Video: The Quickstart Guide To Setting Up An AS2 Server

Words By John Carl Villanueva

Last Updated: December 11, 2022

A tutorial showing the basic steps for setting up an AS2 server. Highlights initial steps for carrying out EDI transactions with trading partners using AS2.

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In this video tutorial, we walk you through the basic steps of setting up an AS2 server. These are the initial steps that will eventually allow you to carry out EDI transactions with an increasing number of trading partners already using this popular B2B file transfer protocol.

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