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Five Below EDI Integration for Value Retail Vendors

Most Five Below merchandise passes through its shipcenters on the way to stores. With Pipe17, each Five Below PO becomes work your warehouse can pick, and the ship notice and invoice follow what shipped.
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The Challenge of Trend-Driven Retail EDI

Social Media Velocity Meets Price Point Pressure

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Viral Product Demands

A trend on social media can send shoppers looking for the same item in stores and online at once. Separate stock counts per channel mean it sells out in one place and sits in another.

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Tight Price and Margin Rules

Five Below's value pricing leaves little room for error. Mistakes in pricing, allowances, or terms on an order or invoice come straight out of your margin.

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Rapid Inventory Turns

Trending products cycle in and out quickly. Without one current view of inventory across Five Below and your other channels, you overbuy what is fading and run short on what is next.

The Solution for Five Below EDI Integration & Order Management

Five Below Fills Its Shipcenters. Pipe17 Fills the Purchase Orders.

Five Below POs can arrive through Pipe17’s managed EDI or through an EDI provider you already use. Routing them often falls to custom scripts and a legacy OMS apart from storefront stock. Pipe17’s Order Operations Platform takes on both, filling every Five Below PO from shared stock.
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Capture Every Trend with Five Below and Pipe17

Keep up with Five Below’s pace from one Order Operations Platform. Purchase orders, inventory, and shipments share one record with the rest of your channels. A sudden spike hits a single stock count.
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Viral-Ready Order Processing

Take on a surge of Five Below purchase orders without adding staff to enter them. Each order arrives, goes to a warehouse or 3PL by your rules, and pulls from a single stock count.

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Cleaner Invoices

Invoices (810) build from the purchase order and the confirmed shipment. The prices and quantities you bill match what Five Below ordered and received.

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Inventory View Across Channels

See Five Below demand beside your online and marketplace sales in one view, and keep the stock you promise Five Below tied to the same live count as a product takes off or winds down.

Automated Five Below EDI Flows

Through managed EDI, Pipe17 links your business to Five Below’s trading-partner connection. A PO bound for one of its shipcenters and one that ships direct to stores follow the same order flow as the rest of your business.
  • Pull Orders from Five Below. Each Five Below 850 purchase order arrives in Pipe17 as a routable order carrying its ship-to. A shipcenter PO and a store-direct PO each route to the location that should fill it.
  • Push Order Confirmations to Five Below. Your answer goes back as an 855 acknowledgment, accepting the whole PO or only the lines and quantities you can fill.
  • Push Fulfillments to Five Below. The 856 ship notice is built from what your warehouse confirmed as shipped, with carton detail that, per the EDI providers serving Five Below, has to agree with the GS1-128 label on each carton.
  • Push Inventory to Five Below. Where Five Below’s program calls for 846 inventory advice, Pipe17 reports the stock available at the locations you designate, on the schedule the program sets.
  • Push Invoices to Five Below. Pipe17 sends the 810 from the shipped quantities, which lets Five Below reconcile the bill against its purchase order and the ship notice.
  • Confirm Every Transmission. Pipe17 answers every document Five Below transmits with a 997 functional acknowledgment.
  • Receive PO Changes. When Five Below issues an 860 change to a purchase order, Pipe17 receives it and acknowledges it with a 997.
  • Send Each PO to the Right Location. Five Below orders go to your own warehouse or the 3PL that holds the stock, based on the routing rules you set.
  • Provide Carton Label Data. GS1-128 (UCC-128) label data for each carton comes through Pipe17’s API, ready for whoever packs the freight to print and apply, scoped to Five Below’s program.
  • Post to Your ERP. Each Five Below PO becomes a NetSuite sales order, or one in whichever ERP your finance team runs.
  • Hand Off to a 3PL Over EDI. For a 3PL that trades over EDI, the shipping request travels as a 940 and the 3PL’s 945 reports the shipment back.
  • Surface Problems Early. Orders that fail a routing rule or need a decision are held and flagged to your team through the Automation Engine.

Connect Five Below EDI to Your Trend-Driven Business

Five Below is one retail account among your channels. On Pipe17, Five Below POs pull from one stock pool shared with your online store, on Shopify or any platform, and your marketplace listings.

Keep Five Below Orders Moving from PO to Shipcenter

Walk through a Five Below purchase order on Pipe17, from the 850 landing to the ship notice and invoice going back, next to the DTC and marketplace orders you handle today.
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Five Below EDI Integration FAQs

Yes, Five Below exchanges purchase orders, ship notices, and invoices with vendors as ANSI X12 documents over AS2 or an approved network, according to EDI providers that support its program. Pipe17 runs that exchange for you as managed EDI, with no VAN contract of your own to sign. The X12 documents Pipe17 supports cover the core of what Five Below asks for.

Five Below expects the SSCC on each carton's GS1-128 label to match the carton record in the advance ship notice (856) exactly, according to EDI providers that support its program. Pipe17 builds that notice from confirmed shipments and provides per-carton label data through its API, which your warehouse team or 3PL prints and applies. Read how Pipe17 handles GS1-128 carton labels.

Both, though most go to shipcenters: Five Below's annual report says about 85% of store merchandise moves through its five shipcenters, and vendors ship the rest directly to stores. Pipe17 reads the ship-to on each purchase order (850) and hands the order to your warehouse or a 3PL like ShipBob. See how a retail EDI order moves through Pipe17.

Each Five Below purchase order (850) posts to NetSuite as a sales order your team works like any other. Once the order ships and is billed, Pipe17 sends Five Below the ship notice (856) and invoice (810). Acumatica works the same way. See how Pipe17 ties EDI to your ERP for other systems.

EDI providers that support Five Below's program point to ASN and label defects first, then to mismatches between the purchase order, the advance ship notice (856), and the billing document (810). Pipe17 builds the advance shipping notice and the invoice from one shipment record. Rules you set on the Order Operations Platform hold a rule-breaking order for your team to fix.

On your side, onboarding needs a handoff to Five Below's EDI team, your vendor number, item list, sample documents, and any special program rules. Pipe17 then sets up Five Below's connection on the Pipe17 Network, maps each document to its specs, and tests until Five Below signs off on live orders. Pipe17's retailer onboarding process is scoped per connection.

Yes, the Five Below program keeps running on SPS Commerce, and Pipe17 connects either to SPS itself or to the ERP it delivers orders into. Nothing about the Five Below connection has to be redone. From day one, Five Below orders join the order operations behind your other channels. Read keeping SPS or another EDI provider in place.

Vendors who also sell through a storefront, on Shopify or elsewhere, on marketplaces like Amazon, or to other retailers benefit most, because Pipe17's managed EDI is sold only with the Order Operations Platform. A Five Below vendor trading only by EDI does better with a dedicated EDI provider. See where Pipe17's managed EDI fits and where it does not.