A build-to-order EDI bridge that turns retailer 850 purchase orders into Zoho Sales Orders and pushes 855, 856 and 810 documents back. Built for your Zoho org after a scoping call and fixed quote. Built to order by ECOSIRE for Zoho One (build-to-order) — indicative price from $699.00 USD; request a quote for a scoped proposal.
A build-to-order EDI bridge that turns retailer 850 purchase orders into Zoho Sales Orders and pushes 855, 856 and 810 documents back. Built for your Zoho org after a scoping call and fixed quote.
Built to order
If you sell into a large retailer, distributor, grocery chain or a government buying group, EDI is not optional. It is written into the vendor agreement. The buyer sends you an 850 purchase order over AS2 or SFTP and expects an 855 purchase order acknowledgement inside a contractual window, an 856 advance ship notice keyed to the exact carton and pallet labels before the truck arrives at the dock, and an 810 invoice that reconciles line for line against the original PO. Miss the window, get the ASN wrong, or send an invoice that does not match, and you get a chargeback.
Zoho gives you nothing for this. Zoho Inventory has Sales Orders, Packages and Shipments. Zoho Books has Invoices. Neither speaks X12 or EDIFACT, neither knows what a GS control number is, and there is no native way to poll an AS2 or SFTP endpoint on the trading partner's schedule. What normally happens is that somebody opens the buyer's web portal, reads the PO on screen, and retypes it into Zoho Inventory. Then they retype the shipment back into the portal. Every transposed digit becomes a chargeback, and the process does not survive volume growth or a second trading partner with a different specification.
We build a document exchange bridge that sits between your trading partner connection and your Zoho org. It is not a generic connector you configure yourself. We map it to the specific partner specifications you trade against, using your item numbers, your Books organization, and your warehouse structure.
A scheduled service picks up inbound interchanges from your SFTP drop or your AS2 mailbox, parses the X12 envelope (ISA, GS, ST), and validates the transaction set against the partner's implementation guide before anything touches Zoho. Valid documents are written into Zoho Inventory as Sales Orders through the Zoho Inventory REST API, with the buyer's PO number carried into the reference field, requested ship dates mapped to the shipment date, and buyer item numbers translated to your Zoho item SKUs through a cross-reference table we build as a Zoho Creator application. Documents that fail validation land in an exception queue rather than silently creating a bad order.
A Deluge custom function on the Sales Order record, plus a workflow rule, generates the 855 back to the partner. We implement accept, reject and accept-with-change at the line level, so a substitution or a partial-quantity confirmation is expressed correctly rather than being forced into a blanket accept.
The ASN is built from the Zoho Inventory Package and Shipment records, so what you tell the buyer is what you actually packed. We construct the hierarchical loop structure the partner requires (shipment, order, pack, item), attach SSCC-18 carton identifiers, and produce GS1-128 shipping labels that match the pack level referenced in the document. Carrier, tracking number, BOL and ship date are pulled from the Shipment record.
When an Invoice is created in Zoho Books, a custom function assembles the 810 from the Books Invoice, applying the partner's required allowance and charge codes, terms and discount segments, and remittance details. Where your Books organization is configured for GST or VAT, the tax lines are carried into the document in the format the partner's guide expects, and we reconcile the invoice back to the originating 850 so quantity or price variances are caught before transmission rather than by a chargeback notice weeks later.
We implement 997 or CONTRL functional acknowledgement handling in both directions, sequential ISA and GS control number management with no reuse, and a Zoho Creator control panel showing every document, its envelope numbers, its raw payload and its current state. Zoho Flow handles alerting so a failed transmission or a missing 997 raises a notification rather than sitting unnoticed.
Suppliers and brands selling into large retail, grocery, pharmacy, industrial distribution or public sector buyers who run their business day to day in Zoho Inventory and Zoho Books, and who have received a vendor EDI specification they are contractually required to meet. It suits companies trading with one to a handful of partners where a full enterprise EDI stack is disproportionate but manual portal keying has stopped being viable.
Scoping call. We go through the actual partner implementation guides you have been sent, the transaction sets in scope, your connection method (AS2, SFTP, or a VAN mailbox), your Zoho edition and Books organization structure, and how your item numbering relates to the buyer's.
Fixed quote. You get a written scope listing each transaction set, each partner, the mapping rules and the exception handling, with a fixed price and a delivery date. Nothing starts until you approve it.
Build. We develop the parsers, mappings, Deluge functions, Creator control application and Zoho Flow orchestration against a test Zoho org, and validate output documents against the partner guide.
Install in test, then production. We install into your sandbox or test Zoho org first and run end-to-end cycles using the partner's test interchanges. Once you and your trading partner sign off on the test transmissions, we install into your production Zoho org and stay on the line for the first live documents.
Support. A defined support window follows go-live, covering defects, partner specification clarifications, and adjustments to mapping discovered against real production traffic.
This is built to order. Nothing here is downloaded and switched on. Typical lead time is two to four weeks from approved quote, depending on the number of partners and transaction sets in scope.
A short call to confirm the workflow, your platform version and where the integration boundaries sit.
You receive a written scope and a fixed price. Nothing is built until you approve it.
We develop against a copy of your configuration and test it there. Typically two to four weeks.
We install on your instance, hand over the source, and support it for twelve months.
They live in the buyer's vendor portal, retyping purchase orders into Zoho Inventory and shipment details back out, and they absorb every chargeback caused by a keying error. This removes the retyping entirely and gives them one screen showing which documents have gone out, which have been acknowledged and which need attention.
They chase invoices that the buyer's AP system rejected because a line quantity or an allowance code did not match the original PO, often weeks after shipment. Reconciling the 810 against the 850 before transmission means variances get caught at the source, in the Zoho Books invoice, rather than as a deduction on a remittance advice.
They have signed a vendor agreement committing to EDI compliance and cannot onboard the next retailer without a repeatable way to trade documents. A mapped bridge into their existing Zoho org means adding a partner is a scoping and mapping exercise, not a decision about replacing the ERP.
| Criterion | ECOSIRE | Custom Build | Competitor |
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| Inbound 850 creates a Zoho Inventory Sales Order automatically | Included | Included | Partial support |
| 856 ASN built from actual Package and Shipment records, not retyped | Included |
From $699.00
Starting point — quoted to your scope
| Partial support |
| SSCC-18 carton identifiers and GS1-128 labels matched to the ASN pack structure | Included | Partial support | Partial support |
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| 810 reconciled line by line against the originating 850 before sending | Included | Partial support | Not included |
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| ISA and GS control number sequencing managed per trading partner | Included | Partial support | Included |
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| Mapping written against your specific partner implementation guides | Included | Included | Partial support |
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| Exception queue with raw payload retention and reprocessing inside Zoho | Included | Partial support | Partial support |
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| Fixed quote, test-org installation and post-go-live support window | Included | Not included | Partial support |
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