You can download all the standard EDI specs in text or OpenEDI JSON format. The downloaded EDI specs can be used as EDI documentation and shared with partners or team members to create interactive mapping documents or generate clients/mocks in any programming language.

The downloaded EDI specs can also serve as the basis for any amendments required when supporting partner-specific formats. All custom changes to an EDI spec can be reimported as a new model and used to overwrite the model that is automatically matched to an EDI message when analyzing it or converting it to JSON.

Explore and view EDI specifications

Go to EdiNation in your browser.

Navigate to the EDI Spec Library page, and then click on the required version to load all available specifications:

Once selected, all EDI specifications for the chosen EDI standard and version are loaded in a list. Search for a message type, then click the transaction ID to display the specification:

The EDI model is displayed in OpenEDI JSON format. You can download it for editing in your favourite JSON editor.

View and download as text

Navigate to the Text tab. View or edit the specification in text format (matching the format UNECE uses for all EDIFACT specifications). Download the EDI specification as a text file.

Copy the EDI model name

You can copy the name of the EDI model, which can be used in the EDI Parser configuration for explicit or custom models:

Share the EDI specification

To share the EDI specification, use the Copy link button:

Next steps

To learn more about how to translate and validate EDI files with EdiNation, try these tutorials:

• Parse and format EDI files
• Validate and debug EDI files
• Generate EDI acknowledgments
• Convert between EDI and JSON
• Create and import EDI specs