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eCommerce made safe and easy

The ECN Group is New Zealand’s largest and most trusted B2B messaging company.

We provide you and your trading partners with cost effective means of doing business electronically by automating the exchange of transactional information between all types of systems, and across all network boundaries.

How it works
ECN B2B Messaging™ allows you and your trading partners to exchange files using ECN to validate, translate and transmit them, in a compatible format, into your ERP system.

You can trade electronically with suppliers, customers, distributors, freight companies and others. Or you can form your own trading community as Government departments like NZ Customs and MAF.

ECN can deal with all your trading partners, regardless of their size, with full EDI or web based EDI. ECN offers all the components your B2B messaging service needs.

ECN B2B Messaging™ Products

ECN EDI™- Our EDI to EDI translation service (also includes XML, CSV etc.).

Web to EDI - your smaller trading partners can use ECN PINS™ and ECN PIND™.

GS1net compliance- and Master Data Management with iICE Validator™.

ECN B2B Messaging™ Services

Supplier Engagement - ECN do all or part of the work you need to convince and help your trading partners to trade electronically with you.

Set up - ECN design, build and test your “maps” and your trading partners “maps” that allow your systems to communicate.

Support & Help Desk - Our highly skilled operations, help desk and BA staff, monitor and respond to any issues your B2B messaging systems have.

Connectivity - Via a variety of connection options including SMTP (email), FTP, SFTP, HTTP / HTTPS, AS2, MQ and others.

ERP - ECN build for all types (SAP or JDE etc) and format (e.g. CSV or XML) and with 4,000 existing trading partners we have probably already built maps for your type of ERP system.

Why use ECN?

You get the huge benefits of B2B e-commerce, without the pain and expense of overhauling your internal systems. With ECN you get:

A Market leader in B2B messaging technology and solutions
Trans Tasman B2B messaging coverage
Any to any translation
The backing and support of NZ Post (ECN’s parent company)
No client side software to purchase or install
Hosted at our high spec facilities with comprehensive security and disaster recovery protection
Full 24x7 service support