Got handed an EDIFACT file and no idea what to do with it? You are in the right place. CleanEDI works both ways. Your team calls a REST API in plain JSON, we handle all the EDIFACT in both directions. Inbound from trading partners, outbound back to them. Your team never touches a segment.
It starts simple. One trading partner, one file format, one developer who figures it out. Then a second partner joins with a slightly different interpretation. Then a third. Before long you have a codebase full of special cases, two people who actually understand it, and nobody who wants to touch it.
This is not a skill problem. EDIFACT was designed for machine-to-machine interchange, not as something developers should have to think about. When it leaks into your architecture, it spreads.
"We have two people who understand our EDI setup. If either of them leaves, we have a serious problem."
Said by more teams than you'd think.A trading partner sends you an EDIFACT message. Your team has never seen one before. The documentation is a 400-page UN standard. Good luck.
EDIFACT is a standard that nobody follows exactly. Each partner has their own interpretation, their own qualifiers, their own quirks. You build a parser that works for one and breaks for the next.
Segment names end up in database columns. Qualifier codes end up in API responses. New developers spend weeks just understanding the domain before they can ship anything.
Month-end. Peak season. The processing window closes before the file finishes. This is not a data volume problem, it is an architecture problem.
A partner changes how they use a field. No error is thrown. The data is quietly wrong for months before someone spots it in a report.
Think of it as a wall between the chaos of EDIFACT and the rest of your systems. Everything messy stays on one side. Everything clean comes out the other. Your team only ever sees the clean side.
A trading partner sends an ORDERS, DESADV, or INVOIC message via AS2 or SFTP. Your team does nothing. CleanEDI picks it up at the boundary and calls your webhook with clean JSON.
Need to send an invoice or shipment notice back? Your system POSTs a plain JSON object to our API, the same way it calls any other API. No EDIFACT knowledge needed, no mapping, no segments.
CleanEDI builds the correct EDIFACT message, applies your trading partner's specific requirements, and delivers it via AS2 or SFTP. Your partner gets valid EDIFACT. You never see it.
ORDERS, DESADV, INVOIC, CONTRL arrive at the CleanEDI boundary via AS2 or SFTP. We parse, validate, normalise, and POST clean JSON to your webhook. Your developers work with a normal REST response. No EDIFACT anywhere in your codebase.
Partner-specific quirks, version differences, qualifier misuse, encoding variations. All of it is absorbed here. Your inbound data is always the same clean shape. Your outbound data is always correct EDIFACT for that specific partner.
POST a purchase order, invoice, or shipment notice to the CleanEDI API in plain JSON. We generate the correct EDIFACT, apply your partner's specific message requirements, and deliver it via AS2 or SFTP. You never write a single EDIFACT segment.
Paste any raw EDIFACT message into the decoder and get back a plain English breakdown of every segment and field, plus a JSON mapping you can use straight away. No account needed, no strings attached.
ORDERS, DESADV, INVOIC, CONTRL, ORDRSP and more
Every qualifier, field, and value explained in plain English
Ready to paste into your integration or hand to your team
No account, no credit card, no limit on how many times you use it
Most EDI tools translate EDIFACT into something slightly less painful. CleanEDI does something different. It acts as an anti-corruption layer, a hard architectural boundary that absorbs everything messy on one side and only lets clean, stable business data through the other. Your systems never know EDIFACT exists.
Read the full architecture breakdownCleanEDI delivers clean data in the format your systems expect. Pre-built connectors for the most common platforms, or connect anything via REST, webhook, or event stream.
These are not optional features you configure. They are how CleanEDI works by default, because enterprise infrastructure does not have an optional reliability mode.
Your developers work with business objects, orders, invoices, shipments. Nobody on your team needs to know what a BGM segment is or what a qualifier does.
When a trading partner changes their EDIFACT dialect, your API contract stays exactly the same. CleanEDI absorbs the difference so your systems don't have to.
Streaming ingestion replaces fragile batch windows. Idempotency, deduplication, and replay are defaults, not options. Your team sleeps through month-end.
Each trading partner's config, quirks, and corrections are sandboxed. Fixing or onboarding one partner has no impact on any other.
Currencies, units of measure, time zones, and regional qualifier differences are normalised as standard behaviour. Not a premium add-on.
CleanEDI works whether you are sending or receiving. One side integrates. The other continues as-is. No political friction, no big-bang migration.
We have been building EDI integrations for large retailers and distributors for years. Every project had the same problems, the same tribal knowledge risk, the same partner-specific hacks, the same batch jobs that failed at month-end. CleanEDI is the thing we wished existed back then. It is early, it is growing, and if any of this sounds familiar we would genuinely like to hear from you.
You pay for complexity absorbed and risk removed. No per-message fees, no feature flags, no gotchas. Plans start from AU$3,500 per month on an annual contract. Enterprise pricing available for larger networks.
Annual contracts only - No per-message fees - Onboarding included
Paste it into the decoder and find out exactly what it contains in about 30 seconds. Free, no account needed. If you like what you see, we can talk about what a permanent solution looks like.