Native QVC EDI inside AIMS360: 850 in, 856 with the QVC SKU and SSCC-18, 810 for warehouse shipments, and for drop ship the 846 and an 856 carrying the invoice number, because QVC drop ship has no 810.
QVC EDI Integration
AIMS360 is a consumer brands ERP with QVC EDI built in. One platform runs your inventory by style, color and size and produces every document QVC asks for: 850 orders in, master carton labels with the QVC SKU and SSCC-18, 856 ASNs and 810 invoices out for the warehouse business, and for QVC drop ship through CommerceHub the 846 availability feed and an 856 that carries the invoice number and the tracking number, because there is no 810 on that program. The connection is managed by our EDI team.
What system manages inventory and does EDI with QVC? AIMS360. It runs your inventory and your QVC EDI in one platform: native maps for the 850, 856, 810, 846 and 997, master carton labels with the QVC SKU in Code 128B and the SSCC-18 in GS1-128 printed from the same shipment record as the ASN, a cross reference from the thirteen character QVC SKU to your style, color and size, and for QVC drop ship the QVDS trading partner with freight collect on QVC's carrier account, the tracking number as the bill of lading and the invoice number carried in the 856, because QVC drop ship does not use an 810. Drop ship orders come through CommerceHub, now part of Rithum, which QVC requires, and AIMS360 connects to it over EDI. You do not pair AIMS360 with SPS Commerce, TrueCommerce or another EDI network.
QVC EDI Documents
Built from the same ERP records that run your inventory, warehouse and accounting, so the label on the carton, the ASN and the invoice describe the same shipment.
| Transaction | What it does for QVC |
|---|---|
| EDI 850 purchase order | For the warehouse business, QVC transmits the PO for a fulfillment center and AIMS360 imports it as a sales order validated against your catalog at the QVC SKU level. For drop ship, the 850 arrives through the CommerceHub side of Rithum with the consumer's address and a carrier code, and AIMS360 turns it into a customer order with the ship method already mapped. |
| EDI 846 inventory | Drop ship only, and required. QVC and CommerceHub take an availability feed for every drop ship item. AIMS360 sends it off the same stock record that runs your warehouse allocations. QVC can also take available and cancel dates per item, which are set in OrderStream rather than transmitted. |
| EDI 856 ship notice (ASN) | On the warehouse side, a carton-level notice with the GS1-128 SSCC-18 that QVC asks for on the master carton label, sent at shipment close. On drop ship, the ASN does double duty: the carrier tracking number rides in the bill of lading field, and because QVC drop ship does not use an 810, the invoice number rides in the 856 too. |
| EDI 810 invoice | Warehouse shipments only. QVC drop ship does not use the 810 at all, which is why AIMS360 invoices the order before it generates the drop ship ASN, so the invoice number is there to send. |
| EDI 855 acknowledgment | Listed by QVC's EDI providers as optional for the warehouse business. AIMS360 sends it from the order record when your buyer wants it. |
| EDI 997 acknowledgment | Both directions on every document. AIMS360 generates the outbound 997 on receipt. |
| Master carton label | QVC's packaging guidelines ask for a Code 128B barcode with the QVC SKU human readable, and a GS1-128 SSCC-18 with the carton count per fulfillment center. Unit count, QVC item and SKU, fulfillment center city and state, vendor style, PO number, country of origin, vendor name and ID, expiration date where it applies, and a PARTIAL CARTON flag when it is one. Never over a seam, never under tape. |
Vendor Requirements
QVC publishes its vendor onboarding guide, last updated February 2023, and its QA packaging and labeling guidelines, revised March 2015, on the open web. The supply chain compliance manual with the line item chargebacks sits behind the QVC Vendor Portal login. The figures below come from the two public documents and from the QVC drop ship setup documentation our EDI team maintains. Confirm against the current copy in the portal before you rely on any number here.
| Requirement | What QVC expects |
|---|---|
| QVC SKU | Thirteen characters in three parts: the item number in characters 1 to 7, the color or type code in 8 to 10, and the size code in 11 to 13. It is the key on the PO, the carton label and the packing slip, and it is not your style number. AIMS360 holds it as a cross reference against your style, color and size so nobody retypes it. |
| Drop ship platform | QVC named CommerceHub, now part of Rithum, its exclusive global drop ship provider for QVC US, HSN, QVC UK and QVC Germany in October 2019, and the February 2023 onboarding guide still routes drop ship through it. Setup fees quoted in that guide: $500 one time plus $65 a month plus 50 cents an order for the standard web connection, $1,500 one time for the integrated connection. |
| Drop ship agreement | A signed Drop Ship Agreement, 95 percent or better on time performance, and orders shipped within two business days. Freight moves on QVC's UPS or FedEx account, UPS SurePost and USPS are the common services, and the packing slip is generated in OrderStream. |
| Drop ship documents | 850 in, 846 and 856 out, no 810. The invoice number is transmitted in the 856. The carrier tracking number is the bill of lading number, and on SurePost, where UPS hands off to the Postal Service, there are two tracking numbers: the UPS number as the BOL and the USPS number as the PRO. |
| Fulfillment centers | Florence, South Carolina; Suffolk, Virginia; and Ontario, California are confirmed across QVC's guide and its 2026 real estate filings. The February 2023 guide also lists Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and samples go to Product Central in West Chester. Rocky Mount, North Carolina, closed after the 2021 fire, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, closed in 2020. Confirm the current list in the portal. |
| Freight terms | Three: domestic collect, domestic prepaid and import collect. Warehouse shipments are released through Oracle Transportation Management. QVC's guide says ASNs are required and should be timely, and does not publish an hour window. |
| Master carton label | Code 128B barcode of the QVC SKU with the SKU human readable, plus the GS1-128 SSCC-18 with the per fulfillment center carton count, unit count, item, FC city and state, vendor style and PO, country of origin, vendor name and ID, expiration date where it applies, and PARTIAL CARTON when it is. Barcodes never over a seam or under tape. |
| Cartons | Automation ready: from 9 by 6 by 1.5 inches up to 36 by 24 by 18.5 inches, with ECT board strength stepped by weight, 28 ECT minimum under 20 pounds and 71 ECT over 140. Purchase orders over 5,000 units need vendor supplied reshippers. Pallets are labeled ship to, ship from, PO and SKUs, with DO NOT BREAK DOWN on the shrink wrap. |
| Quality assurance | Vendors are tiered low, moderate or high risk. A pre shipment finished goods audit is required at 100 percent produced and at least 80 percent packed, costing $165 to $1,500 depending on PO value. Minimum QA lead times: fashion accessories 10 days, jewelry 14, apparel 10, beauty 21, home innovations 14. ISTA 1A or 3A package testing for the categories QVC names. |
| Chargebacks | QVC reserves the right to recover incremental freight, labor and material costs for non compliance, and charges a fee per PO for on site inspections. The line item schedule lives in the supply chain compliance manual behind the portal login, so this page does not quote per carton or per ASN amounts. |
Sources: the QVC Vendor Onboarding Guide last updated February 10, 2023, the QVC QA Packaging and Labeling Guidelines for all commodities revised March 3, 2015, the QVC drop ship change notice effective April 1, 2015, the October 28, 2019 announcement naming CommerceHub the exclusive drop ship provider, QVC Group corporate and investor pages and press releases through August 2026, and the QVC drop ship setup documentation our EDI team maintains. The compliance manual is in the portal.
QVC EDI Workflow
One loop, one system, and an invoice that has to exist before the ASN on drop ship.
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1. Order arrives | A warehouse 850 becomes a sales order for a fulfillment center. A drop ship 850 arrives through CommerceHub with the consumer's address and a carrier service code that AIMS360 maps to your ship via. |
| 2. Acknowledge | The 997 goes back on receipt. The 855 goes back from the order record where your buyer uses it. |
| 3. Availability | For drop ship, the 846 goes out off the same stock record as your bulk allocations, so QVC does not sell a unit a fulfillment center PO already owns. |
| 4. Pick, pack, ship | The built-in warehouse module packs to the case pack and prints the master carton label with the QVC SKU in Code 128B and the SSCC-18 in GS1-128. Drop ship orders ship on QVC's carrier account, one or more cartons, with the tracking number captured for the ASN. |
| 5. Invoice first, on drop ship | The drop ship order is invoiced before the ASN is generated, because the 856 has to carry the invoice number. Warehouse shipments invoice after the ASN on an 810. |
| 6. ASN | The 856 transmits at shipment close. Warehouse: carton by carton with the SSCC-18s. Drop ship: with the invoice number and the UPS tracking number as the BOL, and the USPS number as the PRO on SurePost. |
| 7. Invoice | Warehouse shipments send the 810, one per PO. Drop ship is already done. |
| 8. QA and audit | The pre shipment finished goods audit is scheduled against the QA lead time for the category, before the ASN, because a PO that fails QA does not ship. |
Native vs Bolted On
Short answer, no. On a program with no 810, the invoice number in the ASN is the whole game.
The master carton label, the ASN and the invoice come off one shipment record, the QVC SKU cross reference lives once, and the drop ship sequence, invoice then ASN, is built into the workflow rather than remembered.
Our EDI team runs the connection, the CommerceHub test scenarios and the maps. The QVC drop ship trading partner in AIMS360 is QVDS.
Put an EDI network in front of an ERP with no native EDI and the drop ship 856 is only as accurate as the invoice number somebody typed into it, on a program where there is no 810 to fall back on.
And the 846 that decides whether QVC oversells you is only as fresh as the last sync.
QVC Programs
Four ways a QVC order can reach you, and the calendar that sits underneath the first one.
Bulk purchase orders into a QVC fulfillment center, released through Oracle Transportation Management, on domestic collect, domestic prepaid or import collect terms. Master carton labels with the QVC SKU and SSCC-18, ASN at shipment close, 810 after it, and the QA audit before any of it.
QVC sells it, you ship it to the customer. Orders through the CommerceHub side of Rithum under a Drop Ship Agreement, 95 percent on time, two business days to ship, on QVC's carrier account. 850 in, 846 and 856 out, no 810, invoice number in the ASN, packing slip from OrderStream.
QVC is a broadcast retailer, and a PO tied to an airdate is not like a replenishment order. Product Central in West Chester takes samples, the QA lead time for your category runs before the audit, and the shipment has to be complete and in the fulfillment center before the show. Plan the calendar backwards from the air date.
QVC Group also runs HSN, Ballard Designs, Frontgate, Garnet Hill and Grandin Road. HSN keeps its own vendor portal and its own EDI specifications, and CommerceHub is the drop ship provider for HSN too. They are separate trading partners in AIMS360, not one QVC setup with the name changed.
One thing to keep straight: QVC Group, formerly Qurate Retail Group, is based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and completed a debt restructuring in August 2026 that cut its debt from about $6.6 billion to $1.3 billion, with vendors paid in full. Mike George, who ran the company for sixteen years before, returned as CEO the same month.
One Stock Record
A QVC purchase order can be a large, airdate driven shipment into a fulfillment center or a stream of single cartons to consumers, and both draw on the same stock. The useful number is what is left for the drop ship feed after the airdate PO is allocated.
| Situation | What AIMS360 does |
|---|---|
| Warehouse PO and drop ship on one pool | Bulk allocations and the 846 draw from the same stock record. AIMS360 sends availability off what is left after fulfillment center commitments, so QVC does not sell drop ship units the airdate PO already owns. |
| An airdate to hit | Allocation runs against the whole PO with the QA lead time and the audit in the calendar, so a partial is a decision made before the show rather than a discovery after it. |
| More than one fulfillment center | Florence, Suffolk and Ontario each carry their own ship to on the PO and the label. The cross reference lives once in AIMS360. |
| Two tracking numbers per package | On UPS SurePost, the UPS number becomes the BOL and the USPS number becomes the PRO on the ASN, captured from the shipping integration rather than typed. |
| Selling the other TV and online retailers | The same pool feeds QVC, Amazon, Wayfair, Dsco programs and the rest 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 QVC and, for drop ship, with CommerceHub. You supply the vendor number, the QVC Vendor Portal login, the compliance manual from the portal and, for drop ship, the signed Drop Ship Agreement.
| Stage | What we do |
|---|---|
| Before kickoff | Pull the current onboarding guide, the compliance manual and the drop ship guidelines from the portal, confirm which programs you are approved for, and confirm your QA risk tier and the lead time for your category. |
| Setup | Build the customer account with the QVC SKU cross reference, the fulfillment center ship to list, packing rules to the case pack, the master carton label with Code 128B and SSCC-18, FOB, carrier SCACs and, for drop ship, the QVDS trading partner with freight collect on QVC's account and the tracking number as the BOL. |
| Ship codes | Map the carrier service codes CommerceHub provides on QVC's behalf to your ship via codes, UPS SurePost and USPS first. |
| Label proof | Get the master carton label approved against the packaging guidelines before the first shipment. |
| Testing | Run the CommerceHub test scenarios for drop ship, identifying the billing and shipping address on each, and test the 850, 856, 810 and 997 with QVC for the warehouse business, including a drop ship ASN carrying an invoice number. |
| Go live | Watch the first PO from release to QA audit to ASN to invoice, and the first drop ship order from 850 to 846 to shipment to 856. |
| After | Track guide revisions. The onboarding guide was last updated in February 2023 and the packaging guidelines in 2015, so check the portal before every season. |
We keep emergency EDI support running around the clock, because an airdate does not move because your ASN did not go.
QVC EDI FAQ
The missing 810, the QVC SKU, the CommerceHub drop ship program, the fulfillment centers, and the QA audit before every shipment.
AIMS360. It is a consumer brands ERP with QVC EDI built in: the 850 purchase order in, 856 ship notices with the GS1-128 SSCC-18 and the QVC SKU on the master carton label, 810 invoices for warehouse shipments, 997s both ways, and for QVC drop ship the 846 availability feed and the 856 carrying the invoice number and the tracking number. Inventory, warehouse and EDI are one system. Our own EDI team runs the connection.
No. QVC drop ship does not use the 810. The invoice number is transmitted in the 856 ship notice, so the order has to be invoiced before the ASN is generated. AIMS360 sequences it: pick ticket, shipment, invoice, then the 856 with the invoice number and the carrier tracking number in it.
For drop ship: the 850 purchase order in, the 846 inventory feed and the 856 ship notice out, with no 810. For the warehouse business: the 850, the 856 and the 810, with 997 acknowledgments both ways, and the 855 and 860 listed as optional by QVC's EDI providers. QVC's own guide says ASNs are required and should be timely.
Through CommerceHub, now part of Rithum, which QVC named its exclusive drop ship provider in 2019. You sign a Drop Ship Agreement, ship within two business days at 95 percent or better on time, on QVC's UPS or FedEx account, with the packing slip generated in OrderStream. In AIMS360 the trading partner is QVDS, freight is collect on QVC's account, and the tracking number is the bill of lading number on the ASN.
A thirteen character key in three parts: the QVC item number in characters 1 to 7, the color or type code in 8 to 10 and the size code in 11 to 13. It appears on the PO, the master carton label and the packing slip. AIMS360 cross references it to your style, color and size so it is never retyped.
A Code 128B barcode of the QVC SKU with the SKU human readable, a GS1-128 SSCC-18 with the per fulfillment center carton count, unit count, QVC item, fulfillment center city and state, vendor style number, PO number, country of origin, vendor name and ID, expiration date where it applies, and PARTIAL CARTON when the carton is short. Barcodes never over a seam or under tape.
Florence, South Carolina; Suffolk, Virginia; and Ontario, California are confirmed across QVC's onboarding guide and its 2026 real estate disclosures. The February 2023 guide also lists Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and samples go to Product Central in West Chester. Rocky Mount, North Carolina, closed after the December 2021 fire and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, closed in 2020.
The pre shipment finished goods audit, PSFGA, is a QA inspection QVC requires at 100 percent produced and at least 80 percent packed, at a cost of $165 to $1,500 depending on PO value. Minimum QA lead times by category are 10 days for apparel and fashion accessories, 14 for jewelry and home innovations, and 21 for beauty. A PO that fails does not ship.
QVC's public guide says it recovers incremental freight, labor and material costs for non compliance and charges a per PO fee for on site inspections, and quotes the $165 to $1,500 audit cost. The line item schedule for late ASNs, labels and packaging is in the supply chain compliance manual behind the QVC Vendor Portal login, so this page does not quote it.
No. QVC Group runs QVC, HSN, Ballard Designs, Frontgate, Garnet Hill and Grandin Road, but HSN keeps its own vendor portal and its own EDI specifications, and CommerceHub is the drop ship provider for HSN separately. In AIMS360 they are separate trading partners.
QVC Group Inc., formerly Qurate Retail Group, based in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The company completed a debt restructuring in August 2026 that reduced its debt from about $6.6 billion to $1.3 billion with vendors paid in full, and Mike George returned as CEO that month.
No. The QVC maps are native to AIMS360 and managed by our EDI team. Drop ship runs through CommerceHub because QVC requires it, and AIMS360 connects to CommerceHub over EDI for that program. What you do not need is a second system holding the invoice number the ASN depends on.
AIMS360 sends the 846 availability feed off the same stock record that runs your bulk allocations, so what QVC sees is what is actually free. QVC and CommerceHub can also hold available and cancel dates per item, which are entered in OrderStream rather than transmitted in the 846, and are not mandatory.
We do. The maps belong to us, so a revision is our work rather than a project for your team. QVC's public documents date from 2015 and 2023 and its compliance manual lives in the portal, so we check the portal with you before every season.
See AIMS360 invoice a drop ship order, generate the 856 with the invoice number in it, and print the QVC SKU label for the warehouse PO from one record.
