We improved the relationship configuration around Communication Channels. On a relationship, you can now assign one Communication Channel for each transaction stream.

Communication Channels for inbound relationships

For transactions that you receive (inbound transactions):

• Live stream transactions are sent to your Live Communication channel.
• Test stream transactions are sent to your Test Communication channel.

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To automate the configuration of your inbound relationships, you can set default test and live communication channels on the Communication Channels settings page.
Default test and live communication channels will automatically be assigned to new inbound relationships.

Communication Channels for outbound relationships

For transactions that you send (outbound transactions):

• Functional acknowledgements you receive for live stream transactions are sent to your Live Communication channel.
• Functional acknowledgements you receive for test stream transactions are sent to your Test Communication channel.

Today we improved the relationship configuration around Communication Channels.
On a relationship, you can now assign one Communication Channel for each transaction stream.

Communication Channels for inbound relationships

For transactions that you receive (inbound transactions):

• Live stream transactions are sent to your Live Communication channel.
• Test stream transactions are sent to your Test Communication channel.

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Default inbound communication channels

To automate the configuration of your inbound relationships, you can set default test and live communication channels on the Communication Channels page.
Default test and live communication channels will automatically be assigned to new inbound relationships.

Communication Channels for outbound relationships

For transactions that you send (outbound transactions):

• Functional acknowledgements you receive for live stream transactions are sent to your Live Communication channel.
• Functional acknowledgements you receive for test stream transactions are sent to your Test Communication channel.

We have just released a new notification option on Orderful's settings page: Unprocessed Transactions.

Signing up for this alert means you will receive an email notification anytime a transaction is posted by you or your trading partners and it fails to create a transaction in Orderful.

To subscribe to this new notification, sign into Orderful and navigate to your Notification settings page.

We have improved visibility of the transactions that are sent over AS2, FTP/SFTP or VAN by adding delivery information to the transaction's audit trail.

You can now see the delivery status from the “Audit Trail” icon in the top right of the Transaction details page. You will be able to see delivery successes, delivery failures with their logs or even detect communication channel misconfiguration.

If a transaction has been sent over an AS2 connection, you can now view and download the Message Disposition Notification (MDN) as proof of delivery from the “Download Files” icon, also in the top right of the Transaction details page.

Today we improved our transaction sending functionality. For transactions sent over AS2, FTP/SFTP or VAN, we added delivery information on the transaction audit trail and on the transaction files.

You can now see the delivery status from the “Transaction Audit Trail”. You can see delivery successes, delivery failures with their logs or even detect communication channels misconfiguration.

If a transaction has been sent over an AS2 connection, you can now view and download the Message Disposition Notification (MDN) as proof of delivery, from the “Download Files”.

Feature

• Added the ability to resend accepted inbound transactions to the designated communication channel.

Changes

• The business number of X12 document type 820 Payment Order/Remittance Advice is now taken from the Reference Identification field in the Trace segment (transactionSets[0].trace[0].referenceIdentification).
• Uploading or assigning a scenario file is no longer required when creating or editing a scenario.

Features

• Create, edit & publish testing scenarios (for more information, see the documentation at https://docs.orderful.com/docs/about-scenarios).
• This is step 1 of a much larger feature release coming in the weeks ahead. Stay tuned...

We're excited to launch two new features in Orderful: Trade request and Scenario testing.

The Trade Request feature will streamline the process of creating relationships with a new Trading Partner by initiating a trade request. Once a trade request is approved, the Scenario testing feature will guide you through the testing requirements of the partnership until Go Live.

Trade Request

To onboard a new Trading Partner, you can now create a trade request from Orderful, from the ‘Trade Requests’ section, under the menu ‘Trading Partners’.

After submitting a trade request:

• You'll receive an email requesting you to provide your Trading Partner requirements.
• When receiving your Trading Partner requirements, the Orderful team will review them and digitize them on the Orderful network.
• At the end of this requirements review process by the Orderful team, your trade request will be accepted and you'll be ready to start configuring and testing your relationships!

You can monitor and edit your inbound or outbound trade requests status from the ‘Trade Requests’ section, under the menu ‘Trading Partners’.

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Note

• Outbound Requests are partnership requests you create
• Inbound Requests are partnership requests you receive from a partner

Scenario testing

Once a trade request has been accepted, you can start testing the scenarios included in the trade request.

From the section ‘Scenario testing’, under the menu ‘Trading Partners’, you can:

• Read and understand the scenarios and the associated list of steps to test
• Link a transaction for each step of the scenario
• Complete a scenario step

If your business relationship with your Trading Partner changes, you can always request a change request by managing your assigned scenarios for a partnership.

We’re excited to introduce a new feature in Orderful: Communications Channels.
From Orderful, you can access this new feature from the left side menu under ‘Setup’.

You can now configure one or several AS2 connectivities from Orderful for your own organization.

Once an AS2 Communication Channel is configured, you can assign it to your inbound relationships. Transactions that you receive will be sent to the AS2 server you configured.

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Important

This feature doesn’t allow you to configure an AS2 connection on behalf of your Trading Partners. The Orderful team is working on improving this behavior to let you configure Communication Channels used by your Trading Partners to receive transactions you send them.

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What’s next?

This new Communication Channels feature is now limited to AS2 connectivities.
In the coming months, we plan to open up this feature to let you configure other types of connectivities: FTP, FTPS, SFTP, VAN.