EDI Document

850 Purchase Order.
Orders that flow straight in.

When Target, Nordstrom, or any major retailer places an order, they send an 850. It creates a sales order in Fulfil automatically. No portal logins, no manual entry.

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What's included in an 850.

The 850 Purchase Order contains all the information you need to fulfill a retail order.

Order Details

  • ✓ Purchase order number
  • ✓ Order date and requested ship date
  • ✓ Department and buyer information
  • ✓ Payment terms and currency

Product & Shipping

  • ✓ Product SKUs and UPCs
  • ✓ Quantities ordered per item
  • ✓ Unit prices and total amounts
  • ✓ Ship-to address and carrier routing

How 850 works in Fulfil.

Fulfil receives 850 Purchase Orders and automatically creates sales orders ready for fulfillment.

1

Retailer sends 850

When a retail partner like Target or Nordstrom places an order, their system sends an 850 Purchase Order to Fulfil via EDI connection.

2

Fulfil processes order

The 850 is automatically processed and converted into a sales order in Fulfil. Product SKUs are matched, pricing is validated, and the order enters your fulfillment workflow.

3

You fulfill the order

The order appears in Fulfil just like your Shopify orders, ready to pick, pack, and ship. Your team follows the same fulfillment process regardless of where the order came from.

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Automatic acknowledgement

Fulfil can automatically send an 855 PO Acknowledgement back to the retailer confirming you received and accepted the order.

Why 850 matters for your business.

Eliminate manual data entry

Without EDI, you'd log into each retailer's vendor portal, manually copy order details, and enter them into your system. With 850 automation, orders flow directly from the retailer's system into Fulfil, saving manual work and eliminating typos.

Reduce fulfillment errors

Manual order entry leads to mistakes: wrong products, incorrect quantities, typos in addresses. The 850 ensures order data flows directly from the retailer's system with perfect accuracy.

Process orders automatically

850 Purchase Orders arrive in Fulfil the moment retailers place them. This means you can start fulfilling orders without waiting for someone to manually process them from a vendor portal.

Meet retailer requirements

Major retailers require EDI compliance to do business with them. The 850 Purchase Order is the foundation of EDI. It's how orders flow from their systems to yours automatically.

Related EDI documents.

The 850 Purchase Order works together with other EDI documents.

855

PO Acknowledgement

Confirm you received the 850 order
856

Advance Ship Notice

Notify when 850 orders ship
810

Invoice

Invoice for completed 850 orders

FAQ

Questions? Answers.

How does Fulfil receive an 850 purchase order?
When a trading partner such as Target, Nordstrom, Dick's Sporting Goods, or Walmart places an order, their system sends an 850 to Fulfil through your EDI integration. Fulfil parses the 850 and creates a sales order automatically, so there are no vendor portal logins or manual data entry.
What information is in an 850?
The 850 carries the PO number and PO date, line items with a product identifier, quantity, and unit price, ship-to and bill-to addresses, a requested ship window or delivery date, and payment terms with any special instructions. Fulfil takes all of these directly from the PO onto the sales order.
What state is the sales order created in?
The new order follows the trading partner's Order Import State setting. The default is Draft, which holds the order so your operations team can validate pricing, allocation, and ship windows before confirming. You can set it to Confirm or Process instead to advance new orders automatically.
How does Fulfil match products and addresses on the 850?
Products are matched using the Product Identifier configured on the trading partner, commonly buyer SKU, UPC, or vendor item number, which Fulfil looks up against the matching field on the product record. Ship-to addresses are matched to a contact using the partner's location code, and if no contact matches, the 850 is marked Failed until you add the mapping and reprocess.
Does Fulfil acknowledge the 850 back to the retailer?
Yes. When the sales order is processed, Fulfil sends an 855 PO Acknowledgement confirming the line items and quantities you commit to fulfill. Fulfil also generates a 997 functional acknowledgement automatically on receipt to confirm the 850 was received and parsed.
Which EDI documents work with the 850?
The 850 leads into the 855 PO Acknowledgement that confirms it, the 856 Advance Ship Notice sent when the order ships, and the 810 Invoice for the completed order. Grocery partners use the 875 Grocery PO in place of the 850 with the same processing logic.

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