FA and MDN


Functional Ackowledgments - (FA or 997)

After receipt of the EDI message, the EDI software will generate an application acknowledgment back to the trading partner.  EDI Messages can be acknowledged on the group level, the document level or on the data segment/element level. Many companies expect 997s within 4 hours; some 24.

Message Disposition Notification (MDN)

ECXpert uses MDN to alert trading partners that an SMTP document was received.