Can Shopify do retail EDI?
Not natively. Shopify handles DTC and, through Shopify B2B, wholesale ordering on your own storefront, which is a different job from trading EDI documents with a retailer’s system. Retail EDI needs X12 transaction sets, a routing-guide compliance layer, and carton-level ASNs, none of which Shopify B2B produces. Brands add an EDI platform alongside Shopify.
Shopify B2B and retail EDI solve different problems and get confused because both are called wholesale. One is a buyer logging into your site; the other is a retailer’s system sending an 850 and expecting an 856 back before the truck arrives.
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