Retail3000 is able to send and receive EDI messages. Not only logistics related, but also product data. There are two ways of sending and receiving mesages, by Edifact EDI and by a proprietary 'NedFox' standard. The Edifact messages are actually 'ascii' files and have a worldwide Edifact format standard. The NedFox standard contains XML messages and are strong typed, based on available XSD schemas.

There are 2 specific message types which might need further explanation, the SlrRpt and the InvRpt. These are abbreviations for a Sales Message and an Inventory Message. The Sales message informs the supplier about the products being sold since the previous message, while the Inventory message informs the supplier about the stock changes since the previous message.

Both messages only report the sales and/or stock for products where the supplier has delivered that product. RetailVista will try to look in the sales history to determine the supplier, there are some configuration and functional decisions which might influence this functionality.