EDI X12 Documents - Documentation

Question

Hi, Where can I find documentation on the X12 documents along with samples. I am interested in 810 and 812, but would also like to bookmark information on the additional documents.

Is there a good book out there which covers these documents?

Thanks

Answer 1

There's a fair bit around. The first place to look is X12.org.

This looks like a pretty decent online course.

EDI documents aren't particularly hard to process, they're just strings. The difficulty is that within the standard there are a lot of degrees of freedom, so you need to negotiate exactly which field codes etc you're going to support with each transaction partner.

Another magic word to look for is EDIFACT, which is the international standard.