generated: '2026-08-30'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://support.logicbroker.com/kb/acehardware/37566558082836-Ace-Hardware-EDI-Specifications
  and https://www.acehardware-vendors.com/Vendors%20Public/Documents/Ace%20Vendor%20Manual.pdf
provider: Ace Hardware
providerId: ace-hardware
description: >-
  Cross-cutting and domain-standard conformance for the Ace Hardware integration surface. Ace
  Hardware publishes no HTTP API, so the web-API standards below are all `conforms: false` with
  the reason recorded. Its real machine-to-machine contract is ANSI ASC X12 EDI carried over AS2,
  and that IS a domain standard with a published, versioned specification — recorded here so the
  provider is not scored as publishing no interoperability standard when it in fact runs one of
  the oldest ones in retail supply chain.
note: >-
  OWNERSHIP: the EDI specification pages are served from acehardware.logicbroker.com (301 to
  support.logicbroker.com/kb/acehardware/), Ace Hardware's own branded supplier portal on
  Logicbroker, the EDI platform Ace contracted to run vendor onboarding. The transaction sets,
  EDI IDs and maps on those pages are Ace Hardware's own trading-partner requirements, not
  Logicbroker's product. Logicbroker's OWN Commerce API (dev.logicbroker.com) is explicitly NOT
  attributed to Ace Hardware and is not captured in this repo.

conformance:
  - id: x12-edi
    name: ANSI ASC X12 EDI
    conforms: true
    version: '4010'
    evidence:
      - >-
        Ace Hardware EDI Specifications (Logicbroker supplier portal) publishes the transaction
        set list and downloadable mapping documents: 850 Orders, 856 Shipments, 810 Invoices,
        820 Remit, 864 Text/Knowledge Document.
      - >-
        Six published mapping PDFs: 850DocMap.pdf, 856Map.pdf, 810map.pdf, 820DocMap.pdf,
        864 exceptions guide for 810.pdf, Vendor Knowledge Series EDI 864 for ASN.pdf.
      - >-
        Published EDI qualifier/ID pairs — Stage ZZ/7089906600, Production 01/006928311.
    url: https://support.logicbroker.com/kb/acehardware/37566558082836-Ace-Hardware-EDI-Specifications
  - id: as2
    name: AS2 (RFC 4130) applicability statement transport
    conforms: true
    evidence:
      - >-
        Ace Hardware offers data exchange over the internet using AS2 HTTP or HTTP/HTTPS with
        authentication and encryption provided via certificate, preference stated as SHA2
        (Ace Hardware Vendor Manual, acehardware-vendors.com).
    url: https://www.acehardware-vendors.com/Vendors%20Public/Documents/Ace%20Vendor%20Manual.pdf
  - id: x12-997
    name: X12 997 Functional Acknowledgement
    conforms: true
    evidence:
      - >-
        Vendors must transmit an electronic acknowledgement within 12 hours of receiving an
        electronic document from Ace Hardware, certifying the document was properly received.
    url: https://www.acehardware-vendors.com/Vendors%20Public/Documents/Ace%20Vendor%20Manual.pdf
  - id: openapi
    conforms: false
    evidence:
      - >-
        No OpenAPI/Swagger document at any probed location on either host. Probed 2026-08-30:
        www.acehardware.com/openapi.json 404, /swagger.json 403 (Cloudflare interstitial),
        /api-docs 404, www.acehardware-vendors.com/openapi.json 404.
  - id: graphql
    conforms: false
    evidence:
      - 'www.acehardware.com/graphql returned 403 (Cloudflare challenge page, not a GraphQL endpoint).'
  - id: oauth2
    conforms: false
    evidence:
      - '/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server returned 500 with a zero-length body on www.acehardware.com; 404 on www.acehardware-vendors.com. No OAuth surface is documented.'
  - id: oidc
    conforms: false
    evidence:
      - '/.well-known/openid-configuration returned 500 (zero-length) on www.acehardware.com; 404 on www.acehardware-vendors.com.'
  - id: rfc9457
    conforms: false
    evidence:
      - 'No HTTP API and therefore no problem+json error envelope. EDI errors are carried as X12 864 text messages instead.'
  - id: rfc9727
    name: RFC 9727 api-catalog
    conforms: false
    evidence:
      - '/.well-known/api-catalog returned 404 on both hosts (probed 2026-08-30).'
  - id: rfc9116
    name: RFC 9116 security.txt
    conforms: false
    evidence:
      - '/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on both hosts (probed 2026-08-30).'

domain_standard:
  market: Retail / hardware and home improvement supply chain
  standard: ANSI ASC X12 EDI 4010 over AS2
  declared: true
  where: >-
    Ace Hardware's supplier-facing EDI specification pages and the Ace Vendor Manual, which name
    the exact X12 transaction sets, the version, the AS2 transport and the trading-partner EDI IDs.
  transaction_sets:
    - id: '850'
      name: Purchase Order
    - id: '856'
      name: Advance Ship Notice
    - id: '810'
      name: Invoice
    - id: '820'
      name: Payment Order / Remittance Advice
    - id: '864'
      name: Text Message (exception and knowledge documents)
    - id: '997'
      name: Functional Acknowledgement
    - id: '812'
      name: Credit/Debit Adjustment
      note: >-
        Named in third-party supplier-compliance write-ups as part of Ace's core document set;
        not listed on the Logicbroker specification page we read, so recorded as reported rather
        than confirmed first-party.
  machine_readable: false
  machine_readable_note: >-
    The specifications themselves are distributed as PDF mapping documents. There is no EDIFACT/X12
    schema, no JSON/XML rendering of the maps, and no API to fetch them. A partner cannot generate
    a mapping from a machine-readable artifact — this is the single biggest machine-readability gap
    in Ace Hardware's integration surface.

compliance:
  certifications: []
  note: >-
    No trust center, no SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / PCI attestation page, and no compliance program page
    was found on either host. trust.acehardware.com does not resolve. No `Compliance` pointer is
    emitted.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com