850 Purchase Order
Joe's Sporting Goods · X12 004010
Joe's Sporting Goods’ published 850 specification, rendered as an interactive guide. Expand any segment to see its elements, data types, lengths and accepted codes — then validate your own document against it below.
Specification
9 of 9 segments
HEADING
ST
Transaction Set Header
To indicate the start of a transaction set and to assign a control number
pos 010
Required
max —
BEG
Beginning Segment for Purchase Order
To indicate the beginning of the Purchase Order Transaction Set and transmit identifying
pos 020
Required
max —
REF
Reference Identification
To specify identifying information
pos 050
Required
max 4
CSH
Sales Requirements
To specify general conditions or requirements of the sale
pos 110
Required
max —
DTM
Date/Time Reference
To specify pertinent dates and times
pos 150
Required
max 2
N1 Looprepeats 2required
N1
Name
To identify a party by type of organization, name, and code
pos 310
Required
max —
DETAIL
PO1 Looprepeats 1000000required
PO1
Baseline Item Data
To specify basic and most frequently used line item data
pos 010
Required
max —
SUMMARY
CTT Looprepeats 1required
CTT
Transaction Totals
To transmit a hash total for a specific element in the transaction set
pos 010
Required
max —
SE
Transaction Set Trailer
To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted
pos 030
Required
max —
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