Nordstrom Rack EDI integration: vendor orders in, fulfillment and margin in Rilk

Nordstrom Rack order management for vendors — purchase orders arriving through SPS Commerce, picked, packed, shipped, and costed alongside your Amazon, Walmart, and Nordstrom marketplace orders in one Rilk inbox. Connecting directly instead? We'll set that up with you.

Nordstrom Rack is Nordstrom's off-price business — the stores and the site where a shopper who knows the brands goes to buy them below full price. For a vendor, it's a different account from full-line Nordstrom: the buys are opportunistic and often large, the purchase orders are for stores and distribution centers or for a customer's door under your agreement, and they arrive through SPS Commerce. Sell on Nordstrom Rack with Rilk. Already on SPS Commerce? Your Nordstrom Rack orders flow in today. Connecting directly instead? We'll set that up with you.

What you can do

• Nordstrom Rack purchase orders land in Rilk automatically from the SPS Commerce mailbox you already receive them in.
• Pick them from the same inbox as your Nordstrom marketplace, Amazon, and eBay orders — one screen, one team, one process.
• One count behind every style. The units a Rack PO takes come off the same on-hand your marketplace listings sell from, so a closeout buy never oversells the size run online.
• Parcel labels in the same workflow on UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL when a shipment goes by parcel.
• Margin per PO. Cost basis and shipping cost on every line; post Nordstrom Rack's remittance on the settlements screen and the off-price margin is a real number.
• SPS keeps carrying acknowledgments, ship notices, and invoices back to Nordstrom Rack, as it does today.

What's supported

• Live today via SPS Commerce — Nordstrom Rack purchase orders imported from your SPS mailbox, read-only.
• Order intake with full line-item detail — style, size, color, quantity, ship-to — into your unified order inbox.
• SKU matching by the part numbers on the PO; an unmatched line is flagged for mapping, never dropped.
• One stock pool with Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify, BackMarket, and the Nordstrom marketplace.
• Pick, pack, and parcel labels for UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL.
• Per-unit cost and profit on every PO line, with the remittance reconciled on the settlements screen.
• Direct connection on request if you aren't on SPS Commerce.

How the Nordstrom Rack inventory sync works

1. Turn on SPS Commerce in Rilk with the mailbox SPS provisioned for you and enable Nordstrom Rack as a trading partner. It sits beside your full-line Nordstrom marketplace connection, not inside it — two accounts, one stock pool — and Rilk reads the mailbox without moving or deleting a file.
2. A Nordstrom Rack PO becomes a Nordstrom Rack order in Rilk within minutes — every style, size, and color line matched to your SKU by the part number on the PO, the ship-to carried through. An off-price buy can run to hundreds of lines; each one arrives, and any Rilk can't match is flagged rather than dropped.
3. Those units leave the same count your Nordstrom marketplace and Amazon listings draw from. A closeout PO that takes the last of a size pulls that size to zero everywhere else in the same moment, so the off-price buy never becomes a full-price oversell.
4. Pack the size run to the PO. An off-price buy can be dozens of cartons to a distribution center; carton labels that go parcel are bought in Rilk on UPS, FedEx, USPS, or DHL, and the ship notice and invoice go back to Nordstrom Rack through your SPS connection.
5. See what the closeout actually cleared. Cost basis plus shipping on every unit, the remittance posted on the settlements screen, and Nordstrom Rack inventory management and the margin on an off-price buy — style by style — are one view.

Connecting Nordstrom Rack

Already on SPS Commerce: open Company Settings in Rilk, turn on SPS Commerce with the mailbox details from SPS, and enable Nordstrom Rack as a trading partner. The next PO lands in your order inbox. Connecting directly instead: tell us and we'll set the direct connection up with you. Selling on the full-line Nordstrom marketplace? That's the Nordstrom connection, which runs on Mirakl and is covered separately.

Warehouse, PO and settlement workflows are on Pro; connections and labels are free on every plan.

Why sell on Nordstrom Rack with Rilk

Off-price is how a brand clears a season without discounting on its own site, and Nordstrom Rack is the best-regarded place to do it. The catch is the shape of the order: a big PO for a wide size run, arriving as EDI, at exactly the moment the same styles are still live on your marketplace listings. Handle it off a printout and you sell the last size twice. Rilk takes the PO straight from SPS into the inbox your team already works, pulls each unit from the same count your marketplace listings use, and puts the cost and the shipping on every line. You clear the season into Nordstrom Rack from one operation, and the margin on the buy is visible the day it ships.

Frequently asked questions

Does Nordstrom Rack send orders over EDI?

Yes. Nordstrom Rack sends its purchase orders as EDI documents through SPS Commerce, and Rilk reads them straight out of the SPS mailbox you already receive them in — no re-keying and no portal to check. Rilk never writes to that mailbox: your acknowledgments, ship notices, and invoices stay on your own SPS connection, exactly as they run today.

Do I need SPS Commerce to connect Nordstrom Rack to Rilk?

If Nordstrom Rack already sends your purchase orders through SPS Commerce, they flow into Rilk today from that mailbox. If you aren't on SPS or want to connect directly, tell us and we'll set the direct connection up with you.

Is Nordstrom Rack the same connection as Nordstrom?

No. Full-line Nordstrom is a marketplace you list on, run on the Mirakl platform. Nordstrom Rack is a purchase-order account arriving through SPS Commerce. Rilk supports both from the same login and the same stock pool.

Does Rilk send ship notices or invoices to Nordstrom Rack?

No. Those stay on your SPS Commerce connection, unchanged. Rilk reads the purchase orders and runs picking, shipping, and costing; it never writes to the mailbox.

Does Rilk push inventory to Nordstrom Rack?

No. Nordstrom Rack is a purchase-order retailer, not a marketplace you list on; your item setup lives in your vendor agreement. Rilk keeps the units a Rack PO consumes in the same count your Nordstrom, Amazon, and eBay listings sell from.

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• Groupon inventory integration — deal-driven orders in the same inbox.
• Purchase order software — POs, partial receipts, and landed cost in Rilk.
• Multi-channel inventory sync — one count behind off-price POs and full-price listings.
• Multi-carrier shipping — UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL labels in the same workflow.
• ChannelAdvisor alternative — for apparel brands weighing enterprise retail tooling.

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