ACORD Testing and Certification Facility

The ACORD Testing and Certification Facility (TCF) is a live application which you, as a developer, can interact with in order to test and certify your implementations of ACORD messages. The TCF is a "virtual" business partner. You can send ACORD messages to the TCF, it will validate the messages, and then the TCF will send back responses indicating acceptance or error(s). The TCF can also trigger messages to be sent to you.

ACORD staff will be there to support you in your testing. They will monitor your test messages at a detailed level and then help you analyze successful and unsuccessful tests. If you are new to Webservices and/or ACORD messaging and need more help in getting your system working, ACORD can also offer implementation assistance at a daily rate

When you are ready to apply for certification of your messages, we will clear your test environment and then monitor your messages as you go through the suite of tests required for certification of the standards concerned.

If you want to use the TCF or would like more details, please contact us on tcfadmin@acord.org.

• Download TCF description and FAQs
• What does TCF cover?
• Where can I learn more about TCF?
• Who has been certified via TCF?

What does TCF Cover?

Technical standards supported:

• ACORD Messaging Service (AMS) web-services standards, including support for secure https sessions, authentication, and digital signatures
• ACORD Cross Domain Document Repository Interface (DRI) standards
• ACORD RLC Placing XML message standard
• ACORD RLC Accounting XML message standards (Technical and Financial accounts)
• ACORD RLC Claims XML message standards

Implementation guides supported:

• ACORD DRI implementation guidelines
• ACORD Placing Implementation Guide
• ACORD Accounting and Claims implementation guide (incorporating the Electronic Back Office Trading (Ebot) Implementation Guide)

Sample of implementation initiatives supported:

• London ELPAN phase 1 (brokers sending electronic closing documents to XIS)
• London ELPAN2 (brokers sending ACORD accounting messages to XIS)
• London Electronic Claim File (brokers sharing claims supporting documents with carriers)
• Placing implementations - within London and elsewhere, including:
  • London "phase 1" one-way messaging
  • London "phase 2" two-way messaging
• European accounting and claims implementations (following eBOT guide)
• International exchange of electronic documents (live in the US, European, Bermudan and London markets)
• Claim notification and settlement implementations (live in European and US markets)

Where can I learn more about TCF?

You can learn more about ACORD TCF with these interviews on ACORD Video:

	Testing and certification facility launch Roy Laker introduces ACORD's Testing and Certification facility.
	Jeff Ward and Alex Mattelaer Testing & Certification Facility Jeff Ward and Alex Mattelaer of Trisystems discuss how the ACORD Testing and Certification Facility will aid implementers in London.
	Standards Testing Facility in London Phil Brown & Drew Bolton discuss the testing facility now in London to assist independent testing of ACORD standards implementations before working with business partners. Oct 06 [8 min]
	Bharal & Brown on TCF Testing & Certification Facility Puneet Bharal and Phil Brown discuss the Go Live Date of the much anticipated ACORD Testing & Certification Facility.

Who has been certified?

It is important to note that all existing certifications of implementations done prior to the availability of TCF will remain valid. However, new certifications that have been processed by the TCF will have this specifically stated on the certificate itself. You may find that your trading partners require you to obtain certifications that have been processed via the TCF.

Click on this link to see individual organisations who have implemented messages that have been certified via the TCF - Coming Soon