Partners

A ‘Partner’ in Link , is a company or an internal system that send sends and/or receives messages through Link. 

In Link, there can be are two different types of partners: internal and external. An internal partner is an endpoint (typically of an application) within your organization. External partners are your the business partners that you are exchanging exchange data with.

Note that it also possible to categorize You can also label a partner as a "Proxy partner". This , which is relevant when you are communicating with external partners through a broker or a VANS operatorpartner. You can read Read more about this topic in the Proxy partners article.

In this part of the user guide you will learn how to create, manage and search for partners. Partner management is an important part of using Link since many of the vital functionalities that help you achieve a high level of reusability with your integrations are rooted in having an optimized configuration at the partner level. Therefore, we strongly recommend all users read the Partner detail page. 

One of the most important crucial tasks when creating a new partner is to get the identification mechanism right. In many cases, one you will have an endpoint that receives documents coming from lots of many different partners, and in this scenario . In this case, Link will determine the sender partner via the content of the document. As you probably know already, there

There are many different methods of identifying a business partner (e.g. standards used to identify business partners (i, e ., GLN, DUNS, VAT etc.) - . In Link, these are called "Identification types" in Link, and it . It is important to get this correctly configured - otherwise you risk that configure your partner identification correctly. Otherwise, Link will be unable to determine who are the senders of these documents are. You can read Read more about how to manage this in the Identification types chapter.

Let's get started. Hover your mouse cursor over the Partners menu item in on the left hand side menu to see the available options.

Search

Click this on it to open the 'Partner Search' page. From there you will be able to can find and edit existing partners including adding , as well as add Partner tags to them.

New

Partner

Click on "New Partner" to start creating a new partner. This is done via You will be then directed to the 'New Partner' page. 

Import

Partners

Click here to import a list of partners from another Link solution. A pop-up will be displayed, allowing you to select a file on your local hard drive and then import it. You can read Read more information about this in the Import and export of partners articleconfiguration article.