EDI Acknowledgment (Ameritech Acknowledgment Processing)
EDI Acknowledgment is used as a control mechanism to ensure the successful delivery of EDI documents through telecommunication links. Acknowledgment protocols will be coordinated between the trading partner and the trading partner’s Value-Added Bank (VAB).
The 997 transaction set is the most common acknowledgment document and the one recommended by Ameritech. The purpose of the 997 Functional Acknowledgment is to communicate to the sender of a document the successful receipt of an EDI transaction. The 997 transaction set also communicates that the received document is in compliance with X12 standards, but does not authorize the content of the transaction. One acknowledgment per functional group can be expected from Ameritech’s bank or your own bank within 24 hours of a transmission, depending on the payment method you select. Most commercial translator software provides automatic acknowledgment processing as an option.
Paper Bill Options
Ameritech offers three options for receiving a bill. The first option is the full detail paper bill. The second option is for trading partners who receive the Ameritech bill in an electronic format (like EDI), but wish to pay using traditional methods (the paper check). For these trading partners, only the first page of the bill containing the payment stub is mailed. The third option eliminates all paper bills and is only available to trading partners who pay electronically, or via another automated method, and those trading partners receive a bill electronically or in some other non-paper format.
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