Add business partners
- Open “My business partners”
- Click on “Available partners” in the upper right corner
You will now see all partners who have any connection to the myOpenFactory platform (sponsored or independent).
- In the search box, enter the name of your business partner and confirm with |Enter|
- Select the correct partner by clicking on the company name
- Click “Save” in the top right corner to add the partner to your business partners
- A message appears that the business partner has been successfully saved
You are now back in the Business Partner view and the new partner will appear in your list. All partners that are newly added are by default in test state (indicated by yellow field with “T” next to the company name).
Test or productive connection
When a business partner is added to your business partners, the entire connection is always in test status. Since tests should be carried out before each productive connection, the platform ensures that no goods are sent by mistake. Regardless of whether you send a test flag in your messages or not, all documents are will arrive as test-messages at the receiver.
If you would like to set a connection to productive state after completing the tests, please contact our Support team.
Sponsored or independent business partner
In the overview of available business partners you can see whether you will incur costs as a result of connecting a specific partner.
Independent business partners are companies that have concluded their own users contract with us and therefore bear the costs for participating in the EDI platform themselves. You can recognize them in the overview of business partners by the green house symbol:
sponsored business partners are companies for which independent business partners bear the costs for participating in the EDI platform. You can recognize them in the overview of business partners by the grey house symbol:
