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Elevate vs Celigo
Elevate vs Celigo
Looking for a simpler Celigo alternative for EDI? Try Elevate with no technical overhead or DIY mapping.
Celigo is a powerful toolkit, but it requires a craftsman. Elevate is a modern cloud EDI platform fully managed by our team for you.
Celigo is a powerful tool, but its DIY approach to EDI creates a technical bottleneck for SMBs. Between high overhead and unpredictable maintenance costs, it often requires a full-time integration owner just to keep the lights on.
Elevate is built to support that next stage of growth for brands and mid-market companies that want to stop “building” EDI and start just using it:
- Managed, not Manual
- Zero Contract Lock-in
- Proactive Error Resolution
- EDI Compliance Ready in 24 Hours
- Direct Access to EDI Experts
No developer required. No opaque annual tiers. No “mapping fatigue.”
Just a fully-managed EDI department that lives in the cloud and scales at the speed of your retail growth.
Why Would You Switch from Celigo to Elevate?
- From ‘Build it Yourself’ to ‘Done for You'”
Celigo requires you or a consultant to build, test, and maintain EDI mappings. Elevate is fully managed. We handle everything and act as your outsourced EDI team, so you focus on growth, not fixing integrations.
- Pay for Use vs Paying “Celigo Tax”
Celigo’s pricing scales with flows, endpoints, and long-term commitments. Elevate offers transparent, month-to-month pricing based on actual usage, often reducing EDI costs by 40–60% compared to enterprise iPaaS contracts.
- EDI Experts, Not Generalist Support
Celigo is a broad integration platform. Elevate is purpose-built for EDI. Our team handles retailer-specific requirements like Walmart labels and Target ASNs so you don’t have to.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | Celigo |
|
|---|---|---|
| Model | DIY iPaaS Platform: You build and manage the flows (or hire a consultant). | Fully Managed Service: Mapping, Implementation and maintenance handled by us. |
| Pricing | Opaque/Tiered: Often requires high annual commitments ($25k+ start) | Upfront, published pricing. Pay-as-you-grow with no hidden fees. |
| Contract Lock-in | Annual or multi-year contracts are standard. | None. Month-to-month flexibility. |
| Support | Ticket-based support; premium support costs extra. | Direct access to EDI experts (2-hour response time for simple and urgent issues). |
| Technical Requirement | Requires internal "integration owners" or developers. | Zero. You get an outsourced EDI team. |
| Best For | Enterprises with large IT teams and complex non-EDI integrations. | SMBs & Mid-Market looking for "set it and forget it" EDI. |
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | Celigo |
|
|---|---|---|
| Model | DIY iPaaS Platform: You build and manage the flows (or hire a consultant). | Fully Managed Service: Mapping, Implementation and maintenance handled by us. |
| Pricing | Opaque/Tiered: Often requires high annual commitments ($25k+ start) | Upfront, published pricing. Pay-as-you-grow with no hidden fees. |
| Contract Lock-in | Annual or multi-year contracts are standard. | None. Month-to-month flexibility. |
| Support | Ticket-based support; premium support costs extra. | Direct access to EDI experts (2-hour response time for simple and urgent issues). |
| Technical Requirement | Requires internal "integration owners" or developers. | Zero. You get an outsourced EDI team. |
| Best For | Enterprises with large IT teams and complex non-EDI integrations. | SMBs & Mid-Market looking for "set it and forget it" EDI. |
Who Should Choose Celigo?
Ideal for: Large Enterprise IT Teams- You have a dedicated internal team of developers or integration architects who want full control over building ‘flows.
- You need to connect multiple non-EDI applications.
- You have a significant budget for five-figure annual platform licensing and third-party implementation consultants.
- EDI is only a small fraction of your overall integration needs and you prefer a single ‘all-in-one’ iPaaS tool.
Who Should Choose Elevate?
Ideal for: Small and growing businesses- You want an ‘all set up’ EDI experience where our team handles the mapping, testing, and compliance for you.
- You don’t have (or don’t want to hire) an internal team dedicated solely to managing EDI and integration errors.
- You need to onboard new trading partners like Walmart, Target, or Amazon in days, not months.
- You want transparent, month-to-month pricing without being locked into a rigid, expensive annual enterprise contract.
- You prioritize having a direct line to EDI specialists who proactively fix issues before they impact your warehouse.
What to Expect When You Migrate from Celigo to Elevate
What to Expect When You Migrate from Celigo to Elevate
Switching EDI providers shouldn’t feel like a gamble. At Elevate, we make migration predictable, low-risk, and
fully managed, so you don’t lose momentum.
Switching EDI providers shouldn’t feel like a gamble. At Elevate, we make migration predictable, low-risk, and fully managed, so you don’t lose momentum.
Phased Trading Partner Migration
We group and migrate your trading partners in cohorts starting with those that drive the most volume or revenue. This phased approach ensures stability, reduces risk, and delivers early wins.
Parallel Setup, Zero Downtime
Your existing setup stays live while we configure Elevate in the background. Once everything is tested and approved, we cut over partner by partner without interrupting your operations.
Trading Partner Communication Handled
Hands-On Testing & Validation
Each partner is tested in a staging environment to ensure clean data flow before going live. We don’t move forward until you’re confident everything works.
Dedicated, Human Support Throughout
You’ll work with real people, not tickets. Our team stays engaged through every phase of migration and beyond to make sure nothing slips through the cracks.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Celigo is a software you use to build integrations. Elevate is a cloud EDI platform service that provides an interface to run your EDI transactions and connect with your ERP or any other backend software. We do the work so you don’t have to.
Yes. Like Celigo, we can integrate with Acumatica, NetSuite, Sage, and more and we handle the configuration for you.
Perfect. Unlike Celigo, which often requires a high entry price, Elevate allows you to start with one partner for just $750 as a one-time setup fee and minimum monthly fee and scale only when you’re ready.
We can get you EDI compliant or ready with major retailers like Amazon or Walmart in as little as 24 hours. Onboarding with your retailers may take 2-3 weeks depending on how they respond from their end. Our team takes care of end-to-end partner communication, your EDI setup and implementation in Elevate and continued support.
Not at all. While Celigo is great for connecting different software apps through their integrator.io platform which utilizes API-based connectors to sync data between your ERP and other business applications, Elevate focuses on the ‘heavy lifting’ of EDI. Elevate integrates directly with your ERP (NetSuite, Sage 100cloud, Acumatica etc.) just like Celigo does, but our team manages the mapping and retail compliance for you. We use a phased EDI migration approach where we will migrate your trading partners in phases while making sure your current system stays intact and keeps your connections as they are. Once all your trading partners have been migrated, you can completely move away from Celigo.