Complying with your retailers’ electronic data interchange (EDI) requirements can be confusing and complex. For small businesses, you want to comply in an easy, cost-effective way with minimal impact on your existing processes. This is where web portal solutions, like Colladium, become a viable solution.
How does a web portal solution work?
EDI web portals allow businesses to exchange documents electronically with their trading partners via a web browser. Instead of integrating EDI directly into their internal systems, businesses can log in to a portal, where they manage EDI transactions.
You don’t need to install any software or hardware, and no in-depth knowledge of EDI is required. With the web portal, you can easily create, receive, and send all necessary documents, including purchase order responses, advanced shipping notices, invoices, and more.
When is a web portal right for your business?
There are a few reasons you might choose a web portal for EDI over a fully integrated EDI solution:
- You trade with a small number of retailers
- You’ll receive a small volume of orders through EDI (roughly 30 or less orders a week)
- You sell a limited range of products
- Your software can’t generate the information required by your customers
- You’re just starting out with EDI.
Why choose Colladium for your EDI compliance?
- It’s low cost: It’s free to trade with many retailers. We also have a range of retailers that you cantrade with for $99 per month to trade and $49 for each additional retailer.
- Quick to get started: Register, put in your details and start trading in as little as minutes.
- No technical expertise required: A user-friendly interface where you can create all requiremed documents with ease, even advanced shipping notices (ASNs) or despatch advices.
- Compliance with rrading partners all in the one place: See all your orders in the one listing and respond to them all in the one, familiar way. Behind the scenes, we make sure that everything your customer needs is covered, down to their validation checks, business rules and more.
- Add more integration and functionality – Download orders in CSV or XML format for easy uploading into your software, and share information with your logistics and 3PL partners for them to create the ASN on your behalf, for as little as $49 a month.
- Help at your fingertips: We’ve got a comprehensive knowledge base that’ll walk you through how to get started, how to accept an order, issue an ASN or invoice and more. And if you can’t find what you’re looking for there, just get in touch with our Australian-based support team.
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