the retailer asks
850
purchase order
- po number
- 4500123456
- retailer
- Walmart
- ship to
- WAL-MART DC 6094 · Sanger, TX
- lines
- 24
- ship by
- 31 Jul 2026
- order total
- $8,942.18
Retail Ready
We take the complexity out of EDI so you don't have to. What's left is a system anyone on your team can run.
orders inconfirmedshippedinvoicedpaid
start ready inbound
step one
an order arrives from your retailer
we deal with the format, you deal with the order
the retailer asks
850
purchase order
- po number
- 4500123456
- retailer
- Walmart
- ship to
- WAL-MART DC 6094 · Sanger, TX
- lines
- 24
- ship by
- 31 Jul 2026
- order total
- $8,942.18
01
It just shows up
The order appears in your dashboard the moment the retailer sends it. No portal to log into, no PDF to retype, no email attachment to go hunting for.
02
Nothing gets lost in translation
We read each retailer specification and took the complexity out so you don’t have to.
03
The clock starts, visibly
Ship-by and cancel-after dates come straight off the order and onto your board, so you see the deadline the moment the order exists.
step two
with the acknowledgment
the retailer asks
850
purchase order
- po number
- 4500123456
- retailer
- Walmart
- ship to
- WAL-MART DC 6094 · Sanger, TX
- lines
- 24
- ship by
- 31 Jul 2026
- order total
- $8,942.18
you answer
855
order acknowledgment
- against po
- 4500123456
- accepted
- 24 lines
- backordered
- none
- ship date confirmed
- 31 Jul 2026
- drafted from
- the 850 itself
- checks passed
- 31
the acknowledgment · 24 of 24 accepted
01 RR-4471 IA · 120 EA
02 RR-4472 IA · 96 EA
03 RR-4480 IA · 144 EA
04 RR-4491 IA · 60 EA
… 20 more lines IA · 1,020 EA
accept it, backorder a line, or confirm a different date — they know before the truck moves
step three
shipping is an easy place to create chargebacks
that's why we check the 856 before you send it
what's going on the truck
You tell the retailer what is coming before it gets there: how many cartons, which order they fill, and what is inside each one. If any of that is wrong the delivery gets refused or billed back.
HL*1**S the shipment 12 cartons on one truck
HL*2*1*O the order it fills PO 4500123456
HL*3*2*P each carton with the label the retailer scans
HL*4*3*I what's inside 120 units of RR-4471
what we check before it goes
These run against every shipment you send, using that retailer's own requirements. Watch one of them fail.
W856-014 This shipment has not been sent before ✓
W856-021 Every carton is accounted for on the truck ✓
W856-033 The ship-to matches the address on the order ✓
W856-047 Every carton label will scan at the dock !
W856-052 Quantities match what the retailer ordered ✓
W856-061 The carton count adds up ✓
caught before it went out
Carton 7's label has one wrong digit, so it would not have scanned at the dock — and nobody would have found out until the delivery was already turned away.
this is exactly the kind of thing that comes back as a chargeback relabelled and re-checked · it went out cleanstep four
and then you invoice it
850 purchase order inbound
855 order acknowledgment outbound
856 advance ship notice outbound
810 invoice outbound
997 functional acknowledgment inbound
$8,942.18 Invoiced against the shipment they accepted, confirmed received, and matched back to the order it started
as. One history, and nothing to reconcile by hand.
the simulator
before going live use the retailer simulator in practice mode
Have purchase orders sent to you just like that retailer would in real life. Then send and receive the other documents just as if it were live.
retailreadyedi.com/practice
The simulator plays the retailer's part. The orders it sends you, the replies it gives back and the deadlines it holds you to all behave the way that retailer's will.
So the first time you work a real order, it is not the first time you have worked one. Everything there was to learn, you already learned — on an order that could not cost you anything.
who you can trade with
WalmartSam's ClubBest BuyMeijerBurlingtonDollar Tree
Already set up and ready to trade. Shipping to somebody who is not on this list? Tell us who, and we will get them working for you.
Under an hour
from signing up to your first practice order. No demo call, no setup fee, no sales process to sit through.
From $99
a month. No hidden fees and no per-document costs. Practice mode, chargeback prevention and a lot more, included.
Do it yourself
Set your own connection up in the app, at your own pace. If you need a retailer we do not have yet, or you get stuck, that part is on us.
before you sign anywhere
three questions worth asking any edi company
01
Where do your retailer rules come from?
The retailer’s own documentation.
A retailer on a supported list is not the same as a retailer whose specification has been read — every character of it. We work through each one’s requirements and keep every rule linked to the page it came from, so you can see why we ask for what we ask for.
02
What is this going to cost me?
One flat rate. Published in public.
No per-document fees. No per-line surcharges. No per-partner upsell. Just one flat monthly rate you can sign up for without ever talking to anyone.
03
Can I see what you sent?
All of it, whenever you want.
Pending, sent or failed, every document is there in full, next to the checks it passed. Nothing about what leaves your account is hidden from you.
and there is a record of it
you can always show your work
the file, exactly as it went out
ST*856*0001~ BSN*00*RR856000441*20260731*0930*0002~ DTM*011*20260731~ HL*1**S~ TD1*CTN25*12~ TD5**2*RDWY*M~
Kept byte for byte, with the reference numbers that tie it to the retailer's reply.
gets the same checks in the same order — the first of the day, or the last one before a cut-off. There is no way to skip them when you are behind.
Anything that looks wrong gets flagged while you can still do something about it, rather than turning up on a statement weeks later.
how chargebacks get stopped ↗delivery receipts
SENTretailer received the file0.8s
READretailer confirmed it opened4m
OKall 24 lines accepted—
Proof it arrived, and proof they agreed with it. Both are kept, for every transaction.
whose rule it is
Every check is tied to the retailer requirement behind it. So when something gets flagged you can see in plain english what the retailer expects, and what you need to do to fix it.
see who you can trade with ↗what you actually get
everything it does for you
Chargeback prevention
Every outgoing document is checked against that retailer’s rules before it leaves. If something would come back as a chargeback, you see it while you can still fix it.
And if a chargeback ever does get claimed against you, we have the evidence to dispute it — exactly what went out, when it went, and who sent it.
Practice mode
A simulator that plays the retailer’s part — sending you orders and answering your documents the way that retailer will, so you learn the whole cycle before a live one depends on it.
Most platforms hand you a sample file and wish you luck.
Inventory management
Track stock levels, get low-stock alerts, sync with QuickBooks and NetSuite, or import via CSV.
Get notified
Instant alerts for new orders, approaching deadlines, and document failures — email or in-app.
Accounting that stays in sync
Connect QuickBooks or NetSuite and your invoices and payments go straight through, so nobody is re-entering the same numbers twice.
Deadlines you can see
Missing a ship-by date is the easiest chargeback to get. Yours sit on a board from the moment the order arrives, with alerts before any of them slip.
A record of everything
Who changed what, when, and what the document looked like on either side of it. Kept for every transaction, without anyone having to remember to keep it.
Connections handled for you
Secure transmission both ways, certificates rotated before they expire, and a signed receipt for every file. You do not have to think about any of it.
Reports worth reading
Orders, shipments and chargebacks, out to PDF or Excel — for your own review or for the retailer’s.
and it sends whatever your retailer asks for
Retailers ask for these by number. You do not have to know what any of them are.
850 the order
What the retailer wants, where it goes and when it has to be there.
855 your answer
Accept it, backorder a line, or confirm a different ship date.
856 the shipment notice
What is on the truck and how it is packed. The document chargebacks come from.
810 the invoice
Billed against the shipment they accepted, so the two cannot disagree.
997 the receipt
Proof your file arrived and was readable. Kept for both directions.
824 the rejection notice
When a retailer takes the file but not the contents. Easy to miss, expensive to miss.
860 the change
The retailer amends the order. Applied to the live one, with the history kept.
820 the payment
What they paid, matched back to the invoice and the order it started as.
846 the stock update
What you have available, on the retailer’s schedule.
ST*810*0001~BIG*20260731*RR-INV-88214*20260726*4500123456~REF*DP*94~N1*ST*WAL-MART DC 6094*UL*0078742000094~ITD*01*3*2**10**30~DTM*011*20260731~IT1*1*120*EA*38.42*PE*UP*012345678905~TDS*894218~CTT*24~SE*10*0001~ST*997*0001~AK1*SH*1417~AK2*856*0001~AK5*A~AK9*A*1*1*1~SE*6*0001~ST*810*0001~BIG*20260731*RR-INV-88214*20260726*4500123456~REF*DP*94~N1*ST*WAL-MART DC 6094*UL*0078742000094~ITD*01*3*2**10**30~DTM*011*20260731~IT1*1*120*EA*38.42*PE*UP*012345678905~TDS*894218~CTT*24~SE*10*0001~ST*997*0001~AK1*SH*1417~AK2*856*0001~AK5*A~AK9*A*1*1*1~SE*6*0001~ST*810*0001~BIG*20260731*RR-INV-88214*20260726*4500123456~REF*DP*94~N1*ST*WAL-MART DC 6094*UL*0078742000094~ITD*01*3*2**10**30~DTM*011*20260731~IT1*1*120*EA*38.42*PE*UP*012345678905~TDS*894218~CTT*24~SE*10*0001~ST*997*0001~AK1*SH*1417~AK2*856*0001~AK5*A~
order to payment