Business Agreement Overview

A business agreement provides detailed information on which trading partners must agree before they can exchange business documents with each other.

For each protocol enabled for document exchange between the two participants, the following protocol-specific information is required:

  • Transport method
  • Valid operations
  • Security

Note: Most of the information required to create a business agreement is protocol specific. Therefore, you need to fully configure both parties to the agreement.

The following tasks are required to create a valid business agreement:

  • Identify the participants and define the agreement validity period.
  • Configure a protocol.
  • Configure an operation.

You can manage the business agreements as follows:

On the Business Agreements page, the protocols that are enabled for a business agreement are displayed in the In Use Protocol column. You can click the protocol link in this column in order to go directly to the respective protocol configuration page.

Note: To activate or deactivate a business agreement on the Business Agreements page, you can enable or disable the switch in the Current Status column in the table.