r/edi

If you're a mid-market retailer that got sucked into having an SPS account because you thought it was what you needed to integrate with a larger retailer, and then at some point you want to leave and use a different EDI provider, how hard/easy do they make it to do that? I understand there's a cancellation form you have to fill out. If you fill it out, then what happens, and how long does it take?

I'm also curious about this from a contract standpoint. Are contracts required? How long are they typically, and do they auto-renew? What is the window in which you can exit? And if you submit a cancellation form and you're mid-contract, what happens?

I'm not going to say who I am or who I work for, but it probably wouldn't be hard for TrueCommerce to find out. Flooring EDI is a different animal than other industries.

We've worked with SPS Commerce and OpenText, we agree SPS isn't easy to work with but they at least make it work. We also can attest OpenText will at least make it work (albeit under pressure from the manufacturer).

The issue with TrueCommerce is we've had several issues across several vendors. The first client of theirs under b2bgateway, it was like getting an act of Congress to get them to do anything, but at least they eventually helped the customer after a month.

However, more recent clients under the main name have been horrific. We've had truecommerce expect two different distributers share an edi relationship with their retailers (which violates anti trust laws). One of those distributers dropped truecommerce due to how bad they were to work with. The other one seems like they're stuck in a contract, and they refuse to budge on what the flooring industry expects, nor will they escalate our issues to management.

I get it, in other industries truecommerce isn't that bad, but in the flooring industry they are terrible.

Hello Guys,

The Org i'm working for is hiring for the below roles.

1. EDI Lead Developer - 8+Yrs Exp - SI Map Editor and ITXA mapping / BP Development.
2. ITX/WTX Developer - 4+ Yrs Exp.
3. EDI Business Analyst - 7-10 yrs Exp.

Apart from this we are also taking

1. APIC Developer - 5+Yrs.
2. DevOps Engineer - 8+Yrs.

Any Questions or Queries pls ping me.

Thanks.

In my experience helping others onboard to new EDI platforms, sometimes I’ve had glimpses of what chargebacks look like for companies.

What are the most common chargebacks (annoying but not horrible), and what are some examples of chargebacks that really rocked the boat?

No retailer/buyer names, please.

I’m trying to get a clearer picture of which ecommerce focused ERPs actually have native EDI built in, versus the ones that still rely on a separate EDI provider or connector once you start dealing with bigger retail channels. The use case I’m thinking about is brands selling through places like Walmart, Target and other big box or marketplace retail partners where EDI is not optional. Purchase orders, ASNs, invoices, inventory updates, routing, labels, chargebacks, all the fun stuff.

Hi guys I'm a junior edi developer at a service based company I'm working for a logistic client I'm using this sterling integrator stack no proper programming language can this stack grow or can I add something to this stack? With this I want to grow to different domains like cloud containerization etc.. Could any give genuine feedback so that I will switch to another domain and learn agentic ai framework?

We are looking for a Senior Healthcare EDI Developer to help build and support healthcare EDI integrations for a fast-growing healthcare transportation platform.

This role is heavily focused on real-world healthcare claims workflows, payer integrations, companion guides, and production troubleshooting. We are NOT looking for a generic backend developer with light EDI exposure.

The ideal candidate understands healthcare EDI end to end and can work independently with minimal hand-holding.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain healthcare EDI pipelines using C# and .NET

Work with healthcare transactions including:

837 Claims

835 Remittance

834 Enrollment

270/271 Eligibility

999 and 277CA acknowledgments

Read and implement payer companion guides

Handle real-world payer behavior, claim rejections, validation issues, and reconciliation workflows

Build and maintain logging, auditing, and tracking systems for EDI transactions

Generate, validate, encrypt, and transfer EDI files through SFTP workflows

Work with APIs, scheduled jobs, and batch processing systems

Support containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes

Collaborate closely with EDI analysts and operations teams

Extend and maintain EDI database schemas for claims tracking and reconciliation

Manage payer-specific implementations and custom business rules

Requirements

5+ years of healthcare EDI development experience

Strong experience with:

C#

.NET

EdiFabric

SQL

Hands-on experience with:

837

835

270/271

999

277CA

HIPAA/X12 standards

Strong understanding of:

Claims lifecycle

Eligibility workflows

Companion guides

Payer-specific validation logic

Reconciliation and remittance processing

Experience with:

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions or CI/CD pipelines

SFTP workflows

Microservices architecture

Nice to Have

NEMT experience

Medicaid or managed care experience

Experience with GCP, BigQuery, or Tableau

Experience building scalable EDI platforms from scratch

What We Need

Someone comfortable owning the EDI platform

Someone who can work independently and make architecture decisions

Someone who understands both technical and operational sides of healthcare EDI

Someone who can stabilize messy workflows and build scalable long-term solutions

I have implemented an EDI (for invoicing) system from scratch in Node.js/ NestJs and integrated it into our enterprise-grade system. I wonder if there is a job market for this to work as a software engineer specialized in the development of EDIFACT systems for enterprise-grade systems. I know that there are a lot of tools to build and map the EDI data fields, but I am not speaking of using these vendor tools like IBM Sterling; I am exclusively referring to implementing the EDIFACT standards from scratch, the EDI file generation, validation, and parsing. Is this a thing? I couldn't even find any libraries to help me generate or parse the EDI files in Node.js, so I had to implement everything from scratch.

Hey all:

Does anyone have experience mapping X12 810s for Amazon Mexico 1P? We are having significant issue getting the BT mapped correctly and can't get a straight answer from them on the correct position for the VAT ID...or even agreement on what the VAT ID should be. I'm beyond frustrated. Can anyone share just the BT loop for a successful 810 with Amazon Mexico?

Hi all,

I have been working on and off with Lobster data for the past three years. It always surprised me how there is no community/forum/post from developers going about their jobs. No questions, no discussions, nothing. Every time I look for something its either found on the official help or not at all.
Case in point, I have a question about how to enable the X400 output and if it requires a license and cannot find anything.
Is there some kind of secret reddit, discord server or physical pub where people congregate and talk about lobster or is there nothing at all but dry, empty sand?

Anyone? Anything? out there?