EDI Reference / 997
997
Functional Acknowledgment
Either direction
The technical receipt — 'your interchange arrived and parsed' (or didn't).
The 997 is the EDI handshake: it says a functional group was received and whether it was accepted, accepted with errors, or rejected. It's not a business response (that's the 855) — it's the syntax-level 'I got your file.' Trading partners expect a 997 back promptly; a missing 997 means the sender doesn't know you got it.
⚠ Where it bites
AK9 carries the accept/reject status. Many retailers monitor 997 turnaround time as a scorecard metric.
Key segments
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