0
trading-partner onboarding
Any format
PDF, scan, or email body
70-90%
less manual entry
No VAN
self-serve setup
Why EDI leaves a gap
EDI standardizes orders from partners who have their own EDI capability and enough volume to justify a mapped connection. That covers your top accounts well. It does nothing for the long tail: the customer who emails a PDF, the new account placing a first order, the buyer who will never run EDI. Onboarding those to EDI costs weeks of mapping per partner, so most distributors simply key them by hand.
OrderPier automates exactly that gap. It reads the emailed purchase order whatever the layout, validates it against your customers, items, and pricing, and creates the sales order in your ERP, with no per-partner mapping and nothing for the customer to set up on their side.
EDI and OrderPier, side by side
- EDI fits high-volume partners with their own EDI stack. OrderPier fits everyone who emails a PO.
- EDI needs per-partner mapping and a VAN. OrderPier needs a mailbox and reads any layout on the first order.
- EDI onboarding runs weeks per partner. OrderPier onboarding is self-serve.
- Run both: keep EDI for the accounts that have it, and let OrderPier absorb the manual long tail.
Posts into the ERP you already run
Approved orders post into the ERP you already run: Microsoft Dynamics 365, QuickBooks Online, Epicor Prophet 21, Epicor Kinetic, Acumatica in development with pilot customers, QuickBooks Enterprise via IIF file export, and a webhook covers everything else. Current status for every system is published on the integrations page, computed from nightly certification runs.
EDI questions
- Is OrderPier an EDI replacement?
- No, it is a complement. Keep EDI for the trading partners that already run it. OrderPier automates the orders EDI never economically covers: the customers who email PDFs and the accounts too small or too new to onboard to EDI. Most distributors run both.
- Do we need an EDI VAN or per-partner maps for OrderPier?
- No. There is no VAN, no per-partner mapping, and nothing for your customer to configure.
- Can it post orders into Epicor Prophet 21 without EDI?
- Yes. The Prophet 21 connector writes a native P21 order transaction through the standard REST and OData surface, and during pilot onboarding we confirm an order end to end against your own instance before it handles real volume. Its current certification status is on the integrations page. No EDI, no VAN, no per-partner maps.