What is the 846 Inventory Advice?
The 846 Inventory Advice is a standalone EDI transaction used to communicate real-time inventory levels to buyers, outside of the traditional Order to Cash workflow. It’s typically sent on a scheduled basis (hourly, daily, or weekly) and helps your partners:

• Know what’s in stock
• Understand product availability into the future
• Plan and manage replenishment more effectively

What’s New?
With the 846 Inventory Advice transaction, you are now compliant with buyers who require a period inventory count for your products available for sale.

The feature allows you to auto-populate your product and inventory data based on a product catalog and send the inventory counts in a specified format.

📚 Full guide here: Inventory Advice (846) Guide

Orderful is now allowing you to resend EDI acknowledgments.

You can now:

• Resend acknowledgments for X12 transactions you've created to your Communication Channel.
• Resend acknowledgments for X12 transactions you've received to your partner’s Communication Channel — even if your partner is part of the Orderful network but doesn’t have an Orderful account.

We’ve improved the Orderful Validation Engine to support Conditional Sets in your guidelines. This improvement gives you more control over how business rules are applied, ensuring better accuracy in EDI transactions.

What’s New with Condition Sets?

With condition sets, you can now:

• Control Loop, Segment, or Element Usage: Specify when loops, segments, or elements should be included based on the existence or value of another path.
• Restrict Allowed Values Dynamically: Define allowed values for an element based on the existence or value of another path.

Notes: Condition sets will be displayed on the Integration Assistance and when validation errors are due to a condition set.

Business Use Cases for Conditional Sets

Here are some common scenarios where Conditional Sets make a difference:

• On a Purchase Order Acknowledgment (855): Suppliers must enter a price when indicating a price change, or a quantity when indicating a quantity change.
• On a Response to a Load Tender (990): Carriers must provide a reason when declining a load tender.
• On a Ship Notice/Manifest or Advanced Ship Notice (856 - ASN): Suppliers must provide specific HL loops depending on the selected packing method. Each HL loop needs child different structure.
• On a Shipment Status Message (214): Carriers must send specific information—or filter out unnecessary details—depending on whether they’re performing an LTL (Less Than Truckload) or TL (Truckload) shipment.

Why is it important to you?

For Leaders:

You can now update your existing guidelines with Conditional Sets to better control loop, segment, and element behavior. Apply these updated guidelines to both new and existing trading partner relationships to ensure higher compliance.

Check out our articles to learn how to Create a Guideline, Configure Guideline Requirements and Configure Conditional Guideline Requirements.

For Followers:

The Orderful Network team will certify leader guidelines with Conditional Sets, improving validation on your trading partner relationships. This enhancement simplifies testing, reduces errors, and strengthens your EDI integrations.

You can now edit and update saved party details directly within Web EDI transactions. This means you no longer need to create new party records when changes occur—simply update existing ones for a faster, more accurate workflow.

How It Works

• Save detailed party information (e.g., Ship From addresses, Invoice Remittance details) for re-use across transactions and partners.
• Need to make changes? Edit any saved party and update details instantly—no duplication required.
• Your updated party details will automatically apply to future transactions, keeping your data accurate and consistent.

Learn more about how to re-use party information here.

PDF Format Support: In addition to the existing ZPL (Zebra Programming Language) format, our API now supports PDF file format responses. This provides greater flexibility, especially for systems that prefer or require PDF labels.

Batch Label Generation: You can now request multiple labels in a single API call, improving efficiency and reducing the number of requests needed for large shipments.

Performance Highlights:

In our benchmark tests, generating 1000 labels in a single request yielded impressive results:

ZPL Response: Took 1004ms, file size: 906.64KB

PDF Response: Took 4.21s, file size: 1.98MB and 2.1MB on disk

These improvements enhance the experience of requesting labels across all our connectors, including NetSuite, and benefit SaaS platforms that leverage our API to generate UCC-128 labels.

For more information and to get started with these new features, please refer to our updated documentation.

We are committed to continuously improving our services to meet your needs and look forward to your feedback on these enhancements.

We’re excited to announce that Orderful Web EDI customers can now manage their billing directly within their account settings. No more back-and-forth emails or manual processes—everything you need is just a few clicks away! 🚀

Here’s what you can do with the new billing management feature:

Review Your Plan: Easily view details about your current subscription plan.
Update Payment Information: Change your payment method or update your account email and name directly in from settings.
Access Invoices: View your billing history and download invoices whenever you need them.
Manage Subscriptions: Seamlessly cancel or reactivate your subscription based on your business needs.
This update gives you greater control and transparency over your billing experience, making it faster and easier to manage your account.

🛠 To get started, log into your account and navigate to the round icon in the top right corner of the interface, then click Settings > Billing.

If you have any questions or need assistance, our support team is always here to help!

What’s New?

Users can now download transactions directly from the Orderful transaction list, choosing either a filtered or unfiltered view.

To use it:

• Log into Orderful
• Navigate to the transaction list
• Click on the download button at the top right of the list
• Click "Transactions"
• A checkbox will appear beside every transaction in the list for you to select all or a subset of transactions
• Click "Confirm download x transactions"

What you can expect:

• A .zip folder containing the .json file of each transaction you selected and a new .csv file that aggregates all (850 Purchase Orders) that were selected and listed by PO number.

Give it a try today!

Orderful is introducing more granular user roles, allowing you to tailor access based on the specific actions your team members need to perform in Orderful. This update provides improved security and more precise control over who can access and manage your organization’s resources.

Roles Overview:

• Admin (existing): Full control over the organization, including managing organization settings,and user management. Owners can now also remove users from the organization.
• Manager: Handles a wide range of operational tasks, such as setting up partnerships and guiding them through to go live, but without managing user access.
• Integrator: Oversees the validation, delivery, and acknowledgment of transactions, especially during testing, while managing integration connections.
• Analyst: Initiates and configures new partnerships, with a focus on business operations, without requiring technical expertise.
• Support: Primarily responsible for troubleshooting EDI issues and managing transactions, including the creation of live web EDI transactions.
• Viewer (existing): Read-only access to organization resources, with no ability to make changes.

For a detailed breakdown of the permissions for each role, view the full list here.

You can now personalize your organization’s experience by activating and configuring a custom theme in Orderful.
On the Organization page, you have the option to set a primary and secondary color that will control the color scheme across all Orderful pages within your organization. Additionally, your company logo will now be more prominently displayed in the navigation menu.

This feature helps you align Orderful’s appearance with your company’s branding, creating a more cohesive and branded user experience.

Please note: The custom theme applies only to Orderful pages within your organization and does not affect the login page.

We've been working hard to improve billing accuracy and transparency and have some improvements coming to your account in the coming weeks.

Here’s what you can expect:

Increased Billing Accuracy: Billing is now automated based on network activity and contract terms. We’ve implemented more robust tracking to ensure that you're only billed for the services and usage relevant to your organization.

Improved Transparency: Invoices are now clearer and more detailed, breaking down charges related to trade partnerships, network transactions, and add-ons such as managed testing or integration support.

Internal Training: Our internal support and success teams are trained to deep dive you invoice with you and help you identify how you can audit and reconcile your invoice with your account activity.

Pro-rated Billing: If you expand mid-billing period, you’ll now see pro-rated charges to ensure fairness and precision in your invoicing.

We will be migrating users to this new system over the next two weeks. During this time, you may notice updates to your invoices reflecting these new features. Rest assured, our team is here to assist with any questions or support you may need.