Editing Electronic data interchange (section)

==Acknowledgement==
There are several mechanisms used in EDI for '''acknowledgement''', i.e. notifying the sender that an incoming transaction was received and handled by the recipient:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.opentext.com/whats-the-difference-between-the-4-types-of-edi-acknowledgments/|title=What's the difference between the 4 types of EDI acknowledgements? - OpenText Blogs|date=21 October 2013|access-date=4 September 2017|archive-date=4 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904105600/https://blogs.opentext.com/whats-the-difference-between-the-4-types-of-edi-acknowledgments/|url-status=live}}</ref>

* Communication Status – Indicate the transmission completed
* MDN (Message Disposition Notification) – In AS2 only, indicate the message is readable 
* Functional Acknowledgement – typically "997" in ANSI, or "CONTRL" in EDIFACT, which indicate the message content is verified against its template, and tell if the transaction is posted to the receiver's electronic system.
* Business Level Acknowledgement – the final indicator shows if the transaction is accepted by the receiver or not.