Notification to the sender that an electronic document has been received in a standards-compliant format.
An EDI message that is sent in response to the receipt of an EDI message or packet of messages to notify the sender of the original message that it was received. It acknowledges only the receipt of the message or message packet, and does not imply agreement with, or understanding of, its content.
An ASC X12 transaction set (997), which acts as a certified mail receipt to confirm that the intended recipient actually received the EDI documents that have been sent. Provides transaction syntax-level error reporting.
Taxpayer-developed software (EDI, MMREF, X12) A transaction set (997) transmitted by the receiver of an EDI transmission to the sender, indicating receipts and syntactical acceptability of data transmitted according to the ASC X12 standards. The functional acknowledgment allows the receiving party to report back to the sending party problems encountered by the syntax analyzer as the data is interpreted. It is not intended to serve as an acknowledgment of data content.
An EDI transaction set sent to acknowledge the receipt of a prior transaction set.
