Ask HN: Is Electronic Data Interchange still used in e-commerce?

[shivajikobardan]

EDI used to be a standard method of transferring commercial information between customers. But with the advent of Internet, is EDI still being used? Obviously the EDI infrastructure is now useless with how secure the internet is now. But even just the EDI message format stuffs? Is it being used still?

[AptSeagull]

Yes, extensively. ~$6T rides on EDI, and its use was not predicated on security alone. It is painful to get wrong, and often not worth mastering when there's sop much else to focus on.

Naturally, I'm a bit biased as a founder at Surpass.biz, we built an API for EDI transactions so supply chain software SaaS can embed it for native capabilities.

[edf13]

Yes - for many legacy systems especially in compliance related areas.

[shivajikobardan]

Could you elaborate? I am new to edi.