After you apply: Acceptance testing

If required, clients or their service providers involved in the EDI process will undergo acceptance testing. As part of the testing process, the CBSA will provide clients or their service providers with a test package to complete.

During testing, clients (or their service providers) must satisfy production requirements by successfully completing a series of progressively complex tests that will verify whether:

• various types and volumes of data submissions are capable of being transmitted
• the quality of the data is acceptable, that is, data transmitted are accepted by the system
• the accurate reception of error messages, acknowledgements and other feedback transmissions from the EDI system is taking place
• volume testing is required (transmissions are error free a minimum of 95% of the time)