For floor-covering manufacturers and distributors
Get on fcB2B without building an EDI department
Dealers and buying groups increasingly trade on fcB2B — by document exchange and by Web Services. Meeting that has meant EDI infrastructure to run and translation software priced for someone much larger. InformB2B turns the data you already keep into fcB2B documents, moves them over infrastructure we run, and puts you in front of the dealers who require it.
Three ways this usually goes
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1
You sign a VAN contract.
Priced for a company ten times your size, billed per character, so the better it works the more it costs.
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2
You start an integration project.
Six months and a consultant later, the dealer who asked has bought from someone else.
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3
You say no.
And the order goes to a vendor who said yes.
There is a fourth.
What changes
Your documents become fcB2B, automatically.
Bring the data in the format you already keep it in. Catalogs, purchase orders, acknowledgements, ship notices and invoices become valid fcB2B documents in your trading partner's mailbox — styles, colours, prices, effective dates, in a standard envelope any partner's system reads.
The infrastructure is ours, not yours.
No SFTP server to build, secure, patch or staff. No EDI department to hire. Every dealer gets an isolated mailbox with their own credentials, their own walls, and address restrictions you nominate. You invest in none of it.
fcB2B opens a market you can't currently reach.
Isogent is a member of fcB2B. Every dealer and buying group that requires fcB2B document exchange becomes a customer you can sell to — including the ones buying elsewhere today because you couldn't answer.
The whole trading cycle, not one file type
| Document | Name | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| 832 | Price / sales catalog | you → dealer |
| 850 | Purchase order | dealer → you |
| 855 | Purchase order acknowledgement | you → dealer |
| 856 | Advance ship notice | you → dealer |
| 810 | Invoice | you → dealer |
| 997 | Functional acknowledgement | both, correlated automatically |
Catalog out. Order in. Acknowledgement, ship notice, invoice. A functional acknowledgement matched to the original by its control number at every step — and archived verbatim, the exact bytes your partner sent, kept as evidence.
What you won't be charged for
- Per-kilocharacter document fees
- An annual VAN contract
- Per-dealer setup projects
- A minimum document volume
Say yes the next time a dealer asks.
A walkthrough takes half an hour, and we'll run it against your own catalog.
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