We made some infrastructure changes to speed up delivery for VAN Communication Channels. Transactions to new VAN communication channels are now delivered synchronously. This means you’ll be informed about transaction delivery updates more quickly.

We have made improvements to Scenario Testing with better visual cues about the status of your checklist, as well as more guidance in the UI. In situations where a transaction has been rejected, we have also added the ability to retry only one step of a Scenario Test checklist.

Screenshot of new Scenario Testing updates

Screenshot of new Scenario Testing updates

Transactions now have a consistent payload structure across your Communication Channels and Orderful APIs.

Additionally, Integration Assistance now shows the complete payload instead of just the contents of the message.

Release Date: 2022-06-14

We have made improvements to AS2 communication channels.

Inbound and Outbound Connections

On the Communication Channels page, we’ve added a column to represent the connection between Inbound and Outbound Communication Channels to help you understand which AS2 information you’ll need from your AS2 server and/or the Orderful AS2 server to send or receive transactions. We implemented this improvement because the AS2 protocol requires information from both the sender and receiver AS2 servers, meaning you need information from both the Inbound and Outbound Communication Channels.

Side panel improvements

We redesigned the side panel to include more information:

  • Inbound AS2 Communication Channels: The side panel describes the requirements Orderful will use to deliver transactions to your AS2 server.
  • Outbound AS2 Communication Channels: The side panel describes the requirements Orderful can support when receiving transactions from your AS2 server.

Infrastructure improvements

We made some infrastructure changes as well to Increase security and speed up delivery. Each new AS2 communication channel you create will be assigned a unique Orderful AS2 ID and AS2 certificate. Additionally, delivering transactions to new AS2 communication channels now happens synchronously. That means you’ll be informed about transaction delivery updates more quickly.

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These infrastructure changes only apply to AS2 communication channels you’ll create going forward. If you have been using AS2 communication channels before this release, we’ll keep delivering and receiving transactions as we have. Your existing AS2 communication channels will be identified with a V1 tag on the communication channel page.

Release Date: 2022-05-10

We have made improvements to our Transaction Status notification emails.

The Transaction Status emails now contain more information about your transaction as well as links and steps to help you troubleshoot any transaction issues.

Here is an example of one of the new emails:

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Release Date: 2022-09-01

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve performance, stability and scalability, we are implementing API Rate Limits on September 1, 2022. Traffic has been monitored for months to ensure this will not break any existing integrations and exceptions have been grandfathered, still we recommend existing customers consider adapting their integration should they exceed limits in the future. The limits are well above our current peak traffic volumes and are meant to protect the systems from an erroneous, unexpected increase in transaction volume.

For more information, see our Best Practices page: https://docs.orderful.com/reference/best-practices#rate-limits