Native Fanatics EDI inside AIMS360: 850 in, 855 within 24 hours with Fanatics status codes, 846 daily, 856 with the tracking number as the BOL, 810 out, on trading partner FNTC with store 3904, plus wholesale POs with the UCC-128 label.
Fanatics EDI Integration
AIMS360 is a consumer brands ERP with Fanatics EDI built in, for drop ship and for wholesale. One platform runs your inventory by style, color and size and produces every document Fanatics asks for: 850 orders in, the 855 back within 24 hours with Fanatics' status codes, the 846 at least daily, 856 ASNs with the tracking number as the BOL, 810 invoices, 997s both ways, and for wholesale the UCC-128 carton label and the carton level ASN. Drop ship and fulfillment center POs from one stock record. The connection is managed by our EDI team.
What system manages inventory and does EDI with Fanatics? AIMS360. It runs your inventory and your Fanatics EDI in one platform: native maps for the 850, 855, 846, 856, 810 and 997, the 855 sent automatically within 24 hours with Fanatics' order and line level status codes, the 846 sent at least daily off the same stock record as your wholesale allocations, drop ship orders on trading partner FNTC with store location 3904, freight collect on Fanatics' carrier account and the tracking number carried as the bill of lading on the ASN, and for wholesale the UCC-128 SSCC-18 label and the carton level 856 into Fanatics' fulfillment centers. Fanatics runs its own EDI with no CommerceHub, Dsco or Mirakl layer and mandates no network. You do not pair AIMS360 with SPS Commerce, TrueCommerce or another EDI provider.
Fanatics EDI Documents
Built from the same ERP records that run your inventory, warehouse and accounting, so the acknowledgment, the inventory feed, the ASN and the invoice describe the same stock and the same shipment.
| Transaction | What it does for Fanatics |
|---|---|
| EDI 850 purchase order | For drop ship, a consumer order from Fanatics.com or one of the league, team and college stores Fanatics runs, carrying the customer's address and a single Fanatics store location code, 3904, that has to exist on your customer record. For the wholesale business, a purchase order into a Fanatics fulfillment center. AIMS360 imports both as orders validated against your catalog at the UPC level. |
| EDI 855 acknowledgment | Mandatory on drop ship. Fanatics requires an 855 in return for every 850 within 24 hours, with Fanatics specific status codes at the order level and at the style line level. AIMS360 sends it from the order record with the codes Fanatics expects, automatically, so the clock never runs out on a weekend. |
| EDI 846 inventory | Mandatory on drop ship, at least once a day, and higher volume vendors are asked for it more often. AIMS360 sends the availability feed off the same stock record that runs your wholesale allocations, so Fanatics does not sell a unit a bulk PO already owns. |
| EDI 856 ship notice (ASN) | On drop ship, sent per shipment with the carrier tracking number carried as the bill of lading number, and more than one carton allowed per shipment. On wholesale, a carton level ASN with the SSCC-18 from the UCC-128 label, required with every shipment into a Fanatics fulfillment center. AIMS360 builds both from the shipment your warehouse closed. |
| EDI 810 invoice | One per order on drop ship and one per PO on wholesale, sent after the ASN. AIMS360 produces it off the shipment record. Where Fanatics accepts a drop ship handling fee, it can ride on the 856 and 810 as a service line. |
| EDI 860 purchase order change | Listed by Fanatics EDI providers along with the 180 return notification. AIMS360 applies the change to the open order and handles the 180 where your program uses it. |
| EDI 997 acknowledgment | Both directions on every document. AIMS360 generates the outbound 997 on receipt. |
| UCC-128 carton label | Wholesale only. As reported from the Fanatics packaging instructions dated December 2022, every carton into a Fanatics fulfillment center carries a unique UCC-128 label in SSCC-18 format, 4 by 6 inches, thermal printed, one per carton, with any conflicting vendor barcode defaced. AIMS360 prints it from the same shipment record as the ASN. |
Vendor Requirements
Fanatics publishes no vendor guide, routing guide, chargeback schedule or vendor portal on the open web. What is known comes from Fanatics.com and fanaticsinc.com, from our own Fanatics drop ship setup documentation, from a compliance vendor's summary of the December 2022 Fanatics packaging and carton labeling instructions, and from EDI provider pages. The figures say which is which. Confirm every rule with your Fanatics buyer or the Fanatics EDI department before you plan a launch around it.
| Requirement | What Fanatics expects, as reported |
|---|---|
| EDI network | Fanatics runs its vendor program on its own EDI, direct or through a provider of your choosing, with no CommerceHub, Dsco or Mirakl layer in between as far as any public source or our own setup documentation shows. Providers list the 850, 855, 856, 810, 846, 860 and 180 for Fanatics. Fanatics does not publish an X12 version; one provider's sample envelope shows 4010. |
| Drop ship documents | 850 in, 855 within 24 hours, 846 at least daily, 856 per shipment, 810 after it. The drop ship 850 carries store location 3904. The trading partner code in AIMS360 is FNTC and the vendor number comes from your buyer or the Fanatics EDI department. |
| 855 status codes | Fanatics expects an acknowledgment with its own order level and line level status codes, accept, reject, backorder and the rest, on every 850 within 24 hours. A missing or late 855 is a missed order, not a formality. |
| 846 cadence | Daily at minimum. Fanatics asks higher volume vendors to send the inventory feed more than once a day, and the number it sells against is the number you last sent. |
| Carrier | Drop ship freight is collect on Fanatics' account, with the tracking number used as the bill of lading number on the ASN and multiple cartons allowed per shipment. Our setup documentation, written in 2020 and revised in 2023, names FedEx Home Delivery as the only service; Fanatics.com lists UPS, LaserShip, OnTrac, DHL and others for its own outbound today, so confirm the current carrier rule with your buyer. |
| Packing slip | Fanatics.com labels vendor shipped items as Trusted Partner items to the consumer, and they ship from the vendor's facility rather than a Fanatics center. Branded packing slip content is not published; our setup notes carried a branded slip as coming soon, so confirm the current format before the first order. |
| Wholesale cartons | One purchase order per carton, with SKUs mixed inside a carton only under the mixed UPC pack by PO instruction. Case packs of two or more units no heavier than 75 pounds. A unique UCC-128 SSCC-18 label, 4 by 6 inches, thermal printed, one per carton, in scannable condition, with vendor barcodes that do not match the label defaced. Labels in English and Spanish, as reported, which is worth confirming. A valid 856 with every shipment. |
| Fulfillment centers | Fanatics.com says most orders ship from Jacksonville, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; Aberdeen, Maryland; Louisville, Kentucky; and Frazeysburg, Ohio. Press adds Tampa, Florida, opened August 2024, and a 600,000 square foot Waxahachie, Texas building announced for early 2025. The Riverview, Florida center closes July 31, 2026. Confirm the ship to on every wholesale PO. |
| Routing | Not published. A Fanatics MercuryGate TMS login exists, and whether wholesale routing runs through it or through the buyer is confirmed at onboarding. Collect and prepaid rules, appointments and pallet specs for wholesale are not public. |
| Licensing | Fanatics is itself a licensee and manufacturer. It holds exclusive rights to manufacture and distribute Nike NFL and MLB fan gear, is the NHL's on ice uniform outfitter, runs WWE Shop, and owns Majestic, Mitchell and Ness, Top of the World and WinCraft. A brand selling league or college product to Fanatics needs its own license, and the Nike NFL and MLB fan gear categories are closed to outside vendors. |
| Chargebacks | Not published. Fanatics does not put a fee schedule, a fill rate threshold or a dispute window on the open web. What a late 855 or a stale 846 costs you first is the order itself, because Fanatics cancels what is not acknowledged and sells only what you last said you had. |
Sources: Fanatics.com shipping and product pages and fanaticsinc.com company, commerce, history and press pages read September 2026; the AIMS360 Fanatics.com drop ship setup documentation, created May 2020 and revised November 2023; the Fanatics packaging and carton labeling instructions dated December 12, 2022 as summarized by RetailerHub in May 2025; EDI provider trading partner pages for Fanatics from TrueCommerce, Cleo, Orderful and Zenbridge; the March 2022 Aberdeen and 2023 Waxahachie announcements; Supply Chain Dive and Retail Dive on the November 2025 Riverview closure; and Forbes and Sportico on 2024 and 2025 revenue. Fanatics revises its program through its buyers and EDI department rather than a public guide.
Fanatics EDI Workflow
One loop, one system, and two documents that have to go out on time whether or not anyone is in the office.
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1. Order arrives | A drop ship 850 lands with the consumer's address and store location 3904 and becomes a customer order on the FNTC trading partner. A wholesale 850 becomes a sales order for a Fanatics fulfillment center. Both are validated at the UPC level. |
| 2. Acknowledge within 24 hours | The 997 goes back on receipt. The 855 goes back from the order record with Fanatics' order level and line level status codes, inside the 24 hour window, without anyone touching it. |
| 3. Availability | The 846 goes out at least daily off the same stock record as your wholesale allocations, and more often where Fanatics asks for it. |
| 4. Pick, pack, ship | The built-in warehouse module packs the drop ship order, one or more cartons, and ships it collect on Fanatics' carrier account with the tracking number captured. Wholesale cartons are packed one PO per carton within 75 pounds and get a UCC-128 SSCC-18 label. |
| 5. ASN | The drop ship 856 transmits per shipment with the tracking number as the BOL. The wholesale 856 transmits at shipment close with the SSCC-18 for every carton. |
| 6. Invoice | The 810 goes out after the ASN, one per drop ship order or one per wholesale PO, with a service line where a handling fee is agreed. |
| 7. Changes and returns | An 860 is applied to the open order and a 180 is handled where your program uses it. |
| 8. Timing watched | The 855 timing and the 846 cadence are watched on a report rather than remembered, because on this program a missed window is a missed order rather than a fee. |
Native vs Bolted On
Short answer, no. Fanatics runs its own EDI and mandates no network, and the program lives or dies on timing.
The 855 comes off the order record with Fanatics' codes, the 846 comes off the stock record on a schedule, and the ASN and invoice come off the shipment, so the 24 hour clock and the daily feed run without a person in the loop. Wholesale and drop ship share one stock record.
Our EDI team runs the connection, the testing and the maps. Fanatics runs on its own EDI, so there is no platform fee in the middle.
Put an EDI network in front of an ERP with no native EDI and the 855 goes out when someone sends it, the 846 is as fresh as the last export, and the tracking number on the ASN is whatever got typed in, on a program where all three have a clock or a fan waiting on them.
And a stale 846 on a game night is the fastest way to a cancellation.
Fanatics Programs
Four things a Fanatics vendor has to sort out, and the company behind them.
Fanatics sells it, you ship it. Vendor shipped items show as Trusted Partner items on Fanatics.com and on the league, team and college stores Fanatics runs. 850 in with store 3904, 855 within 24 hours, 846 daily, 856 with the tracking number, 810 after. Collect on Fanatics' account. This is the program most brands are on.
Bulk purchase orders into Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Aberdeen, Louisville, Frazeysburg, Tampa or the newer Texas building. One PO per carton, 75 pound case packs, a UCC-128 SSCC-18 label on every carton and an 856 with every shipment. Routing and pallet rules come from the buyer.
Fanatics is the licensee for a large share of what it sells, from Nike NFL and MLB fan gear to WWE and Topps. A third party brand sells Fanatics what it holds a license for, from the league, the players association or the college licensing body, and stays out of the categories Fanatics holds exclusively. Get the license question settled before the EDI question.
Fanatics is the majority owner of Lids and runs Fanatics Collectibles, Fanatics Betting and Gaming, Fanatics Live and Fanatics Events alongside commerce. Lids is a separate retailer with its own vendor program, and the collectibles and live commerce seller programs are not the Fanatics.com brand vendor program. In AIMS360 each is its own trading partner.
One thing to keep straight: Fanatics, Inc. is private, run by founder and CEO Michael Rubin, with its commerce headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida and its largest office in New York. Its CEO put 2025 revenue at about $13 billion, up from $8.1 billion in 2024, and about three quarters of sales are direct to consumer. It sells to more than 180 countries across more than 900 league, team and property partners. The fan buys on game night, and the program is built around that.
One Stock Record
A Fanatics drop ship program sells against the 846 you sent last, on a calendar set by the sports schedule, while your wholesale POs and your other retailers draw on the same stock. The useful number is what is free for Fanatics after the bulk orders are allocated, and how often Fanatics hears it.
| Situation | What AIMS360 does |
|---|---|
| Drop ship and wholesale on one pool | Bulk allocations and the 846 draw from the same stock record, so Fanatics does not sell a drop ship unit a fulfillment center PO already owns. |
| A daily 846, or more | The availability feed runs on a schedule off the live stock record, and higher volume styles can go more often, because a stale feed on a playoff night is a cancellation. |
| A game night spike | Orders land as 850s with the 855 due within 24 hours, so the acknowledgment goes back from the order record automatically and the pick tickets are ready when the warehouse opens. |
| More than one warehouse | Availability rolls up across locations, and a drop ship order ships from the location that actually has it, with the tracking number captured for the ASN. |
| A 3PL holding stock | Integrated 3PL locations feed the same record, so the 846 describes units that exist and the ASN carries the 3PL's tracking number as the BOL. |
| Selling the other sports and fan retailers | The same pool feeds Fanatics, Dick's, Academy, Amazon and the Dsco and Rithum drop ship programs without a separate inventory file per retailer. Each is its own trading partner with its own rules. |
Managed Onboarding
Our EDI team builds the connection and tests it with Fanatics. You supply the vendor number from your buyer or the Fanatics EDI department, the program you are approved for, the carrier instructions, and the packaging instructions if wholesale is in scope.
| Stage | What we do |
|---|---|
| Before kickoff | Confirm whether you are drop ship, wholesale or both, confirm the license covering what you will sell, and get the current carrier and packing slip rules from your buyer, because the public record on both is thin. |
| Setup | Build the customer account on trading partner FNTC with the vendor number, store location 3904 as the drop ship store address, freight collect on Fanatics' account, the tracking number as the BOL, multiple cartons per shipment allowed, and the 846 schedule. For wholesale, the fulfillment center ship to list, packing rules for one PO per carton at 75 pounds, and the UCC-128 label. |
| 855 codes | Load the Fanatics order level and line level status codes so the acknowledgment carries the values Fanatics expects, and set it to go automatically within the window. |
| Testing | Test the 850, 855, 846, 856 and 810 end to end with Fanatics, including an 855 inside 24 hours, a daily 846, and a multi carton drop ship ASN with the tracking number as the BOL. Add the 860 and 180 where your program uses them. |
| Go live | Watch the first drop ship order from 850 to 855 to shipment to 856 to 810, and the first wholesale PO from carton label to ASN, then review the first week of 855 timing and 846 cadence with you. |
| After | Track rule changes through your buyer. Fanatics publishes no guide and no changelog, and its fulfillment center list is changing through 2026. |
We keep emergency EDI support running around the clock, because a championship does not wait for your 846 to catch up.
Fanatics EDI FAQ
The 24 hour 855, the daily 846, how drop ship ships, the fulfillment centers, licensing, and what Fanatics does and does not publish.
AIMS360. It is a consumer brands ERP with Fanatics EDI built in: the 850 in, the 855 back within 24 hours with Fanatics' status codes, the 846 at least daily, the 856 with the tracking number as the BOL, the 810 after it, and 997s both directions, on trading partner FNTC with store location 3904. Wholesale POs into a Fanatics fulfillment center run on the same stock record with the UCC-128 label. Our own EDI team runs the connection.
For drop ship, five: the 850 purchase order in, and the 855 acknowledgment, 846 inventory, 856 ship notice and 810 invoice out. EDI providers also list the 860 change and the 180 return notification. Fanatics does not publish an X12 version or a VAN mandate; it runs its own EDI directly or through the provider you choose.
Within 24 hours of every 850, with Fanatics specific status codes at the order level and at the style line level. AIMS360 sends it from the order record automatically, so a Sunday night order is acknowledged before Monday morning.
At least once a day, and higher volume vendors are asked to send it more often. AIMS360 sends the inventory feed off the same stock record as your wholesale allocations on a schedule you set, so Fanatics sells against real availability.
Fanatics sells it, you ship it to the fan. The 850 arrives with the consumer's address and store location 3904, the 855 goes back within 24 hours, the order ships collect on Fanatics' carrier account with the tracking number carried as the bill of lading number on the 856, and the 810 follows. Fanatics.com shows the item to the consumer as a Trusted Partner item that ships from your facility. Fanatics does not use CommerceHub, Dsco or Mirakl for this.
Collect on Fanatics' account. Our setup documentation, written in 2020 and revised in 2023, names FedEx Home Delivery as the only drop ship service, while Fanatics.com lists UPS, LaserShip, OnTrac, DHL and others for its own outbound today. Confirm the current rule with your buyer before the first order; AIMS360 maps whatever service Fanatics assigns to your ship via.
Fanatics.com says most orders ship from Jacksonville, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; Aberdeen, Maryland; Louisville, Kentucky; and Frazeysburg, Ohio. Tampa, Florida opened in August 2024 and a 600,000 square foot Waxahachie, Texas center was announced for early 2025. The Riverview, Florida center closes July 31, 2026. Confirm the ship to on every wholesale PO.
As reported from the December 2022 packaging instructions: one purchase order per carton, SKUs mixed only under the mixed UPC pack by PO rule, case packs of two or more units no heavier than 75 pounds, a unique UCC-128 SSCC-18 label 4 by 6 inches on every carton, thermal printed and scannable, conflicting vendor barcodes defaced, labels in English and Spanish, and a valid 856 with every shipment.
For licensed product, yes, your own. Fanatics holds exclusive rights to manufacture and distribute Nike NFL and MLB fan gear, is the NHL's on ice uniform outfitter, runs WWE Shop and owns Majestic, Mitchell and Ness, Top of the World and WinCraft. A brand sells Fanatics what it is licensed for by the league, the players association or the college licensing body, and stays out of the categories Fanatics holds exclusively.
Fanatics does not publish a chargeback schedule, a fill rate threshold or a dispute window. What a late 855 or a stale 846 costs you first is the order, because Fanatics cancels what is not acknowledged and sells only what you last said you had. AIMS360 keeps the 855, the 846 history, the ASN and the invoice on the order record, which is the documentation any performance conversation with your buyer needs.
No. Fanatics is the majority owner of Lids, but Lids is a separate retailer with its own vendor program, and the Fanatics Collectibles and Fanatics Live seller programs are not the Fanatics.com brand vendor program either. In AIMS360 each is its own trading partner.
Fanatics, Inc. is private, founded and run by Michael Rubin, with its commerce headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida and its largest office in New York. Rubin put 2025 revenue at about $13 billion, up from $8.1 billion in 2024, with about three quarters of sales direct to consumer, more than 22,000 employees and more than 900 league, team and property partners.
No. Fanatics runs its own EDI and mandates no network. The Fanatics maps are native to AIMS360 and managed by our EDI team, and the 855 timing, the 846 schedule, the store location and the collect carrier are set once on the trading partner rather than remembered.
We do. The maps belong to us, so a revision is our work rather than a project for your team. Fanatics publishes no vendor guide and no changelog, its fulfillment center list is changing through 2026, and the carrier rule in our own documentation is being reconfirmed, so we check the program with your buyer before every season.
See AIMS360 acknowledge a Fanatics order inside the window, send the 846 on a schedule, and ship collect with the tracking number on the ASN, all from one record.
