Create Outbound Interchange
This endpoint generates and delivers fully-formed EDI files to your trading partners.
When you call this endpoint, Stedi:
- Generates a single EDI file containing all transactions according to the Stedi guide attached to each outbound transaction setting. This includes adding required envelope information (
ISAandGSheaders) and autogenerated control numbers. - Delivers the EDI file to your trading partner through the connection specified in the transaction settings.
Transaction data
You must provide transaction data in Guide JSON format. The transaction data must be < 5MB.
Delivery attempts
Stedi attempts to deliver a file to all configured connections every 6 minutes for up to 3 total attempts. If it cannot deliver the file after the third attempt, it marks the file execution as FAILED and emits the file.failed.v2 event. Stedi displays each delivery attempt and the failure details on the Files page.
Customize generated files
You can change the timezone, time format, character set (which characters are allowed), and filename for generated files. Learn more.
Inbound processing
There is no equivalent endpoint for parsing EDI files into JSON. To parse inbound files, you or your partner can send EDI files to an SFTP/FTPS or AS2 connection, and Stedi sends the JSON payload to the configured Destination webhook.
Authorizations
A Stedi API Key for authentication.
Headers
A unique string to identify this request to the server. The key can be up to 255 characters. You can safely retry requests with the same idempotency key within 24 hours of making the first request. This prevents sending duplicate data to your trading partners in case of network errors or other intermittent failures. Learn more.
Path Parameters
A unique ID for this partnership within Stedi. You can find this ID on the Trading partners page under Partnership identifier.
1 - 81Body
Contains one or more EDI functional groups, each containing the data for one or more EDI transactions. You can override the Application IDs (GS-02 and GS-03) for each group individually. The outbound transaction setting for each group must be configured to use the same connection. If you need to send transactions to different connections, you must call the endpoint multiple times.
Set a custom name for the generated EDI file. Stedi overwrites files with the same name, so we recommend making the filename unique by including a timestamp or other identifier. If you do not specify a filename, Stedi autogenerates a unique name using an ID.
1 - 300Set ISA-15 to a different value. If not set, the default value is P (Production Data).
I, T, P Set values for ISA header elements (ISA-01 to ISA-04).
Response
An ID for the generated EDI file.
A ID for the process Stedi uses to generate the EDI file. This ID appears on the details page for this file execution in the Stedi app. Internally, Stedi uses this ID to place the file in Stedi's outbound queue.
The EDI Stedi generated from the JSON transaction data.
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