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Affordable EDI for Micro, Small and Mid-Sized Business
At EDI Shack we believe every company with some technology knowledge should be able to do EDI. As Such, we supply some Open-Source and FREE (MIT License) libraries you can use to get started with EDI. We'll also try very hard to keep you from making the most common EDI mistakes.
$49.95
What is the Number 1 EDI Mistake? Thinking EDI is just creating a strangely formatted file and sending it to your trading partner. In reality, what you're doing is pulling some data from your system, and putting it into your trading partners' system, using a strangely formatted file, or even scarier for you, you're taking data from your trading partner and putting it directly into your system using a strangely formatted file. If that doesn't scare you, it should. Any mistake in your, or your partners' EDI implementation is going straight into your data.
In fact, managing your EDI files and keeping track of what's in them is just as important as creating the file.
Open Source - MIT Licence
The EDI-Laravel framework is designed to give smaller companies a complete, easy to use EDI system. With a little basic EDI knowledge, you can create new transaction sets, and link them to transmission objects to send the files via FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS, or AS2 without any programming whatsoever. If you can program in PHP, you can do anything, quickly and easily.
Let's face it. EDI is expensive and confusing. EDI is also one of the simplest technologies there is, but it can also be incredibly pricy and complex. EDI Shack is dedicated to make EDI simple for small and mid-sized companies.
| EDI is Simple | EDI is Complex |
| EDI is a simple text file | The EDI Specifications Book for 1 version is 1930 pages |
| Create the file | You know where your data is but how can it be formatted to EDI? |
| Send it to your trading partner | Most large companies insist on specific transmission software |
| You're done | This is EDI, you're never done. You send an EDI file, they send back a 997, or an 824. Now what do you do? |
The problem for most companies is it's difficult, EXPENSIVE, and CONFUSING to get started in EDI. Most companies start doing EDI because they are forced to by a much larger trading partner. If you're a small manufacturer, you might have just gotten Walmart to buy a product from you, and Walmart won't buy from you UNLESS you update them with EDI. It's the same at GM, Ford, Chrysler, in fact most of the Top 500 companies. So, the bottom line for you is, it might be expensive, it might be confusing, but you don't have a choice.
EDI doesn't have to be complex, but most EDI companies deliberately confuse the issue. They make a lot more money that way. If you're a small company that only needs to do EDI to satisfy a big company you want to do business with, and you don't expect to need to keep expanding your EDI, then we can find a simple, not so expensive solution for you.
Talk to Us about EDI Magic
EDI Magic started as a program or service for doing a few Transaction Sets with the ability to highly customize it for the individual company. Over the years it has grown into a framework, plus a template for a program or service, a flexible database schema, plus over 60 EDI components that can be dropped into the template, and customized for the company and trading partners. For smaller companies who don't want to spend tens of thousands of dollars, with limited EDI needs who need a high degree of automation and customization, it could be your best choice. Let us know what your actual needs are, now and in the future, and we'll present some options for you, or if EDI Magic is not your best choice, we'll tell you that also.
Do you need EDI for healthcare transactions? Talk to Us about HIPAA Magic
HIPAA Magic is our latest product offering. It's a subset of EDI Magic which includes as many of the HIPAA related transation sets as you need with simplified pricing. HIPAA Magic consists of a FREE desktop program used to setup Transaction Sets, plus a FREE EDI service that runs on a server that processes EDI automatically. You get both the program and the service with any Transaction Set purchase.
| HIPAA Magic Progam | FREE w/Purchase of any Transaction Set |
| HIPAA Magic Service | FREE w/Purchase of any Transaction Set |
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1st Sending or Receiving Component (835, 837, 834, 820, 270, 271, 276, 277, 278, 997) |
$795 * ** |
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2nd and subsequent Sending or Receiving Component (835, 837, 834, 820, 270, 271, 276, 277, 278, 997) |
$595 * ** |
| * All components will need some setup. The First 5 hours of setup is FREE |
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** No limits on purchased components. Use them for multiple trading partners |
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Do you need to do EDI with WooCommerce, or Shopify?
One of the many benefits of using EDI Magic or HIPAA Magic is that they are lightweight full EDI frameworks and each use standardized data tables in a SQL Server or MySQL/Maria database. We can supply plugins for WooCommerce or Shopify to enable your staff to monitor the EDI system and alert you of problems.
Need help deciding what to do? Check out our forum.
