EDI ↔ Odoo
EDI ↔ Odoo: X12 and EDIFACT transaction sets, mapped, transmitted, and acknowledged — without a VAN contract or a parser your team has to maintain.
EDI still runs the world's supply chains — and it still has a reputation for being rigid, expensive, and slow to onboard. A new retailer or 3PL partner usually means a compliance guide, a VAN subscription, and weeks of mapping work before the first purchase order comes through. zSYNC builds EDI directly into Odoo: X12 and EDIFACT documents arrive over AS2 or your existing VAN, get translated into Odoo records automatically, and go back out the same way — acknowledgments included.
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Already trading EDI with Walmart, Target, Amazon Vendor Central, or a 3PL running ASNs and inventory advices? Whether it's X12 850 purchase orders, EDIFACT ORDERS/INVOIC/DESADV, AS2 delivered straight to your firewall, or documents dropped in a VAN mailbox, zSYNC reads and writes it. The rule is simple: if your trading partner sent you an EDI implementation guide instead of an API reference, you're in the right place.
Sound familiar?
Every new trading partner means a new compliance guide, a new mapping project, and a new way to fail an audit.
One compliance guide per partner, no shared standard
Walmart's 850 isn't Target's 850, and neither matches your 3PL's ASN requirements. Every trading partner ships its own implementation guide, its own qualifiers, and its own chargeback policy for getting it wrong.
The VAN contract you didn't ask for
Most EDI setups require a dedicated Value-Added Network subscription just to move files between mailboxes — a recurring line item that has nothing to do with running your business.
Mapping code nobody on your team can read
X12 segments and EDIFACT syntax aren't self-explanatory. When the parser breaks or a new transaction set shows up, you're waiting on whoever wrote the mapping — or paying an EDI specialist to fix it.
How it works
Three steps. All inside Odoo. No code.
1
Receive
zSYNC accepts X12 and EDIFACT documents over AS2 or through your existing VAN/SFTP mailbox — any transaction set, from any trading partner.
2
Translate
Segments and elements are parsed and mapped to Odoo fields in the visual flow tab. Edit the mapping live when a partner changes a qualifier — no redeployment.
3
Confirm
Records land in Odoo as orders, invoices, or shipments, and zSYNC sends the functional acknowledgment (997/CONTRZ) back automatically.
No mapping software. No parser to maintain. No VAN contract to renegotiate.
What gets synced
What syncs between EDI trading partners and Odoo
Trading Documents
✓ Purchase Orders (850/ORDERS) →
✓ Order Acknowledgments (855/ORDRSP) ↔
✓ Invoices (810/INVOIC) →
✓ Advance Ship Notices (856/DESADV) ↔
Logistics & Compliance
✓ Inventory Advice (846/INVRPT) ↔
✓ Shipment Status (214/IFTSTA) ↔
✓ Functional Acknowledgments (997/CONTRZ) ↔
✓ Retailer labeling & routing rules →
Transmission & Formats
✓ AS2 over HTTPS
✓ VAN / SFTP mailbox delivery
✓ X12 and EDIFACT syntax
✓ Any transaction set, any partner
Why teams switch to zSYNC
Measurable results, not just features.
3 → 1
Cut support costs
On one project, support effort dropped from three full-time staff to one person working 10% of their time. You own the integration, so you stop paying an agency for every adjustment.
5 Min.
Live in minutes, not weeks
A working EDI integration is up in 5 minutes. A proof of concept in minutes, complex flows in hours — not the weeks a custom integration project usually takes.
0 Outages
Survives every Odoo upgrade
Your EDI integration lives in the front end, not in custom code, so it keeps running after Odoo upgrades instead of blocking them.
No Bus Factor
No key-person risk
Any tech-savvy team member can build, own, and maintain integrations — no developer on call, no single point of failure.
Built on a proven framework
Official Odoo Partner · Trusted by 50+ companies
Hundreds
integrations built
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99.9%
uptime
We handle everything. You focus on your business.
Professional setup by Zebroo — not self-service.
1
Install
We set up zSYNC in your Odoo and configure the EDI connection.
2
Configure
We build your first EDI pipeline, tailored to your trading partner's transaction sets and compliance requirements.
3
Train
We hand it over so your team owns and extends it themselves.
Live in just 1–3 days.
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Pricing
One price per connection. Scale as you grow.
You pay per connection — not per user, not per record. Every plan includes the full feature set, self-hosted and GDPR-compliant.
✓Full feature set in every plan
✓No user limits
✓Always the latest version
✓Self-hosted · GDPR-compliant
The price we quote holds for the entire term of your contract.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Which Odoo versions does zSYNC support?
zSYNC runs inside your Odoo and supports the current Community and Enterprise versions. Because your integrations live in the front end — not in custom code — they keep running after Odoo upgrades instead of blocking them.
Is my data secure?
zSYNC is self-hosted in your own Odoo, so your data never leaves your environment. It's GDPR-compliant, and you control every connection, every credential, and every pipeline directly.
Can it connect to any EDI trading partner?
Yes — zSYNC speaks X12 and EDIFACT natively and connects over AS2 or through your existing VAN or SFTP mailbox. If a trading partner sends you a transaction set, zSYNC can parse it, map it to Odoo, and send back the acknowledgment they expect.
What happens if a sync fails — is there downtime?
Failures don't bring down your system. zSYNC runs on queued jobs, so integrations don't block each other. Every run is monitored — you can retry a failed run, even add a field and reprocess the exact same data.
Own your EDI integrations — don't rent them from a VAN.
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