FIX 4.0 Tag 10: CheckSum

Three-digit checksum that ends every message: the sum of all bytes up to and including the delimiter before tag 10, modulo 256, padded with leading zeros. It is always the last field.

Tag number: 10
Data type: CHAR
FIX version: FIX 4.0
Location: Standard trailer

Data type

CHAR: A single character.

FIX 4.0 message types that use tag 10

CheckSum belongs to the FIX 4.0 standard message trailer, which every message carries.

Also in other versions

FIX 4.1
FIX 4.2
FIX 4.3
FIX 4.4
FIX 5.0
FIX 5.0 SP1
FIX 5.0 SP2

Tag 10 across all FIX versions

Decode a message with this tag

Field and message data comes from the QuickFIX data dictionaries for FIX 4.0 to 5.0 SP2 and FIXT 1.1, used under the QuickFIX Software License. This product includes software developed by quickfixengine.org (http://www.quickfixengine.org/). Enumerated value names are converted to plain text for reading.