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YouWhat is EDI, in plain English?
EDI (electronic data interchange) is how companies send business documents to each other as structured data instead of paper, PDF or email. A purchase order, a ship notice or an invoice becomes a file that the other side’s system reads without anyone retyping it.
Both sides agree on a standard (most often X12 in North America and EDIFACT elsewhere), on which documents they exchange, and on how the files travel, usually AS2, SFTP or an API.
| Paper world | EDI |
|---|---|
| Purchase order | X12 850 · EDIFACT ORDERS |
| Order confirmation | X12 855 · EDIFACT ORDRSP |
| Packing slip | X12 856 · EDIFACT DESADV |
| Invoice | X12 810 · EDIFACT INVOIC |
SAIL has every standard and version built in, so a new trading partner is set up in a day: the documents, the mappings to your system and the connection, all activated rather than built.
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What you can do
Your EDI notebook. With SAIL behind it.
Learn every standard
X12 · EDIFACT · HIPAA · Peppol · plain English
Read any document
EDI file or PDF · every segment explained
Validate it
Line · element · the fix
Convert it to JSON
Clean, readable JSON
Talk to your EDI
Totals · dates · order match · what to send back
Then put it live
SAIL connects the partner on day one
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