| AUTHOR | Authorization message |
| Message sent by the Ordering Customer (or Payor or Agent on behalf of the Ordering Customer) or by a third party having authority on the Ordering Customer's payments to the Ordered Bank, to authorize the Ordered Bank to execute a given financial transaction. This financial transaction might relate to both: multiple messages like PAYMUL and DIRDEB and single instruction messages like PAYORD and PAYEXT. An Authorisation Message could also be sent from the Ordered Bank to the Ordering Customer or its Authorisation Authority to request authorisation for a given financial transaction. |
| BANSTA | Banking status message |
| Message sent by the receiver of a previously sent-message to report on the status of processing of this original message. It indicates, at the application level, the acceptance or rejection of the message or the ability for the receiver of the message to execute or not the instructions received. |
| BAPLIE | Bayplan/stowage plan occupied and empty locations message |
| Message to transmit information about equipment and goods on a means of transport, including their location on the means of transport. The message can be exchanged between (liner's) agents, tonnage centers, stevedores and ships masters/operators. |
| BAPLTE | Bayplan/stowage plan total numbers message |
| Message to transmit information about the total numbers of equipment and quantity of goods on a means of transport. The message can be exchanged between (liner's) agents, tonnage centers, stevedores and ships masters/operators. |
| BOPBNK |
| Bank transactions and portfolio transactions report message |
| Message sent by banks to the Balance of Payment (BOP) compiler for reporting of the banks' own transactions, aggregated individual customer transactions and portfolio transactions. The message could also be used for reporting the assets and liabilities positions of the banks. |
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| BOPCUS |
| Balance of payment customer transaction report message |
| Message sent by banks to the Balance of Payment (BOP) compiler for reporting - one by one - individual customer transactions (debit and credit) processed during a specific time period. Actually, this transaction information can be distilled - one by one- from PAYORD / PAYMUL / PAYEXT and BOPINF messages respectively. |
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| BOPDIR |
| Direct balance of payment declaration message |
| Message sent by non-bank residents to report directly to the Balance of Payment (BOP) compiler on: transactions via bank accounts held at a resident bank, transactions via bank accounts held at a non-resident bank, transactions and clearing via accounts with non-bank non-residents, foreign assets and liabilities, information in the context of a BOP-related survey (stocks and flows); for those countries which base their compilation of the BOP on surveys. |
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| BOPINF |
| Balance of payment information from customer message |
| Message sent by a payee to its bank on receipt of one specified amount as a settlement of a transaction with a non-resident.The Balance of Payment (BOP) compiler has to be informed of the transaction via the payee's bank. |
| COMDIS | Commercial dispute message |
| Message providing notice of commercial dispute against one or more invoices is usually raised by the buyer to notify the seller that something was found wrong with the goods delivered or the services rendered (goods damaged, delivery incomplete, delivery late, etc.). The dispute must be resolved before the related invoice can be settled. The message will be used to: - notify a dispute; -correspond about an existing dispute (structured information); - notify the settlement of a dispute. The message will serve at the same time as the dispute notice and as the dispute answer. |
| CONAPW | Advice on pending works message |
| Message to enable a contractor who intends to start works to advise public authorities and water, gas, telephone, electricity distributors of his intention and to request them to send back plans or information under any form concerning existing networks. |
| CONDPV | Direct payment valuation message |
| Message of instruction sent by the contractor to the party responsible for payments, to pay the subcontractors for work completed. |
| CONEST | Establishment of contract message |
| Message to formally establish and issue the contractual Bill of Quantities (BoQ). This documentation becomes the contractual basis for all future work and payment for the project. |
| CONITT | Invitation to tender message |
| At the pre-construction stage of a construction project, the Client will wish to appoint a contractor to execute the works. The first step in this appointment process is to issue an invitation to tender (ITT) to contractors this will require a commercial offer to be made by the contractor to the client. |
| CONPVA | Payment valuation message |
| Message used between a contractor and the client's representative, during the process of approving the value and payment for work completed for a given period of time. |
| CONQVA | Quantity valuation message |
| Message used by a contractor to submit progress details to a client or his representative. The message may be used also for subsets of the project where work has been contracted out to other parties. In these cases the exchange would be between the subcontractor and the party that subcontracted the work. |
| CONRPW | Response of pending works message |
| Message to reply to a CONAPW message and to enable service providers to respond to a contractor giving details of any services and networks in the location where construction work is to be undertaken. |
| CONTEN | Tender message |
| Message sent by main contractor or subcontractor for the purposes of submitting a tender which is a commercial offer to execute the project work defined in the bill of quantities within the invitation to tender. |
| CONTRL | Syntax and service report message |
| Message syntactically acknowledging or rejecting, with error indication, a received interchange, functional group or message. |
| CONWQD | Work item quantity determination message |
| Message used between a contractor and the client's representative or other partners within the construction process, for justifying the work item quantities given in messages that describe the work items or their progress valuations. |
| CREADV | Credit advice message |
| Message sent by the account servicing financial institution to the account owner to inform the account owner that its account has been or will be credited for a specified amount on the date indicated, in settlement of the referenced business transaction(s). |
| CREEXT | Extended credit advice message |
| Message sent by the account servicing financial institution to the account owner to inform the account owner that its account has been or will be credited for a specified amount on the date indicated, in settlement of the referenced business transaction(s), and to provide to the payee full details of the transactions to which the extended credit advice relates. |
| CUSCAR | Customs cargo report message |
| Message to permit the transfer of data from a carrier to a Customs administration for the purpose of meeting Customs cargo reporting requirements. |
| CUSDEC | Customs declaration message |
| Message to permit the transfer of data from a declarant to a Customs administration for the purpose of meeting legislative and/or operational requirements in respect of the declaration of goods for import, export or transit. |
| CUSEXP | Customs express consignment declaration message |
| Message to permit the transfer of data from an express carrier to a Customs administration for the purpose of meeting Customs cargo reporting and/or clearance requirements. |
| CUSREP | Customs conveyance report message |
| Message to permit the transfer of data from a carrier to a Customs administration for the purpose of meeting Customs reporting requirements in respect of the means of transport on which the cargo is carried. |
| CUSRES | Customs response message |
| Message to permit the transfer of data from a Customs administration to the sender of Customs data. It may also be used by Customs to transmit electronic Customs clearance of goods. |
| DEBADV | Debit advice message |
| Message sent by the account servicing financial institution to the account owner to inform the account owner that its account has been or will be debited for a specified amount on the date indicated, in settlement of the referenced business transaction(s). |
| DELFOR | Delivery schedule message |
| Message from buyer to supplier giving product requirements regarding details for short term delivery instructions and/or medium to long term product/service forecast for planning purposes according to conditions set out in a contract or order. The message can be used to authorize the commitment of labour and materials resources. |
| DELJIT | Delivery just-in-time message |
| Message providing the ability for a customer to convey precise delivery sequence and just-in-time schedule requirements to a supplier, and is intended to supplement the delivery schedule message (DELFOR). |
| DESADV | Despatch advice message |
| Message specifying details for goods despatched or ready for despatch under agreed conditions. |
| DIRDEB | Direct debit message |
| Message sent by the creditor to the creditor's bank instructing it to claim specified amounts from the debtor(s) and to credit these amounts to a single account it services for the creditor in settlement of the referenced transaction(s). |
| DOCADV | Documentary credit advice message |
| Message to indicate to the beneficiary the terms and conditions of a documentary credit that has been originated by the issuing bank and received by the advising bank (or an intermediary advising bank). |
| DOCAPP | Documentary credit application message |
| Message from a party requesting the issuance of a documentary credit to the party providing such service. In this message, the conditions under which the sender of the message requires the documentary credit to be issued are given. |
| DOCINF | Documentary credit issuance information message |
| Message to indicate the terms and conditions of an issued documentary credit from the issuing Bank to the applicant and/or the applicant's bank. |
| HANMOV | Cargo/goods handling and movement message |
| Message from a party to a warehouse/distribution centre identifying the handling services and where required the movement of specified goods, limited to warehouses within the jurisdiction of the distribution centre. |
| IFCSUM | International forwarding and consolidation summary message |
| Message used for consolidation purposes from a party arranging forwarding and transport services to the party for which the transport of the consolidated cargo is destined. The message can be used to exchange information concerning the consolidated cargo between forwarders, carriers and agents enabling those parties to handle the consignments included in the consolidation. In addition it can be used for a collection of consignments originating from one shipper for forwarding and transport services. |
| IFTCCA | Forwarding and transport shipment charge calculation message |
| Message to request the calculation of the transport charges of a specific shipment and to answer to such a request. |
| IFTDGN | Dangerous goods notification message |
| Message from the party responsible to declare the dangerous goods (e.g. carrier's agent, freight forwarder) to the party acting on behalf of the local authority performing the checks on conformance with the legal requirements on the control of dangerous goods, normally Port Authority, conveying the information relating to one conveyance/voyage of a means of transport such as a vessel, train, truck or barge, on the dangerous goods being loaded, unloaded, and/or in transit. |
| IFTMAN | Arrival notice message |
| Message from the party providing forwarding and/or transport services to the party such as has been indicated in the contract, giving notice and details of the arrival of the consignment. |
| IFTMBC | Booking confirmation message |
| Message from the party providing forwarding and/or transport services to the party booking those services giving the confirmation information to the booking of the consignment concerned. A confirmation might read that the booking of a consignment is accepted, pending, conditionally accepted or rejected. The conditions under which requested services take place may be given in this message. |
| IFTMBF | Firm booking message |
| Message from a party definitely booking forwarding and/or transport services for a consignment to the party providing those services. The message will contain the conditions under which the sender of the messages requires the services to take place. |
| IFTMBP | Provisional booking message |
| Message from a party requesting space and/or giving brief details of a planned consignment for forwarding and/or transport services to the party providing those services. In this message, the conditions under which the planned transport should take place can be given. |
| IFTMCS | Instruction contract status message |
| Message from the party providing the transport/forwarding services to the party that issued the instructions for those services stating the actual details, terms and conditions (charges when applicable) of the service and of the consignment involved. In addition it can be used for the exchange of contract information between carriers mutually. |
| IFTMIN | Instruction message |
| Message from the party issuing an instruction regarding forwarding/transport services for a consignment under conditions agreed, to the party arranging the forwarding and/or transport services. |
| IFTRIN | Forwarding and transport rate information message |
| Message to request transport rate information and to answer to such a message. |
| IFTSAI | Forwarding and transport schedule and availability information message |
| Message to request transport schedule or availability information and to answer such a request. |
| IFTSTA | International multimodal status report message |
| Message to report the transport status and/or a change in the transport status (i.e. event) between agreed parties. |
| IFTSTQ | International multimodal status request message |
| Message to request an international multimodal status report message (IFTSTA) in order to provide details relating to transport status and/or a change in the transport status between agreed parties. |
| INSPRE | Insurance premium message |
| Message used by communicating parties to notify the recipient about premiums due from a client. All information needed to produce a detailed request for payment can be sent. |
| INVOIC | Invoice message |
| Message claiming payment for goods or services supplied under conditions agreed between the seller and the buyer. The UNSM invoice message, with correct data qualification, serves also as the specification for debit note and credit note messages. |
| INVRPT | Inventory report message |
| Message specifying information relating to held inventories. The inventory report message is intended to be used in either direction between trading partners. |
| MOVINS | Stowage instruction message |
| Message containing details of one means of transport vehicle, giving instructions regarding the loading, discharging and restowage of equipment and/or cargoes and the location on the means of transport where the operation must take place. |
| ORDCHG | Purchase order change message |
| Message from the buyer to the seller, specifying details of the buyer's request to change a purchase order. |
| ORDERS | Purchase order message |
| Message specifying details for goods or services ordered under conditions agreed between the seller and the buyer. |
| ORDRSP | Purchase order response message |
| Message from the seller to the buyer, responding to a purchase order message or a purchase order change request message. |
| PARTIN | Party information message |
| Message to enable the transmission of basic information regarding locations and the related operational, administrative, financial, manufacturing and trading data. |
| PAXLST | Passenger list message |
| Message to permit the transfer of passenger/crew data (where national privacy legislation permits and with agreement of all parties involved) from a customs, immigration or other designated authority in the country of departure to the appropriate authorities in the country of arrival of the means of transport. |
| PAYDUC | Payroll deductions advice message |
| Message sent by a party to a service providing organisation, to detail payments by payroll deductions, on behalf of employees, made to the service providing organisation. |
| PAYEXT | Extended payment order message |
| Message sent by the ordering customer (or payor or agent on behalf of the ordering customer) to the ordered bank, to instruct the ordered bank to debit an account it services for the ordering customer, and to arrange for the payment of a specified amount to the beneficiary (or payee or agent in favour of beneficiary) in settlement of the referenced business transaction(s), and to provide to the payee full details of the transactions to which the extended payment order relates. |
| PAYMUL | Multiple payment order message |
| Message sent by the ordering customer (or payor or agent on behalf of the ordering customer) to the ordered bank, to instruct the ordered bank to debit an account it services for the ordering customer, and to arrange for the payment of specified amounts to several beneficiaries (or payees) in settlement of the referenced business transaction(s). |
| PAYORD | Payment order message |
| Message sent by the ordering customer (or payor or agent on behalf of the ordering customer) to the ordered bank, to instruct the ordered bank to debit an account it services for the ordering customer, and to arrange for the payment of a specified amount to the beneficiary (or payee or agent in favour of beneficiary) in settlement of the referenced business transaction(s). |
| PRICAT | Price/sales catalogue message |
| Message to enable the transmission of information regarding pricing and catalogue details for goods and services offered by a seller to a buyer. |
| PRODEX | Product exchange reconciliation message |
| Message used as a communication between two trading partners with agreements for the loan of products to each other, to provide information about movements of products from and to various locations on particular dates. |
| PRPAID | Insurance premium payment message |
| Message used by communicating parties to notify the recipient about premiums to be collected, paid, not paid or partly paid, either individually or in series via bordereaux or statements. |
| QALITY | Quality data message |
| Message to enable the transmission of the results of tests performed to satisfy a specified product or process requirement. The content includes, but it is not limited to, test data and measurements, statistical information, and the testing methods employed. |
| QUOTES | Quote message |
| Message which provides potential sellers with the ability to provide price, delivery schedule, and other conditions for potential sales of goods or services. |
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| RECECO |
| Credit risk cover message |
| Message to apply for preliminary credit assessment (used during negotiation with prospective clients); apply for credit protection; reply to credit requests; revise amount and expiry date of credit protection and terms; cancel credit protection. The message will serve at the same time as the request for credit risk cover and as the answer (approval or rejection to that request). |
| REMADV | Remittance advice message |
| Message which provides a detailed accounting relative to a payment, or other form of financial settlement, on a specified date for the provision of goods and/or services as detailed in the advice. |
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| REQDOC |
| Request for document message |
| Message to enable a party to request the sending, or re-sending, of data, either as a document or message, or in some other agreed form. |
| REQOTE | Request for quote message |
| Message which provides potential buyers with the ability to solicit price, delivery schedule, and other conditions from potential sellers of goods or services. |
| SANCRT | Sanitary/phytosanitary certificate message |
| Message to permit an inspection authority to attest to the status (health, hygiene, freedom from disease or insect pests) of animal, plant or fish product, and provides basic details about the means of conveyance of that product. |
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| SLSFCT |
| Sales forecast message |
| Message to enable the transmission of forecast data related to products or services, such as corresponding location, period, product identification, pricing, monetary amount, quantity, market sector information, sales parties. It enables the recipient to process the information automatically and use it for production, planning, marketing, statistical purposes, etc. |
| SLSRPT | Sales data report message |
| Message to enable the transmission of sales data related to products or services, such as corresponding location, period, product identification, pricing, monetary amount, quantity, market sector information, sales parties. It enables the recipient to process the information automatically and use it for production, planning, marketing, statistical purposes, etc. |
| STATAC | Statement of account message |
| Message from a seller or his agent to a buyer or his agent, providing information about the status of the account at a specific point in time. It is used as an aid to reconciliation. At the same time it may be a reminder of payment due. |
| SUPCOT | Superannuation contributions advice message |
| Message sent by a party to an organisation administering a superannuation scheme, to detail contribution payments made for members of the superannuation scheme. |
| SUPMAN | Superannuation maintenance message |
| Message sent by a party to an organisation administering a superannuation scheme, to specify membership maintenance information about superannuation scheme members. |
