One connection.
Every trading partner.
Connect once to BOLD VAN and reach your entire trading-partner network, whatever VAN or protocol each partner uses. BOLD Transmission and Connectivity is built for teams that already map and translate their own EDI and just need a fast, reliable way to move it.
Part of a network moving millions of interchanges every month across 400K+ trading relationships.
Best for teams that already handle their own mapping
Your documents are already mapped and translated, in-house or through another system. If they still need mapping, that is BOLD Integration.
Where BOLD VAN is different
Connect to every trading partner
Reach all of your trading partners through the value-added network, regardless of which VAN or protocol each one uses. One connection reaches your whole partner network.
Trading partner pricing
Pay by trading partner. TIGI Linea saved over $73,000 a year with BOLD VAN, more than $1.46 million over 20+ years.
Live in days, not months
Get connected, typically within a business day. Migrate from another VAN, typically in about two weeks, with white-glove service from US-based EDI experts.
A modern portal to match
Search, requeue, track and report on every document from our web portal, with notifications when something needs your attention.
Switch VANs with a white-glove migration
The biggest worry when changing VANs is disruption to your trading partners. Here is how we manage it.
- You keep your existing IDs, and your VAN trading partners are not disrupted. Our US-based EDI experts do the heavy lifting and manage the cutover.
- We confirm your full trading-partner list up front, then manage and monitor the migration end to end, drawing on 100+ trading-partner migrations.
- In the days before your migration, the portal shows you the live status of every trading partner, so you can watch progress with full visibility.
- We stay in personal contact with you as the date approaches and throughout the day of the cutover. You are never doing this alone.
"The migration to BOLD VAN was a huge success."
How it works
Get connected
New to a VAN? You are set up on our network, typically within a business day. Migrating from another VAN? We handle the move, typically within two weeks.
Send and receive
Connect to BOLD VAN the way that suits you, and your documents route to and from every trading partner through the network.
Track everything
Search, requeue and report on your documents anytime through the portal, with notifications when something needs your attention.
Video transcript
You already map your own EDI. You just need it to move reliably to every trading partner.
Connect once to BOLD VAN and reach all of your partners, whatever VAN or protocol each one uses. New connections are typically live within a business day.
Switching VANs, or splitting partners across more than one? Bring them all to BOLD VAN. You keep your existing IDs, and your VAN trading partners are not disrupted. Migrations typically take about two weeks.
And you pay by trading partner. TIGI Linea saved more than $73,000 a year with BOLD VAN.
BOLD Transmission and Connectivity, backed by 99.996% uptime. Month to month, with no long-term contract. Let's talk.
Still splitting partners across multiple VANs?
You don't have to. Bring every trading partner onto BOLD VAN: one connection, one bill, one team. Stop juggling providers.
Which BOLD VAN product is right for you?
| Capability | You're viewingBOLD Transmission and Connectivity | BOLD Integration | BOLD Fulfillment | BOLD Exchange |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Teams that already map their own EDI | Teams that want EDI integrated into their systems | Suppliers who want to run orders to shipment | Companies whose partners include some that are not EDI-capable |
| Where the work happens | Your existing EDI setup | Inside your ERP, WMS or TMS | In BOLD Fulfillment, with or without your ERP | In a web portal, by email or from platforms like Shopify |
| What you get | VAN connectivity and document tracking | Mapping and integration into your systems, maintained | Warehouse, shipping and EDI in one connected system | Non-EDI orders turned into EDI, from a portal or platforms like Shopify |
| EDI system of your own? | Yes, yours | No, we integrate with your business system | No, it is built in | No, browser based |
BOLD Transmission and Connectivity
- Best for
- Teams that already map their own EDI
- Where the work happens
- Your existing EDI setup
- What you get
- VAN connectivity and document tracking
- EDI system of your own?
- Yes, yours
BOLD Integration
- Best for
- Teams that want EDI integrated into their systems
- Where the work happens
- Inside your ERP, WMS or TMS
- What you get
- Mapping and integration into your systems, maintained
- EDI system of your own?
- No, we integrate with your business system
BOLD Fulfillment
- Best for
- Suppliers who want to run orders to shipment
- Where the work happens
- In BOLD Fulfillment, with or without your ERP
- What you get
- Warehouse, shipping and EDI in one connected system
- EDI system of your own?
- No, it is built in
BOLD Exchange
- Best for
- Companies whose partners include some that are not EDI-capable
- Where the work happens
- In a web portal, by email or from platforms like Shopify
- What you get
- Non-EDI orders turned into EDI, from a portal or platforms like Shopify
- EDI system of your own?
- No, browser based
As Melvin Hackett, EDI Manager at Spanx, put it: "The pricing scale and product offerings were a step above all the VANs we researched."
Frequently asked questions
What is EDI VAN (BOLD Transmission and Connectivity)?
It is BOLD VAN's value-added network connectivity: your EDI documents route to and from all of your trading partners, over whatever VAN or protocol each partner uses, so you connect once to us and reach your entire partner network. BOLD Transmission and Connectivity means moving your data without mapping it; it assumes your documents are already mapped and translated. If you need mapping, see BOLD Integration.
How can I connect to BOLD VAN?
Several ways, depending on what your systems support: AS2, SFTP, FTP/S, HTTP/S and plain FTP. If you do not have EDI transmission capability of your own, the BOLD Folder Connector, a lightweight agent that runs on your Windows Server, sends files from an outbound folder to BOLD VAN and delivers inbound files to an inbound folder, with no EDI software required on your side (your files still need to be in the format your trading partners require). You can also work through our web portal, or connect your own application through a direct API integration.
Can you move formats other than X12 EDI?
Yes. Alongside X12 EDI, we handle EDIFACT for international trading partners and a wide range of other formats: XML, JSON, CSV, tab-delimited and positional or delimited flat files, including Infor BODs (Business Object Documents). We also connect to systems through their APIs, such as ShipHero's GraphQL API, so your data moves the way each partner and platform actually works. If a format needs to be transformed into what your own system reads, that is handled by BOLD Integration.
Can I connect through an API?
Yes, as a separate service. API integration is part of BOLD Integration, our mapping and integration service: instead of dropping already-mapped files over AS2 or SFTP, we build a direct integration with your application and map each trading partner for you. We support REST, GraphQL and other APIs, and it is priced the same as BOLD Integration. See EDI API Integration, or talk to us about your integration.
I have never done EDI. Can you help me get started?
Yes. As part of onboarding, we help complete your trading-partner forms, set up connections to your trading partners and (if you like) reach out to those partners on your behalf, at no extra cost. (If your documents also need mapping into your own system, that is handled by BOLD Integration.) We have done this for many companies and we make it straightforward.
I have intermittent SFTP connectivity issues with my current VAN. Will that happen with BOLD VAN?
Reliable connectivity is the core of what a VAN should do. Companies have moved to BOLD VAN specifically because of recurring SFTP connectivity problems with a previous provider, and those issues did not recur on our network. Our network is backed by 99.996% uptime, with a US-based team on hand to troubleshoot quickly if anything comes up.
Will my trading partners be affected if I switch to BOLD VAN?
Not your VAN trading partners: you keep your existing IDs, and they keep exchanging documents as they do today. We review every connection with you before the cutover and stay in personal contact with you throughout the migration.
Still have questions?
Talk to a US-based EDI expert. No pressure and no obligation, and if you are new to EDI, we will walk you through it.
Ready to get connected?
Reach every trading partner through one reliable value-added network connection. BOLD VAN is month to month, with no long-term contract.
