Is your EDI provider slowing you down?
When a purchase order, invoice or dispatch notice gets stuck, you deserve helpful and practical answers. Not silence. Not repeated follow-ups. Not generic replies that fail to solve the bottlenecks.
Low-quality support, unclear ownership and delayed onboarding can leave your team chasing answers when they should be focused on customers and operations.
If EDI is holding you back rather than keeping things moving, it’s time to take a fresh look.
Common EDI operation problems
Do these sound familiar to you?
- You raise a critical issue, but the answer fails to resolve it.
- A new onboarding project sits in limbo for weeks.
- Customer support does not actually understand your needs.
- Your orders, deliveries and payments suffer.
- You feel like one ticket among thousands around the world.
Over time, these issues become operational headaches. Your team loses confidence. Projects slow down. Internal efforts balloon. EDI feels like something you have to manage, when it’s meant to help your business move faster.
EDI support, onboarding and operations
What good should look like
What you’re experiencing
What you deserve
How we can help
Frustrating support
Helpful responses that actually clear your blockers
High-quality support that solves the real problem, not just the ticket, from your own time zone
Poor expertise and understanding of your business
Confidence that your provider understands your operational requirements
A local Australian provider with 30+ years of local expertise and in-depth understanding of suppliers’ EDI requirements
You have to keep chasing updates
Clear ownership, accountability and visibility
Ongoing, transparent communication from a team that proactively drives outcomes and operational momentum
Onboarding is delayed too often
A structured, efficient and predictable onboarding process
Practical, timely support with onboarding, mapping, testing, configuration and retailer readiness
You are a small account in a long global queue
A provider who does not treat your issue like it can wait
A dedicated team giving you priority treatment, undivided attention and personalised solutions
The best-practice EDI checklist
- Reliable, clear answers when issues affect orders, invoices or dispatch
- Local expertise and understanding of Australian suppliers’ business needs
- Clear ownership and timeline for issue resolution
- Transparent progress updates
- Structured, simple onboarding process with hands-on guidance
- Flexible options that suit your system, volumes and workflows
- Confidence that your EDI setup can grow with your business
Best-in-class EDI support and onboarding for suppliers
MessageXchange and Colladium, our EDI web portal, empower suppliers of all sizes to meet multiple retailers’ EDI requirements, get up and running quickly, receive excellent support, and save time and money.
Expert support in your time zone
30+ years of EDI expertise in Australia
Structured, efficient onboarding
Proactive communication and accountability
Personalised support and solutions
Choose the EDI solution that suits you
EDI Webforms
Quick and easy EDI compliance
From just $99 a month, our webforms solution is the simplest way to start EDI with your customers. All you need is a web browser.
- Exchange EDI messages from an easy-to-use web portal
- Fully comply with over 20 retailers’ EDI requirements
- Generate SSCC labels that can be printed on an office printer
- Receive email notifications when a new order arrives
- Have traceability and history of orders
EDI Gateway
Flexible system-to-system EDI for business efficiency
MessageXchange’s EDI gateways are designed to suit your business. Have access to powerful business tools at your fingertips to make your business more efficient than ever.
- Exchange EDI messages directly from your software
- Comply with your customers’ EDI requirements, or onboard your suppliers to electronic trade
- Remove double handling
- Add your own business process management and validation
- Generate custom reports
Book an EDI review
Chat with one of our experts
An EDI review can help you understand:
- where friction is happening
- what is slowing down onboarding
- what a better support model should look like
- what switching involves
- the right EDI solution for your order volumes, retailers, systems, budget and operational goals.
The next step can be a migration, a staged approach, or simply knowing your options before the next issue disrupts your business again and causes you even more frustration.
The switching process may include confirming your requirements, mapping out the migration plan, configuring, testing and moving when you are ready.
Ready to see what better could look like? Let’s have a chat about your current EDI experience!
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v2food got critical project back on track by switching to MessageXchange
After months of urging its EDI provider to understand its requirements, v2food switched to MessageXchange. “The switch delivered a significant cost benefit and a partner that’s so much more competent, responsive and solution-oriented for both operational issues and complex change management.”
FAQs
Colladium and MessageXchange support EDI with a wide range of major Australian retailers, including Coles, Woolworths, Costco, ALDI, Metcash, Target, Big W, Kmart, The Good Guys, Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Officeworks, Chemist Warehouse, Endeavour Group and more.
Switching can feel like a big step, especially if your current EDI setup is already live. In practice, the process is much more manageable when there is a clear migration plan, practical onboarding support and a team driving the next steps with you.
Yes. Many businesses start exploring their options before renewal, so they are not forced into a rushed decision later. A review can help you understand what better could look like, even if you are not ready to move yet.
Many suppliers review their EDI setup because they are trying to reduce the time their team already spends chasing support, managing delays or working around manual processes.
In the EDI review, we’ll talk through your current EDI setup, the retailers you trade with, what is working well and where your team may be losing time. From there, we can suggest practical options, whether that means staying simple, improving your setup or planning a future migration.
Not necessarily. We can talk through your current setup, your trading partners and what a practical migration could look like. For some suppliers, a staged approach may make more sense.
Choose the EDI solution that suits you:
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- EDI Webforms via Colladium: A simple, web-based portal to easily trade with multiple retailers, receive orders, create ASNs, send invoices and be fully EDI compliant, from just $99 a month
- EDI Gateway via MessageXchange: An integrated, configurable EDI solution that connects directly with your business system, removes double handling, supports your own validation rules and workflows, and generates custom reports.