Glossary
What is edi trading-partner onboarding?
EDI trading-partner onboarding is the work of connecting a brand's systems to a retail or wholesale partner so they can exchange standardized electronic documents: orders, shipment notices, invoices, and acknowledgements. On NetSuite and Celigo, it means mapping the partner's exact specification and validating it before live trading begins.
The definition
EDI trading-partner onboarding explained
Every trading partner publishes its own EDI specification: which transactions it sends, which fields are required, how identifiers and dates are formatted, and what certification scenarios it expects. Onboarding is the process of meeting that specification precisely, because a single mismatched field can stall an order or trigger a chargeback.
Done as a one-off, each partner restarts the same hand-built integration work from scratch. Done through a managed network queue, the brand often waits on a black box it does not own. Done as a productized workflow on NetSuite and Celigo (Vista LaunchPad / TradeBridge), onboarding starts from components already built and tested, adapted and validated against the partner's real requirements rather than discovered one error at a time, and accepted before the connection carries live volume.
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Related terms
Related terms that come up in the same workflows.
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ASN (856)
An ASN, or EDI 856 Advance Ship Notice, is the electronic document a supplier sends a trading partner before a shipment arrives, detailing its contents, packaging hierarchy, and carton or SSCC labels. Accurate ASNs are a common compliance requirement, and errors in them are a frequent source of retailer chargebacks.
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Celigo flow
A Celigo flow is a configured integration pipeline in the Celigo platform that moves data between systems, for example syncing orders from a storefront into NetSuite, on a schedule or in response to an event. Flows are where integration logic, error handling, and retries live for a NetSuite-centered operation.
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Chargeback / deduction
A chargeback or deduction is an amount a retail or marketplace partner withholds from payment because a shipment, document, or invoice failed to meet their compliance rules: a late ASN, a labeling error, a routing miss. Left untracked, deductions quietly erode channel margin and distort settlement reconciliation.
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Exception handling
Exception handling is the governed path an automated workflow follows when something does not fit the rules: a payout that will not match, a stuck order, an integration error. Instead of failing silently or forcing a person to hunt, the exception is classified, routed to the right owner with context, and resolved with human approval where it matters.
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TradeBridge
TradeBridge is Altura's B2B/EDI partner library inside Vista LaunchPad: partner specifications, suite-class patterns, and validation approaches for retail and wholesale trading partners on NetSuite and Celigo. It is a capability of LaunchPad, not a separate managed EDI network.
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