If you process customers’ transactions/data online as a service, ask whether ODP/transaction-processing catalogue items apply before shipping.
Online data processing and transaction processing categories in the VATS catalogue capture many platform-style processing services. They are frequently relevant to SaaS and marketplace backends, but wording and enforcement evolve. EDI is a related but distinct item. This wiki is the ODP/transaction-processing label. SaaS mapping and VATS umbrella sit beside it. Do not treat a payment licence or ICP filing as a substitute without analysis.
4 questions before you choose the route.
This page identifies the right question and evidence. It does not determine the legal outcome on a reader’s facts.
What processing do you perform for customers?
Facts.
FactsMarketplace vs pure tools?
Character.
CharacterEDI more accurate?
Sibling item.
EDIFIE restrictions on the item?
Ownership.
FIEWorking rule: Map the regulated role before marketing or launch in China.
The signal ledger.
These facts move the question beyond a label and into a product, money-flow and control analysis.
Bring a compact evidence docket—not a pitch deck.
Give a compliance team or counsel the operating facts that reveal the perimeter.
Questions people ask before they build.
Short answers for orientation. The right result can change with the service model and current rules.
Is this the same as EDI?
Related family, not identical. Open /edi-licence-in-china.
Where is SaaS mapping?
Open /saas-in-china.
Primary authorities
Reviewed sources support orientation, not a fact-specific assessment.