How documents flow through the system

You can send documents from the Partner Gateway - Express console, or a back-end application can generate the document to be sent. In either case, the document is placed in a directory (the Send directory) associated with the intended recipient.

Figure 4. Document flow

Partner Gateway - Express polls this directory. When it detects a new document, Partner Gateway - Express retrieves the document and sends it over the internet to the intended recipient. Partner Gateway can detect, from the directory structure, the recipient, protocol, and transport.

The process is reversed when a document is sent to Partner Gateway - Express. The document is placed in the Received directory associated with the sender.

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