What does EDI cost for a small brand?
Traditional EDI is priced in layers: a setup fee per trading partner, a recurring platform or VAN fee, and per-document or per-kilocharacter transaction charges. Mapping each new partner is usually billed separately. The cost that hurts is rarely the subscription, though — it is the chargebacks that follow when documents are wrong, which routinely exceed the software.
Onboarding is where the surprise sits. A per-partner mapping fee turns a plan to add four retailers into four separate projects, each with its own timeline, which is why brands discover their EDI cost after they have already committed to the accounts.
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