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EDI 850 Transaction

EDI 850 Purchase Order

What is the EDI 850 Purchase Order transaction set?

The EDI 850 Purchase Order is used to place an order for goods or services via electronic data exchange. The EDI 850 provides digitized information on item prices, quantities ordered, shipping details, payment terms and discounts.

Other EDI transactions used in relation to the EDI 850 Purchase Order include EDI 855 Order Acknowledgement; EDI 997 Functional Acknowledgement; EDI 860 Order Change Request.

EDI X12 850 transaction example in PilotFish Data Mapper

Example of EDI 850 Transaction in PilotFish Data Mapper (click to enlarge)

For more on PilotFish’s EDI tools and resources, go to Building an X12 EDI Interface in 10 Easy StepsX12 EDI Data MappingEDI HIPAA X12 Transaction Summary and X12 EDI Healthcare Supply Chain Transaction Summary.

We invite you to take advantage of PilotFish’s eiConsole for X12 EDI by downloading a full, FREE 90-Day Trial Version of our software. Users can try out our new EDI Transformation Module and Format Builder. With the eiConsole X12 EDI Quick Start Tutorial, users can complete an end-to-end interface in less than 20 minutes and get a real sense of the ease-of-use of PilotFish’s Interface Engine solutions.

Product Note: The eiConsole may be purchased with X12 artifacts, or X12 artifacts may be licensed directly from X12.

X12, chartered by the American National Standards Institute for more than 35 years, develops and maintains EDI standards and XML schemas.

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