How Catalyst Telecom's EDI Program Can Work for You
 
Catalyst Telecom's Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) program is designed to benefit your business and help you be more efficient and productive. The document below provides complete details on the program. After reviewing it, please contact us to learn how you can become our trading partner and use EDI to exchange business documents. We look forward to growing our partnership with you.

Communication and Translation Requirements

Our transaction sets follow ANSI X12 Version 4010 and they are listed for customers and vendors. Our EDI software runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays. We send and receive documents every 15 minutes, seven days a week. Other formats supported include XML, Flat File, Excel, RosettaNet and EDIFACT (for Europe).  

Communications Options

We support (s)FTP, SMTP, HTTPS, AS2 and VANs for exchanging EDI information. We use Sterling Commerce as our only VAN. We support the use of Interconnects between Sterling Commerce and the customer's VAN of choice. In addition, we utilize the ISA/GS ID's indicated below for ftp communication.

Production ISA Qualifier/ID: 12/8642882432 **Please indicate a 'P' in the ISA15**
Production GS ID: 8642882432

Test ISA Qualifier/ID: 12/8642882432 **Please indicate a 'T' in the ISA15**
Test GS ID: 8642882432

Catalyst Telecom uses the following in the ISA Envelope:

• Segment Terminator: ~
• Element Terminator: *
• Sub-Element Separator: >

 Contact your sales rep to learn if you qualify for the EDI program and to begin the approval process.