AIMS360 connects to Bealls natively over EDI. Which Bealls is which, from Bealls Florida to the bealls off-price chain to the defunct Texas Bealls, with the document set and labels handled per program.
There were two American retailers called Bealls, unrelated, in different states, for most of a century. One of them liquidated in 2020 and the other one bought its name. If a buyer just handed you a Bealls purchase order, this page tells you exactly which company you are dealing with, what its banners are, what changed in its EDI program in 2026, and how AIMS360 runs the EDI behind it from the same record as your other retail accounts.
AIMS360 connects to Bealls natively over EDI, as part of the ERP rather than a separate subscription. Bealls today means Bealls Inc. of Bradenton, Florida, the family owned retailer behind the bealls off-price chain, the Bealls Florida department stores, and Home Centric. Purchase orders, acknowledgments, ASNs and invoices move between Bealls and the same order and inventory record that runs your other retail accounts, with GS1-128 carton labels and the ASN produced from the same scan. Bealls issued new EDI maps and new GS1-128 label requirements, and AIMS360 is working toward compliance with them in October 2026. The new maps and the new label are almost finished.
The reason this page spends time on the name is that the name genuinely causes problems. Old routing guides, old vendor spreadsheets and old EDI setups still float around referring to a Bealls that no longer exists, and to a Burkes Outlet that is now called something else. Sorting that out before you configure anything is cheaper than sorting it out at the DC.
Worth being precise, because most of the internet is not, and a wrong assumption here means pointing your EDI at a company that stopped existing in 2020.
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| 1915 | Robert M. Beall Sr. opens the first store in Bradenton, Florida. The company stays family owned from then on. |
| The century after | A completely unrelated Texas retailer, also called Bealls, grows across the Southwest and eventually becomes part of Stage Stores of Houston, alongside Palais Royal, Peebles, Goody's and Gordmans. Two companies, one name, no relation. |
| The workaround years | Because of the name clash, the Florida company held rights to the Bealls name only in Florida, Georgia and Arizona. Its off-price stores everywhere else traded as Burkes Outlet. If you ever wondered why Burkes existed, this is the whole reason. |
| May 2020 | Stage Stores files Chapter 11 and liquidates. The Texas Bealls closes with it, along with the other Stage banners. |
| October 2020 | Bealls Inc. buys Stage Stores' intellectual property, including nationwide rights to the Bealls name, plus a 435,000 square foot distribution center in Jacksonville, Texas, for a reported $7 million. |
| 4 April 2023 | With the name unlocked, the rebrand: every Bealls Outlet and Burkes Outlet becomes bealls, roughly 600 stores under one banner, and the Florida department stores become Bealls Florida. New signage completed by the end of 2023. |
| 2026 | Bealls Inc. rolls out its updated EDI program with new maps for every document: vendors not yet trading electronically are asked to set up EDI, vendors on a partial set are moved to the full document set across both banners, and existing vendors retest against the new maps. See the 2026 update. |
| Today | One company. Bealls Inc., Bradenton, family owned, more than 660 stores in 23 states. |
A vendor conversation with Bealls can mean different programs with different buying behavior. Know which door your goods are walking through.
| Banner | What it is |
|---|---|
| bealls | The off-price chain, lower case on purpose, formed in 2023 from Bealls Outlet and Burkes Outlet. Roughly 600 stores at the rebrand and the company's engine for competing with TJ Maxx, Marshalls and Ross. Off-price buying behaves differently from department store buying, which is why it has its own page. |
| Bealls Florida | The original department store business, 68 stores at the rebrand, all in Florida. Seasonal apparel assortments, coastal and Florida lifestyle categories, and a classic department store vendor relationship. |
| Home Centric | The home decor concept, launched in May 2018, run both as standalone stores and as departments inside bealls locations. |
| Rugged Earth Outfitters | The outdoor apparel banner, the smallest of the four. |
Bealls Florida is a planned assortment business. Buyers work seasons in advance, orders are written against a plan, and the vendor relationship looks like any regional department store: purchase orders by door or to the DC, ship windows that matter, carton level GS1-128 labeling, and an invoice that has to match what was received.
The selling calendar does not look like a northern department store's. Resort, swim and warm weather categories run long, and holiday tourist traffic changes what reorders look like. Your allocation plan should know that.
Apparel orders arrive as a matrix, and the UPC per size has to be right everywhere it appears: the purchase order, the carton, the ASN, the invoice. AIMS360 treats the size and color matrix as native data rather than a flat SKU list.
A brand can sell Bealls Florida and the bealls off-price chain at the same time, and plenty do: planned assortments through one door, end of season and opportunistic buys through the other. Same parent, different economics, one stock record underneath.
Chargebacks in this relationship mostly come from mismatches: carton contents versus ASN, ASN versus invoice, invoice versus PO. Every one of those is prevented by generating the documents from what was actually scanned, which is the whole argument for EDI living inside the ERP.
The set below follows the supplier documentation Bealls published for its updated program, plus what AIMS360 has seen in Bealls onboarding and testing during 2026. The vendor guide issued to your account decides the specifics per program.
| Document | What it does on a Bealls program |
|---|---|
| 850 | Purchase order, required. Issued at X12 version 005010 in 2026 testing. On Bealls Florida it is a planned assortment order. On bealls it is more often a large opportunistic buy. |
| 855 | Acknowledgment, required. Bealls names the 850, 855 and 810 as its required documents, and the 855 is part of the return set in its 2026 test cycle. |
| 856 | Advance ship notice with GS1-128 carton labels. Part of Bealls certification testing along with the label, and Bealls asks for it when the shipment is picked up. For a vendor being onboarded or retested now, expect it. |
| 810 | Invoice, required. Matched against the order and the receipt before payment, which is why it should be generated from what shipped rather than typed. |
| 997 | Functional acknowledgment. Bealls sends one for the documents it receives. It confirms a file arrived and parsed, and its absence is your first warning. |
| 860 | Purchase order change, in the published set. Off-price buys move fast, so changes happen and the 860 is worth wiring up. The 865 change acknowledgment is optional. |
| 753 / 754 | Routing request and routing instructions. Both are in the set Bealls published for the updated program. Your Bealls contact confirms when your account starts using them. |
| 846 | Inventory advice, for drop ship suppliers only. |
| 864 / 820 | Text messages and remittance advice. Older partner listings showed both; neither is in the set Bealls published for the updated program, so ask your Bealls contact before planning around them. |
What AIMS360 has seen across Bealls onboarding and retesting during 2026, stated at the level we can stand behind. Your Bealls contact has the specifics for your account.
Bealls Inc. contacted vendors who were not yet trading electronically and asked them to initiate EDI setup. If you sell Bealls on paper or portal today, expect that conversation if you have not had it.
Vendors who had only the 810 invoice running, often with the off-price banner, are being asked to run the full document set across both banners, the off-price stores and the Bealls Florida department stores.
Bealls changed the maps for every document, so vendors already trading were asked to retest against the new ones. A working setup from a few years ago is not assumed to be current.
Bealls issues a test purchase order at X12 005010 and expects the 855 acknowledgment, the 856 advance ship notice and the 810 invoice back. Bealls also has new carton labeling requirements: a GS1-128 label plus a separate carton content label. In the testing AIMS360 has seen, label samples are reviewed before a vendor is approved. Both banners now share one EDI ID and one set of maps.
The Bealls connection is part of AIMS360, not a separate subscription, and AIMS360 charges no per document or per kilocharacter fees of its own. See native EDI.
Bealls orders land in order management beside your other retailers, wholesale and DTC, instead of in a mailbox somebody checks.
The GS1-128 carton label and the 856 come from the same scan, so the carton and the file cannot drift apart.
When a Bealls Florida order and an off-price buy want the same units, allocation rules settle it deliberately.
A third party 3PL maps to a real location, so the ASN and tracking come from wherever the freight actually left.
The implementation team configures the ERP and the Bealls maps together, with no handoff in between.
What brands ask when a Bealls order shows up.
Yes, natively over EDI, as part of the ERP rather than a separate subscription. Purchase orders, acknowledgments, ASNs and invoices move between Bealls and the same order and inventory record that runs your other retail accounts, with GS1-128 labels and the ASN generated from the same scan that packed the carton. Bealls issued new EDI maps and new GS1-128 label requirements, and AIMS360 is working toward compliance with both in October 2026. The work is almost finished.
Yes. During 2026 Bealls Inc. asked vendors not yet trading electronically to set up EDI, moved vendors who had only the invoice running onto the full document set across both the off-price stores and Bealls Florida, and asked existing vendors to retest against updated maps. Test purchase orders issue at X12 005010 and the test cycle expects the 855, 856 and 810 back. AIMS360 is working toward compliance with the new maps in October 2026, and the new maps and the new GS1-128 label are almost finished. Deadlines and account specifics come from your Bealls contact.
The full set on both banners, in most cases. Vendors who were invoice-only, often with the off-price stores, are being asked to run the purchase order, acknowledgment, advance ship notice and invoice across the off-price chain and the Bealls Florida department stores, with GS1-128 carton labels. In AIMS360 our EDI team sets that up on the new Bealls maps, which are almost finished as of October 2026, and it runs from the same order and inventory record you already use.
Same company, different banners. Bealls Inc. of Bradenton, Florida operates both: Bealls Florida is the original department store chain, 68 stores at the 2023 rebrand, all in Florida, while bealls, lower case, is the off-price chain formed when Bealls Outlet and Burkes Outlet merged under one name, roughly 600 stores. Same parent, different buying models, and a vendor can sell both at once.
It was a different, unrelated company. The Texas Bealls belonged to Stage Stores of Houston, which filed Chapter 11 in May 2020 and liquidated, closing Bealls, Palais Royal, Peebles, Goody's and Gordmans. In October 2020 Bealls Inc. of Florida bought Stage Stores' intellectual property, including nationwide rights to the Bealls name, plus a Texas distribution center, for a reported $7 million. So the name survived, but every current Bealls relationship is with the Florida company.
Because of the name clash. Until the 2020 purchase, the Florida company held rights to the Bealls name only in Florida, Georgia and Arizona, so its off-price stores everywhere else traded as Burkes Outlet. Once it owned the name nationwide, the workaround became unnecessary, and in 2023 every Burkes Outlet and Bealls Outlet was rebranded as bealls.
Bealls names the 850 purchase order, the 855 acknowledgment and the 810 invoice as required, and the 856 advance ship notice and the GS1-128 carton label are part of its certification testing, so treat all of them as required for a vendor being onboarded or retested now. Bealls sends a 997 functional acknowledgment for the documents it receives. The 860 purchase order change is in the published set, the 865 change acknowledgment is optional, the 753 and 754 routing documents are in the set, and the 846 applies to drop ship suppliers. Your vendor guide decides the specifics for your program, so confirm against it rather than against any list, including this one.
Plan on it. The 856 and the GS1-128 carton label are part of Bealls certification testing, and the test cycle AIMS360 has seen expects the 856 back along with the 855 and 810. If the ASN is in your program, generate it from scanned cartons rather than from the order.
Yes. Bealls Inc. was founded in 1915 by Robert M. Beall Sr. in Bradenton, Florida, and has remained family owned since. It is one of the larger private, family held retailers in the country, with more than 660 stores in 23 states across banners that include bealls, Bealls Florida and Home Centric.
Bealls Inc.'s home decor concept, launched in May 2018. It runs as standalone stores and as departments inside bealls locations. For a vendor it matters because a Bealls Inc. relationship can extend beyond apparel into home categories.
Under the updated program both banners share one EDI ID and one set of maps, and in the onboarding AIMS360 has seen, one test cycle has covered both. Confirm with your Bealls contact if you hold more than one vendor number. What matters on your side is that both land in one system: in AIMS360 the orders arrive in the same queue, draw on the same stock record, and each banner gets the documents and labeling it requires.
Not with AIMS360. The EDI is part of the ERP, so the ASN comes from the same system that scanned the cartons and printed the labels. The alternative, a translator beside the ERP, has to be told what shipped, and that second copy of the truth is what eventually disagrees with the freight. AIMS360 also charges no per document or per kilocharacter fees of its own.
Yes, and most brands who sell Bealls do exactly that. The discipline is inventory segregation: end of season and made-for-outlet goods committed to off-price should be separated, in AIMS360 usually with a virtual warehouse, so an off-price buy never quietly consumes units your full price accounts were promised. Allocation rules then decide deliberately when programs compete.
The Bealls test cycle and your program's specifics drive it more than the software does. What AIMS360 takes on is the build: our EDI team is working toward compliance with the new Bealls maps and GS1-128 label requirements in October 2026 and is almost finished, and it configures the documents and labels for your account. Bealls runs testing in timed rounds, so share your go-live date early. Ask for a timeline against your actual program during evaluation rather than a generic number.
Last reviewed 2 October 2026 by the AIMS360 EDI team. Bealls Inc. was founded in 1915 in Bradenton, Florida. Stage Stores filed Chapter 11 in May 2020 and liquidated; Bealls Inc.'s purchase of Stage Stores' intellectual property and a Jacksonville, Texas distribution center for a reported $7 million was reported in October 2020, and before that purchase its license covered the Bealls name only in Florida, Georgia and Arizona. The rebrand of Bealls Outlet and Burkes Outlet to bealls and of the Florida department stores to Bealls Florida was announced 4 April 2023 and completed by the end of 2023, covering roughly 600 off-price stores and 68 department stores at the time. The store count of more than 660 in 23 states is as reported in August and September 2026. The EDI document set follows the supplier documentation Bealls published for its updated program and what AIMS360 has observed in Bealls vendor onboarding and retesting during 2026; the X12 version and test return set are as observed in that cycle. The status of the AIMS360 maps and GS1-128 label is as of 2 October 2026. Retailer programs and requirements change and are set per vendor, so confirm current specifics, including any deadline, with your Bealls contact and vendor guide.
Bring your Bealls program, your other retailers and your messiest size run to a demo, and we will walk through the documents, the labels, the 2026 test cycle and how one stock record serves all of it.
