Target Account Integration

Introduction

In this article, you will learn how to integrate your Target account with Sellercloud. Target is one of the largest discount retailers in the United States. Sellercloud and Target communicate via EDI documents passed through a VAN (BoldVan account).

Target settings

To set up your Target account:

1. Go to Company Settings > select a company > Toolbox > Target > General Settings.
2. Enter the identification and qualifiers on the Target General Settings page.

   Name	Instructions
   Customer ISA Qualifier	Enter ZZ
   Customer ISA ID	Typically, the client’s phone number is entered
   Target ISA Qualifier	Enter ZZ
   Target ISA ID	Supplied by Target
   Target Seller ID	Supplied by Target (referred to as Vendor ID)
   Supplier/Warehouse ID	Supplied by Target
   Warehouse Code	Supplied by Target (referred to as EDC)

3. Sellercloud Support will set up a VAN account for the client.
4. Enter a safety quantity, if applicable.
5. Enter a Default qty for replenishable products, if applicable.
6. Check the Target Enabled checkbox.
7. Enable the automatic controls, below, after EDI has been tested and you are ready to ship orders. Inventory should be enabled only after you are sure that your inventory is accurate and the products are “Enabled for Target.”
8. The following EDI documents are transmitted between Sellercloud and Target. Each document must be tested and approved before you can go live with Target.
   • 846 Inventory Upload— Updates inventory.
   • 850 Order Download—  Purchase order document from Target. Contains customer order info.
   • 997 Order Functional Acknowledgement – Acknowledges receipt of order.
   • 855 Order Accept— Sends to Target one of two messages, either that the order has been received and will be shipped, or the order has been rejected and is being canceled. The document is sent immediately in response to the 850 order file received. The channel setting “Auto cancel order with no inventory” will auto-send a cancellation notice if there is insufficient inventory to fill the order.
   • 856 Order Fulfillment Upload— Notifies Target of shipping and provides shipping date/time and tracking.
   • 860 Purchase Order Change Request— Buyer Initiated.
   • 865 Acknowledgement to a Purchase Order Change Request.

   Note: See instructions about setting co-op fees here for dropship.

9. When your VAN account is ready, enter the FTP information that you get from Sellercloud Support:
   1. FTP Server
   2. FTP Username
   3. FTP Password
   4. FTP Port— 990 by default.
10. Check  Use Secure FTP checkbox and set up the FTP folders:
    
    1. FTP Folder For Orders – Use /Send as the directory as this is the directory for the information that is sent from Target.
    2. FTP Folder For Tracking – Use /Receive as the directory as this is the directory for the information received by Target.
    3. FTP Folder For Ack – Use /Receive as the directory.
    4. FTP Folder For Invoices – Use /Receive as the directory.
    5. FTP Folder For Inventory – Use /Receive as the directory.
11. Click Save Settings.

Warehouse breakouts

Using Sellercloud’s Channel Warehouse Mapping feature, you can send inventory information broken down by warehouse to Target.