generated: '2026-08-30'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.acehardware-vendors.com/, https://newsroom.acehardware.com/,
  https://support.logicbroker.com/kb/acehardware/37566558082836-Ace-Hardware-EDI-Specifications
provider: Ace Hardware
providerId: ace-hardware
description: >-
  Versioning, deprecation, availability and change-communication posture for the Ace Hardware
  integration surface. Almost every field here is a recorded absence: Ace Hardware runs a
  long-lived X12 4010 EDI relationship with no published version policy, no deprecation policy,
  no status page and no dated changelog. That is normal for an EDI trading-partner programme and
  it is still a real gap for anyone building against it.

versioning:
  scheme: X12 release version
  current_version: '4010'
  header: null
  negotiation: false
  migration_path_published: false
  note: >-
    X12 4010 dates from 1997 and remains Ace Hardware's transacting version. No published plan to
    move to 5010 or later was found. A vendor cannot discover a version change other than by
    notification from Ace's EDI team.

deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  rfc8594: false
  note: >-
    No deprecation or sunset policy is published on either host, and there is no HTTP surface on
    which RFC 8594 Sunset/Deprecation headers could be carried. NO `Deprecation` pointer is
    emitted.

status_page:
  present: false
  url: null
  probes:
    - url: https://status.acehardware.com/
      status: '<no DNS>'
      note: hostname does not resolve
    - url: https://trust.acehardware.com/
      status: '<no DNS>'
      note: hostname does not resolve
  note: >-
    No status page, uptime dashboard or incident history was found for either the retail site or
    the vendor portal. NO `StatusPage` pointer is emitted.

sla:
  published: false
  direction_note: >-
    The only published service level runs the OTHER WAY: Ace Hardware imposes a 95% OTIF
    (On-Time-In-Full) benchmark and a vendor scorecard on its suppliers, with chargebacks for
    misses. Ace Hardware publishes no availability or response-time commitment to the vendors
    integrating with it.
  vendor_obligations:
    - metric: OTIF
      target: 95%
    - metric: 997 functional acknowledgement
      target: within 12 hours of receipt

changelog:
  published: false
  note: >-
    No dated changelog or release-notes surface exists for the integration surface.
    newsroom.acehardware.com (200) carries corporate press releases and financial announcements,
    not integration change notices, so it is not wired as a `ChangeLog`.
  probed:
    - url: https://newsroom.acehardware.com/
      status: 200
      verdict: corporate press releases, not an integration changelog

deprecated_operations: []
deprecated_operations_note: >-
  Derived from openapi/ where one exists. This repo has no OpenAPI document because the provider
  publishes none, so nothing can be derived.

environments:
  - name: stage
    edi_id: ZZ/7089906600
    purpose: trading-partner certification testing before production traffic is enabled
  - name: production
    edi_id: '01/006928311'

maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com