Stedi is very developer friendly and comes with a lot of things out of the box (including example files and schemas) that make developing EDI integrations just as easy as API integrations. Their platform is improving almost weekly, and the team does a great job of sharing their roadmap. They have the best customer support, and very smart engineers who are familiar with the wide range of EDI challenges that come up in the real world. Other platforms we looked sell solutions that are much more expensive, custom, and oriented towards a sort of "IT buyer". Stedi is built for API-native engineers who don't have to know much about EDI to start.

Stedi is one of the few software platforms that I truly think is doing everything right. It abstracts the cumbersome technical complexities of EDI, liberating me from file parsing, validation, SFTP setup, etc.. It allows me to devote my energy to the actual utilization of the data we exchange via EDI, rather than burning time on technical minutiae. It similarly streamlines the procedural complexity and required background knowledge by baking in a wealth of institutional knowledge. My own understanding of EDI has grown substantially through my interaction with the Stedi ecosystem. It strikes a perfect balance between comprehensive feature coverage and intuitiveness. There’s very little you can’t do and very little that’s hard to figure out. In my experience, such a balance is a rare find, as complexity often seems to rise in tandem with feature richness. On the rare occasion that I find a Stedi feature to be confusing, they answer questions quickly and thoroughly. On the rare occasion I need a feature that Stedi doesn’t have, they really listen to feature requests and prioritize things that are blocking (but again, this is rare — Stedi possesses a borderline freaky ability to anticipate user needs). Stedi has been nothing short of exceptional, I really can’t recommend it strongly enough.

There's a long list of what I like best about Stedi, but the absolute top of the list if the Stedi team themselves. This can be summed up with: Best in class in customer support. My company is a lean startup that moves extremely fast and the Stedi platform and the Stedi team enable us to work through 10+ EDI integrations concurrently, with new partners, in a month. The amount of institutional knowledge and experience that the Stedi team brings to the table is complimentary to an amazing UI & Product. Personally I'm in the Stedi UI everyday working on new partnerships and existing partnerships.