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At the heart of all FCI Two-Factor business is the highly praised communication system, edifactoring.com.
It was implemented for live processing by all FCI members on 8 April 2002.
Edifactoring.com is a fully internet-based system and there is no software to be installed in your local system. Its use is mandatory for all FCI Associate & Full members no later than six months after the start of membership.
You will find instructions on how to use it, including the initial user ID and password, in the edifactoring.com User Guide. You can download the User Guide from the FCI Private Net, File Library section “edifactoring”.
Comprehensive, powerful system
Edifactoring.com is a very comprehensive and powerful system. It allows you to handle all communications relating to your FCI two-factor export and import business. You can find a complete overview of all system functions in chapter 2 of the User Guide.
Learning & Testing
It is essential to learn how to use edifactoring.com and all of its functions before attempting to use it for real business.
You should first study the User Guide carefully and then practice using the test environment, edifactoring.net. The test environment is set up on different machines and completely separated from the production environment.
You have two factor accounts at your disposal in the test environment. This allows you to test sending and receiving and acting as Export and Import Factor without the need to involve another member of FCI.
Please note that in order prevent having unwanted messages sent to your factor code, your account in edifactoring.com will be set up only when you are ready to handle two-factor business. Simply inform the Secretariat when the time is ripe. In the meantime, your two accounts in edifactoring.net (the testing environments) will be available for your staff training!
You can find all details of the test environment and a recommended test plan in chapter 6 of the User Guide.
Interface
If you already have, or expect to have soon, a substantial volume of two-factor business, you should consider building an automatic interface to send and receive messages between your in-house factoring application and edifactoring.com.
An automatic interface saves you substantial manual input work and gives you extra user security. You can find the complete description and the technical specifications to build your automatic interface in the section “Automatic Interface” of the “edifactoring technical specifications 7.0 January 2016” manual.