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Cloud EDI, run by people you can name

ED Connect is our hosted EDI platform. What people actually buy is the team behind it: EDI specialists who know your maps and answer the phone when a document fails.

  • No servers, patching or upgrades on your side
  • A named EDI specialist who knows your account
  • We manage your existing platform too, with no forced migration
  • The ED Connect portal is included
  • Trading partner onboarding included, not billed per event
Talk to an EDI consultant or call 847.969.9300

A conversation, not a scheduled demo. Answered on the same business day.

Tell us what is going wrong

Four fields. An EDI specialist reads it and replies. You will not be added to a mailing list.

The ED Connect transaction summary: a table of 810 invoices with direction, document IDs, ISA control numbers, acknowledgment status, and raw EDI and human-readable views
The actual screen, from a demo account. This is what you would be logging into: every document with its direction, control numbers and acknowledgment status, readable as plain language or as raw X12.
A technician with a laptop on one arm stands in the doorway of a server room, looking along a row of racks lit by blue indicator lights
Plenty of EDI still runs on hardware in a room like this, and runs fine. Cloud is a choice, not an upgrade everyone has to make.

When cloud is right, and when it is not

Cloud EDI suits most mid-market companies: no infrastructure to maintain, predictable cost, and capacity that scales with volume rather than with a purchasing cycle.

It is not automatically right. Data residency requirements, certain regulated environments, and deep integration with internal systems that cannot be exposed externally all still point to on-premise. We support both, and we would rather tell you on the first call than migrate you and discover the constraint later.

One setup, any customer

The big retailers offer EDI web forms of their own for smaller suppliers, and for a company trading with that one retailer they can be the honest answer; the trade-off is written up on the web forms page. The cloud case begins where that answer ends: Effective Data's EDI Cloud and web forms set a supplier up once, for any customer, so the second mandate is a configuration rather than another portal, another login and another manual routine.

Built to automate

ED Connect combines automation and AI with people who know your business:

  • AI-assisted mapping: machine-learning-assisted field mapping speeds up onboarding and replaces much of the manual configuration that used to take months
  • Smart error detection: AI flags mapping mismatches and compliance problems before they turn into chargebacks, rejections, or claim denials
  • Predictive alerts: pattern-based monitoring catches order volume anomalies and late or missing documents early
  • Workflow automation: rules-based automation removes manual touchpoints, from receiving an order or shipment request through invoicing and payment

Ready-made integrations for NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and QuickBooks, plus WMS, TMS, accounting, and eCommerce platforms, mean documents flow into the systems you already run without custom development.

What managed actually means here

  • Monitoring: documents watched in flight, exceptions worked before you notice
  • Partner onboarding: spec review, mapping, testing and certification
  • Map maintenance: partners change requirements without announcing it
  • A named EDI specialist: the same person, who knows your environment

Moving without downtime

Migrations run in parallel. Your existing environment keeps processing while the new one is tested against real documents; nothing is switched off until the same transactions succeed on both sides. Where partner connectivity changes, we handle the notification and re-testing.

Where cloud sits among the delivery models

Cloud is one of three ways we run EDI, and the fastest way to place yourself is the same three-tier answer the solutions page opens with:

Managed portal
EDI Webforms

Best for: Customers with no ERP or backend integration.

How web EDI works
Backend integration
ED Connect, Cloud Integrated

Best for: Documents flowing into your ERP with no rekeying, using prebuilt adapters.

How ERP integration works
Full outsource
Fully Managed EDI

Best for: Businesses that need EDI to work but don't want to run it.

How managed EDI works

Frequently asked

+ What is the difference between cloud EDI and on-premise?

Cloud EDI means the platform runs on infrastructure someone else maintains: no servers, patching or upgrades on your side. On-premise means you own the environment and control it entirely. Cloud is right for most mid-market companies. On-premise still makes sense where data residency, regulatory constraints or deep internal system integration require it, and we support both.

+ How long does moving to cloud EDI take?

That depends on the environment, and most of the time goes to testing rather than migrating. The two things that extend it are undocumented custom logic in the existing setup and trading partners who need to be notified of connectivity changes.

+ Will our trading partners need to do anything?

Usually not. Where connectivity details change, we handle partner notification and re-testing as part of the migration rather than leaving you to coordinate it.

+ What happens when a document fails at 2am?

It gets picked up by monitoring and worked by a named EDI specialist who knows your maps. This is the specific thing most platform providers cannot offer at scale, and it is why people move to us from larger vendors.

Cloud, on-premise, or the thing you already have

Tell us the constraint: data residency, an integration you cannot expose, a renewal date. We will tell you which way it actually points.

Or call 847.969.9300

Answered by a named EDI specialist on the same business day. If we are not the right answer we will say so on the first call.