what a style code, a prepack, and a multi-DC routing actually mean — because we live it.
Styles, colorways, prepacks and inner/outer cartons map to your catalog, not a generic line item.
SSCC labels, hierarchical 856 loops and timing rules tuned to each retailer's compliance program.
One PO, many destinations — split, routed and tracked the way big-box actually ships.
Orders don't stop at the inbox — they flow through to production and shipment visibility no pure-EDI vendor can follow.
Every vendor's mix of retailers and volume is different, so we scope pricing to fit — no setup fees, no per-document metering. Tell us your trading partners and we'll put together a plan.
| HeddleGrid | Legacy EDI (SPS & co.) | |
|---|---|---|
| New partner onboarding | Days — AI-mapped | 4–6 weeks — manual PS |
| Setup & mapping fees | $0 | $1k–$5k+ per partner |
| Orders into your system | Clean structured data + API | Web portal · re-keying |
| Apparel depth (DPCI, packs, ASN) | Native | Generic |
| Production & shipment loop | Built in | Not offered |
| Pricing | Flat, transparent | Per-doc + per-KC + fees |
Connect your first trading partner and watch a real purchase order become clean, structured data — live in days, with no setup fees.
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