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RE: Dumb Trading Partner Ideas
James
> The problem with saying, "If interconnects are used, the supplier will
> pay all VAN
> charges and any charges accrued to LNT for the interconnects." is that
> in reality, LNT is not going start billing their suppliers for kc's and
> since the supplier is not a customer of LNTs VAN, the VAN cannot bill
> them either and is left holding the bag for the transmissions. Sterling
> addressed this some years back when TRU pulled the same thing by
> mandating the off-network supplier get an Associate Mailbox which was
> used as a billing mechanism but not a physical mailbox.
This was also done for WalMart in Canada (before AS2). Many of our clients had
Sterling Associate mailbox accounts, which they cancelled when they switched
from bisynch to AS2.
The document exchange process allows for various payment schemes, like 'sender
pays'. Why not set the status to 'sender pay' for incoming to LNT, and
'receiver pay' for outbound? (Probably because there can only be one payment
scheme per relationship? I'm not that familiar with the implementation of VAN
billing schemes..)
I'm waiting to see what the charges are going to be like.
Earl Wertheimer
http://www.spe-edi.com
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