Apparel and footwear brands face retail's most complex compliance requirements — and the steepest chargeback penalties for getting it wrong.
BOLD VAN handles multi-retailer compliance, ASN monitoring, and routing-guide updates end to end. However you run EDI today — full integration into your ERP, transmission only, our web portal, or API — we fit your setup, so your team stays focused on building the brand, not fighting EDI.
We connect our brands across department, mass, off-price, sporting goods, footwear, marketplace, and armed-forces exchange channels — each under one agreement.
…and many more across every channel
Representative of the retailers our brands trade with. If your accounts aren't listed, they're almost certainly already in our network — ask us.
Years ago, when Under Armour was a 40-person company, we built and ran the EDI backbone that grew with them — connecting them to the major retailers above, along with their overseas manufacturers, freight and shipping partners, distribution warehouses, and outlet stores, as the brand scaled past half a billion dollars in revenue.
That's the difference between a VAN that moves files and a partner that understands how an apparel brand actually grows: new retailers, new channels, new countries, new complexity — without the plumbing becoming the bottleneck.
Not every brand becomes Under Armour. But you never know who will — and we've been the team behind one that did.
The EDI infrastructure scaled the whole way — retailers, manufacturers, freight, warehouses, and outlets — without missing a beat.
Every apparel category ships to retail differently — performance, denim, footwear, intimates, accessories. We've run EDI across the full spectrum, so whatever you make, the compliance is handled.
Performance & athletic — Heritage — scaled from 40 people to $500M+
Shapewear & intimates — Customer
Premium lingerie — Customer
Proactive ASN monitoring and retailer-specific alerts catch errors before they become deductions. We track routing guide changes so your team doesn't have to.
Nordstrom, Macy's, TJX, Kohl's, Target — each with its own vendor guide, label spec, and routing workflow. We manage compliance across all of them under one agreement.
Predictable per-trading-partner pricing means your Q4 EDI bill doesn't spike with order volume — pricing is sized to your volume, so a busy season doesn't blow up your bill.
Landing a new wholesale account is exciting — waiting weeks to go live is not. We get new retail connections up and compliant in 2–3 weeks so you can start shipping.
Retailer EDI is where most brands start with us. But as you grow, the integration work moves upstream and downstream — and it's the same work we did scaling Under Armour. We connect every link.
Overseas and domestic suppliers — POs, forecasts, and shipment data flowing both ways.
Carriers, forwarders, and parcel partners integrated for routing, tracking, and ASNs.
Fulfilling through a 3PL? We connect to both you and your provider and run the EDI between you — inventory, receipts, and shipments synced across your DCs, WMS, and third-party logistics.
To retailer DCs, direct to stores, or drop ship to the end customer — each requires different ASNs, routing, and labeling, and we handle all three.
NetSuite, SAP, Dynamics, Oracle, ShipHero, and many others — mapped once, maintained as everything changes.
Whether you have an internal EDI team or need everything handled end-to-end, we have a setup that fits.
A 15-minute call where we look at your current provider costs, chargeback history, and retailer mix — then show you what a move to BOLD VAN would look like. No obligation.
Retailers update their vendor compliance guides constantly. We monitor every retailer in your network and update your maps proactively — not after a chargeback tells you something broke.
Per-message VAN pricing turns your busiest season into your biggest EDI bill. Our per-trading-partner pricing is sized to your volume, so a busy season doesn't blow up your bill.
We handle setup, connectivity, mapping, and compliance testing directly with each retailer's EDI team. Your ops team doesn't need to manage the onboarding process.
Nordstrom, Macy's, Walmart, Amazon — each has its own compliance ecosystem. We manage all of them under a single BOLD VAN agreement at one predictable monthly cost.
No offshore ticket queues. Our EDI team has worked with apparel and footwear brands across major retail programs and can resolve issues before they affect your scorecard.
From purchase orders and ASNs to routing requests and inventory updates — we support every EDI transaction type your retail accounts require.
We connect over any protocol — including API and our browser-based Web EDI portal — and there's never an extra charge for connectivity to any trading partner, no matter how many retail accounts you manage.
From NetSuite, SAP, and Microsoft Dynamics to Oracle, Infor, and Infor CloudSuite Fashion — plus the apparel-specific platforms built for your industry — we integrate with them all.
Apparel and footwear brands run on systems built for their world — style/color/size complexity, seasonal drops, and high SKU counts. We integrate with mainstream and apparel-specific ERPs alike, mapping once to your system of record and maintaining it as retailer specs change, so your ERP stays the single source of truth.
Most brands go live with a new retailer in 14–21 days from the first call. Here's exactly how it works.
Schedule a DemoWe review your current setup, retailer requirements, ERP/WMS environment, and map out the right integration approach for your brand.
We build and validate AS2/SFTP connections, configure EDI maps per each retailer's document specs, and set up proactive ASN monitoring.
We run compliance testing directly with each retailer's EDI team, resolve any document or label issues, and confirm all requirements are met before go-live.
Your first fully compliant PO, ASN, and invoice flows without errors. We stay on to monitor your transactions and update maps as retailer specs change.
The entire process was seamless, and the migration was a huge success. We experienced no issues during the transition — most notably, there were no data interruptions throughout the migration process.
