Authorization message
An Authorisation Message is 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.
Throughout this document the term 'Original Message' refers to the message to be authorised.
Banking status message
A BANSTA message is 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.
Throughout this document the term 'Originator' refers to the sender of the original message to which the BANSTA message is responding; likewise, the term 'Recipient' refers to the sender of the Status message sent in response to the message generated by the 'Originator'.
Bayplan/stowage plan occupied and empty locations
A 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 (see section 1.3 for more details).
Bayplan/stowage plan total numbers message
A 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 (see section 1.3 for more details).
Commercial dispute message
A 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.
Throughout this document, the term 'Buyer' refers to either the buyer or an Agent acting on behalf of the Buyer, and the term 'Seller' refers either to the seller or an Agent acting on behalf of the Seller.
Advice on pending works message
Typically, this message is 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.
Direct payment valuation message
This message is the instruction by the contractor to the party responsible for payments, to pay the subcontractors for work completed.
Establishment of contract
Upon completion of the tendering process, there is a requirement for the client or his representative to formally establish and issue the contractual Bill of Quantities. This documentation becomes the contractual basis for all future work and payment for the project.
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.
Payment valuation message
Typically this message will be 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.