Stop losing months to supplier onboarding.
PunchProxy sits between your procurement platform and your suppliers — intercepting, translating, and validating cXML in real time. Fix integration problems live, during the call, instead of waiting on your supplier's IT department.
It's not your fault it takes time. You're stuck between two systems that can't meet in the middle — we're the middle.
No rip-and-replace. No supplier concessions. Works with the procurement platform you already run.
Built for the procurement stack you already run
Integration debt is a tax on every supplier you add.
It's not that your team is slow — they're stuck between two systems that can't meet in the middle. Heavyweight iPaaS middleware is expensive and slow; forcing concessions on suppliers or end users burns goodwill. Most teams are trapped choosing between the two.
Every supplier speaks a different dialect
Misaligned units of measure, UNSPSC codes, account identifiers and extrinsics — and the brand, region, GL string and operating-unit truths your business runs on don’t fit cleanly into the host. Each new supplier is another round of reconciliation and brittle one-off fixes.
You're at the mercy of your supplier's IT
Testing a punchout means waiting weeks for a supplier to stand up a sandbox, then weeks more to debug the round-trip. Your team isn’t slow — they’re blocked on someone else’s dev cycle, and the backlog grows.
The workaround trap has become the standard
cXML was built to be extended with extrinsics — but only if both sides can configure them. When that ability left the room, the industry improvised: a location ID stands in for an account; identity stands in for an account. Both break — add a ship-to and the account is gone; or you need a separate connection per account.
One intelligent layer between host and supplier.
The same wire-format-agnostic engine handles setup, cart returns and orders — so what you test is exactly what ships.
Intercept
PunchProxy becomes the address your host points to. It transparently sits in the middle of every punchout, setup, cart return and order — with no changes to your host or your supplier.
Translate & enrich
Rewrite units of measure, UNSPSC codes, location IDs and extrinsics on the fly — and resolve an account as its own value instead of smuggling it inside a location ID or identity. Enrich each transaction with the account, brand, region or GL context your business needs.
Validate & route
Check the wire against your own rules, restore context across the round trip, and route to the right account and location — then forward a clean, validated payload to the supplier.
Every feature does one of three things.
Easier, possible, consistent. Everything PunchProxy does ladders back to one of these — that's the whole point of the layer.
Onboarding stops being a project
Suppliers self-test. Your team shares one test login. You watch every transaction, both directions, live. The weeks of "can you re-send the test?" email simply go away.
Carry the truths the host can’t
Resolve multi-context identity, infer account and GL strings, and keep your custom taxonomy in the token bag — all the way from setup to the PO. The business logic the platform structurally can’t hold lives here instead.
One screen you control — for every supplier
Collect what you need — account, region, facility — on one waypoint you own, the same way every time, instead of N supplier-built forms. Set a location’s account on your side instead of waiting on the supplier. That’s a real SLA for adding accounts, and one experience to train.
Edit the wire while the call is live.
Watch real cXML flow through in real time — both directions, including the transactions that succeed (the payloads other systems never show you). Tweak a translation rule and instantly see the exact payload the supplier will receive, before it ever leaves your network.
No more guessing what the vendor got. No more permanent code on either end. The transformation that used to take a quarter happens in front of you.
Explore capabilities- <UnitOfMeasure>EA</UnitOfMeasure> + <UnitOfMeasure>EACH</UnitOfMeasure> - <Credential domain="DUNS"> - <Identity>GENERIC-ACCT</Identity> + <Credential domain="NetworkID"> + <Identity>WEST-REGION-4471</Identity> <Extrinsic name="BusinessUnit">Resorts</Extrinsic> + <Extrinsic name="GLString">4471-620-00</Extrinsic> + <Extrinsic name="Region">West</Extrinsic>
The deliberate center ground.
Your procurement platform is powerful but logically incomplete — it can't natively carry every business truth your operation depends on, and the supplier can't bend far enough either. PunchProxy is the configurable layer in between: lighter than middleware, more capable than caving, and the place to retire the location-as-account workarounds for good.
Heavyweight iPaaS
MuleSoft · Boomi · Workato
- Expensive licensing
- Months to onboard
- Overkill for cXML interception
PunchProxy
The center ground
- Lightweight & fast to deploy
- Live edit while testing
- Resolve accounts & identity correctly
- Purpose-built for punchout & cXML
- Keeps full control of your payloads
Forcing concessions
On suppliers or users
- Burns supplier goodwill
- Permanent integration debt
- Fragile, one-off workarounds
Ready to untangle your supplier connections?
See how PunchProxy compresses months of onboarding into an afternoon — on the platforms you already run.
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