Hoshii vs. Procuros
Procuros is your EDI connection to retail. Hoshii is the mailbox for every customer without EDI.
Procuros exchanges orders, shipping notices and invoices in structured form with retail chains and marketplaces, over a single connection. Hoshii reads what does not come as EDI: the order as a PDF attachment, the Excel list, the photo, the voicemail. The two barely compete. If you supply Edeka or Amazon you need the one; if you also have an order desk at a mailbox, the other.
- For customers without EDI Trade customers, restaurants and smaller accounts order by mail. Hoshii reads those orders and creates them.
- One person approves Every order is checked before it lands in the ERP. With EDI it flows through; here somebody decides.
- Not only orders Complaints, questions and invoice queries from the same mailbox are assigned and answered.
At a glance
| Hoshii | Procuros | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your team works | In the Hoshii Workspace, which brings your team's mailboxes together. An Outlook add-in covers the transition. | In the Procuros platform, for monitoring. Documents run from system to system. 1 |
| Which order formats are read | PDF, email text, Excel, photo, handwriting and voicemail, with no templates to set up. | EDIFACT, X12, XML, CSV, Excel, JSON and PDF. No photos, no voice messages. 2 |
| What is handled besides orders | Everything that reaches your operations team: orders, complaints, invoices, questions. Order processing is one of the modules. | Order confirmations, shipping notices, invoices, master data. No free-text mail. 1 |
| Matching to the article master | Every line is matched to the ERP article, even when the customer calls it something else. Uncertain lines are flagged. | Article numbers are mapped between systems. With EDI they are agreed. 2 |
| When the ERP is posted | Only once someone on your team approves. Nothing is posted before that. | End to end without intervention. More than 90 percent of documents automated, per the maker. 1 |
| Owner and status | Every mail shows who has it, how far it is and by when. Internal comments stay internal. | Not a topic of the platform. 1 |
| ERP connection | Live with more than 20 ERP systems, connected over REST, GraphQL, MCP or SFTP. | Ready-made connectors plus an API layer for other systems. 2 |
| Hosting and security | EU data centres (Germany), GDPR with a DPA, SOC 2 and ISO 27001. | Not stated. Based in Hamburg. 3 |
| Price | Per workspace, by mail volume and connected systems. Quote after the demo. | Not published. 1 |
- Yes
- Partly
- No
- Not stated publicly
Which one fits
Procuros fits if
- Retail chains or marketplaces require EDI from you and you want one connection instead of twenty.
- Your problem is document flow between systems: order, confirmation, shipping notice, invoice.
- You are a retailer and want to connect your small suppliers without EDI.
Hoshii fits if
- Some of your customers keep ordering by mail, and somebody retypes those orders.
- Your order desk also answers complaints and questions from the same mailbox.
- You want to know who has which mail and how long it has been sitting.
The 2 to 3 hours a day we used to process orders have been cut in half. New joiners also have impact significantly faster.
Thomas Locher Head of Sales, Max Schwarz AG Questions
Are Procuros and Hoshii competitors?
Barely. Procuros is EDI between systems, Hoshii the workplace for everything that arrives as mail. A supplier with retail chains and trade customers may need both.
Does Hoshii process EDI orders?
No. Hoshii is built for mail, PDF, Excel, photo and voicemail. For EDI messages between systems, an EDI platform is the right tool.
Does Hoshii post without approval?
Not by default. Hoshii prepares the order, a person on your team confirms it, then it is created in the ERP.
Does Hoshii change master data in the ERP?
No. The ERP stays the system of record. Hoshii reads the customer, address and article master and writes back only the approved order.
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Procuros is described from its maker's public material, read on 20 September 2026. Hoshii AG is not affiliated with it. Spotted a change? Write to contact@hoshii.ai.
Sources
- The Infrastructure for Autonomous Trade, Procuros (retrieved )
- EDI connections within minutes, Procuros (retrieved )
- About Procuros, Procuros (retrieved )
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