Orderful moves EDI. A retailer purchase order arrives as an 850, the brand ships, and an invoice goes back. That PO is an order, and it consumes stock the marketplaces also sell.
Inbound purchase orders, the SKUs and quantities on them, and the acknowledgements.
The PO comes into the record as a wholesale order, with the retailer named.
An acknowledgement or an inventory advice can go back when that write is in scope. The EDI map stays Orderful's.
Which retailers send EDI, who owns the Orderful account, and whether a wholesale PO should reserve stock before the marketplaces sell it.
An API is the door the system opens for orders, stock, and listings. An MCP server is a tool surface the AI can call, with the same guardrails. The call names who holds the login, which objects are read, and which writes wait for a person.