Exchange files with your trading partners over AS2 without running an AS2 appliance behind it. AS2 is the secure B2B protocol big retailers and clearinghouses require. Files.com is a standards-compliant AS2 endpoint with signed MDN receipts on every message, certificates managed in the app, and a folder for every partner. Your partner connects the same way they always do and never knows what’s behind it, so you answer the mandate without buying and running a server.
If you sell to a large retailer, file healthcare claims, or supply a manufacturing network, someone on the other end almost certainly requires AS2. The usual way to answer that is to stand up an on-premise AS2 server (Sterling, GoAnywhere, Cleo, Axway) and then live with certificate rotations, capacity planning, and patching for the life of the box.
Files.com does it without the box. Turn AS2 on, exchange certificates with your partner, and the endpoint is live. It runs with the same governance, scale, and automation as the rest of your file transfers, so there’s nothing separate to operate. The partner sees a standards-compliant AS2 endpoint and never knows there isn’t a server in a rack.
“We use Files.com for automated SFTP transfers with our trading partners. The automation lets us handle every partner's quirks without writing custom code.”
Encrypted, signed, and receipted on every message, with a folder for each partner so files flow in and out.
Files.com receives AS2 over HTTPS on port 443, with S/MIME encryption and signing on every message. AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) is the secure B2B protocol big retailers and clearinghouses use, and Files.com follows the RFC 4130 standard so your partner connects exactly the way they connect to anyone else.
Every transmission comes back with an MDN, a Message Disposition Notification. That is the signed digital receipt that proves your partner got the exact bytes you sent. Files.com supports synchronous and asynchronous receipts, so neither side can later claim a file never arrived, and you never have to wonder whether it did.
Turn AS2 on and Files.com creates a folder structure for each trading partner, the company on the other end of the exchange. Each one gets an inbox, an outbox, and a sent folder. Drop a file in a partner’s outbox and it goes out. Files that arrive land in their inbox, ready for the rest of your workflow, so you never wire up the plumbing by hand.
Outbound messages retry on their own until delivery is confirmed. Paired with the MDN receipt, every transmission either comes back confirmed or shows up as a failure for you to act on. Nothing gets silently dropped.
Upload, renew, and rotate the encryption and signing certificates for each partner right in the Files.com UI. Expiration alerts warn you before a certificate lapses, so a missed renewal never takes a partner offline. You stop editing connection scripts on a server every time something rotates.
Your partner sees a standards-compliant AS2 endpoint and never knows what’s behind it. There’s no on-premise AS2 server to size, patch, or babysit. You skip running Sterling, GoAnywhere, Cleo, or Axway just to answer one AS2 mandate.
AS2 is a first-class part of Workflows and Automation. A file landing in a partner’s inbox can trigger a workflow. Any workflow can deliver its result out to a partner over AS2 as the final step. It works in both directions, so a partner exchange can drive automation and automation can drive a partner exchange.
When a partner sends a spike of traffic, Files.com expands to absorb it. No per-endpoint sizing, no capacity planning. An appliance in a rack can’t do that.
Setting up a new AS2 partner is part of onboarding them onto Files.com. Each partner gets a self-contained space and exchanged certificates, handled through partner onboarding. If a partner wants an extra encryption layer, you can wrap files in PGP encryption on top of the AS2 exchange.
AS2 is available on the Power tier and above. Enterprise includes as many connections as you require. See what each plan includes on the pricing page.
What teams ask about how Files.com handles AS2, MDN receipts, EDI, and compatibility with their trading partners.
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