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Summary
Orderful EDI platform: list and read EDI transactions (purchase orders, acknowledgments, ship notices, invoices, inventory advice) in both directions, read their message content, work an inbox of inbound deliveries, accept or fail deliveries, acknowledge transactions, send new transactions and list trading partner relationships.
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Example prompts for Orderful
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
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Orderful + Claude
Orderful EDI platform: list and read EDI transactions (purchase orders, acknowledgments, ship notices, invoices, inventory advice) in both directions, read their message content, work an inbox of inbound deliveries, accept or fail deliveries, acknowledge transactions, send new transactions and list trading partner relationships.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
ORDERFUL_API_URL, ORDERFUL_API_KEY
Step 1 — Get credentials
- Sign in at ui.orderful.com (US) or ui-eu.orderful.com (EU).
- Click your avatar, then Settings → Organization Settings → API Credentials, and copy the API Token into
ORDERFUL_API_KEY. It is sent in theorderful-api-keyheader. - Set
ORDERFUL_API_URLto your region, without a trailing slash:https://api.orderful.com(US) orhttps://api-eu.orderful.com(EU). Data is not shared across regions; a US token does not work on the EU host. - Call
orderful_get_organizationto check the token and see your EDI accounts (ISA ids), thenorderful_list_transactions, narrowed bydirection,simplified_transaction_type(PURCHASE_ORDER,INVOICE,SHIP_NOTICE...),streamorbusiness_number.
Receiving: read the Inbound Poller inbox with orderful_list_inbox_transactions (the inbox id is in the Orderful UI under Communication Channels), process each document, then call orderful_accept_delivery, or orderful_fail_delivery with a note. On JSON relationships also send orderful_acknowledge_transaction, once per transaction; X12 and EDIFACT relationships acknowledge with a 997 instead.
Sending: orderful_create_transaction posts an 850, 855, 856, 810, 846 or 860 in Orderful's Mosaic JSON. Use stream: test until the relationship is live: a live transaction goes to the trading partner. Check validationStatus on the result; INVALID transactions are not delivered.
Pagination: up to 100 transactions per page; for the next page, pass the nextCursor value from metadata.pagination.links.next.
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Claude
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Recommended path — works on claude.ai web without editing any config file.
- In Claude, open Customize → Connectors.
- Click +, then Add custom connector.
- Enter a name, e.g.
Orderful, and the remote MCP server URLhttps://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID, then click Add. - Click Connect and sign in to AnythingMCP (OAuth) to allow access.
All tools below appear in your chat — start typing prompts.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
orderful_get_organization | Get your own Orderful organization: id, name and its EDI accounts with live and test ISA ids and qualifiers |
orderful_list_transactions | List EDI transactions sent and received across all trading partners, newest first, up to 100 per page |
orderful_get_transaction | Get one transaction by its UUID: direction, sender and receiver ISA ids, EDI and business type, business number, stream, statuses, creation… |
orderful_get_transaction_message | Get the document content of one transaction: the purchase order, invoice or ship notice itself, as JSON or as the raw EDI file |
orderful_get_acknowledgment | Get the business acknowledgment of a transaction: ACCEPTED or REJECTED, with the errors given by the receiver |
orderful_list_inbox_transactions | Read the transactions waiting in an Inbound Poller inbox, each with its document content and a delivery object (deliveryId, transactionId… |
orderful_get_delivery | Get one delivery of a transaction: status (CREATED, SENT, FAILED, DELIVERED), note, send and confirmation times, and the accept and fail… |
orderful_accept_delivery | Confirm that an inbound delivery was received and processed |
orderful_fail_delivery | Mark an inbound delivery as failed because your system could not process it, with a note saying why |
orderful_acknowledge_transaction | Send the business acknowledgment for an inbound transaction on a JSON relationship: ACCEPTED, or REJECTED with error messages |
orderful_create_transaction | Send one EDI document to a trading partner in Orderful's Mosaic JSON (850, 855, 856, 810, 846 or 860) |
orderful_list_relationships | List your trading partner relationships: for each, the document type, status, auto-send setting and the sender and receiver organization… |
FAQ
Does it work with Claude Code as well as Claude Desktop? Yes — point both at https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID.
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