Read any UN/EDIFACT message in seconds.
Paste a raw EDIFACT interchange — ORDERS, ORDRSP, INVOIC, DESADV, IFTMIN, CUSDEC, REMADV and more — and get a clean, human-readable breakdown of every segment and element.
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What is this UN/EDIFACT viewer?
UN/EDIFACT (United Nations rules for Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport) is the international EDI standard used across Europe and most of the world outside North America. A raw EDIFACT interchange is a dense string of segments ending in ', with elements separated by + and components by : — unreadable by eye. This free tool parses that text, auto-detects the delimiters from the UNA service string, and labels every segment so you can understand it. Nothing is uploaded: parsing runs entirely in your browser, so even sensitive trading-partner data stays on your machine.
Supported message types
This viewer recognizes any EDIFACT message and shows a full segment breakdown. For the most common message types it also generates a plain-English business summary.
Supply chain & retail
- ORDERS — Purchase Order
- ORDRSP — Purchase Order Response
- ORDCHG — Purchase Order Change
- INVOIC — Invoice
- PRICAT — Price/Sales Catalogue
- QUOTES — Quotation
- DELFOR / DELJIT — Delivery Forecast / Just-in-Time schedule
- SLSRPT — Sales Data Report
Logistics & transport
- DESADV — Despatch Advice (ASN equivalent)
- RECADV — Receiving Advice
- IFTMIN — Transport Instruction
- IFTMBF / IFTMCS — Booking Firm / Booking Confirmation
- IFTSTA — Transport Status
- COPARN — Container Announcement
- PAXLST — Passenger List
Finance
- REMADV — Remittance Advice
- PAYMUL — Multiple Payment Order
- CREMUL — Multiple Credit Advice
Customs & government
- CUSDEC — Customs Declaration
- CUSCAR — Customs Cargo Report
- CUSRES — Customs Response
Utilities, medical & control
- UTILMD / UTILTS — Utilities Master Data / Time Series
- MEDPRE — Medical Prescription
- CONTRL — Syntax & Service Report (acknowledgment)
- APERAK — Application Error & Acknowledgment
How to read an EDIFACT message
An EDIFACT interchange is wrapped in a UNB/UNZ envelope. Inside it, each message is bounded by UNH (header — which names the message type, e.g. ORDERS) and UNT (trailer). An optional UNA service string at the very start declares the delimiters. This viewer reads the UNA automatically and walks the structure for you.
Frequently asked questions
Is my EDIFACT data uploaded anywhere?
What is the difference between EDIFACT and X12?
~, elements split by *). EDIFACT is the international standard used in Europe and elsewhere (segments end in ', elements by +, components by :). They carry the same kinds of business documents under different names — ORDERS ≈ 850, INVOIC ≈ 810, DESADV ≈ 856.Does it handle the release (escape) character?
?) is honored, so escaped delimiters inside data values are not mistaken for real separators.