Do I need to fill out every required field in an EDI Transaction?

Yes. When you set up a Trading Partner in Orderful we ingest and digitize the Transaction type Guideline for all the Relationship you have with your partner.

This means telling Orderful which fields on the transaction form are required, optional, or unneeded.

For example, your partner may make a Bill of Lading Number a required field on your 856 and the Guideline for this relationship will reflect that making the field mandatory when filling out the form.

Since you are unlikely to be the only user in the Orderful Network trading with your trade partner, Orderful cannot customize the guideline to your needs, and straying from the guideline could put you at risk of expensive chargebacks.