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Join thousands of businesses moving EDI orders, invoices and fulfilment updates between IONOS and their trading partners on XEDI, no manual re-keying.
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Getting started with IONOS EDI
XEDI exchanges trading files through IONOS storage and hosting, which for most businesses using it comes down to keeping data in Europe under European terms while still trading electronically.
One managed platform, no custom code
XEDI maps IONOS to your trading partners and validates every document, so data flows straight into the systems your teams already use.
Residency is usually the reason, and it shapes what follows
Businesses on IONOS have often chosen it for a specific reason: European ownership, European data centres, contractual terms that are straightforward under European law. That is a considered position rather than an accident of procurement.
A trading connection has to respect it rather than quietly undermine it. Where data must remain in a particular jurisdiction, that constrains where files are held and how they move, and it is established at the outset because retrofitting a residency requirement is considerably harder than designing for one.
European trading brings its own document expectations
Businesses in this position frequently trade across European borders, which is not the same as trading domestically. Retailers in different countries expect different message standards, invoices carry different tax treatment, and electronic invoicing obligations vary by jurisdiction and keep moving.
Those requirements are held and maintained by us per partner and per market, so a business trading into several countries does not have to track which rules apply where. That is a considerable amount of work not to have to do.
What your team sees day to day
You get an EDI mailbox and a portal that behaves like an inbox, so trading state is visible without anyone logging into hosting.
Demand arrives, the despatch advice describes what genuinely shipped with labelling to the partner's standard, and the invoice follows on delivery carrying the tax treatment that market requires.
Your hosting arrangement is unchanged. The EDI capability is bolted onto the IONOS setup you already chose, for the reasons you chose it.
Documents you can exchange
- Order files written to storage for your systems
- Despatch and quantity files collected from storage
- Invoice data written for downstream use
- Stock and catalogue files exchanged with partners
- Failed documents written for correction
Built for IONOS teams
Whoever owns IONOS in your business, XEDI keeps EDI accurate and hands-off.
- European small and mid-sized businesses
- Organisations with data residency requirements
- Businesses hosting their own applications
- Operations and finance teams
- Companies avoiding the larger hyperscalers deliberately
IONOS EDI document types
Storage carries files; these are the exchanges they usually serve.
| Document | What it carries | Direction |
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| Order files | Retailer demand written where your hosted systems read from, within the required jurisdiction. | XEDI to IONOS |
| Despatch files | What genuinely left, collected from storage and checked before any document is produced from it. | IONOS to XEDI |
| Invoice data | Invoice detail written for finance, carrying the tax treatment the destination market requires. | XEDI to IONOS |
| Catalogue and stock files | Product and availability figures exchanged with partners on an agreed cycle. | Either direction |
| Processed files | Handled files moved aside so nothing is collected twice. | Within storage |
| Exception files | Documents failing validation, written with the reason for correction. | XEDI to IONOS |
How to connect IONOS with EDI using XEDI
Residency and market-specific requirements shape this more than the storage itself. The sequence below is what onboarding looks like from your side.
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We confirm where your data must remain and which IONOS products hold it.
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We agree the storage locations and paths used for exchange.
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We set up access scoped to those locations.
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We prove the flows against how your hosted systems read and write.
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You get electronic trading without moving data outside the arrangement you chose deliberately.
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Everything about IONOS EDI
Common requirements
- IONOS products and locations in use
- Any data residency requirement
- Access arrangement available
- Naming and archiving convention
- The trading partners the files relate to
What we need from you to build it
Only what we cannot decide for you. Partner and market requirements are ours to maintain.
- Products and locations
- Which IONOS products hold your data and where, since that may be the reason you are there.
- Residency requirement
- Whether data must remain in a jurisdiction, which constrains the design and is far easier to plan for than to retrofit.
- Access arrangement
- How access can be granted within your hosting setup.
- Markets you trade into
- Which countries, since invoicing obligations and expected standards differ and keep changing.
- The partners the files relate to
- Which relationships this serves. Their requirements are already ours.
Why suppliers choose XEDI for IONOS
- Partners across the markets you sell into are usually connected already, so European trading starts without a country-by-country build.
- A residency requirement is designed for from the start rather than discovered during an audit.
- Market-specific invoicing and standards are maintained by us across the countries you trade into.
- Your hosting choice stands, including the reasons you made it.
- Access is scoped to the storage used for exchange.
- If a partner in any market raises a problem, it comes to us and not to your team.
Can our data stay in Europe?
Where that is a requirement it is established at the outset, because it constrains where files are held and how they move. Designing for it is straightforward; retrofitting it is not.
We sell into several European countries. Does that complicate things?
It changes what each retailer expects and how invoices must be treated, and those requirements differ by market and keep moving. They are maintained by us per partner and per market.
Do we need to move to a larger cloud provider?
No. If IONOS was chosen deliberately, the trading connection fits around that rather than being a reason to reconsider it.
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