About the Timber & Hardware Exchange

The Trade Document Exchange uses the power of the Internet to remove much of the complexity of electronic trading and allow organisations to move quickly in transferring current manual processes to automated trading for many of their trading partners.

The Exchange provides translation between the different formats used by trading partners. This means that we translate your formats to a common format and you don't have to worry about the formats used by your trading partners. You also don't need to be concerned if your Trading Partners change formats: that's our job.

Some of the current formats available are:

  • EDI (EDIFACT & ANSI),
  • flat files,
  • XML,
  • or email.

We offer open trading environment for communications.

Our preference is for Pacific Exchanger software (provided free of charge) that manages the Internet communications including security, reliable transfer, scheduling, and logging of activity.

The T&HE provides secure document transfer, using SSL and the HTTPS protocol. The Pacific Exchanger software transfers documents securely over the internet using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) and that is why we prefer that you use Pacific Exchanger.

Some customers prefer other means of communications and we support those when required. Such as:

  • FTP, modem dial-up,
  • VAN,
  • email, or browser interface

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