There are three ways to sell Anthropologie. Bulk wholesale is EDI through SPS Commerce with the Tradestone portal alongside it. Dropship runs on Rithum-DSCO. Curated by Anthropologie, the marketplace, runs on Mirakl. The documents, the chargebacks, the setup, and how AIMS360 runs all three on one stock record.
There are three ways to sell Anthropologie, and they run on three different systems. Bulk wholesale is EDI over SPS Commerce, with the Tradestone portal still required alongside it. Dropship runs on Rithum-DSCO. Curated by Anthropologie, the marketplace, runs on Mirakl. Most of the setup mistakes on this account come from assuming one of those is all three.
Three different programs, three different systems, three different commercial deals:
1. Bulk wholesale. Anthropologie sends a purchase order and buys at wholesale cost. EDI runs over SPS Commerce, the network URBN has chosen, and the Tradestone portal is still required alongside it for country of origin, PO acceptance and customs descriptions.
2. Dropship. Anthropologie sells it on their site, you ship it to the consumer, they pay you a wholesale cost. Runs on Rithum-DSCO, with a 24 hour tracking rule. Uses the 846, 850, 856, 810 and 870.
3. Curated by Anthropologie. The marketplace. You keep ownership, set your own retail price and pay a commission. Runs on Mirakl, with sellers approved by application and orders shipped in roughly 48 hours.
Being live on one does not put you on the others. They have separate onboardings, separate compliance rules and, in practice, separate people at URBN. What they do share is your warehouse and your stock, which is where the operational problem lives: three programs drawing units from one pool, each with its own way of punishing you for publishing a number you cannot honor.
| Wholesale | Retailer buys at cost and owns the goods. EDI over SPS Commerce plus Tradestone. Cartons to a distribution center with GS1-128 labels and an 856. |
| Dropship | Retailer sets retail and owns the customer, pays you wholesale cost, never takes possession. Rithum-DSCO, formerly CommerceHub DSCO. Single units to consumer addresses. |
| Marketplace | You set retail and keep ownership; Anthropologie takes a commission. Mirakl. You ship, and on most marketplace programs you handle the return. |
In fiscal 2026, which ended 31 January 2026, Anthropologie Group net sales were $2.59 billion out of $6.17 billion for Urban Outfitters, Inc. as a whole. That puts it ahead of Free People at $1.62 billion and Urban Outfitters at $1.35 billion, with Nuuly, the rental subscription business, at $568.4 million.
Anthropologie operated 254 stores at year end: 239 in North America, 20 in Europe and 9 franchisee-owned.
Worth holding on to when you are weighing the setup effort. Vendors sometimes treat Anthropologie as the smaller sibling of Urban Outfitters, or treat a dropship program as something to bolt on once the bulk business is running. Neither is right. Anthropologie is the biggest brand in a $6.17 billion company, and its assortment reaches well past apparel into home, decor, gifting, beauty and furniture.
Even as an EDI vendor you still enter country of origin, accept the purchase order and enter customs descriptions in Tradestone. Vendors budget for EDI expecting the portal work to disappear. It does not.
Purchase orders must be accepted prior to the PO ship date to transmit successfully. Accept one on or after the ship date and the transmission fails, which is a self-inflicted late shipment.
Shipment details are expected within 48 hours of the requested ship date. The ASN must be pre-pack formatted, with line level detail matching across the order, the ship notice and the invoice.
URBN does not transmit 860 purchase order change documents. Revisions arrive another way, so do not build a process that waits for one.
| 850 Purchase Order | Inbound. Must be accepted in Tradestone before the ship date. |
| 856 Advance Ship Notice | Pre-pack formatted, within 48 hours of the requested ship date. Doubles as the packing list. |
| 810 Invoice | Line level detail must reconcile to the 850 and the 856. |
| GS1-128 / UCC-128 labels | Approved by SPS Commerce during certification. A physical packing list copy goes on the first carton. |
| 860 PO Change | Not transmitted by URBN. |
Two constraints worth checking before you commit. URBN gives vendors a 60-day window to get a long-term EDI solution in place, with SPS Fulfillment available as an interim. And EDI is not available to import vendors where URBN is the importer of record, so if that describes you, the portal is the whole answer. Tradestone is free to use; EDI carries a cost to the vendor.
Rithum-DSCO, the platform formerly known as CommerceHub DSCO, carries the dropship program. Orders are confirmed there, and tracking must be posted within 24 hours of actual shipment. Payment terms are Net 60, with payments initiated on Tuesday after orders reach Net 60 status.
The packing slip included with each customer shipment has to be one the brand has approved. That is not a formality on dropship: the box arriving at the consumer's door is Anthropologie's brand experience, not yours.
On the AIMS360 side, dropship uses five documents, and there is one setup detail that catches vendors out more than any other on this account.
| 846 Inventory Advice | Your availability. On this program it also creates your items the first time it is sent, which is why it is the document to get right before anything else. |
| 850 Purchase Order | A consumer order routed to you to ship direct. It carries the shipping method for that order, which is why no default Ship Via is set on the customer record. |
| 856 Advance Ship Notice | What shipped, with tracking. On dropship this is what drives the shipment confirmation the end customer receives. |
| 810 Invoice | Generated from the same order and shipment records, so the price billed matches the price ordered. |
| 870 Order Status | Line level cancellation when you cannot fulfill. See the status code constraint below. |
Note what is not there. No 855 acknowledgment and no 860 change order, because a dropship order is a consumer purchase that either ships or gets cancelled. There is no negotiation, and the window is measured in hours rather than weeks.
Curated by Anthropologie is URBN's third-party marketplace, described by Anthropologie as a uniquely elevated marketplace where makers meet. Items are sold and shipped by the selling partner directly to the consumer.
It is not wholesale and not dropship. You keep ownership of the goods, you set the retail price, and Anthropologie takes a commission on the sale. Sellers are approved by application rather than bought by a buyer.
Brands complete a seller request form and URBN selects on originality and design. There is no purchase order and no wholesale cost, so there is also no volume commitment to plan production against.
Marketplace orders are consumer orders with a consumer's expectations behind them. Ship time and cancellation rate are service metrics, and on marketplace programs generally those metrics throttle your listings before anyone calls you.
Selling partners provide prepaid return labels and handle the refund. That is a reverse flow into your warehouse and a restocking decision per unit, rather than a retailer absorbing it into a markdown.
Marketplace listings are expected to hold price parity with your other channels, which constrains promotions you might otherwise run on your own site.
The reason to care about all three programs at once: a brand can end up selling Anthropologie wholesale, dropship and marketplace simultaneously, on three different commercial models, drawing from one pool of stock. See Mirakl marketplace integration for how the marketplace model differs from the other two, and the Mirakl, Rithum and DSCO dropship guide for the wider platform picture.
AIMS360 builds a unique SKU from the style number, the color code and the size name, joined by underscores, and sends it with the UPC assigned to that variant. For example 40526CJ_BLK_S.
Items are created by that first 846. Do not add products to the vendor portal by hand.
An item keyed in by hand will not carry the same SKU string your 846 generates. You end up with duplicate records, and orders arrive against SKUs your system does not recognize. Letting the 846 create everything keeps one naming authority.
Each variant goes across with its barcode, so the item is tied to a real GTIN from the first transmission rather than being reconciled later. See GS1 UPC and catalog data.
Dropship sells directly from your published figure. Publish a number you cannot honor and the correction is not a backorder, it is a cancelled consumer order and a poor experience the retailer attributes to you.
For brands using AIMS360 as the EDI service provider, the inventory advice can run automatically instead of being sent by hand. On dropship that is the difference between an accurate feed and a daily chore somebody forgets.
The deeper point is allocation. A dropship program publishes availability from the same stock your bulk wholesale purchase orders are already committed against. If those two live in different systems, the number you publish is optimistic by definition, and the gap surfaces as cancellations rather than as a warning. On this account, where the same brand buys from you both ways, that is not a hypothetical.
| Late delivery | 2% per day, or 10% per week, after the cancel date. URBN may cancel the order instead. |
| Backorders | $8.00 per unit on each backorder taken at Urban fulfillment centers. |
| Overall cap | Where a chargeback exceeds 10% of the PO FOB cost, the total is capped at 10% of FOB. |
| Defective allowance | On Anthropologie Direct, 1% is deducted from all apparel and accessory invoices. |
| Dispute window | 90 days from issuance. Past that, URBN does not investigate. |
| Dropship delays | Vendors may be charged back for shipping fees charged to the customer where the brand was not informed of a delay in advance. |
| Quality | URBN reserves the right to charge back or require the vendor to replace the customer order at the vendor's expense. |
The 90-day dispute window is the one to build a process around. Deductions that are not researched inside three months are simply margin you gave away, and on a program with a 1% blanket defective allowance already coming off the top, the arithmetic gets unforgiving. See chargeback management for how AIMS360 ties deductions back to the order and shipment they came from.
| Ship Via | Left blank on the customer record on purpose. Each 850 carries the shipping method for that order, and a default set here would override what the retailer asked for. |
| Freight | Freight collect or third-party billed, on the carrier account the trading partner provides. The customer record is tagged for both. |
| Third-party billing | Where ShipStation is used, an automation rule applies the third-party billing account as pick tickets arrive, with the account code and customer purchase order passed across as custom fields. |
| Tracking and BOL | The UPS or FedEx tracking number can replace the bill of lading number, so the tracking the consumer sees is the number on your record. |
| Branded packing slip | Not currently offered inside AIMS360 for this program. It is printed from the retailer's vendor portal. |
| Cancellation codes | The 870 is sent at line level, but AIMS360 transmits a hard-coded DC6, cancel or sold out, whatever you select in the dropdown, because this program uses a status code set AIMS360 does not currently offer. For a different cancellation reason, use the vendor portal for that order. |
The last two are genuine limitations rather than design choices, and they are on this page deliberately. A vendor who finds out about the packing slip during peak has a worse week than one who planned for it in week one.
AIMS360 develops and owns its EDI engine, and that engine runs inside the consumer brands ERP rather than sitting beside it as a connected service. AIMS360 builds the X12 from your live order and inventory data, maps it to the retailer specification, and processes the acknowledgment.
Where a retailer names the network, as URBN does with SPS Commerce on the wholesale program, AIMS360 works over it. That requirement belongs to the retailer and applies to every vendor whatever system they run. The customer record carries an EDI provider and translator setting for exactly that reason.
The 846 publishes from the same stock record your wholesale purchase orders draw on, so availability reflects real commitments rather than a separate optimistic feed. On an account you sell both ways, this is the whole argument.
Dropship automation takes the 850 through to a pick ticket and a label without anyone touching the order, which is what makes single-unit consumer orders economic to fulfill.
Released pick tickets cross to ShipStation with the account code and purchase order attached, and tracking plus freight cost return to the order so the 856 and 810 reference the same shipment. That is what makes the 24-hour tracking rule survivable at volume.
The 810 is built from the order and shipment that actually happened, which is what keeps deductions researchable inside URBN's 90-day dispute window.
Marketplace orders land in the same order queue and read the same stock record, but the money moves differently. Keeping all three programs on one platform is what makes channel profitability a report rather than a reconstruction.
Allocation rules settle who gets the last size medium when a bulk purchase order, a dropship order and a marketplace listing all want it, rather than whoever picks first.
Three ways, and they are separate programs. Bulk wholesale, where a buyer writes a purchase order and EDI runs over SPS Commerce with the Tradestone portal alongside it. Dropship, where Anthropologie sells on their site and you ship to the consumer, run on Rithum-DSCO. And Curated by Anthropologie, the marketplace on Mirakl, where you keep ownership, set your own retail price and pay a commission. Being approved for one does not put you on the others.
Anthropologie's third-party marketplace, which it describes as a uniquely elevated marketplace where makers meet. Products are sold and shipped by the selling partner directly to the consumer. It runs on Mirakl, sellers apply rather than being bought by a buyer, orders ship in roughly 48 hours, and the selling partner handles returns with a prepaid label. Commercially it is the opposite of wholesale: you keep ownership and set the price, and Anthropologie takes a commission.
No, and confusing the two produces the wrong integration. On dropship Anthropologie sets the retail price, owns the customer and pays you a wholesale cost, and the orders arrive as EDI 850s through Rithum-DSCO. On the marketplace you set the retail price, keep ownership and pay a commission, and it runs on Mirakl. The warehouse work looks the same, single units to consumer addresses, but the margin math and the paperwork are not.
Rithum-DSCO, the platform formerly known as CommerceHub DSCO. URBN's vendor documentation directs dropship vendors to confirm orders there and post tracking within 24 hours of actual shipment. Radial was the prior platform on this program, so older setup guides and forum posts naming Radial are out of date for URBN, even though Radial still runs dropship for other retailers.
Yes, for the bulk wholesale program. URBN names SPS Commerce as its EDI partner, and vendors register, test and certify there, including getting UCC-128 carton labels approved. Worth being clear about what that does and does not mean: the retailer chose that network, so every vendor certifies over SPS regardless of which ERP or accounting system they run. It is not a requirement AIMS360 imposes and not one another system would let you skip. What AIMS360 provides is the layer above it, writing and owning the maps and generating the X12 from your live order and inventory data. The dropship program is separate again and runs on Rithum-DSCO.
No, and this is the most common budgeting mistake on this account. EDI vendors still use Tradestone to enter country of origin, accept purchase orders and enter customs descriptions. Purchase orders must be accepted prior to the PO ship date or the transmission fails.
Five: the 846 inventory advice, the 850 purchase order, the 856 advance ship notice, the 810 invoice, and the 870 order status. There is no 855 and no 860, because a dropship order is a consumer purchase that either ships or gets cancelled.
On dropship, yes, and it catches vendors out. A single ISA ID covers both. AIMS360's standard maps route both divisions into one customer account rather than splitting them, so if you intend to trade with both banners, tell your AIMS360 project manager at setup rather than after the first orders arrive.
Anthropologie is the largest brand at URBN. In fiscal 2026, which ended 31 January 2026, Anthropologie Group net sales were $2.59 billion out of $6.17 billion total company sales, ahead of Free People at $1.62 billion and Urban Outfitters at $1.35 billion. Anthropologie operated 254 stores, of which 239 were in North America.
AIMS360 builds a unique SKU from the style number, the color code and the size name, joined by underscores, for example 40526CJ_BLK_S. That SKU goes across with the UPC assigned to the variant, so the item is tied to a real barcode from the start.
No. Items are created automatically by the first 846 transmission. Adding them by hand creates duplicate or mismatched records that will not line up with the SKUs your 846 sends, which then breaks order matching. Let the 846 do it.
Yes, for brands using AIMS360 as the EDI service provider. That matters more on dropship than on bulk wholesale, because the retailer is selling from your availability figure in real time. A stale 846 means you are either overselling stock you do not have or hiding stock you could have sold.
With the 870 order status, sent against specific line items. One honest constraint: AIMS360 sends a hard-coded status of DC6, cancel or sold out, regardless of which status code you pick in the dropdown, because this program uses a set of status codes AIMS360 does not currently offer. If you need to send a different cancellation reason, use the vendor portal for that order.
Within 24 hours of actual shipment, into Rithum-DSCO. URBN also expects to be told about shipping delays before the expected shipment time passes, and vendors may be charged back for shipping fees charged to the customer where that did not happen.
Late delivery past the cancel date runs 2% per day, or 10% per week, and URBN may cancel instead. Backorders taken at Urban fulfillment centers are $8.00 per unit. Where a chargeback exceeds 10% of the PO FOB cost the total is capped at 10% of FOB. On Anthropologie Direct, a 1% defective allowance is deducted from all apparel and accessory invoices. Disputes must be raised within 90 days of issuance.
These are freight collect or third-party billed shipments, using the carrier account the trading partner provides. In AIMS360 the customer record is tagged for freight collect and third-party billing, and where ShipStation is used, an automation rule applies the third-party billing account as pick tickets arrive.
None. The Ship Via code is deliberately left blank, because each 850 carries the shipping method for that order. Setting a default here overrides what the retailer asked for, which is a quiet source of compliance problems.
Not currently. A branded packing slip is not offered inside AIMS360 for this program, so it is printed from the retailer's vendor portal. URBN requires that the packing slip included with each customer shipment be one the brand has approved. Everything else in the flow, from the purchase order to the invoice, stays in AIMS360.
Yes, and on this account you probably will, which is exactly why allocation matters. A dropship program sells from the same stock your bulk purchase orders are committed against. If the two live in different systems, the 846 you publish is optimistic and the shortfall shows up as cancellations. In AIMS360 both draw on one inventory record, so what you publish is what you can actually ship.
Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters, Free People or any of 350+ retailer programs. Wholesale, dropship and marketplace on an EDI engine AIMS360 builds and supports, publishing from one stock record shared with every other channel you sell.
