Your integration journey
Sending documents to Tradeshift
Discover & Define
- Review of current content
- Best practice consultancy
- Define sending method
Build & Test
- Set up Tradeshift account
- Build integration
- Test document flow in test environment
Go Live & Hypercare
- Send documents in production
- Tradeshift monitors and helps to resolve any issues
- Consultation on further integrations and financing options available
Transfer Protocols
Tradeshift’s Babelway app is a powerful middleware solution that connects seamlessly with any ERP system. With over 3,000 active connections across multiple countries, Babelway enables businesses to exchange documents securely and efficiently. It supports a wide range of transfer protocols, including SFTP, Email, AS2, and many more—providing the flexibility to integrate with virtually any existing infrastructure. The result? Faster onboarding, smoother operations, and seamless document flow across your entire network. For more details please, visit the Tradeshift Knowledge Base.
Data formats
Tradeshift natively supports the Universal Business Language (UBL). In order to assist you or your IT partner, we have created an information package which contains detailed information on what fields to fill out, what code lists to use, example files and other helpful tips.
If your accounting software supports UBL version 2.0, you can use the below documentation package and build your business documents export based on the included specifications. Tradeshift however supports virtually any data format via our Babelway middleware.
Universal Business Language (UBL)
UBL is an open library of standard electronic business documents from procurement and transportation to payments. It includes document types such as purchase orders, invoices, credit notes, receipt and remittance advices and much more. UBL was developed by the OASIS Technical Committee with participation from a variety of industry data standards organisations. UBL is described in an extensive overview in the article “What is UBL?” describing customising and extending UBL, the governance of UBL, how UBL is modelled, and thoughts regarding deploying UBL. Tradeshift uses UBL as the preferred language for handling business documents. This means that business documents are exchanged with Tradeshift users in UBL format, and UBL concepts such as subsets, profiles, business objects, code lists, extensions, validation etc., are heavily used when handling business documents.
Learn the core concepts of integrating with Tradeshift, and where you can find the tools you need to get started.