Similar to working with transactions from platforms like Stripe or Shopify, you need to transform Stedi’s Guide JSON format to and from a shape that your system can understand.

Inbound transactions

After processing an inbound file from your trading partner, Stedi can use Destination webhooks to send the data to your business systems. By default, this webhook includes standardized metadata about the processing event along with the actual EDI transaction represented in Guide JSON.

Prior to ingesting the payload into your system, you can choose a transformation approach to reshape it into your system’s format.

Outbound transactions

For outbound transactions, you need to call the Generate EDI API with a Guide JSON payload. For example, you may need to translate employee records exported from your internal database into Guide JSON to create an 834 Benefit Enrollment file.

Prior to calling the API, you can choose a transformation approach to reshape data from your system into Stedi’s Guide JSON format.