A partner can be either a customer or a supplier.

When you define a partner in

B2B Gateway

, you define the details of your exchanges with the partner as agreed upon between you and the partner. Exchange details include the type of messages that you exchange with the partner, the communication protocols through which you exchange data with the partner, whether or not you send functional and technical acknowledgments to the partner, the mappings that you use for inbound and outbound flows, as applicable, and the messaging schedules.

You can choose to send acknowledgements for all messages or individual message types.

To send acknowledgements for all the messages, select the

Send functional acknowledgment

option on the

Outbound Acknowledgment

tab.

To send acknowledgements for individual message types, select one of the following options on the

Messages

tab: